Practice Test

Consider the following statements:
1. The independence movement as late as 1918 was an elitist movement far removed from the masses of India, focusing essentially on a unified commerce-oriented territory and hardly a call for a united nation. Gandhi changed all that and made it a mass movement.
2. At the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920, Gandhi convinced other leaders of the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj (self rule).
3. The first satyagraha movement urged the use of khadi and Indian material as alternatives to those shipped from Britain urging people to boycott British educational institutions and law courts; resign from government employment; refuse to pay taxes; and forsake British titles and honours.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Through whose initiative was the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti formed in October, 1906?

Assertion (A) In 1916, Maulana Mohammad Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad resigned from the Legislative Council.
Reason (R) The Rowlatt Act was passed by the Government in spite of being opposed by all Indian member of the Legislative Council.
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