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The Khilafat Movement in India was organized under the leadership of the Ali Brothers (Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) to protest against:

The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and removal of the Caliph's authority by Allied Powers after WWI ✓

The Rowlatt Act

The Partition of Bengal

Taxation on Muslim religious properties

The Khilafat Movement protested the Allied dismantling of the Ottoman Caliphate after WWI, led by the Ali brothers.

The Non-Cooperation Movement was officially launched by the Indian National Congress on August 1, 1920, coinciding with the demise of:

Bal Gangadhar Tilak ✓

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Pherozeshah Mehta

Subramania Iyer

The Non-Cooperation Movement began on 1 August 1920, the same day Tilak died, symbolically marking a generational shift in leadership.

The violent incident at Chauri Chaura (Gorakhpur), which led Mahatma Gandhi to suspend the Non-Cooperation Movement, occurred in:

February 1922 ✓

March 1921

December 1923

August 1920

A violent clash at Chauri Chaura in February 1922, where protesters killed policemen, led Gandhi to call off Non-Cooperation.

The Swaraj Party within the Congress was formed in 1923 to contest elections and enter legislative councils by:

C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru ✓

Vallabhbhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad

Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose

C. Rajagopalachari

C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party in 1923 to contest and obstruct from within the legislative councils.

The Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) was established in 1924 at Kanpur by:

Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ram Prasad Bismil, and Jogesh Chandra Chatterji ✓

Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad

Surya Sen

Rash Behari Bose

The Hindustan Republican Association was founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ram Prasad Bismil and Jogesh Chandra Chatterji.

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