Khilafat and Non Cooperation Movement MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Khilafat and Non Cooperation Movement - Download Free PDF

The correct answer is option 4, i.e Chauri- Chaura incident.

The Correct answer is Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Key Points

• The Khilafat Movement was launched by Indian Muslims in 1919.
• The primary aim was to protest against the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and to protect the position of the Caliph, the Islamic spiritual leader.
• The leaders of the movement were Shaukat Ali and Mohammad Ali, popularly known as the Ali Brothers.
• The movement also sought to bring together Hindus and Muslims in a united front against British rule.
• Gandhi ji supported the movement and it became part of the wider Non-Cooperation Movement.
• However, the movement lost momentum after the Caliphate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1924.

The correct answer is Option 3.

Important Points

• The Muslim League, 1906:
  • Founders: Khwaja Salimullah, Vikar-ul-Mulk, Syed Amir Ali, Syed Nabiullah, Khan Bahadur Ghulam & Mustafa Chowdhury.
  • On 30 December 1906, a conference in the Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka was held.
  • At this conference, a motion was moved to form the AIML.
• The name AIML was proposed by Agha Khan III who was appointed the first President.
  • ​Hence, statement 3 is incorrect.
• The party’s prominence was in promoting civil rights for Muslims.
• Objectives of the formation of the league:
  • To promote the loyalty of Indian Muslims towards the British government.
  • To protect the political and other rights of the Indian Muslims and to place their needs and aspirations before the Government.
  • To overcome the feeling of hostility among Muslims towards other communities.
• It was the first Muslim political party in India.
• The League's constitution was formed in Karachi in 1907.
• Factors leading to the formation of the Muslim league:
  • British conspiracy: Dividing Indian on a communal basis.
    • Continue separatist attitude in Indian politics.
      • Like: Separate electorates.
  • Educational Backwardness: Muslims were isolated from western and technical education.
  • They thought that the Congress Party only looks after the needs of the Hindus.
    • But, this was a misleading idea since Congress always meant to include every community of the country.
    • It also had many Muslim leaders in the party.
• The Amritsar Session of the League, held in 1908, demanded a separate electorate for the Muslims.
  • President: Syed Ali Imam.

Additional Information

• • Jinnah was in opposition to the League for many years.
  • In 1910, at the Allahabad session of the Congress, Jinnah moved a resolution condemning the system of communal electorates.
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the league in 1913.
  • An English journal Comrade & an Urdu paper Hamdard was started by Maulana Mohammad Ali to propagate his anti-League views. 

The correct answer is Ali Brothers.

About the Khilafat Movement:

• This campaign was launched in Defence of the Caliphate, led in India by the two Brothers Muḥammad and Shaukat Ali and by Abul Kalam Azad.
• Some of the leaders Joined Forces with Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement for Indian freedom, Promising Non-Violence in return for his support of the Khilafat Movement.
• The Khilafat Movement was started to support the Sultan of Turkey whom the population of Muslims in India considered their Religious Head.
• The movement has three main objectives they were:​
  • The Ottoman Caliphate should retain his Empire in Turkey.
  • The Caliph must be provided with sufficient Territory so as to enable him to defeat the Islamic Faith all around the world.
  • The Arab lands that are Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Arabia, must stay under the Muslim rule.​
• The 'Khilafat Movement Day' was observed on 17th October 1919. 

Image of Participants of the Khilafat Movement:

The correct answer is The Rowlatt Act.

Key Points

• The Rowlatt Act (Black Act) was passed on March 10, 1919, authorizing the government to imprison or confine, without a trial, any person associated with seditious activities.
• This led to nationwide unrest. Gandhi initiated Satyagraha to protest against the Rowlatt Act.
• Under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, soldiers opened fire on a large number of people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919.
  • It was estimated that over 1,000 people lost their lives and another 1,500 people were injured in the firing.
• Apart from the main entrance, there was no way for the crowd to escape the garden as the area was surrounded by buildings. This is a major reason for the high number of casualties.

Important Points

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is also called the Massacre of Amritsar.
• Tagore was awarded the knighthood by King George v in1915, but he repudiated it in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh) Massacre.
• He is sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”.
• After this massacre, Gandhi began his first large-scale and sustained nonviolent protest (satyagraha) campaign, the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920–22).

Additional Information

•  Lord Lytton passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878.
  • By this act, the magistrates of the districts were empowered, without the prior permission of the Government, to call upon a printer and publisher of any kind to enter into a Bond, undertaking not to publish anything which might “rouse” feelings of disaffection against the government.
• The Arms Act, 1959 that deals with the regulation of arms in India.
  • The Act defines arms to include firearms, swords, and anti-aircraft missiles.

The correct answer is 1922.Key Points

• Chauri Chaura incident:
  • On 5th February 1922, an angry mob set fire to the police station at Chauri Chaura (Gorakpur district, UP) and 22 policemen were burnt to death.
  • Due to this Gandhiji abruptly called off the Non-Cooperation Movement on 11 February 1922.

•  Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-1922):
  • Mahatma Gandhi announced his plan to begin Non-Cooperation with the government as a response to the Rowlatt Act, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the Khilafat movement.
  • Programs:
    • Surrender of titles and honorary position
    • Resignation of membershi
    • Boycott of elections held undep from the local bodies the provisions of the 1919 Act
    • Boycott of government functions
    • Boycott of courts, government schools and colleges
    • Boycott foreign goods
    • Establishment of national schools, colleges and private panchayat courts
    • Popularising Swadeshi goods and Khadi

Additional Information

• Indian Freedom Struggle:

The correct answer is 1920.

Key Points

• The Non-cooperation Movement started in 1920.
• The leader of the Non-cooperation Movement was Mahatma Gandhi.
• The non-cooperation movement was a mass movement that involved participation from the nationalists as well as the public. 
• The movement was to be nonviolent and to consist of Indians resigning their titles, boycotting government educational institutions, government service, foreign goods, and elections, and eventually, refusing to pay taxes. 
• The non-cooperation movement was a mass movement that was launched by Gandhi in 1920. It was a peaceful and non-violent protest against the British government in India. 
• People had to resign from their government jobs. People were asked to withdraw their children from government-controlled or aided schools and colleges.
• After a series of events including the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Gandhiji realized that there was no prospect of getting any fair treatment at the hands of the British, so he planned to withdraw the nation's cooperation from the British Government, thus launching the Non-Cooperation Movement and thereby marring the administrative set up of the country.
• This movement was a great success as it got massive encouragement from millions of Indians. This movement almost shook the British authorities.

Additional Information

• The Non-cooperation Movement was called off by Mahatma Gandhi after the Chauri Chaura incident in February 1922. 
• Lord Reading was the viceroy of India when the Chauri Chaura incident took place.
• Chittaranjan Das was the President of the Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922.

The correct answer is the Non-cooperation movement.

Key Points

• The Non-Cooperation Movement was the "first mass movement" organized under Gandhiji's leadership.
• The call for a non-cooperation movement by Gandhi in 1920-21 saw women come out to participate in the movement. Women took to streets picketing liquor shops, and holding dharnas), Urmila Debi, and Suniti Debi, were well-known women organisers during the Non-Cooperation Movement.
• Proposal for the "Non-Cooperation Movement" was passed in the Calcutta session of Congress on 4 September 1920.

Important Points

Non-cooperation Movement:

• The Non-cooperation movement by Gandhiji was followed from September 1920 to February 1922. 
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar in 1919 was one of the major reasons for the start of the Non-cooperation movement.
• The Chauri Chaura incident occurred at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district (Uttar Pradesh) on  4 February 1922, when a large group of protesters, participating in the Non-cooperation movement, clashed with police, who opened fire.
• As the incident turned violent Mahatma Gandhi called off the ‘Non-cooperation Movement’ on 12 February 1922, as a direct result of this incident.
• Lord Edwin Montagu (1917-22) was the Secretary of state for India during the launch of the non-cooperation movement.

Additional Information

• Dandi March also is known as the "Salt movement or Dandi Satyagraha".
  • Gandhiji's anti-salt law was dissolved on 6 April 1930 by walking from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi village.
• "Quit India Movement" was launched on 8 August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay.

The correct answer is 1919.

• The Khilafat Movement started in the year 1919.​

Key Points

• Khilafat Movement (1919 AD-1922 AD):
  • The Ali Brothers–Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali–launched an anti-British movement in 1919.
  • The movement was for the restoration of the Khilafat Movement.
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad also led the movement.
  • It was supported by Mahatma Gandhi and INC.
  • On October 17, 1919, ‘Khilafat Day’ was celebrated.

Additional Information

• Turkish Revolution (1923 AD):
  • Turkey was called the Sick man of Europe.
  • The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire began in the 19th century and was completed after Turkey’s defeat in the First World War.
  • The treatment meted out to turkey by the Allies had led to a mass upsurge in India directed against Britain.
  • This upsurge is known as the Khilafat Movement.
  • Turkey was proclaimed a republic on October 29, 1923 AD and Kemal became the first President of Turkey.
  • The Turkish Sultan had carried the title of Caliph (Khalifa) the new government abolished the institution of Caliph (Khalifa) in 1924 AD.
  • Mustafa Kemal Pasha is known as the ‘founder of modern Turkey and Ataturk’ (the father of the Turks).

The correct answer is Lord Chelmsford.Key Points

• Gandhiji launched the Non-cooperation Movement in 1920.
• Lord Chelmsford served as the viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921.
  • The viceroy during the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
  • Banaras Hindu University was started during his tenure.

Features of the movement:

• It was a peaceful and non-violent protest against the British government in India. 
• The Non-cooperation movement was a mass movement that involved participation from the nationalists as well as the public. 
• The movement was to be nonviolent and to consist of Indians resigning their titles, boycotting government educational institutions, government service, foreign goods, and elections, and eventually, refusing to pay taxes. 
• People resigned from their government jobs.
• People were asked to withdraw their children from government-controlled or aided schools and colleges.
• This movement was a great success as it got massive encouragement from millions of Indians. This movement almost shook the British authorities.

​Causes of the movement:

• Indians thought that in return for the extensive support of manpower and resources they had provided to Britain during the First World War, they would be rewarded by autonomy at the end of the war. But the Government of India Act 1919 was dissatisfactory.​
• The repressive Rowlatt Act and the brutal massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar had a profound effect on the Indian leaders and the people. 
• The leaders of the Khilafat movement accepted the non-cooperation movement of Gandhiji and led a joint protest against the British.
• The Non-cooperation Movement was called off by Mahatma Gandhi after the Chauri Chaura incident in February 1922. 
• In Chauri Chaura, Uttar Pradesh, a violent mob set fire to a police station killing 22 policemen during a clash between the police and protesters of the movement.

Additional Information​

The correct answer is option 4, i.e Chauri- Chaura incident.

The correct answer is 1922.

Key Points

• Mahatma Gandhi suspended the Non-Cooperation movement in February 1922.
• Reason-in Chauri Chaura, Uttar Pradesh, a violent mob set fire to a police station and killed 22 policemen.
• Nationalist leaders like C.R. Das, Subhash Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru expressed their disagreement with Gandhi’s decision to withdraw the movement.
• In March 1922, Gandhi was arrested and sentenced to six years in jail.

Important Points

• The Non-cooperation Movement was launched on 5th September 1920 by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
• In December 1920, at the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress; the program of non-cooperation was endorsed.
• Motilal Nehru and Chitranjan Das joined the movement by giving up their legal profession.

The correct answer is Shaukat Ali.

Key Points

• Shaukat Ali was instrumental in convincing Mahatma Gandhi about the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of The Khilafat.
• This Khilafat movement was launched in Defence of the Caliphate, led in India by the two Brothers Muḥammad and Shaukat Ali and by Abul Kalam Azad.
• Some of the leaders joined Forces with Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement for Indian freedom, promising Non-Violence in return for his support of the Khilafat Movement.
• The Khilafat Movement was started to support the Sultan of Turkey whom the population of Muslims in India considered their Religious Head.
• The three main objectives of the movement were:​
  • The Ottoman Caliphate should retain its Empire in Turkey.
  • The Caliph must be provided with sufficient Territory so as to enable him to defeat the Islamic Faith all around the world.
  • The Arab lands that are Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Arabia, must stay under Muslim rule.

Additional Information

• Mohammad Ali Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government.
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun independence activist against British colonial rule in India. He was called the Frontier Gandhi.

The correct answer is Khilafat Movement.

• Khilafat Movement in India was led by Ali brothers Shaukat and Muhammad Ali.

Key Points

• Khilafat Movement (1920 AD-1924 AD):
  • The Ali Brothers–Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali launched an anti-British movement in 1920 AD.
  • The movement for the restoration of the Khilafat Movement.
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad also led the movement.
  • It was supported by Mahatma Gandhi and Indian National Congress.
  • On October 17, 1919, ‘Khilafat Day’ was celebrated.

Additional Information

• Quit India Movement (1942 AD)
  • The All India Congress Committee met at Bombay on 8th August 1942 AD.
  • The committee passed the famous Quit India resolution and proposed the starting of a non-violent mass struggle under Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership.
  • The movement was also called Vardha Proposal and Leaderless Revolt.
  • Gandhi's message was ‘Do or Die.
  • The repressive policy of the government and indiscriminate arrest of the leaders provoked people to violence.
• Boycott and Swadeshi Movement took place in the year 1905 AD-1908 AD.

The correct answer is Maulana Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.

Key Points

• Non-cooperation Movement:
  • The non-cooperation movement by Gandhiji was followed from September 1920 to February 1922. 
  • Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar in 1919 was one of the major reasons for the start of the Non-cooperation movement.
  • The Chauri Chaura incident occurred at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district (Uttar Pradesh) on 4 February 1922, when a large group of protesters, participating in the Non-cooperation movement, clashed with police, who opened fire.
  • As the incident turned violent Mahatma Gandhi called off the ‘Non-cooperation Movement’ on 12 February 1922, as a direct result of this incident.
• Khilafat Movement:
  • The movement was started as an agitation by the Indian Muslims against the treatment accorded to the Ottoman Empire after World War I.
  • The Khilafat Movement begin in 1919 under the leadership of the Ali brothers; Maulana Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali. 
  • By the mid-1920s, the Khilafat leaders joined hands with Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement.