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Peasant, Working Class and Left Movements in 20th Century India Class 10 WBBSE MCQ Questions
Multiple Choice Questions (Tick off the correct ones)
Question 1.
When was the Partition of Bengal announced by the British Government ?
a. 1 January 1905
b. 20 July 1905
c. 20 August 1905
d. None of the above
Answer:
b. 20 July 1905
Question 2.
When was the Partition of Bengal given effect to ?
a. 20 July 1905
b. 20 August 1905 .
c. 16 October 1905
d. 16 November 1905
Answer:
c. 16 October 1905
Question 3.
The anti-Partition agitation was largely confined to which of the following classes?
a. Working class
b. Peasantry
c. Different classes
d Middle class
Answer:
d. Middle class
Question 4.
The Viceroy under whose tenure of office the Partition of Bengal was given effect to was :
a. Lord Cornwallis
b. Lord Curzon
c. Lord Hastings
d. Lord Wellesley
Answer:
b. Lord Curzon
Question 5.
Of the following who led the peasants of Barisal in present Bangladesh. during the Partition of Bengal ?
a. Aswini Kumar Datta
b. Bhupendra Chandra Datta
c. Bipin Chandra Pal
d Basanta Kumar Das
Answer:
a. Aswini Kumar Datta
Question 6.
Where did the widespread resistance of the peasants develop between 1905 and 1908 ?
a. Bengal
b. Bihar
c. Orissa
d. Andhra
Answer:
b. Bihar
Question 7.
Which of the following places in North-East India was a centre of peasants’ disturbances?
a. Arunachal
b. Nagaland
c. Assam
d. Shillong
Answer:
c. Assam
Question 8.
With the support of which of the following Congress leaders did the movement of the peasantry become a part of the national struggle during the Non Co-operation Movement?
a Madan Mohan Malviya
b. Chittaranjan Das
c. Surendranath Banerjee
d. Annie Besant
Answer:
a. Madan Mohan Malviya
Question 9.
Of the following where was the Kisan Sabha formed first ?
a. Gujarat
b U.P. United Province.
c. Orissa
d Bihar
Answer:
b. U.P. United Province.
Question 10.
Initiative of which of the following led to the formation of the Kisan Sabha in 1918 ?
a. Vallabhbhai Patel
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Madan Mohan Malviya
d. Gaurisankar Misra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi
Answer:
d. Gaurisankar Misra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi
Question 11.
Of the following who was the first President of the All India Kisan Sabha?
a. N.G. Ranga
b Swami Darshanananda
c. Swami Sahajananda
d Swami Kripananda
Answer:
c. Swami Sahajananda
Question 12.
With which of the following did the communists work for the peasants prior to the formation of the Communist Party in 1925 ?
a. Home Rule League
b. Theosophical Society
c. Girni Kamgar
d. Indian National Congress
Answer:
d. Indian National Congress
Question 13.
Of the following where did the Ekta Eka. movement begin ?
a. Bengal
b. Orissa
c. Maharashtra
d U.P. United Province.
Answer:
d. U.P. United Province.
Question 14.
Of the following one of the leaders of the Eka Movement was:
a. Ram Chandra
b. Passi Madari
c. Moideen
d Gopala
Answer:
b Passi Madari
Question 15.
The first civil disobedience of peasants of which place was, it is said ‘in many ways a child of the Non Co-operation days’?
a. Bardoli
b. Kerala
c. Manjeri
d. U.P. United Province.
Answer:
a. Bardoli
Question 16.
The peasant mobilization of which taluq ‘confirmed the Indian people were indeed on the way to becoming a nation’?
a Bengal
b Orissa
c Maharashtra
d U.P. United Province.
Answer:
d U.P. United Province.
Question 17.
Of the following leaders who initiated Bardoli satyagraha of the peasants?
a Sahajananda Saraswati
b Mahatma Gandhi
c Vallabhbhai Patel
d N.G. Ranga
Answer:
c Vallabhbhai Patel
Question 18.
Violation of which of the following laws marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement by Gandhiji ?
a Arms Act
b Press Act
c Salt Law
d None of the above
Answer:
c. Salt Law
Question 19.
Of the following which was the first civil disobedience movement of the peasants of India?
a. Eka Movement of U.P.
b. Peasants’ movement of Barisal
c. Peasants’ movement
d. Movement of the indigo of Bardoli in Surat peasants at Champaran
Answer:
c. Peasants Movement of Bardoli in Surat
Question 20.
Under the leadership of whom did the Bardoli peasants begin a no-tax movement?
a. Vallabhbhai Patel
b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Chittaranjan Das
d. Sahajananda Saraswati
Answer:
a. Vallabhbhai Patel
Question 21.
The movement that followed the Bardoli peasants no-tax movement was :
a. Eka Movement
b. Non Co-operation Movement
c. Civil Disobedience Movement
d. None of the above
Answer:
c. Civil Disobedience Movement
Question 22.
Of the following which is the other name of the first civil disobedience movement?
a. Bardoli Satyagraha
b. Salt Satyagraha
c. Rowlatt Satyagraha
d. Forest Satyagraha
Answer:
b. Salt Satyagraha
Question 24.
What was the main centre of Great Depression of 1929 ?
a. USA
b. Great Britain
c. India
d. France
Answer:
a. USA
Question 25.
Who initiated the formation of Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha?
a. Vallabhbhai Patel
b. Madan Mohan Malviya
c. Sahajananda Saraswati
d. Gaurisankar Misra
Answer:
c. Sahajananda Saraswati
Question 26.
Of the following who founded the Andhra Provincial Pyot’s Association ?
a. Muzaffar Ahmed and Bankim Mukherjee
b. N.G. Ranga and M.B. Naidu
c. Madan Mohan Malviya and Gaurisankar Misra
d Passi Madari and Sahreb
Answer:
b. N.G. Ranga and M.B. Naidu
Question 27.
The new type of peasants’ movement during the Civil Disobedience Movement began in :
a Andhra Pradesh
b Orissa
c. U.P. United Province.
d. Bengal
Answer:
c. U.P. United Province.
Question 28.
Under whose initiative did the Indian National Congress lend full support to the no-rent campaign of the peasants of U?
a Ballabhbhai Patel
b Rajendra Prasad
c Sahajananda Saraswati
d Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer:
d Jawaharlal Nehru
Question 29.
The left-wing organization Workers’ and Peasants Party came into existence in :
a. 1925
b 1927
c. 1929
d 1930
Answer:
b. 1927
Question 30.
Which of the following established the Congress Socialist Party in 1934 ?
a. Indian National Congress
b. Communist Party of India
c. Congress Left-wingers
d The Socialists
Answer:
Congress Left-wingers
Question 31.
Of the following which was the first peasant organization on an all-India basis?
a. Kisan Sabha
b Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha
c. All-India Kisan Sabha
d Andhra Provincial Ryot’s Association
Answer:
c. All India Kisan Sabha
Question 32.
The peasants of which of the following provinces began no-rent movement being emboldened by the success of the Bardoli Satyagraha?
a. Andhra
b Bengal
c. Tamilnadu
d United Province
Answer:
a. Andhra
Question 33.
During which of the following years did the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party WPP. lose contact with the villages and the peasants in general ?
a. Between 1925 and 1930
b. Between 1930 and 1935
c. Between 1935 and 1940
d. Between 1940 and 1942
Answer:
b. Between 1930 and 1935
Question 34.
One of the demands raised by the Congress Socialist Party was :
a Abolition of revenue hike
b Recognnition of occupancy rights of the tenants
c. Formulation of an agrarian policy
d None of the above
Answer:
b. Recognition of the occupancy rights of the tenants
Question 35.
In which of the following years were Congress ministries formed in majority of provinces?
a. In 1928
b. In 1930
C. In 1935
d In 1937
Answer:
d. In 1937
Question 36.
In which of the following provinces were the communists successful in organizing peasant unrest?
a Bengal
b. Orissa
c Madhya Pradesh
d Maharashtra
Answer:
a. Bengal
Question 37.
Of the following who devoted himself to the social welfare of the factory workers before the inception of the trade unions?
a. Sahajananda Saraswati
b. Sasipada Banerjee
c. Dwarakanath Tagore
d. Muzaffar Ahmed
Answer:
b. Sasipada Banerjee
Question 38.
One of the following nationalist leaders who dedicated himself to labour struggles was :
a. Shivnath Shastri
b. Saroj Mookherjee
c. Aswinicoomar Banerjee
d G.S. Agarkar
Answer:
c. Aswinicoomar Banerjee
Question 39.
In which of the following provinces did the working class organize strikes and hartals on the day of Partition 16 October 1905.?
a. Lahore
b. Bengal
c. Orissa
d. Bihar
Answer:
b. Bengal
Question 40.
Of the following communist leaders who defended a united front with the Congress so that the kisan struggle could be transformed in a people’s struggle?
a. Muzaffar Ahmed
b. P.C. Joshi
c. Abani Mukherjee
d Manabendranath Roy
Answer:
b. P.C. Joshi
Question 41.
In which of the following Congress sessions was protest lndged against the repressive measures of the colonial British government?
a. Lahore Congress
b. Allahabad Congress
c. Benaras Congress
d. Nagpur Congress
Answer:
c. Benaras Congress
Question 42.
Of the following who organized a strike of the Tuticorin Coral Mill ?
a. Chidambaram Pillai
b Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c. Premtosh Bose
d. Apurba Kumar Ghosh
Answer:
a. Chidambaram Pillai
Question 43.
Which of the following newspapers openly advocated to follow the path of Russia in respect of the working class movement in India?
a. Sambad Kaumadi
b. Langal
c. Nabasakti
d. Ganabani
Answer:
c. Nabasakti
Question 44.
Of the following which was the first trade union proper in India?
a. Bombay Labour Union
b. Madras Labour Union
C. Workers’ and Peasants Party
d. Girni Kamgar Union
Answer:
b. Madras Labour Union
Question 45.
When was the All India Trade Union Congress formed ?
a. 1905
b. 1919
C 1920
d 1929
Answer:
c. 1920
Question 46.
Who was the founder of the first trade union proper in India ?
a. Chaman Lal
b. B.P. Wadia
c. G.R. Naidu
d. N.M. Joshi
Answer:
b. B. P. Wadia
Question 47.
In which of the following years was the first trade union proper established?
a. 1914
b. 1915
c. 1918
d. 1920
Answer:
c. 1918
Question 48.
Who was the first elected President of the All India Trade Union Congress?
a. B.P. Wadia
b. Singaravelu Chettier
c. Lala Lajpat Rai
d. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer:
c. Lala Lajpat Rai
Question 49.
Of the following who was the first General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress?
a. N.M. Joshi
b. Joseph Baptista
c. B.P. Wadia
d. Diwan Chaman Lal
Answer:
d. Diwan Chaman Lal
Question 50.
Of the following who was the President of the Gaya Congres ?
a. Annie Besant
b. Chitta Ranjan Das
c. Maulana Azad
d Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer:
b. Chittaranjan Das
Question 51.
Where was something like a parallel government set up in the wake of Civil Disobedience Movement?
a. Bihar
b. Bengal
c. Orissa
d. Sholapur
Answer:
d. Sholapur
Question 52.
In which of the following years was the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party WPP. formed?
a. 1920
b. 1921
c. 1927
d. 1930
Answer:
c. 1927
Question 53.
Which of the following organized a six-month long strike?
a. Choolai Mill Workers
b. Budge Budge Mill workers
c. Workers’ and Peasants’ Party
d. Girni Kamgar Union GKU.
Answer:
d. Girni Kamgar Union GKU.
Question 54.
One of the leaders imprisioned under the Meerut Conspiracy Case was :
a. Abani Mukherjee
b. S.A. Dange
c. Ganesh Ghosh
d Hiren Mukherjee
Answer:
b. S.A. Dange
Question 55.
On which of the following dates did the Quit India Movement formally begin ?
a. 30 January 1942
b. 9 July 1942
c. 9 August 1942
d. 9 September 1942
Answer:
d. 9 August 1942
Question 56.
Which of the following was formed jointly by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose?
a. Congress Socialist Party
b. Indian Independence League
c. All India Congress Socialist
d Workers’ and Peasants’ Party Party
Answer:
b. Indian Independence League
Question 57.
Of the following where was the Communist Party of India first set up ?
a. Tazakistan
b. Meerut
c. Bombay
d Tashkent in erstwhile USSR.
Answer:
d. Tashkent in erstwhile USSR.
Question 58.
Of the communists who were brought to trial under the Kanpur Consptracy Case one was :
a M.N. Roy
b N.M. Joshi
c Muzaffar Ahmed
d B.P. Wadia
Answer:
c Muzaffar Ahmed
Question 59.
Of the following where was the Communist Party of India CPI. established in India ?
a Bombay
b Patna
c Kanpur
d Nagpur
Answer:
c Kanpur
Question 60.
Of the following who set up the party named League of Radical Congressmen?
a M.N. Roy
b N.G. Ranga
c M.B. Naidu
d Muzaffar Ahmed
Answer:
a M.N. Roy
Tick off True or False
1. During the nineteenth century peasants’ movement were rare in India
Answer: False
2. Most of the weaknesses of the peasants’ movements were overcome in the twentieth century
Answer: True
3. A significant event in the early years of the twentieth century India was that Bengal was partitioned by the British colonial government.
Answer: True
4. The Partition of Bengal was to be effective on and from 16 November 1905
Answer: False
5. The anti-Partition agitation soon spread all over India.
Answer: True
6. Participation of peasants in the anti-Partition agitation was not at all significant.
Answer: False
7. The Muslim peasants of Barisal, in Bangladesh, participated in the anti-Partition agitation under the leadership of Aswini Kumar Datta
Answer: True
8. In March 1820 Gandhiji announced his programme of Non Cooperation for a mass movement.
Answer: False
9. The high price of food and other necessaries after World War I made the oppression of the foreign rule all the more unbearable.
Answer: True
10. The members of the Home Rule League initiated the process of organizing the peasants on modern lines.
Answer: True
11. With the support of Madan Mohan Malviya the Kisan Sabha came into existence in 1929.
Answer: False
12. The Ekta or Eka Movement was essentially a ‘unity movement’ under the insurgent peasantry.
Answer: True
13. The first civil disobedience movement was that begun by the peasants of Bardoll.
Answer: True
14. The Bardoll Satyagraha became the symbol of peasants’ protest in the country.
Answer: True
15. The Partition of Bengal was to be effective on and from 16 November 1905
Answer: False
16. The anti-Partition agitation soon spread all over India.
Answer: True
17. Participation of peasants in the anti-Partition agitation was not at all significant.
Answer: False
18. The Muslim peasants of Barisal, in Bangladesh, participated in the anti-Partition agitation under the leadership of Aswini Kumar Datta
Answer: True
19. In March 1820 Gandhiji announced his programme of Non Cooperation for a mass movement.
Answer: False
20. The high price of food and other necessaries after World War I made the oppression of the foreign rule all the more unbearable.
Answer: True
21. The members of the Home Rule League initiated the process of organizing the peasants on modern lines.
Answer: True
22. With the support of Madan Mohan Malviya the Kisan Sabha came into existence in 1929.
Answer: False
23. The Ekta or Eka Movement was essentially a ‘unity movement’ under the insurgent peasantry.
Answer: True
24. The first civil disobedience movement was that begun by the peasants of Bardoli.
Answer: True
25. The Bardoll Satyagraha became the symbol of peasants’ protest in the country.
Answer: True
26. With the violation of the Salt Law by Gandhiji began the second Civil Disobedience Movement.
Answer: True
27. The Great Depression of 1929 that began in India adversely affected the Indian peasantry beyond description.
Answer: False
28. The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha came into existence under the initiative of Sahajananda Saraswati.
Answer: True
29. The Andhra Provincial Ryot’s Association came to be established under the initiative of N.G. Ranga.
Answer: False
30. The ‘no revenue, no rent’ campaign in United Province during the Civil Disobedience Movement was a double-edged weapon.
Answer: True
31. With the model of the Russian Revolution before them the Indian communists showed greater interest in trade unions.
Answer: True
32. The Congress leadership while refusing to give blessings to the AIKS declared at the Haripura Congress (1938) that the ‘Congress itself is in the main a kisan organization’.
Answer: True
33. A new phase of the peasant movement began after the Congress ministries were formed in 1939.
Answer: False
34. Bihar provincial Congress Committee staged a demonstration of the peasants before the Assembly house in Patna.
Answer: True
35. Swadeshi movement did not encourage the labourers to unite and organize themselves into unions.
Answer: False
36. The Benaras session of the Congress (1905) made an emphatic protest against the Partition of Bengal.
Answer: True
37. In some of the sporadic strikes that occurred in 1908-1909 most of the national leaders were involved.
Answer: False
38. The anti-Partition movement also saw the faint beginnings of a socialist leaning among some of the nationalist leaders.
Answer: True
39. In its 14 September 1907 edition the Nabasakti openly advocated for following the example of the working class movement in Russia.
Answer: True
40. In the period between 1919 and 1922 the working class of the country got involved in the mainstream of politics in a significant manner.
Answer: True
41. The Madras Labour Union formed in 1918 by B.P. Wadia was the first trade union proper in India.
Answer: True
42. The most important development following the First World War was the formation of the AITUC in 1919.
Answer: False
43. Chittaranjan Das was the President of the Gaya session of the Indian National Congress held in 1920.
Answer: False
44. Socialist influences in the Indian politics between 1921 and 1924 strengthened the working class movement.
Answer: True
45. The Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (WPP) was formed in 1927 under the initiative of M.N. Roy.
Answer: False
46. Though the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party was short-lived, its units in some of the provinces emerged as the political party of the working class.
Answer: True
47. During the Civil Disobedience, the Congress in Bombay raised the slogan that ‘workers and peasants are the hands and feet of the Congress’.
Answer: True
48. In Bombay the Girni kamgar Union organized a massive one month long strike of the textile workers.
Answer: False
49. The British were not convinced that the intensive labour movement was all due to the infiltration of socialist and communist ideas propagated to the workers by the Communist Party of India.
Answer: False
50. In order to hold back the spread of communist influence the British government put under arrests all the leading communist and trade union leaders.
Answer: True
51. In the ill-famed Meerut Conspiracy case most of the communist and trade union leaders like Mirajkar, Dange, Joshi and others were imprisoned.
Answer: True
52. Between 1937 and 1939 there was a phenomenal rise in the trade union movement.
Answer: True
53. The Congress Working Committee in a resolution (1937) expressed solidarity with the Bengal workers.
Answer: True
54. The Quit India Movement began on 9 September 1942 with arrests of most of the prominent national leaders including Gandhiji.
Answer: True
55. Following the “People’s War” line the Indian communists participated in the Quit India Movement.
Answer: False
56. The British Government in India being scared of the socialist ideas suspected all the national leaders including Gandhiji to be the secret agents of the Soviet Russia.
Answer: a True
57. Deeply influenced by the social ideas Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose travelled all over the country carrying the message of anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism and antilandlordism.
Answer: True
58. Congress Independence League formed jointly by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose put pressure upon the Congress and Gandhiji to start movement for the attainment of Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
Answer: True
59. In 1924 efforts to organize a communist party received a set back when all the leading communist leaders were exiled to the islands of Andaman and Nicobar.
Answer: False
60. M.N. Roy was the founder of the Mexican Communist Party as also the Communist Party of India.
Answer: False
Fill in the gaps by choosing the correct words
1. The anti-Partition movement assumed an all-India character in which ____ classes of people participeted.
Answer: Different
2. ____ politics did not emerge in India during the anti-Partition agitation.
Answer: Left
3. After ____ the high price of food and other necessaries made the oppression of the foreign rule all the more difficult for the peasantry to bear.
Answer: First World War
4. During the Non Co-operation Movement with the support of Congress leaders like ____ and others the peasants’ movement became a part of the national struggle.
Answer: Madan Mohan Malviya
5. Members of the ____ initiated the process of organizing the peasants on modern lines.
Answer: Home Rule League
6. With the support of ____ Kisan Sabha came into existence in 1918.
Answer: Madan Mohan Malviya
7. The ____ movement died an untimely death because of the severe repression of the colonial British authorities.
Answer: Eka
8. The peasants of Bardoli organized Satyagraha under the leadership of ____
Answer: Vallabhbhai Patel
9. Economically ruined peasants of ____ were organized into BPKS.
Answer: Bihar
10. The ____ Movement by Congress under the leadership of Gandhiji served as an encouragement to the peasants’ movement.
Answer: Civil Disobedience
11. After the Congress ministries were formed in 1937 a new phase of the ____ movement opened.
Answer: Peasants’
12. Before the working class was organized a humble beginning towards the welfare of the workers was made by the social workers like ____
Answer: Sasipada Banerjee
13. During the anti-Partition agitation a marked feature was the ____ unrest’.
Answer: Industrial
14. The ____ Congress (1905) made an emphatic protest against the Partition of Bengal.
Answer: Benaras
15. The anti-Partition movement saw the faint beginnings of a ____ leaning among some of the nationalist leaders.
Answer: Socialist
16. There was a resurgence of ____ class activities between 1919 and 1922.
Answer: Working
17. Formation of ____ in 1920 was welcomed by the Indian National Congress.
Answer: AITUC
18. During the Non Co-operation Movement the Congress leaders, ____ and Viswananda, thought of pressurizing the British Government through powerful strike.
Answer: Darsanananda
19. Though the ____ was short lived, its units in some of the provinces emerged as the political party of the working class.
Answer: WPP
20. Initially, the Communist Party of India was established outside ____
Answer: India
21. The formation of Congress ministries in different provinces following the election of 1937 gave a boost to the ____ class movement.
Answer: Working
22. The Quit India Movement formally began on ____ with arrests of most of the prominent national leaders including Gandhiji.
Answer: 9 August 1942
23. Following the “People’s War” line the ____ dissociated themselves from the Quit India Movement.
Answer: Communists
24. In 1928 the Indian Independence League was formed jointly by Jawaharlal Nehru and ____
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
Question 25. ____ was the elected Chairman of the All India Congress Socialist Party.
Answer: Sampurnanand
26. The Communist Party of India was first set up at ____
Answer: Taskhent
27. After the birth of the CPI in India ____ became the General Secretary.
Answer: M.G. Ghate
28. The Meerut Conspiracy Case of 1929 gave a severe blow to the activities of the ____
Answer: Communists
29. ____ is better known as ‘M.N. Roy’.
Answer: Narendranath Bhattacharya
Statement and Assertion
Question 1.
Statement : In the twentieth century most of the weaknesses of the peasant movement were overcome.
Assertion :
(a) The anti-Partition movement soon assumed an all-India character.
(b) The participation of peasants in the anti-Partition movement was very much limited.
(c) The indigo peasants of Champaran in Bihar rose in rebellion.
(d) There was no question of Leftist leadership amongst the peasants at that time.
Answer:
(c) The indigo peasants of Champaran in Bihar rose in rebellion.
Question 2.
Statement : It was during the time of the Non-Cooperation movement that the process of organizing the peasants on modern lines began.
Assertion :
(a) Kisan Sabha came to be established for the first time in U.P. (United Province).
(b) Formed in 1918 the Kisan Sabha moved from strength to strength.
(c) Kisan Sabha came into esistence with the support of Madan Mohan Malviya.
(d) In organizing the peasants the Indian communists within the Congress.
Answer:
(a) Kisan Sabha came to be established for the first time in U.P. (United Province).
Question 3.
Statement : The discontent of the peasants of U.P. surfaced in the form of Eka Movement.
Assertion :
(a) Passi Madari and Sahreb were the two most important leaders of the Eka Movement.
(b) The Eka Movement died an untimely death.
(c) The initial thrust of the Eka Movement was provided by the Congress.
(d) The rebel peasants took a vow that they would pay only the recorded rent.
Answer:
(d) The rebel peasants took a vow that they would pay only the recorded rent.
Question 4.
Statement : The Great Depression of 1929 adversely affected the Indian peasantry.
Assertion :
(a) The peasantry of Bihar organized themselves into Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1929.
(b) In Andhra Pradesh also a peasants’ organization came to be established.
(c) In United Province the economically ruined peasantry began a new type of movement, e.g. ‘no-revenue and no-rent’ campaign.
(d) In Bengal the initiative to organize the peasants was taken up by Muzaffar Ahmed and others.
Answer:
(c) In United Province the economically ruined peasantry began a new type of movement, e.g. ‘no-revenue and no-rent’ campaign.
Question 5.
Statement : The first Left-wing peasant organization in India was not conceived as an exclusive peasant body, but bracketed with ‘workers’.
Assertion :
(a) Initially it functioned as a left-wing within the Congress fold.
(b) The “Workers’ and Peasants’ Party” came into existence by early 1927.
(c) The WPP came into existence under the leadership of leaders like Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed and others.
(d) The WPP gained strength within the Congress in provincial and national levels.
Answer:
(b) The “Workers’ and Peasants’ Party” came into existence by early 1927 .
Question 6.
Statement : Formation of the Congress ministries in different provinces marked the beginning of a new kind of peasant movement.
Assertion :
(a) The movement did not assume the character of anti-lordism.
(b) The peasantry was in no mood to undertake no-rent and no-revenue movement as they had done earlier.
(c) With the model of Russian Revolution before them the Indian communists showed greater interest in trade unions rather than the peasant movements.
(d) The communists laid the foundation of their own organization, All India Kisan Sabha.
Answer:
(b) The peasantry was in no mood to undertake no-rent and no-revenue movement as they had done earlier.
Question 7.
Statement : The anti-Partition Movement was a landmark in the history of the labour movement.
Assertion :
(a) A marked feature of the anti-Partition Movement was labour unrest’.
(b) Many of leaders of the Swadeshi encouraged the labourers to unite and organize themselves into unions.
(c) A number of strikes broke out sharply during the anti-Partition movement.
(d) A section of the nationalist leaders thought of talking with the British authorities for the protection of labourers’ interest.
Answer:
(a) A marked feature of the anti-Partition Movement was ‘labour unrest’.
Question 8.
Statement : The anti-Partition Movement saw the faint beginnings of socialist leaning among some of the nationalist leaders. Assertion :
(a) The 14 September 1907 edition of the newspaper Nabasakti openly advocated following the example of working class movement in Russia.
(b) Some extremist leaders openly urged for following the ‘Russian method’ of political general strike in India.
(c) Some advocated the Indian workers to learn from the workers of Russia.
(d) Some of the nationalist leaders were imbued with the Marxist ideas that had been developing in Europe.
Answer:
(d) Some of the nationalist leaders were imbued with the Marxist ideas that had been developing in Europe.
Question 9.
Statement : After a period of slump there was a resurgence of working class activities between 1919 and 1922
Assertion :
(a) The working class movement in India entered into a new phase at the clse of the First World War.
(b) The working class could not stay away from the call of Mahatma Gandhi.
(c) The working class in this period got involved in the mainstream of national politics in a significant way.
(d) The price hike following the World War worsened the living condition of working class of India.
Answer:
(c) The working class in this period got involved in the mainstream of national politics in a significant way.
Question 10.
Statement : Socialist influence in Indian politics betweer 1921 and 1924 strengthened the working class movement.
Assertion :
(a) Despite repression by the British the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (WPP) was formed in 1927.
(b) An aspect of the WPP was that it functioned as a left-wing within the Congress.
(c) Though short-lived the WPP spread its organization in the provincial and national levels.
(d) The communist-led WPP devoted itself, among other things, to the growth of class consciousness amongst the working class.
Answer:
(d) The communist-led WPP devoted itself, among other things, to the growth of class consciousness amongst the working class.
Question 11.
Statement : Indian working class participated in a big way in the Congress-led Quit India Movement.
Assertion :
(a) During the tenure of the Congress ministries, between 1937 and 1939 there was a phenomenal rise in the trade union movement.
(b) With the spread of Gandhiji’s arrest workers of different places of the country went on strikes and hartals.
(c) During the Quit India Movement the strikes organized by the trade unions mostly ended successfully.
(d) Following the “People’s War” line the communists dissociated themselves from the Quit India Movement.
Answer:
(c) During the Quit India Movement the strikes organized by the trade unions mostly ended successfully.
Question 12.
Statement : The two Congress Leftwingers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose, jointly formed the Indian Independence League in 1928.
Assertion :
(a) The Indian Independence League contributed immensely to the launching of Civil Disobedience Movement.
(b) Communal riots convinced Nehru that religion in India will kill that country and its people if it is not subdued’.
(c) Apart from Nehru and Subhas there were many other Congress workers who were wedded to the leftist ideal.
(d) Restiveness of youths in the late 20s gave birth to a variety of student and youth organizations.
Answer:
(a) The Indian Independence League contributed immensely to the launching of Civil Disobedience Movement.
Match List I with List II
Question 1.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) A significant event in the early years of the Indian National Movement | (i) Supporters of the Congress |
| (b) Muslim peasants of Barisal (in present Bangladesh) | (ii) Gandhiji |
| (c) Non Co-operation Movement | (iii) Aswini Kumar Datta |
| (d) Members of the Home Rule League | (iv) Anti-Partition Movement |
Answer:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 2.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Eka Movement | (i) 1929 |
| (b) First Non Co-operation Movement | (ii) Salt Law |
| (c) Civil Disobedience Movement | (iii) Bardoli Satyagraha |
| (d) The Great Depression | (iv) Pasi Madari |
Answer:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 3.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Sahajananda Saraswati | (i) Bihar |
| (b) BPKS | (ii) Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha |
| (c) Andhra Provincial Ryot’s Association | (iii) U.P (United Province) |
| (d) ‘No-revenue and no-rent’ campaign | (iv) N.G. Ranga |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
Question 4.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Reduction of land-tax | (i) 1937 |
| (b) Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, P.C. Joshi and others | (ii) Congress Leftwingers |
| (c) Congress Socialist Party | (iii) U.P. Congress |
| (d) New kind of peasant movement | (iv) Workers’ and Peasants’ Party |
Answer:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 4.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Congress Ministries | (i) East Indian Railways |
| (b) Social welfare for workers | (ii) Anti-Partition Movement |
| (c) Swadeshi and Boycott | (iii) Sasipada Banerjee |
| (d) Strike of clerks | (iv) 1937 |
Answer:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 5.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Madras Labour Union | (i) 1920 |
| (b) All India Trade Union Congress | (ii) B.P. Wadia |
| (c) Socialist influence | (iii) Communist leaders |
| (d) Workers’ and Peasants’ Party | (iv) 1921-1924 |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
Question 6.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Six-month long strike | (i) Communist Party of India |
| (b) Communist Party of India at Tashkent | (ii) 9 August 1942 |
| (c) Quit India Movement | (iii) 1925 |
| (d) People’s War line | (iv) Textile workers of Bombay |
Answer:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Question 7.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Central figures in the resurgent national movement of 1920s | (i) Congress leaders wedded to leftist ideal |
| (b) Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Bose | (ii) Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Ch. Bose |
| (c) Conference at Nasik Central Jail | (iii) At Tashkent in 1925 |
| (d) Communist Party of India | (iv) All India Congress Socialist Party |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
Question 8.
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) Foundation of the CPI at Tashkent | (i) Radical Democratic Party |
| (b) Manabendranath Roy | (ii) M.N. Roy |
| (c) M.N. Roy became a humanist | (iii) Meerut Conspiracy Case |
| (d) Severe blow to the activities of the Communists in India | (iv) From a Marxist |
Answer:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)