Unit 12: Paper 3 — History of Asia and Oceania (HL)
Topic 12.6: Independence of India (1857–1964) Questions
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What was the destination of Gandhi's 1930 Salt March, where he broke the law by picking up natural salt?
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Which leader championed the idea that Hindus and Muslims formed two separate nations, laying the foundation for the demand for Pakistan?
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Which general commanded the troops that opened fire on the crowd at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919?
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At which session in March 1940 did the Muslim League formally demand separate independent states for Muslims in the north-west and north-east of India?
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In what year was the All-India Muslim League founded, and in which city?
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On what date did Direct Action Day trigger communal riots in Calcutta that killed an estimated 4,000-10,000 people in four days?
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Who was given roughly five weeks to draw the new India-Pakistan border through Punjab and Bengal, despite never having visited India before?
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Which 1956 law redrew India's internal state borders along language lines as part of Nehru's nation-building?
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What event directly triggered Gandhi's launch of the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920?
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Which well-known Indian figure renounced his British knighthood in protest after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
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What immediate grievance among sepoys is most closely associated with sparking the 1857 Rebellion?
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In which failed 1944 offensive did Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army fight alongside Japan against British forces?
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Why did Gandhi suspend the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922?
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Which princely state's Hindu Maharaja, Hari Singh, delayed his choice of accession until a Pakistani-backed tribal invasion in October 1947 forced him to accede to India?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Salt March of 1930 was Gandhi's most effective single campaign in the struggle for Indian independence?
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What system of government did the 1919 Government of India Act introduce at the provincial level?
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Evaluate the claim that the British government bears the primary responsibility for the violence and chaos of the 1947 Partition of India.
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Evaluate the claim that Nehru's nation-building achievements between 1947 and 1964 outweighed his failures.
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Evaluate the claim that India's contribution to the First World War was the most important factor in transforming relations between Britain and Indian nationalists between 1914 and 1919.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Two-Nation theory made Partition of India inevitable?
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