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Nationalism in India
Explain the measures taken by Gandhiji to eliminate the problem of untouchability.
The efforts by Mahatma Gandhi to integrate untouchables in the national movements is as follows:
1.He called the untouchables’ as harijan, or the children of God,
2.He organised satyagraha to secure them entry into temples, and access to publicwells, tanks, roads and schools.
3.He himself cleaned toilets to dignify the work of the bhangi (the sweepers), and persuaded upper castes to change their heart and give up ‘the sin of untouchability’.
4.At the Karachi session of the Congress, in March 1931, Gandhiji drafted the Resolution on
5.Fundamental Rights. Few sections of it was a a legal attack on the institution of untouchability. Section 4 declared that all “citizens are equal before law, irrespective of caste, creed or sex”.
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Why growth of nationalism in the colonies is linked to an anti-colonial movement?
How the First World War helped in the growth of the National Movement in India?
Why Indians were outraged by the Rowlatt Act?
Why Gandhiji decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement?
What is meant by the idea of satyagraha?
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
The Simon Commission
Compare the images of Bharat Mata in this chapter with the image of Germania in Chapter 1.
List all the different social groups which joined the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921. Then choose any three and write about their hopes and struggles to show why they joined the movement.
Discuss the Salt March to make clear why it was an effective symbol of resistance against colonialism.
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