UPSC History Indian National Movement Question Bank Towards India's National Movement

Consider the following statements and choose the code with the correct statements.

1. Rowlatt bills constituted three bills in a row.

2. The major villain of the Amritsar (1919) tragedy was Curzon.

3. Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood as a protest against the Jallianwala massacre.

4. Mahatma Gandhi turned into a non-cooperator to protest against the Amritsar tragedy.

Codes:

A) 1, 2

B) 2, 3

C) 3, 4

D) 1, 2 and 3

Correct Answer: C

Solution :

Rowlatt Bills were not three; Curzon was not villain of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy (1919) but it was General Dyer who did the firing in Amritsar.