2002 · Q75
Chauri Chaura is known in the history of India's struggle for freedom because
Indian Freedom StruggleGandhian movements
- AGandhiji launched his first Satyagraha in India from this place
- BGandhiji withdrew his Satyagraha movement when an irate mob set fire to a police station and burnt some policemen
- CHundreds of freedom fighters were shot dead at this place by the police
- DGandhiji sat on a hunger strike
Explanation
At Chauri Chaura (Gorakhpur) on 5 February 1922, an irate mob set fire to a police station, killing 22 policemen. Shocked by the violence, Gandhiji called off the Non-Cooperation Movement. Gandhiji's first satyagraha was Champaran (1917), and no mass police shooting (C) or hunger strike (D) occurred at Chauri Chaura. Hence (B) is correct.