INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL, RIYADH

QUESTION BANK, TERM II (2021-22)

CLASS: X- SOCIAL SCIENCE

HISTORY: NATIONALISM IN INDIA

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Why did Gandhiji start Non Cooperation Movement? Explain.
2. How did women participate in Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain.
3. How could non-cooperation become a movement? Give your opinion.
4. Describe the role of Alluri Sitaram Raju in Andhra Pradesh during 1920s.
5. Describe the famous incidence of Jallianwala Bagh.
6. How did the salt Satyagraha become an effective tool of resistance against British colonialism in
India during 1930? Explain.
7. Discuss various stages of the Non Cooperation Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi. 8. Why did
Gandhiji decide to withdraw the ‘Non-Cooperation Movement’ in February 1922? Explain any three
reasons.
9. Evaluate the role of business classes in the Civil Disobedience Movement.
10. Who had designed the ‘swaraj flag’ by 1921? Explain the main features of this flag. 11. “The Civil
Disobedience Movement was different from the Non-Cooperation Movement”. Support the statement
with examples.
12. What is meant by the term ‘picket’?
13. “The plantation workers in Assam had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion
of Swaraj”. Support the statement with arguments.
14. Describe the main features of the Salt March.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
15. How did people belonging to different communities, regions or language groups develop a sense of
collective belonging in the nineteenth century India? Explain.
16. Explain the meaning and notion of swaraj as perceived by the plantation workers. How did they
respond to the call of the Non – Cooperation movement?
17. The Civil Disobedience Movement saw the participation of different social classes and groups. Give
reasons for the participation of the following: a) rich peasants b) poor peasants c) business classes d)
industrial working classes e) women.
18. The middle classes played an important role in the Non-Cooperation Movement in the cities.
Explain. Why do you think that the movement slowed down in the cities?
19. How did the Non-Cooperation Movement spread to the countryside and drew into its fold the
struggles of peasants and tribal communities? Elaborate.
20. How did history and fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols, all played important
part in the making of Indian nationalism in the nineteenth century? Explain.
21. How had the First World War created economic problems in India? Explain with examples. 22. How
did the Colonial Government repress the Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain. 23. How had a
variety of cultural processes developed a sense of collective belongingness in India during the 19th
century? Explain with examples.
24. Who had organised the dalits into the ‘Depressed Classes Association’ in 1930? Describe his
achievements.
25. Define the term Civil Disobedience Movement. Describe the participation of rich and poor peasant
communities in the Civil Disobedience Movement.
26. How did the Non-Cooperation movement start with participation of middle-class people in the
cities? Explain its impact on the economic front.
27. Why was Congress reluctant to allow women to hold any position of authority within the
organisation? How did women participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain. 28. Why did
Gandhiji decide to launch a nationwide satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act 1919? How was it
organised? Explain.
29. Why did Mahatma Gandhiji decide to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain.
CASE BASED QUESTIONS
30. Read the given text and answer the following questions.
When the Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928, it was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back
Simon’. All parties, including the Congress and the Muslim League, participated in the
demonstrations. In an effort to win them over, the viceroy, Lord Irwin, announced in October 1929,
a vague offer of ‘dominion status’ for India in an unspecified future, and a Round Table Conference
to discuss a future constitution. This did not satisfy the Congress leaders. The radicals within the
Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose, became more assertive. The liberals
and moderates, who were proposing a constitutional system within the framework of British
dominion, gradually lost their influence. In December 1929, under the presidency of Jawaharlal
Nehru, the Lahore Congress formalised the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for
India. It was declared that 26 January 1930, would be celebrated as the Independence Day when
people were to take a pledge to struggle for complete independence. But the celebrations attracted
 very little attention. So Mahatma Gandhi had to find a way to relate this abstract idea of freedom to
more concrete issues of everyday life.
30.1. Indicate the purpose of Round Table Conference.
30.2. What was the declaration of the Lahore Congress?
30.3. How did the different parties greet Simon Commission? What was the offer announced by
Lord Irwin to win them over?