Social Science
Differing Strands within the Movement
Practice questions
What was the main similarity between the Gudem movement and the Awadh peasant movement?What was the main difference between peasants’ and plantation workers’ understanding of swaraj?Why could Congress leadership be worried about some militant actions of peasants?Why was local leadership necessary in the national movement?Why would it be incomplete to call the Gudem movement only a forest dispute?Plantation workers’ desire to return home was linked with which kind of freedom?Why did increasing government control over forests spread discontent in tribal society?Why is it difficult to separate economic and social demands in peasant movements?Why is it wrong to say that only educated urban people joined the national movement?The use of social boycott in the Awadh peasant movement proves what?Studying different strands deepens which understanding of nationalism?How should the role of forests in tribal movements be best understood?Which weakness of the colonial labour system is shown by the example of plantation workers?How did organisations like Kisan Sabha change scattered anger?Which challenge of the national movement emerged from local meanings of swaraj?What do the examples of Awadh and Assam together show about swaraj?What was the national importance of the Gudem tribal movement?Why is remembering only a political slogan not enough to understand the Awadh peasant movement?How did tribal and peasant movements connect with the national movement despite having different demands?Why was the joining of local issues necessary for the national movement to become a mass movement?