CBSE Questions for Class 8 History The Making Of The National Movement 1870S To 1947 Quiz 2 - MCQExams.com

Lord Irwin was the Viceroy of India during Civil Disobedience Movement. He was appointed as the 30th Viceroy and Governor General of India on April 3^rd 1926.

Due to constant famines, the crops had failed in the Kheda district of Gujarat. The British government had compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. The local peasants, therefore, started a no- tax movement in Kheda district in 1918 which was led by Gandhiji.

• The Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as the Simon Commission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament of United Kingdom that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study the constitutional reform and recommend to the Government. One of its members was Clement Attlee, who subsequently became the British Prime Minister and eventually oversaw the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Kheda is a district in the state of Gujarat. Farmers here faced a terrible famine. After this British conducted a land survey and compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. They, therefore, started a no-tax movement in Kheda district in 1918. Gandhiji organised the peasants to offer satyagraha. The peasants refused to pay land revenue and ultimately the government was forced to arrive at a settlement with the peasants.

The first Satyagraha movements inspired by Mohandas Gandhi occurred in Champaran district of Bihar and the Kheda district of Gujarat on 1917 to 1918. Champaran Satyagraha was the first to be started, but the word Satyagraha was used for the first time in Anti Rowlatt Act agitation.

The movement was in full swing when in Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur, the police fired upon a Congress procession of 3,300 peasants. The angry crowd set  the police station on fire, killing 22 policemen. Gandhiji had always emphasised that the movement should be peaceful and non-violent . after this incident he called off the movement in 1922.

Allan Octavian Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of the Congress; the first session was held from 28–31 December 1885, and was attended by 72 delegates.

1. Khilafat movement was originally in support of Caliph who was the religious head of the Muslims..It was a protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph and the ottoman empire after the first world war through the treaty of Severs.