Question

How did the First World War help in the growth of national movement in India

Answer 1

During the first world war , the British were busy fighting the war, the national movement grew stonger.

Businessmen like G.D Birla and Purushottamdas Thakurdas expanded their businesses and helped the satyagrahis.

Gandhiji also started the Quit India movement to adopt Purna Swaraj.

The industrialists also began to pressurize the government for a favourable rupee-sterling ratio and protection against imports

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Answer 2

Answer:

During the First World War, the British army conducted forced recruitment from rural areas in India.

To finance the defence expenditure, high customs duties and income taxes were imposed.

Also, during 1918-19 and 1920-21, crops failed in many parts of India, thereby resulting in acute food shortages. Accompanied by epidemics it accounted for 12 to 13 million deaths. All this caused extensive anger and opposition against the British colonial rule.

People hoped that their hardships would end after the war was over. But this did not happen.

The war had given rise to many social and economic problems. The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 could not satisfy the aspirations of the Indians. There arose a general discontent among the Indian masses against the British rule.