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Indian History & the Freedom Movement

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  1. 1Congress, 18851885: Indian National Congress founded at Bombay; A.O. Hume helped found it, W.C. Bonnerjee presided over the first session, Dadabhai Naoroji the second (1886).
  2. 2Partition of Bengal, 19051905: Lord Curzon partitions Bengal; the Swadeshi and Vande Mataram movement follows; the partition is annulled in 1911.
  3. 3Reform movementsAtmiya Sabha, Brahmo Samaj (Ram Mohan Roy), Prarthana Samaj (Atmaram Pandurang), Arya Samaj (Dayanand Saraswati, 1875), Ramakrishna Mission (Vivekananda, 1897; guru born Gadadhar).
  4. 41916 and 1917December 1916: Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League. 1917: Champaran in Bihar, Gandhi's first satyagraha in India.
  5. 5Rowlatt Act, 19191919: protests against the Rowlatt Act; the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar on 13 April.
  6. 6Non-Cooperation1920 to 1922: Non-Cooperation Movement, launched in 1920 and withdrawn after the Chauri Chaura incident of February 1922.
  7. 71928 and 19291928: Simon Commission arrives and meets 'Simon Go Back'. December 1929: Lahore session under Jawaharlal Nehru adopts Purna Swaraj; 26 January 1930 kept as Independence Day.
  8. 8Dandi to Poona1930: Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram (12 March), salt law broken at Dandi (6 April), Civil Disobedience begins. 1931: Gandhi-Irwin Pact. 1932: Poona Pact (Gandhi, Ambedkar).
  9. 9Quit India, 19428 August 1942: Quit India resolution passed at Bombay; Gandhi's call to the nation is 'Do or Die'.
  10. 10Rulers and eventsDalhousie: Doctrine of Lapse. Curzon: Partition of Bengal. Chelmsford: Rowlatt Act. Irwin: Simon Commission, Dandi March. Linlithgow: Quit India.

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  1. Q1Easy

    The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919 took place in which city?

    Correct answerAmritsar

    Why

    Tie the event to the Rowlatt Act protests in Punjab, which peaked in April 1919.

    Jallianwala Bagh is a walled public garden in the Punjab city that is home to the Golden Temple; Lahore, Lucknow and Meerut belong to other chapters.

    So the city is Amritsar.

  2. Q2Easy

    The Vandemataram Movement was initiated in Andhra Pradesh in 1907 following the _____.

    Correct answerPartition of Bengal

    Why

    Date the trigger: a 1907 movement must answer something that happened just before it.

    Curzon split Bengal in 1905; the Amritsar massacre came in 1919, the world war began in 1939 and the famine struck in 1943, all too late.

    So the trigger was the Partition of Bengal.

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