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Nationalism in India

Nationalism in India

Chap 1.2 : Nationalism in India www.cbse.online CBSE BOARD Objective Questions Exam 2019-2020 CLASS : 10th SUB : Social Science Unit 4 : India and Contemporaray World - II CCHAPTERHAPTER 11.2.2 For 15 Years Exams Chapter-wise Question Bank visit www.cbse.online or whatsapp at 8905629969 Nationalism in India

1. OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS Ans : (d) Customs 9. From which year, the National Movement spread 1. The Round Table Conferenc which was boycotted by to new areas incorporating new social groups and the Congress. developing new modes of struggle? (a) Second (b) First (a) 1914 (b) 1916 (c) Third (d) None of the above (c) 1919 (d) 1918 Ans : (b) First Ans : (c) 1919

2. Federation of Indian Commerce and Industries was 10. What created a new economic and political situation formed by: in India during 1913-1918? (a) British traders (b) Indian farmers (a) War (b) Femine (c) Indian merchants (d) None of the above (c) Peace (d) Flood Ans : (c) Indian merchants Ans : (a) War

3. Who was the President of Muslim League in 1930? 11. When did Mahatma return to India? (a) Sir Iqbal (a) (b) (b) Shaukat Ali (c) (d) (c) Ans : (d) January 1915 (d) Maulana Azad 12. When was the Non-cooperation Ans : (a) Sir Muhammad Iqbal begin in India? (a) (b) January 1921 4. During the British India, how many provinces were there? (c) (d) (a) Six (b) Eight Ans : (b) January 1921 (c) Seven (d) Nine 13. Which class was mainly involved initially in Non- Ans : (b) Eight cooperation Khilafat Movement? (a) Elite class (b) Lower class 5. Who headed the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’ In Awadh? (a) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Middle class (d) All of the above (b) Madan Mohan Malviya Ans : (c) Middle class (c) Bipin Chadra Pal 14. Which province did not boycott the council election? (d) (a) Madras (b) Ans : (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Hyderabad (d) Lucknow

6. This sense of collective belonging came partly through Ans : (a) Madras (a) united struggles (b) peace struggles 15. A militant Guerrila movement spread in: (c) individual struggles (d) None of these (a) Garo hills (b) Khasi hills Ans : (a) united struggles (c) Gudem hills (d) None of the above

7. In Which continent, modern nationalism came to be Ans : (c) Gudem hills associated with the formation of nation-state? 16. What did the , 1919 presume? (a) (b Europe (a) Detention of political prisoners without trial (c) North America (d) Africa (b) Forced recruitment in the army Ans : (b) Europe (c) Forced manual labour 8. What was not used as a new link which redefined the (d) Equal pay for equal work boundaries of communities and the making of the new Ans : (a) Detention of political prisoners without trial national entity? (a) New symbols (b) New songs and ideas 17. What did the term ‘picket’ refer to? (c) Icons (d) Customs (a) Stealing from shops Download all GUIDE and Sample Paper pdfs from www.cbse.online or www.rava.org.in Page 4 Chap 1.2 : Nationalism in India www.rava.org.in

(b) Import of goods (b) It was formed in Britain. (c) Protest by blocking shop entrances (c) It was set up in response to the nationalist (d) Boycott of clothes and goods movement. Ans : (a) Stealing from shops (d) All of the above Ans : (a) It was an all British commission. 18. Where was Gandhi’s ashram located? (a) Dandi (b) Sabarmati (c) Allahabad (d) Nagpur 2. FILL IN THE BLANK Ans : (b) Sabarmati DIRECTION : Complete the following statements with 19. Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up and headed by: appropriate word(s). (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) 1...... was known as ‘Lion of Punjab’. (c) Ans : Ans : (a) Jawaharlal Nehru 2. Mahatma Gandhi return to India in 1915 from ...... 20. In Awadh, peasants were led by which sanyasi who Ans : had earlier been to Fiji, as an indentured labourer? (a) Baba Ramdev (b) Baba Nagarjuna 3. Due to a violent incident in ...... , Gandhiji called (c) Baba Ramchandra (d) Baba Parmanand off the Non-cooperation Movement. Ans : (c) Baba Ramchandra Ans : Chauri-Chaura

21. The nation is most often symbolised in which of the 4. In ...... movement, women participated in large forms? numbers for the first time. (a) History and fiction (b) Figures or images Ans : (c) Popular prints (d) Folklore or songs 5. Gandhiji called Dalits as ...... Ans : (b) Figures or images Ans : Harijans 22. With the growth of nationalism, who created the image of Bharat Mata in the ? (a) Nand Lal Bose 3. TRUE/FALSE (b) Abanindranath Tagore DIRECTION : Read each of the following statements and (c) write if it is true or false. (d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Ans : (d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 1. Colonial exploitation under the British rule was the important factor of nationalism in Europe. 23. In late 19th century India, which ideas was revived Ans : False through a movement to develop nationalism? (a) Figure or images (b) Popular Prints 2. Baba Ramchandra led the Civil Disobedience (c) History and fictions (d) Folklore or songs movement. Ans : False Ans : (d) Folklore or songs 3. Alluri Sitaram Raju was the leader of militant Guerilla 24. Who himself took interest to revive folklore in West Movement in the Gudem Hills. Bengal? (a) Rabindranath Tagore Ans : True (b) Bankim Chandra Chattpadhyay 4. The Rowlatt Act gave the British Government power (c) Abanindranath Tagore to suppress political activity. (d) All of the above Ans : True Ans : (a) Rabindranath Tagore 5. 300 miles were covered in Gandhiji’s . 25. What was the effect of the Non-cooperation movement Ans : False on the plantation workers in Assam? (a) They left the plantations and headed home. (b) They went on a strike. 4. ASSERTION AND REASON (c) They destroyed the plantations. DIRECTION : Mark the option which is most suitable : (d) None of these (a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is Ans : (a) They left the plantations and headed home. the correct explanation of assertion. 26. What was the main problem with the Simon (b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is Commission? not the correct explanation of assertion. (a) It was an all British commission. (c) If assertion is true but reason is false.

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(d) If both assertion and reason are false. Ans : (c) Assertion is true but reason is false.

1. Assertion : In 1917, Gandhiji organised a The was greeted with the slogan to support the peasants of the Kheda district of ‘Go back Simon’ because it did not have a single Indian Gujarat. member. They were all British but had come to look Reason : The peasants were affected by crop failure into the functioning of the constitutional system in and plague epidemic. They could not pay the revenue India and suggest changes. Gandhiji went on Dandi and were demanding that revenue collection be March on 11 March 1930. The reason thus does not relaxed. explain the assertion. Ans : (a) Both assertion and reason are true and 6. Assertion : Gandhiji entered into Gandhi-Irwin Pact reason is the correct explanation of assertion. * on 5 March 1931. The peasants wanted that their revenue collection be Reason : Ghaffar Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru were relaxed because they were at a complete loss because both put in jail, the Congress was declared illegal, of the epidemic. Gandhiji came forward and organized and a series of measures had been imposed to prevent a Satyagraha to provide them with a platform to raise meetings, demonstrations and boycotts. their voice. Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. 2. Assertion : The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except Madras. With the signing of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Gandhiji Reason : In many places, merchants and traders consented to participate in the Round Table Conference refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign in . However, the negotiations broke down trade. and Gandhiji returned to India disappointed. New Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but repressive measures by the government declared the reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. Congress illegal and put Ghaffar Khan and Jawaharlal Nehru into jail. Both assertion and reason are true but The council elections were boycotted in most provinces reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. except Madras, where , the party of the non-Brahmins, felt that entering the council was one 7. Assertion : Rich peasants became enthusiastic way of gaining some power, something that usually supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement, only Brahmins had access to. organising their communities and at times forcing Therefore, both assertion and reason are true but reluctant members to participate in the boycott reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. programmes. Reason : However, they were deeply happy when the 3. Assertion : The Non-Cooperation Movement gradually movement was called off in 1931 with revenue rates slowed down for a variety of reasons in the cities. being lowered. Reason : As the boycott movement spread, and people Ans : (c) Assertion is true but reason is false. began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and The peasants were deeply disappointed when the Civil handlooms went up. Disobedience Movement was called off in 1931 without Ans : (b) Both assertion and reason are true but revenue rates being revised. They wanted the revenue reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. rates revised and were thus actively participating in the movement but were deeply hurt when they could cloth was often more expensive than mass- not achieve the same. Therefore, The assertion is true produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford but reason is false. to buy it. Non-cooperation Movement was gradually turning violent, some leaders were by now, very tired 8. Assertion : Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote of mass struggle, that is now it lost momentum. ‘Vande Mataram’ as a hymn to the motherland and Therefore, both assertion and reason are true but the it was later included in his novel Anandamath and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. widely sung during the Swadeshi movement. Reason : Rabindranath Tagore painted his famous 4. Assertion : In Awadh, the peasants were led by Alluri image of Bharat Mata, which is portrayed as an ascetic Sitaram Raju. figure, who is calm, composed, divine and spiritual. Reason : The movement here was against Oudh Kisan Ans : (d) Both assertion and reason are false. Sabha. Ans : (d) Both assertion and reason are false. It was in the twentieth century, with the growth of nationalism, that the identity of India came to be In Awadh, the peasants were led by Baba visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata. The Ramchandra, a sanyasi who had earlier been to Fiji as image of Bharat Mata acquired many different forms, indentured labourer. The movement here was against as it circulated in popular prints, and was painted by talukdars and landlords who demanded from peasants different artists. Devotion to this mother figure came exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cesses. to be seen as evidence of one’s nationalism, but this Thus, both the assertion and the reason are wrong. does not explain why he wrote ‘ Vande Mataram’. 5. Assertion : When Simon Commission arrived in India, Thus both of them are true, but reason is not the it was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back Simon’. correct explanation of the assertion. Reason : This happened as Mahatma Gandhi was on Dandi March during that time. WWW.CBSE.ONLINE

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