CHAPTER- 2
NATIONALISM IN INDIA
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Who led the peasants in the Awadh region during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Sardar Patel
c) Baba Ramchandra
d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: c) Baba Ramchandra
2. The Simon Commission was sent to India in:
a) 1917
b) 1927
c) 1935
d) 1942
Answer: b) 1927
3. Who was the President of the Lahore Session of Congress in 1929?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Motilal Nehru
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: b) Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Which of the following was the main demand of the Simon Commission?
a) To give India Dominion Status
b) To frame a new Constitution for India
c) To develop heavy industries
d) To increase agriculture production
Answer: b) To frame a new Constitution for India
5. Who designed the Swaraj flag in 1921?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Pingali Venkayya
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: b) Pingali Venkayya
6. The Rowlatt Act was passed in which year?
a) 1915
b) 1916
c) 1917
d) 1919
Answer: d) 1919
7. Which industrial organization supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?
a) FICCI
b) CII
c) ASSOCHAM
d) Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress
Answer: a) FICCI
8. The Dandi March started from Sabarmati Ashram to which village?
a) Bardoli
b) Surat
c) Dandi
d) Champaran
Answer: c) Dandi
9. In which year Chaura Chauri incedence took place?
a) 1919
b) 1922
c) 1920
d) 1923
Answer: b) 1922
10. Who led the militant guerrilla movement in Gudem Hills?
a) Baba Ramchandra
b) Alluri Sitarama Raju
c) Birsa Munda
d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: b) Alluri Sitarama Raju
11. Which community boycotted the Simon Commission by raising ‘Go Back Simon’?
a) British Officials
b) Indians
c) French
d) Dutch
Answer: b) Indians
12. Why did the rich peasants participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement?
a) They wanted high taxes
b) They wanted abolition of rent
c) They wanted reduction of revenue demand
d) They wanted new railways
Answer: c) They wanted reduction of revenue demand
13. The Poorna Swaraj Resolution was passed on which date?
a) 15 August 1947
b) 26 January 1930
c) 2 October 1929
d) 13 April 1919
Answer: b) 26 January 1930
14. Who was writer of Anandmath?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawharlal Nehru
c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
d) Abanindranath Tagore
Answer: c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
15. Which among the following leaders was not related to the Khilafat Movement?
a) Ali Brothers
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
16. Which of the following was Mahatma Gandhi’s first mass movement in India?
a) Non-Cooperation Movement
b) Civil Disobedience Movement
c) Champaran Satyagraha
d) Quit India Movement
Answer: c) Champaran Satyagraha
17. Who wrote Hind Swaraj?
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: b) Mahatma Gandhi
18. Which Act gave the British government extensive powers to repress political activities?
a) Rowlatt Act
b) Pitt’s India Act
c) Regulating Act
d) Government of India Act, 1935
Answer: a) Rowlatt Act
19. Where did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?
a) Amritsar
b) Lahore
c) Delhi
d) Lucknow
Answer: a) Amritsar
20. Which session of the Congress declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ as its goal?
a) Lahore Session, 1929
b) Lucknow Session, 1916
c) Nagpur Session, 1920
d) Calcutta Session, 1906
Answer: a) Lahore Session, 1929
21. Who draw first Bharat Mata image
a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
b) Abindra Nath Tagore
c) Rabindra Nath Tagore
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
22. Who painted famous image Bharat Mata
a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
b) Abindra Nath Tagore
c) Rabindra Nath Tagore
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: b) Abindra Nath Tagore
23. How did the image of Bharat Mata inspire Indians?
a) To wear foreign clothes
b) To cooperate with the British
c) To sacrifice for the nation
d) To pay taxes honestly
Answer: c) To sacrifice for the nation
24.. Bharat Mata was portrayed in which form?
a) As a farmer
b) As a goddess
c) As a British officer
d) As an industrial worker
Answer: b) As a goddess
25. What feeling did the image of Bharat Mata evoke?
a) Religious division
b) Praise for colonial rule
c) Unity and sacrifice
d) Industrialization
Answer: c) Unity and sacrifice
26. What symbols were usually shown in Bharat Mata’s images?
a) Machines and factories
b) Flag, lion, lotus
c) Railway stations
d) British soldiers
Answer: b) Flag, lion, lotus
27. Bharat Mata became a symbol of which ideology?
a) Colonialism
b) Imperialism
c) Nationalism
d) Globalization
Answer: c) Nationalism
28. Eight lotus in Indian flag representing.
a) Colonialism
b) Imperialism
c) Eight Provinces
d) Globalization
Answer: c) Eight Provinces
29. Crescent moon representing
a) Hindu and Muslims
b) Imperialism
c) Eight Provinces
d) Globalization
Answer: a) Hindu and Muslims
30. Which colors was in flag draw by Gandhi ji.
a) Red, green and White
b) Yellow, green and red
c) White, black and green
d) Green, yellow and blue
Answer: a) Red, green and White
Map-based Questions
Locate and label any 2 on an outline political map of India:
- Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar, Punjab) – site of the massacre in 1919.
- Champaran (Bihar) – first Satyagraha by Gandhi for indigo farmers.
- Ahmedabad (Gujarat) – mill workers’ strike led by Gandhi.
- Kheda (Gujarat) – peasants’ Satyagraha for remission of tax.
- Locate on map where congress session held during September,1920 and December1920
Short Answer Questions (2-3 Marks)
Q1. What was the main aim of the Non-Cooperation Movement? (2 Marks)
Answer: The main aim was to resist British rule in India through non-violent means by boycotting British goods, institutions, and titles, and to demand Swaraj (self-rule).
Q2. Why did Gandhiji call off the Non-Cooperation Movement? (2 Marks)
Answer: The movement was called off due to the violent incident at Chauri Chaura in 1922, where a mob set fire to a police station killing policemen. Gandhiji believed the movement had strayed from its non-violent path.
Q3. What was the significance of the Lahore Session of the Congress in 1929? (3 Marks)
Answer: At the Lahore Session, the Congress declared Purna Swaraj (complete independence) as its ultimate goal, passed a resolution to launch Civil Disobedience, and decided to celebrate 26th January 1930 as Independence Day.
Q4. What was Martial Law?
Q5. What was the reason of slow down of movement in cities?
Q6. Who was Alluri Sitaram Raju?
Q7. What was Inland Emigration Act of 1859?
Q8. Why Tribal Rebelled against colonial?
Q9. Who formed Swaraj Party and why?
Q10. How Indians greet Simon Commission?
Long Answer Questions (5 Marks)
Q1. Describe the main features of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Answer:
- Started with the Dandi March in March 1930 when Gandhi broke the Salt Law.
- People refused to pay taxes, broke colonial laws (salt, forest, liquor).
- Foreign cloth and goods were boycotted, people resigned from government jobs.
- The movement spread to countryside – peasants, tribals, and women participated.
- The British responded with brutal repression, arrests, and imprisonments.
- Ended temporarily after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact but resumed after failure of Second Round Table Conference.
Q2. Explain how the idea of nationalism spread among different social groups in India.
Answer:
- Peasants: Joined due to oppressive taxes, inspired by promise of Swaraj.
- Tribals: Fought forest laws that restricted their livelihoods.
- Business Class: Supported as they wanted protection from British economic policies.
- Women: Actively participated in picketing liquor shops, boycotts, processions.
- Students and Teachers: Left government schools and colleges.
- Muslims, Industrial Workers: Some participated but with regional variations.
- The idea was spread through songs, symbols (tricolour flag), newspapers, folk tales.
Q3. Explain the factors that led to the growth of nationalism in India.
Q4. Describe the events and impact of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Q5. Highlight the main features and significance of the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Q6. How did the Civil Disobedience Movement start and what were its main impacts?
Q7. How did different social groups participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Q8. Explain the role of symbols and culture in the spread of nationalism in India.
