Correct Answer - Option 3 : 1919
The correct answer is 1919
Mahatma Gandhi gave a call for satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act in 1919.
- The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act or Black Act, was a legislative council act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi in March 1919.
- Act indefinitely extended the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial
- It was the Rowlatt Act which brought Gandhi to the mainstream of Indian struggle for independence and ushered in the Gandhi Era of Indian politics.
- Gandhi, who had formed a Satyagraha sabha against the Rowlatt act called for a country-wide protest.
- Throughout the country, 6 April 1919 was observed as a National Humiliation Day.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
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Mahatma Gandhi, by name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi).
- He was a lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.
