Q1. What do you mean by forced recruitment?
Q2. When did Mahatma Gandhi return from South Africa?
Q3. What was the idea of Satyagraha? Q4.Why did Gandhiji visit Champaran?
Q5. What is the meaning of Boycot?
Q6. Define BEGAR.
Q7. What was NAI DHOBI bandh?
Q8. Who headed the oudh kisan sabha?
Q9. Who was Alluri Sitaram Raju?
Q10. When did Mahatma Gandhi visit KHEDA?
Answers
Answer:
1) Forced recruitment is a process by which the colonial state forced people to join the army.
2) January 9, 1915
3)The idea of satyagraha basically emphasised the power of truth and the demand to search for truth.
4) “Gandhiji appeared before the magistrate at Motihari district court on April 18, 1917. In a brief statement, he said he has come to Champaran on invitation from farmers, who had urged that they were not being treated fairly by British indigo planters,”
5)withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
6)Veth, also known as Begar, was a system of forced labour practised in pre-independence India, in which members of populace were compelled to perform unpaid work for the government.
7)Nai-dhobi bandh were organised by the panchayats of Awadh in 1919 for depriving landlords of the services of even barbers and washer men in Pratapgarh district.
8)the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and a few others.
9) Alluri sitaram Raju was a person who led guerrilla movement in gudem hills of Andhra pradesh. He claimed that he had variety of special powers: he could make correct astrological predictions and heal people and could even survive bullet shots.
10) It was the third Satyagraha movement after Champaran Satyagraha and the Ahmedabad mill strike. Gandhi organised this movement to support peasants of the Kheda district. People of Kheda were unable to pay the high taxes levied by the British due to crop failure and a plague epidemic.