UGC NET History Practice Question

Who founded the All-India Home Rule League in April 1916 with headquarters at Belgaum?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak ✓

Annie Besant

G.K. Gokhale

Joseph Baptista

Tilak founded the Home Rule League at Belgaum in April 1916, demanding self-government within the British Empire.

Annie Besant launched her branch of the Home Rule League in September 1916 based at:

Adyar (Madras) ✓

Bombay

Poona

Calcutta

Annie Besant's Home Rule League, based at Adyar, Madras, was launched a few months after Tilak's, in September 1916.

Mahatma Gandhi's first Satyagraha movement in India was launched in 1917 at:

Champaran (Bihar) against the Tinkathia indigo system ✓

Kheda (Gujarat) against land revenue

Ahmedabad against mill owners

Rowlatt Satyagraha

Gandhi's first Indian Satyagraha was at Champaran (1917), against the exploitative Tinkathia system forcing indigo cultivation.

Mahatma Gandhi's first hunger strike in India was undertaken during which struggle in 1918?

Ahmedabad Mill Strike ✓

Kheda Satyagraha

Champaran Satyagraha

Non-Cooperation Movement

Gandhi undertook his first hunger strike during the 1918 Ahmedabad Mill Strike to support workers' wage demands.

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919 was popularly known as the:

Rowlatt Act ✓

Defence of India Act

Sedition Act

Press Gagging Act

The repressive Rowlatt Act (1919) allowed detention without trial and became the immediate trigger for nationwide protest.

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