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Modern Indian History UPPSC 2004 GS-I
Question

Find the correct, chronological order of the following events from the code given below:

1. Civil Disobedience Movement
2. Individual Satyagraha
3. Quit India Movement
4. Cripps Mission

Codes:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option A: 1,2,4,3

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “1,2,4,3”.
1) Civil disobedience movement was started in 1930 (12 March 1930 – 6 April 1930).

2) Individual Satyagraha was started from Paunar, near Wardha on October 17, 1940.

4) The Cripps Mission was sent by the British government to India in March 1942 to obtain Indian cooperation for the British war efforts in the 2nd World War. It was headed by Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, a labour minister in Winston Churchill's coalition government in Britain.

3) The Quit India Movement was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942

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