NCERT Class 10 Chapter 2 Nationalism in India MCQs for UPSC

1. What major economic and demographic crises severely affected India during and immediately following the First World War (1914 to 1921)?

1. A.Doubling of prices between 1913 and 1918, forced recruitment in rural areas, crop failures, and an influenza epidemic causing 12 to 13 million deaths according to the 1921 census.
2. B.Complete abolition of all customs duties and total cancellation of rural agricultural taxes.
3. C.An unprecedented expansion in peasant land ownership and universal food grain subsidies.
4. D.A massive migration of European industrial workers to Indian cotton textile mills.

2. Which of the following early satyagrahas was organized by Mahatma Gandhi in 1918 to support peasants affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic?

1. A.Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar
2. B.Kheda Satyagraha in Gujarat
3. C.Bardoli Satyagraha in Surat
4. D.Rowlatt Satyagraha in Delhi

3. What was the repressive provision of the Rowlatt Act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1919 that provoked widespread national outrage?

1. A.It made military service compulsory for all university graduates in India.
2. B.It transferred all agricultural lands in the Punjab to British tea corporations.
3. C.It gave the government enormous powers to repress political activities and allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
4. D.It prohibited the use of the Indian rupee in all inter-provincial commercial transactions.