Gandhian Era: Non-Cooperation to Civil Disobedience Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

On what date was Gandhi himself arrested, shortly after breaking the salt law, and before he could lead the planned raid on the Dharasana salt works?

Question 2

On what date, and by what specific act, did Gandhi formally break the government's salt law?

Question 3

Which organisation did Gandhi found soon after the Poona Pact to work for the removal of untouchability and the social and economic uplift of the depressed classes, whom he called Harijans?

Question 4

Who presided over the regular annual session of the Indian National Congress at Nagpur in December 1920, at which the Non-Cooperation programme was formally ratified?

Question 5

Who, after his experience in the Vaikom Satyagraha and growing disillusionment with the Congress on questions of caste, left the party in 1925 and went on to found the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu?

Question 6

To which ashram, in central India, did Gandhi shift his base in the mid-1930s, after his years at Sabarmati, becoming the centre of his later constructive work?

Question 7

Which school of historical interpretation of the Indian freedom movement has been criticised by many Indian historians for explaining nationalist politics chiefly as competition among Indian elites for power and patronage, rather than as a response to colonial exploitation?

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About Gandhian Era: Non-Cooperation to Civil Disobedience

This quiz is meant for students preparing for the IAS examination and other competitive tests, and for anyone who wants to understand the Gandhian phase of the Indian freedom struggle. It begins with Gandhi's formative years in South Africa, where he developed the method of Satyagraha, and his return to India in 1915 and early campaigns at Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad. It covers the Rowlatt Act, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the Khilafat Movement that together led to the launch of the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920, its spread and its withdrawal after the violence at Chauri Chaura. It then traces the years of the Swaraj Party, the Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and the Lahore session of 1929, before covering the Civil Disobedience Movement in full: the Dandi March and Salt Satyagraha, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, the Round Table Conferences, the Poona Pact, and the movement's eventual withdrawal in 1934. Alongside this it covers the parallel revolutionary movement of Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and Surya Sen, the early anti-untouchability satyagrahas of Ambedkar and Periyar, and the constitutional outcome in the Government of India Act of 1935. A final section covers Gandhi's own ideas and institutions, and the historiography of the freedom movement. When complete it will have one hundred and twenty carefully checked questions, arranged in five packs of twenty-four.

Every question has four options, and the correct option can be in any position. After each question there is a detailed explanation of more than five lines, in simple Indian English that a school student can follow, giving the important dates, names, places and the points that examiners like to test.

Every fact has been checked against standard reference books on the Indian freedom movement and against the record of the events themselves.