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Multiple choice civics the national movement (during the first world war) home rule and lucknow pact home rule movement home rule movement and khilafat movement

The Morley Minto reforms were implemented in the year _________.

  1. 1899

  2. 1909

  3. 1919

  4. 1916
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

To make the radicals politically inactive, the British tried to win the favour of the moderates and Muslims by giving greater representation in the legislature. To carry out this intention Morley-Minto reformations were implemented in 1909. In this act they created a separate election constituency for the Muslims. Meanwhile, the First World War broke out (1914).This gave a new force to the national movement. In 1916 Lokamanya Tilak and Annie Besant organised Home Rule movement.

Multiple choice civics the national movement (during the first world war) home rule and lucknow pact home rule movement home rule movement and khilafat movement

The Home Rule Movement was inspired by the ________.

  1. British Home Rule Movement

  2. African Home rule Movement

  3. Irish Home Rule Movement

  4. French Home Rule Movement.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

To make the radicals politically inactive, the British tried to win the favour of the moderates and Muslims by giving greater representation in the legislature. To carry out this intention Morley-Minto reformations were implemented in 1909. In this act they created a separate election constituency for the Muslims. Meanwhile, the First World War broke out (1914).This gave a new force to the national movement. In 1916 Lokamanya Tilak and Annie Besant organised Home Rule movement. This movement was inspired by Irish Home Rule movement. Its main objective was to bring self-government in India. Tilak and Annie Besant started Home Rule movements separately in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra in the year 1916.

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'My strongest bulwark is gone' lamented Gandhiji on the death of ______.

  1. Gopalakrishna Gokhale

  2. Motilal Nehru

  3. Feroz Shah Mehta

  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhiji considered Gopal Krishna Gokhale his political mentor. Upon the death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, however, he famously remarked that his strongest bulwark had gone.

Multiple choice civics the national movement (during the first world war) home rule and lucknow pact home rule movement home rule movement and khilafat movement

Tilak and Annie Besant started Home Rule movements separately in ___________ and Maharashtra in the year 1916.

  1. Tamil Nadu

  2. Kerala

  3. Uttar Pradesh

  4. Rajasthan
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

During the time of the freedom struggle, to make the radicals politically inactive, the British tried to win the favour of the moderates and Muslims by giving greater representation in the legislature. To carry out this intention Morley-Minto reformations were implemented in 1909. In this act they created a separate election constituency for the Muslims. Meanwhile, the First World War broke out (1914). This gave a new force to the national movement. In 1916 Lokamanya Tilak and Annie Besant organised Home Rule movement. This movement was inspired by Irish Home Rule movement. Its main objective was to bring self-government in India. Tilak and Annie Besant started Home Rule movements separately in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra in the year 1916.

Multiple choice civics the national movement (during the first world war) home rule and lucknow pact home rule movement home rule movement and khilafat movement

Which of the following was the 'Newspaper' of Annie Besant?

  1. The Hindu

  2. Indian Express

  3. The Times of India

  4. New India
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Annie Besant started the newspaper New India. It was not for profit purposes but to spread the idea of patriotism among the people. She criticized British rule and was jailed for sedition. The newspaper supported the movement for Indian Nationalism.

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Begum Hazrat Mahal was associated with _____.

  1. Aligarh

  2. Kanpur

  3. Jhansi

  4. Lucknow
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Begum Hazrat Mahal, the wife of Nawab Wazid Ali Shah of Awadh ruled on behalf of her 11-year-old son Birjis Qadar and led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow. She refused to accept the pension offered to her by the British and choose to die unmourned in Nepal.

Multiple choice civics the national movement (during the first world war) home rule and lucknow pact home rule movement home rule movement and khilafat movement

The First World War which started in 1914 was one of the causes for the start of the __________.

  1. Home Rule League

  2. Non Co-Operation Movement

  3. Civil Disobedience Movement

  4. Kheda Satyagraha
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

To make the radicals politically inactive, the British tried to win the favour of the moderates and Muslims by giving greater representation in the legislature. To carry out this intention Morley-Minto reformations were implemented in 1909. In this act they created a separate election constituency for the Muslims. Meanwhile, the First World War broke out (1914).This gave a new force to the national movement. In 1916 Lokamanya Tilak and Annie Besant organised Home Rule movement.

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The Home Rule Movement was aimed at ________.

  1. Complete independence for India

  2. Complete autonomy to India

  3. Self-government for India within the British Common wealth

  4. Larger participation of Indians in India's administration
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Home Rule Leagues were organizations established in April and September 1916 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and  Annie Besant. Many Indian revolutionaries suported the Britishers but Tilak and Besant considered this an opportunity to achieve independence from the British. Thus, they decided to organise a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government within the British commonwealth.

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The idea of starting a Home Rule League in $1915$ was first propounded by ________.

  1. B G Tilak

  2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

  3. Annie Besant

  4. Both (a) and (b) above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Home Rule Leagues were organizations established in April and September 1916 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and  Annie Besant. The idea was propounded by Annie Besant on the lines of Irish Home Rule movement. Many Indian revolutionaries suported the Britishers but Tilak and Besant considered this an opportunity to achieve independence from the British. Thus, they decided to organise a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government within the British commonwealth.

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The Lucknow Session of INC and the Lucknow Pact $(1916)$ were significant on account of _______.

  1. Unity between the Moderates and the Extremists with the return of the Extremists to the Congress

  2. The pact between the Congress and Muslim League

  3. Both (a) and (b) above

  4. The beginning of the tide of Indian Nationalism
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Lucknow pact was an agreement made by the Indian National Congress headed by Maratha leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the Lucknow session of 1916.  After a lapse of about 10 years both the Moderates and Extremists were united again at this session. Congress and Muslim League decided to make a united demand for self-government.