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The 'Swadeshi Movement' was launched to protest:
A. The Rowlatt Act
B. The Partition of Bengal (1905)
C. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
D. The Salt Tax
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The movement encouraged the boycott of British goods and the use of Indian-made goods in response to Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal.
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Who led the 'Salt March' to Dandi?
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Sardar Patel
D. Vinoba Bhave
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Gandhi led the 24-day march in 1930 to protest the British salt tax, a pivotal moment in the independence movement.
9643
When did Pakistan conduct its first nuclear tests (Chagai-I)?
A. 1974
B. 1998
C. 1999
D. 2001
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Pakistan conducted nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, in response to India's nuclear tests earlier that month.
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The 'Salt March' was a protest led by Gandhi against:
A. British Textile Tax
B. British Salt Monopoly
C. The Rowlatt Act
D. World War II
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Gandhi marched to the sea to produce salt from seawater, defying the British law that made salt production a government monopoly.
9645
The 'Partition of Bengal' (1905) was implemented by:
A. Lord Mountbatten
B. Lord Curzon
C. Lord Dalhousie
D. Lord Canning
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Viceroy Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal into East and West for administrative reasons, which sparked massive nationalist protests.
9646
The 'Tiananmen Square Protests' occurred in:
A. 1976
B. 1989
C. 1997
D. 2008
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Student-led demonstrations in Beijing were forcibly suppressed by the Chinese military on June 4, 1989.
9647
The 'May Fourth Movement' (1919) in China was a protest against:
A. The Qing Dynasty
B. The Treaty of Versailles
C. Communist Rule
D. The Cultural Revolution
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Students gathered in Beijing to protest the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred German concessions in Shandong to Japan instead of returning them to China.
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The 'Partition of Bengal' (1905) was later annulled in:
A. 1906
B. 1911
C. 1919
D. 1947
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Due to widespread protests, the partition of Bengal was annulled by King George V at the Delhi Durbar in 1911.
9649
The 'Salt March' (1930) was a protest led by Gandhi against:
A. The tax on textiles
B. The British salt monopoly
C. The partition of Bengal
D. World War II
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Gandhi marched 240 miles to the sea to make his own salt, defying the British law that made it illegal for Indians to collect or sell salt.
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The 'Partition of Bengal' in 1905 was implemented by which British Viceroy?
A. Lord Mountbatten
B. Lord Curzon
C. Lord Irwin
D. Lord Ripon
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Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal for administrative efficiency (and divide-and-rule tactics), creating a Muslim-majority East and Hindu-majority West, sparking massive protests.