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Questions on nonviolent resistance, independence, and the 1947 partition of British India.
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A 1919 call for hartals and peaceful lawbreaking protested emergency powers kept after World War I, including detention without ordinary trial. Which campaign was this?
Beginning in 1920, nationalists boycotted government schools, law courts, councils, and foreign cloth while also supporting the Khilafat issue. Which movement used these tactics?
In 1930 Gandhi and volunteers walked from Sabarmati to Dandi, then made salt from seawater to defy a colonial monopoly. Which campaign was this?
After the Purna Swaraj pledge, Congress expanded protest to breaking salt and forest laws, refusing some taxes, and boycotting foreign cloth. Which movement was this?
At Bombay in August 1942, Congress demanded immediate British withdrawal during World War II, and its top leaders were arrested within hours. Which movement was launched?
After Cabinet Mission talks failed in 1946, the Muslim League called August 16 for mass action to press the Pakistan demand; Calcutta riots followed. What was that call?
The 1940 Lahore Resolution demanded independent states in Muslim-majority areas of British India. Which organization adopted it under Jinnah's leadership?
Who led the Indian National Congress at the Lahore session that made complete independence its goal in December 1929?
In the North-West Frontier, which leader built the Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement committed to nonviolent resistance against British rule?
Which leader worked with the Indian Independence League in Japanese-held Singapore and led the Indian National Army against British rule?
During Cabinet Mission negotiations in 1946, which Congress president argued for a united India and opposed partition?
Which Muslim League leader became Pakistan's first prime minister on August 15, 1947?
Which British law created the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947?
Which last viceroy advanced the transfer of power from the planned 1948 deadline to August 1947?
The final boundary award for the new dominions was published after independence under the name of which boundary commission chair?
Under the 1947 settlement, princely states not directly ruled by Britain were generally asked to choose accession to which side?
Which pair of provinces, each with large religious minorities and major economic centers, was partitioned by the 1947 settlement?
In the months around August 1947, millions crossed the new borders, with Muslims moving toward Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs toward India. What was this consequence?
In Punjab and Bengal, the hurried boundary and communal fear helped produce widespread attacks among religious communities. Which consequence followed partition?
Almost immediately after independence, India and Pakistan fought over which princely state?
Partition created Pakistan with a western wing and an eastern wing. Which country did East Pakistan become in 1971?
Gandhi spent his last months trying to calm communal violence and was assassinated in Delhi on January 30, 1948. Who killed him?
Compared with Algeria's independence from France, what best describes India's route to independence from Britain?
Ghana and India were both British colonies that gained independence after World War II. Which difference fits India in 1947?
Compared with Vietnam's struggle against France after 1945, India's 1947 independence differed because Britain did what?
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