NIRMAL BHARTIA SCHOOL

Name: ………………………
Class: X
Date……………………… Nationalism in India Subject:- History
(Worksheet)

Do the following questions in your notebook.

Q1) Passage Based Question
Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly critical of the modern age in which machines enslaved humans and
displaced labour. He saw the charkha as a symbol of a human society that would not glorify machines
and technology. The spinning wheel, moreover, could provide the poor with supplementary income and
make them self-reliant.
What I object to, is the craze is for what they call labour –saving machinery. Men go “saving labour “, till
thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and
labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of
few, but in the hands of all. Young India, 13 November 1924 Khaddar does not seek to destroy all
machinery but it does regulate its cause and check its weedy growth. It uses machinery for the service of
the poorest in their own cottages. The wheel is itself and exquisite piece of machinery.
Young India, 17 March 1927

i) Why was Mahatma Gandhi critical of machines?

ii) Why did Mahatma Gandhi give so much importance to Charkha (spinning wheel)?
iii) According to Gandhi, what is the relation between Khaddar and machinery.

Q2) Complete the following web chart

Effects of world War -1 on India

Effects of
World War-1

Q3) Long Questions

a) What was the reaction of the people against the Rowlatt Act?
b) What was Satyagraha? Explain some of the Satyagraha movements launched by Gandhi?