Class 10 history
Write 3-4 sentences about
A-poona pact
B-Khalifa movement
C-dandi March
D-satyagraha
E-boycott movement
F-non cooperative movement
G-Simon commission
H-jallianwala massacre
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Answer:
A- The Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar on behalf of depressed classes and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India in 1932. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India.
B- The Khilafat movement (1919-1924) was an agitation by Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalism in the years following World War I. Its purpose was to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the war.
C- Salt March or Dandi March was a 24-day non-violent march led by Mahatma Gandhi. New Delhi: On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi embarked a historic Salt March from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat's Ahmedabad to the village of Dandi in the state's coastal area to protest against the steep tax the British levied on salt.
D- satyagraha, (Sanskrit and Hindi: “holding onto truth”) concept introduced in the early 20th century by Mahatma Gandhi to designate a determined but nonviolent resistance to evil. ... Satyagraha seeks to conquer through conversion: in the end, there is neither defeat nor victory but rather a new harmony.
E- A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary and intentional abstention from using or buying a product, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.
F- The non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on 1 August 1920, by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of inducing the British to grant self-governance.
G- The Indian Statutory Commission also known as Simon Commission, was a group of seven Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and most important possession.
H- The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919.