PYQ Mappings — Nationalism in India
Chapter 2 · Class 10 History
Asked in Past Exams (10)
Previous-year questions from UPSC, State PSCs and Boards — each one mapped to the specific NCERT line or paragraph it came from. This is the kind of mapping you usually pay coaching fees for.
UPSC (7)
- UPSC CSE Prelims 2020 Q—
With reference to the British colonial rule in India, consider statements about the Rowlatt Act of 1919.
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Topic 'Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh' covers the two-year detention without trial provision and the Imperial Legislative Council's passage of the Act despite Indian opposition. The 6 April 1919 hartal is the linked agitation.
- UPSC CSE Prelims 2014 Q—
Which one of the following observations is not true about the Quit India Movement of 1942?
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Box on Quit India in the chapter conclusion: Wardha resolution of 14 July 1942, AICC endorsement on 8 August 1942 in Bombay, the 'Do or Die' speech, mass participation of Aruna Asaf Ali, JP Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia and women like Matangini Hazra and Kanaklata Barua.
- UPSC CSE Prelims 2017 Q—
The Government of India Act 1919 in the chapter surfaces in the context of which Congress decision?
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Topic 'Civil Disobedience' notes that some Congress leaders wanted to enter provincial councils set up by the Government of India Act of 1919; this led to the formation of the Swaraj Party by C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru.
- UPSC CSE Mains GS-1 2015 Q—
Examine the linkages of the nineteenth century Indian Renaissance with the emergence of national identity.
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Topic 'Sense of Collective Belonging' covers the Bharat Mata image (Bankim, Abanindranath), 'Vande Mataram', folk-tale collection by Rabindranath and Natesa Sastri, and the reinterpretation of Indian history as forces shaping a national identity.
- UPSC CSE Mains GS-1 2018 Q—
Throw light on the significance of the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the present times.
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Topic 'First World War, Khilafat and Satyagraha' explains satyagraha as active soul-force, not passive resistance, and the moral appeal to the conscience of the oppressor; Champaran, Kheda, Ahmedabad illustrate practical application.
- UPSC CSE Mains GS-1 2016 Q—
Discuss the role of women in the freedom struggle especially during the Gandhian phase.
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Topic 'Differing Visions of Swaraj' details women's mass entry during the Salt March, picketing of liquor and foreign cloth shops, salt manufacture, jail-going, urban high-caste vs rural rich-peasant background, and Gandhi's view of women's primary domestic role.
- UPSC CSE Prelims 2012 Q—
The people known as Harijans by Gandhiji were mainly which group?
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Topic 'Limits of the Movement: Dalits, Muslims, Poona Pact' explains Gandhi's use of 'harijan' for the untouchables, his temple-entry satyagrahas, and Ambedkar's parallel demand for separate electorates settled by the Poona Pact of September 1932.
State PSC (3)
- UPPSC Prelims 2019 Q—
When and where was the Khilafat Committee formed?
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Topic 'Non-Cooperation Movement' specifies the Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919 with the Ali brothers (Muhammad and Shaukat) as the key Muslim leadership.
- BPSC Prelims 2018 Q—
Champaran Satyagraha was related to which of the following?
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Topic 'First World War, Khilafat and Satyagraha' identifies Champaran (1917) as Gandhi's first Indian satyagraha, against the oppressive indigo plantation system in Bihar.
- MPSC Prelims 2017 Q—
Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928?
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Topic 'Differing Visions of Swaraj' notes that in 1928 Vallabhbhai Patel led the Bardoli Satyagraha in Gujarat against enhancement of land revenue, generating sympathy across India.