NATIONALISM IN INDIA

One word answers

1.When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa?

1915

2.What did the term begar mean?

Labour without payment.

3.Who led the peasants in Awadh?

Baba Ramchandra

4.When was the Rowlat Act passed?

1919

5.Who wrote the book Hind Swaraj?

Mahatma Gandhi

6. Who were the Sanatanis?

High caste Hindus

7.Who was Sir Mohammed Iqbal?

President of the muslim league 1930

8.Where did Mahatma Gandhi launch his first Satyagraha movement in India?

Champaran in Bihar in1916

Gandhiji’s Satyagraha movemens in India

• 9. In 1916 Mahatma Gandhi travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive plantation system.
•  Then in 1917, he organised a satyagraha to support the peasants of the Kheda district of Gujarat.
•  Affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic, the peasants of Kheda could not pay the revenue, and were demanding that revenue collection be relaxed. 
• In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to Ahmedabad to organise a satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.

JALIAN WALLA BAGH MASSACRE

• 10. On 13 April the infamous Jallianwalla Bagh incident took place. On that day a large crowd gathered in the enclosed ground of JallianwallaBagh.
•  Some came to protest against the government’s new repressive measures and others had come to attend the annual Baisakhi fair.
• Being from outside the city, many villagers were unaware of the martial law that had been imposed.
• General Dyer entered the area, blocked the exitpoints, and opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds.