CBSE Class 10 Social Science Nationalism in India MCQs Set 07

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Question 1: When was the Khilafat Committee founded?
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1927
(d) 1922
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Answer: (a) 1919

Explanation:
1. The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919, to defend the Khalifa's temporal powers.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Khilafat Committee was founded in 1919.
b) It aimed to defend the Ottoman Khalifa's temporal powers.

Question 2: The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted in the:
(a) Lahore Session
(b) Nagpur Session
(c) Gujarat Session
(d) Second Round Table Conference
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Answer: (b) Nagpur Session

Explanation:
1. The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session held at Nagpur in December 1920.

Teacher's Note:
a) Non-Cooperation was adopted at the Nagpur Session (1920).
b) The Lahore Session (1929) is instead known for the Purna Swaraj resolution.

Question 3: Satyagraha is also called:
(a) Active resistance
(b) Neutral resistance
(c) Passive resistance
(d) All of these
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Answer: (c) Passive resistance

Explanation:
1. Satyagraha, emphasising the power of truth over physical force, is also referred to as passive resistance.

Teacher's Note:
a) Satyagraha is also known as passive resistance.
b) It relies on truth and non-violence rather than physical force.

Question 4: Arrange in correct sequence: (i) Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, (ii) First World War, (iii) Champaran Satyagraha, (iv) Rowlatt Act.
(a) (ii)-(i)-(iii)-(iv)
(b) (i)-(ii)-(iii)-(iv)
(c) (iii)-(iv)-(ii)-(i)
(d) (ii)-(iii)-(i)-(iv)
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Answer: (a) (ii)-(i)-(iii)-(iv)

Explanation:
1. The First World War (1914-18) came first; Gandhi returned to India in 1915; the Champaran Satyagraha followed in 1917; and the Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919.

Teacher's Note:
a) Correct order: World War → Gandhi's return → Champaran Satyagraha → Rowlatt Act.
b) This traces Gandhi's early satyagraha work up to the nationwide Rowlatt Satyagraha.

Question 5: Arrange in correct sequence: (i) Chauri Chaura incident, (ii) Alluri Sitaram Raju was executed, (iii) Peasant Movement in Bardoli, (iv) Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement.
(a) (i)-(ii)-(iii)-(iv)
(b) (iii)-(iv)-(ii)-(i)
(c) (iv)-(i)-(iii)-(ii)
(d) (iv)-(i)-(ii)-(iii)
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Answer: (d) (iv)-(i)-(ii)-(iii)

Explanation:
1. The Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement began in 1920; the Chauri Chaura incident occurred in February 1922; Alluri Sitaram Raju was executed in 1924; and the Bardoli Satyagraha took place in 1928.

Teacher's Note:
a) Correct order: Non-Cooperation-Khilafat (1920) → Chauri Chaura (1922) → Sitaram Raju executed (1924) → Bardoli Satyagraha (1928).
b) Each event follows the previous one chronologically across the 1920s.

Question 6: Which of the following was the reason for Gandhiji calling off the Non-Cooperation Movement?
(a) Pressure from the British Government
(b) Second Round Table Conference
(c) Gandhiji's arrest
(d) Chauri Chaura incident
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Answer: (d) Chauri Chaura incident

Explanation:
1. A peaceful demonstration at Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur, turned violent; on hearing of this, Gandhiji decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Chauri Chaura incident (1922) led Gandhiji to call off the movement.
b) He insisted on strict non-violence, so the violent turn led him to withdraw it.

Question 7: Identify the appropriate reason for the formation of the Swaraj Party:
(a) Wanted members of Congress to return to Council politics
(b) Wanted members of Congress to ask for Purna Swaraj for Indians
(c) Wanted members of Congress to ask for Dominion status for India
(d) Wanted members of Congress to oppose the Simon Commission
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Answer: (a) Wanted members of Congress to return to Council politics

Explanation:
1. The Swaraj Party was formed by leaders who wanted Congress members to participate in council politics again, rather than boycott them.

Teacher's Note:
a) Swaraj Party leaders wanted a return to council politics.
b) This was a departure from the full boycott strategy of Non-Cooperation.

Question 8: Why did the Simon Commission come to India?
(a) To control the campaign against the British in cities
(b) To look into the functioning of the British
(c) To initiate the salt law in India
(d) To suggest changes in the functioning of the constitutional system in India
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Answer: (d) To suggest changes in the functioning of the constitutional system in India

Explanation:
1. The Simon Commission was set up to review and suggest changes to India's constitutional system of governance.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Simon Commission's job was to review and recommend constitutional reforms.
b) It was boycotted because it had no Indian members.

Question 9: Identify the appropriate reason for the non-participation of industrial workers in the Civil Disobedience Movement:
(a) Industrialists were close to the Congress
(b) The British offered them good salaries
(c) They were reluctant towards the boycott of foreign goods
(d) Growth of socialism
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Answer: (a) Industrialists were close to the Congress

Explanation:
1. Industrialists, who were close to the Congress, were reluctant to support worker participation in ways that might harm their own factories' interests, limiting industrial workers' involvement.

Teacher's Note:
a) Industrialists' closeness to the Congress shaped how far workers could get involved.
b) This nuance distinguished industrial workers' limited role from peasants' and the middle class's wider participation.

Question 10: Assertion (A): Gandhiji found salt a powerful symbol that could unite the country. Reason (R): Salt was important, consumed by both rich and poor alike.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
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Answer: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

Explanation:
1. Salt, used by everyone regardless of class, was indeed a powerful unifying symbol — and this universal use is exactly why Gandhiji chose it, making R a correct explanation of A.

Teacher's Note:
a) Salt's universal use across rich and poor made it an ideal unifying symbol.
b) This is why Gandhiji centred the Dandi March on breaking the salt law.

Question 11: Arrange the following in sequential order based on the events that shaped the nationalist movement in India: (I) Both the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat movements begin. (II) Gandhiji broke the salt law at Dandi, igniting the Civil Disobedience Movement. (III) Due to the Chauri Chaura incident, Gandhiji withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement. (IV) A Gandhian hartal took place against the Rowlatt Act, followed by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
(a) (IV), (III), (II), (I)
(b) (II), (I), (IV), (III)
(c) (I), (IV), (III), (II)
(d) (IV), (I), (III), (II)
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Answer: (d) (IV), (I), (III), (II)

Explanation:
1. The Rowlatt Act hartal and Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in 1919 (IV); the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat movements began in 1920 (I); the movement was withdrawn after Chauri Chaura in 1922 (III); and the Dandi Salt March began the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 (II).

Teacher's Note:
a) Correct chronology: Rowlatt hartal/Jallianwala Bagh (1919) → Non-Cooperation/Khilafat begin (1920) → withdrawn after Chauri Chaura (1922) → Dandi March (1930).
b) This traces the main phases of the nationalist movement across the 1920s.

Question 12: What was the significance of the tricolour flag designed during the Swadeshi movement?
(a) It represented foreign rule
(b) It signified the unity of Hindus and Muslims
(c) It symbolised the ideal of self-help (Swadeshi)
(d) It was a symbol of the British colonial government
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Answer: (c) It symbolised the ideal of self-help (Swadeshi)

Explanation:
1. The tricolour flag designed during the Swadeshi movement symbolised the ideal of self-reliance (Swadeshi) that the movement promoted.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Swadeshi-era tricolour symbolised the movement's self-reliance ideal.
b) Flags and symbols were commonly used to build a shared sense of nationalism.

Question 13: Consider the statements: Statement I: In the countryside, rich peasant communities were active in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Statement II: As their cash income increased, they still found it impossible to pay the government's revenue demand.
(a) Statement (I) is correct and (II) is incorrect
(b) Statement (I) is incorrect and (II) is correct
(c) Both (I) and (II) are incorrect
(d) Both (I) and (II) are correct
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Answer: (d) Both (I) and (II) are correct

Explanation:
1. Rich peasant communities (like Patidars and Jats) were indeed active in the Civil Disobedience Movement, and despite depending on cash crops, falling prices during the Depression meant they struggled to pay fixed revenue demands — making both statements correct.

Teacher's Note:
a) Rich peasants were active in CDM, hit hard by falling cash-crop prices during the Depression.
b) Both statements correctly describe their situation, making (d) the answer.

Question 14: Assertion (A): A statutory commission led by Sir John Simon was established by the new Tory administration in Britain. Reason (R): There was not a single Indian member on the commission.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
(d) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Explanation:
1. The Simon Commission was indeed set up by the Tory government, and the absence of any Indian member is precisely why it was boycotted and controversial — though R here explains the controversy around the commission rather than its mere establishment, both statements are accurate and connected.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Simon Commission had no Indian members, which is why it was so controversial.
b) Both statements are factually accurate and directly related.

Question 15: Assertion (A): Nationalism grows when individuals start to feel connected to one another. Reason (R): This sense of group identification was influenced by shared struggles.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
(d) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Explanation:
1. Nationalism does grow through a shared sense of connection, and this connection is genuinely built through shared struggles (like the freedom movement), making R a correct explanation of A.

Teacher's Note:
a) Shared struggles (like the independence movement) built the sense of collective identity.
b) Both statements are true, and R correctly explains why A is true.

Question 16: Gandhiji organised Satyagraha to support the peasants in the Kheda district of Gujarat in:
(a) 1913
(b) 1916
(c) 1917
(d) 1918
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Answer: (c) 1917

Explanation:
1. The Kheda Satyagraha took place in 1917, supporting peasants in Gujarat demanding relief from revenue collection after crop failure.

Teacher's Note:
a) Kheda (1917) came between Champaran (1916) and the Ahmedabad mill strike (1918) — Gandhi's first three satyagrahas in India.
b) Remember the sequence: Champaran → Ahmedabad → Kheda is the common order asked.

Question 17: Mahatma Gandhi organised a Satyagraha movement among cotton mill workers in Ahmedabad in:
(a) 1913
(b) 1918
(c) 1919
(d) 1920
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Answer: (b) 1918

Explanation:
1. The Ahmedabad mill workers' Satyagraha took place in 1918, over a dispute regarding workers' wages.

Teacher's Note:
a) This was Gandhi's second satyagraha in India, after Champaran (1916).

Question 18: The Jallianwala Bagh incident took place on:
(a) 13 April 1919
(b) 13 April 1909
(c) 6 April 1930
(d) 5 March 1931
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Answer: (a) 13 April 1919

Explanation:
1. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on 13 April 1919, Baisakhi day, in Amritsar.

Teacher's Note:
a) Don't confuse this with 6 April 1930 (the Dandi/Salt March) or 5 March 1931 (the Gandhi-Irwin Pact) — all commonly mixed up in MCQs.

Question 19: What did the Rowlatt Act, 1919 provide for?
(a) Detention of political prisoners without trial
(b) Forced recruitment in the army
(c) Forced manual labour
(d) Equal pay for equal work
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Answer: (a) Detention of political prisoners without trial

Explanation:
1. The Rowlatt Act allowed the government to detain political prisoners for up to two years without trial.

Teacher's Note:
a) This single power is the Act's defining feature — the one fact to remember if nothing else.

Question 20: In which country did Gandhiji first develop his method of Satyagraha?
(a) England
(b) India
(c) South Africa
(d) Israel
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Answer: (c) South Africa

Explanation:
1. Gandhi developed and first applied Satyagraha in South Africa, campaigning for the rights of Indians there, before bringing the method to India.

Teacher's Note:
a) He returned to India from South Africa in January 1915.

Question 21: What was the effect of the Non-Cooperation Movement on plantation workers in Assam?
(a) They left the plantations and headed home
(b) They went on strike
(c) They destroyed the plantations
(d) None of the above
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Answer: (a) They left the plantations and headed home

Explanation:
1. Thousands of plantation workers defied the Inland Emigration Act and left the tea gardens, believing Gandhi Raj was coming and that land would be given to them in their home villages.

Teacher's Note:
a) Many never reached home, stranded by a railway and steamer strike, and were caught and beaten by police.

Question 22: Identify the Act: (i) passed by the Imperial Legislative Council; (ii) gave the government power to repress political activities; (iii) empowered the government to detain political prisoners without trial.
(a) Rowlatt Act
(b) Vernacular Press Act
(c) Government of India Act
(d) Inland Emigration Act
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Answer: (a) Rowlatt Act

Explanation:
1. All three clues describe the Rowlatt Act (1919).

Teacher's Note:
a) The Vernacular Press Act (1878) and Inland Emigration Act (1859) are different laws, from different decades — don't mix them up.

Question 23: Which city is associated with the formation of the Khilafat Committee in 1919?
(a) Bombay
(b) Lucknow
(c) Calcutta
(d) Amritsar
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Answer: (a) Bombay

Explanation:
1. The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919.

Teacher's Note:
a) The Ali Brothers (Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) led its formation.

Question 24: Who led the Indian workers from Newcastle to Transvaal (in South Africa)?
(a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) General Dyer
(c) Lord Irwin
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
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Answer: (d) Mahatma Gandhi

Explanation:
1. Gandhi led this march of Indian workers from Newcastle to Transvaal in November 1913, as part of his South African campaigns.

Teacher's Note:
a) This happened years before Gandhi returned to India (1915) — part of his South African, not Indian, Satyagraha career.

Question 25: Who gave the idea of Satyagraha to the world?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Dwarkanath Tagore
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Answer: (b) Mahatma Gandhi

Explanation:
1. Mahatma Gandhi developed and popularised Satyagraha as a method of non-violent resistance.

Teacher's Note:
a) Satyagraha loosely means 'truth force' or 'insistence on truth'.

Question 26: In which year did Gandhiji decide to launch a nationwide Satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act?
(a) 1919
(b) 1917
(c) 1920
(d) 1910
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Answer: (a) 1919

Explanation:
1. Gandhi launched the Rowlatt Satyagraha in 1919, the same year the Act was passed.

Teacher's Note:
a) This Satyagraha, and the hartal that followed, set off the chain of events leading to Jallianwala Bagh.

Question 27: Who took command after martial law was imposed in India following the hartal against the Rowlatt Act?
(a) General Dyer
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) John Simon
(d) Lord Curzon
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Answer: (a) General Dyer

Explanation:
1. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer took command under martial law in Amritsar, and was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Teacher's Note:
a) Lord Irwin and John Simon belong to a later period (Salt March/Simon Commission) — don't confuse the timelines.

Question 28: In which session of Congress was the Non-Cooperation proposal adopted?
(a) Calcutta Session
(b) Nagpur Session
(c) Madras Session
(d) Bombay Session
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Answer: (b) Nagpur Session

Explanation:
1. The Non-Cooperation Movement was formally adopted at the Congress's Nagpur session, in December 1920.

Teacher's Note:
a) Nagpur (Dec 1920) formalised what the Calcutta special session (Sept 1920) had first proposed.

Question 29: After which incident was Gandhiji forced to halt the Non-Cooperation Movement?
(a) Chauri Chaura
(b) Jallianwala Bagh
(c) Visit of the Simon Commission
(d) Salt March
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Answer: (a) Chauri Chaura

Explanation:
1. The Chauri Chaura incident of February 1922, in which a mob killed 22 policemen, led Gandhi to call off the movement.

Teacher's Note:
a) Chauri Chaura is in Gorakhpur district, United Provinces — a specific fact often tested.

Question 30: Which form of demonstration, used during the Non-Cooperation Movement, involved people blocking the entrance to a shop, factory or office?
(a) Boycott
(b) Begar
(c) Picketing
(d) Hartal
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Answer: (c) Picketing

Explanation:
1. This is the definition of picketing, a common method during the boycott of foreign goods and liquor shops.

Teacher's Note:
a) Boycott = refusing to buy/use; Picketing = physically blocking entry; Hartal = a general strike — three distinct terms often confused.

Question 31: Who headed the Oudh Kisan Sabha?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) Motilal Nehru
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Answer: (a) Jawaharlal Nehru

Explanation:
1. Jawaharlal Nehru, along with others, founded and led the Oudh Kisan Sabha in 1920, after visiting villages in Awadh.

Teacher's Note:
a) Within a month of its founding, the Sabha had over 300 branches.

Question 32: Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to:
(a) leave their village
(b) settle in the city
(c) leave their plantation without permission
(d) allow women to leave farmland without permission
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Answer: (c) leave their plantation without permission

Explanation:
1. The Act restricted plantation (tea garden) workers in Assam from leaving without the planters' consent.

Teacher's Note:
a) This Act applied specifically to tea plantation workers, not peasants in general.

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