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The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by _____.

  1. Rajendra Prasad

  2. Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Vallabhbhai Patel

  4. Morarji Desai
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The Bardoli Satyagraha was a peasants’ movement against the British government’s decision to raise land revenue. It was led by Vallabhbhai Patel, and its success gave rise to Patel becoming one of the main leaders of the independence movement. In this struggle, Vallabhbhai Patel got the title of “Sardar” by local farmers of Bardoli.

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Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-I-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services(during the First World War) ______________.

  1. In protest against the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

  2. During the Non-Cooperation Movement
  3. In support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August $1$, $1920$

  4. During the Champaran Satyagraha
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Gandhi returned his war medals and the Kaiser-I-Hind title in August 1920 to express his solidarity with the Khilafat movement and protest British policy.

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Mahatma Gandhi spent a year of complete silence in $1926$ to _____________.

  1. Consolidate Khadi programme

  2. work for harijan welfare

  3. cl do penance for Chauri-Chaura violence

  4. Write his autobiography
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Gandhiji popularised the word “Harijan”‘ meaning “the people of God”. He spent a year for their welfare in 1926. he preached that all human beings are equal and hence the Harijans too have a right for social life along with other caste groups. He went and stayed with them in their colonies, shared meals and performed all the tasks of cleaning along with them.

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Frontier Gandhi, organised the Red Shirt Movement in the North-West Frontier Province(NWFP) for ______.

  1. Countering the communal propaganda of the Muslim League

  2. Establishing separate Pakhtoonistan

  3. Social and religious reforms

  4. All the above
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The Khudai Khidmatgars (“Servants of God”) was a movement led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. It was non violently mobilized to oppose the British in India’s Northwest Frontier Province. The main goal of the Khudai Khidmatgar was to win Indian independence and reform the social, religious, political, and economic life of the Pashtuns.

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Kasturba Gandhi died in detention(in $1944$) at ________.

  1. Yeravada Jail

  2. Ahmedabad Prison

  3. Aga Khan Palace

  4. Ahmedabad Fort
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Kasturba Gandhi was an Indian political activist married to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Following the 'Quit India' movement, Kasturba joined her husband in detention at the Aga Khan's Palace in Poona. It is there that she died in 1944.

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Whom did Mahatma Gandhi recognise as his political Guru?

  1. Pheroze Shah Mehta

  2. BG Tilak

  3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

  4. Dadabhai Naoroji
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi.  Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society. On his suggestion, Gandhi had embarked on a tour of the country to observe and understand the life and miseries of ordinary Indians after his return from South Africa.

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Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha?

  1. Dandi

  2. Noakhali

  3. England

  4. South Africa
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Gandhi first propagated the philosophy of Satyagraha  and propelled the country towards a no class discrimination society. The campaigners went on peaceful marches and presented themselves for arrest in protest against unjust laws. This form of action later became one of the great political tools of the 20th century.

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Champaran, the site of Gandhi's first experiment of Satyagraha is located in the state of ___________.

  1. Bihar

  2. Kerala

  3. Gujarat

  4. Punjab
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Explanation

In April 1917, the Champaran Satyagraha in Motihari, Bihar laid the foundation for Gandhi in India. It was the first peasant movement to have garnered nationwide attention. It was a struggle of the cultivators who were forced by Europeans to grow indigo, a blue dye.

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons why Mahatma Gandhi is known as the Father of Nation?

  1. He was universally adored, admired and respected by all castes, communities and classes

  2. Starting with opposition to the Rowlatt Acts, till the Quit India Movement he was the supreme leader and the main spirit behind the national movement

  3. His social political, economic and religious ideologies were based on Indian values with a very strong moral and ethical content

  4. He was the founder President of the Indian National Congress
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Mahatma Gandhi was never the President of the Indian National Congress; he served as the president only once in 1924 at the Belgaum session.