2004 · Q111
111. In the year 1919, what was the reason for Mahatma Gandhi to warn the Viceroy that a countrywide Satyagraha would be launched?
Modern HistoryFreedom Movement
- AHe wanted the Government to withdraw the Rowlatt Act immediately
- BHe was forcing the British rulers to be sensitive to the Khilafat Movement
- CHe wanted the Government to abolish the Zamindari System to alleviate the miseries of peasants
- DHe was forcing the British rulers to give at least the dominion status to India to make Home Rule possible
Explanation
In April 1919 Gandhi warned the Viceroy that a countrywide satyagraha would be launched unless the Rowlatt Act — the "Black Act" allowing detention without trial — was withdrawn, and he then led the Rowlatt Satyagraha. The Khilafat issue, zamindari abolition and dominion-status demands belong to other phases of his politics, not to the 1919 warning.