Insights Static Quiz -96, 2018 –History

Answer – a

• Tilak died on the morning of the day when Non Cooperation Movement was slated to start on August 1, 1920
• In July 1921, a new challenge was thrown to the Government. Mohammed Ali, at the All India
  Khilafat Conference held at Karachi on 8 July, declared that it was ‘religiously unlawful for the
  Muslims to continue in the British Army’ and asked that this be conveyed to every Muslim in the
  As a result, Mohammed Ali, along with other leaders, was immediately arrested.
• The next dramatic event was the visit of the Prince of Wales which began on 17 November, 1921

Answer – a

In Assam, labourers on tea plantations went on strike. When the fleeing workers were fired upon,
there were strikes on the steamer service, and on the Assam-Bengal Railway as well. J.M. Sengupta,
the Bengali nationalist leader, played a leading role in these developments.

Answer – a

In May 1921, Government had tried, through the
Gandhi-Reading talks, to persuade Gandhiji to ask the Ali brothers to withdraw from their speeches
those passages that contained suggestions of violence; this was an attempt to drive a wedge between
the Khilafat leaders and Gandhiji, but it failed.

Answer – b

Gandhiji had been under considerable pressure from the Congress rank and file as well as the
leadership to start the phase of mass civil disobedience. The Ahmedabad session of the Congress in
December 1921 had appointed him the sole authority on the issue. The Government showed no signs
of relenting and had ignored both the appeal of the All-Parties Conference held in mid-January 1922
as well as Gandhiji’s letter to the Viceroy announcing that, unless the Government lifted the ban on
civil liberties and released political prisoners, he would be forced to go ahead with mass civil
disobedience. The Viceroy was unmoved and, left with no choice, Gandhiji announced that mass civil
disobedience would begin in Bardoli taluqa of Surat district, and that all other parts of the country
should cooperate by maintaining total discipline and quiet so that the entire attention of the movement
could be concentrated on Bardoli. But Bardoli was destined to wait for another six years before it
could launch a no-tax movement. Its fate was decided by the action of members of a Congress and
Khilafat procession in Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district of U.P. on 5 February 1922.

Answer – a

1. Palme Dutt in India Today, have continued to condemn the decision taken by Gandhiji to withdraw NCM, and seen in it proof of the Mahatma’s concern for the propertied classes of Indian society. According to Dutt, he withdrew it because the action at Chauri Chaura was a symbol and an indication of the growing militancy of the Indian masses, of their growing radicalization, of their willingness to launch an attack on the status quo of property relations. Frightened by this radical possibility and by the prospect of the movement going out of his hands and into the hands of radical forces, and in order to protect the interests of landlords and capitalists who would inevitably be at the receiving end of this violence, Gandhiji cried halt to the movement.