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Directions: In the following questions read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. Gandhiji identified himself with the cause of the Muslims who were agitating against the British treatment of the Turkish Sultan. The Khilafat Movement of 1920 marks a glorious period in the annals of Indian history, when Hindus and Muslims were drawn as close to each other as they were during the revolt of 1857. In the Non-cooperation Movement which followed, Hindus and Muslims vied with each other in surrendering their titles and honours and in boycotting schools, colleges, law courts and councils. It was at this time that nationalist Muslims broke away from the Muslim University, Aligarh, and founded the Jamia Millia. Gandhiji was associated with the Jamia from the very beginning. Mahatma Gandhi also returned his Kaiser-e-Hind and other medals. He denounced the British Empire as 'a Satanic system' and made it clear that non-cooperation, though a strictly moral movement, aimed at the overthrow of the Government. During this period, Mahatma Gandhi also perceived the urgency of revitalizing the rural economy and proposed that every Indian should take to spinning on the charkha, and thus made the charkha a symbol of the freedom movement. In February 1922, he proposed to launch a 'new Civil Disobedience Movement. The Government arrested him on 13 March, 1922. At this trial, Mahatma Gandhi declared "I am here to invite and submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime and what appears to me to be the highest duty." He was sentenced to sue years' imprisonment, but was released two years later after a surgical operation for appendicitis.

What was Gandhiji's proposal to revitalize rural economy?

A) To perceive the urgency

B) To make charkha a symbol of freedom movement

C) To declare the British Government as a Satanic System

D) To take up spinning on charkha