[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: INSIGHTS STATIC , 23 August 2021 – History – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: c)

The act allowed political activists to be tried without juries or even imprisoned without trial. It allowed arrest of Indians without warrant on the mere suspicion of ‘treason’. Such suspects could be tried in secrecy without recourse to legal help.

Solution: a)

Because of drought in 1918, the crops failed in Kheda district of Gujarat. According to the Revenue Code, if the yield was less than one-fourth the normal produce, the farmers were entitled to remission. The Gujarat Sabha, consisting of the peasants, submitted petitions to the highest governing authorities of the province requesting that the revenue assessment for the year 1919 be suspended. The government, however, remained adamant and said that the property of the farmers would be seized if the taxes were not paid.

Solution: d)

Phase of Passive Resistance or Satyagraha (1906-1914)

The second phase, which began in 1906, was characterised by the use of the method of passive resistance or civil disobedience, which Gandhi named satyagraha.

Campaign against Restrictions on Indian Migration:

The earlier campaign was widened to include protest against a new legislation imposing restrictions on Indian migration.

Campaign against Poll Tax and Invalidation of Indian Marriages:

A poll tax of three pounds was imposed on all ex-indentured Indians. The demand for the abolition of poll tax widened the base of the campaign. Then a Supreme Court order which invalidated all marriages not conducted according to Christian rites and registered by the registrar of marriages drew the anger of the Indians and others who were not Christians.

Setting up of Tolstoy Farm: The Tolstoy Farm was founded in 1910. Besides being an experiment in education, it was to house the families of the satyagrahis and to give them a way to sustain themselves.

Solution: c)

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India. When Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915, and saw peasants in northern India oppressed by indigo planters, he tried to use the same methods that he had used in South Africa to organize mass uprisings by people to protest against injustice.

Solution: c)

The Kochrab Ashram was the first ashram in India organized by Mahatma Gandhi. Founded on 25 May 1915, Kochrab Ashram was located near the city of Ahmedabad.