Question

When was Rowlatt Satyagraha launched and by whom?

• A. 1919, Mahatma Gandhi
• B. 1921, Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• C. 1916, Jawaharlal Nehru
• D. 1920, Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer 1

Answer:

A. 1919, Mahatma Gandhi

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Rowlatt Satyagraha

• The Rowlatt Act passed by the British, authorized the government to arrest an Indian without any warrant, detain any Indian indefinitely without trial, conduct trials in special tribunals & denied the right of appeal petition.

• People intensely opposed the Act. Gandhiji called for a country wide protest observing 6 April 1919 Black Day.

• In Punjab, the leaders of the protest, Dr. Satyapal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew were arrested. A public meeting was held at Jallianwala Bagh in protest. The British soldiers fired at the unarmed crowd & more than thousand people were killed. This dreadful event is the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

• In protest, Gandhiji relinquished the title Kaisar-e-Hind conferred by the British government, Rabindranath Tagore renounced the title of 'Sir'

• The young Uddam Singh was a witness to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and later he went to England and shot dead Michael O' Dyer who had ordered the massacre. Singh was executed on 31 July 1940.

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