Nationalism in India

Question

Describe any three suppressive measures taken by the British administration to clamp down on nationalists.

Answer

The suppressive measures were:

(i) Rowlatt Act (1919) was imposed, which gave the Britishers enormous power to repress political activities and allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
(ii) People were humiliated and terrorize, Satyagrahi were forced to rub their noses on the ground, crawl on the streets.


(iii)People were flogged and villages were bombed.

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