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Subject: Modern History Chapter: Non-Cooperation And Khilafat Movements (1919-1922)

2012 PYQ

Question 68

The Rowlatt Act aimed at

Choose one answer Acompulsory economic support to war efforts Bimprisonment without trial and summary procedures for trial Csuppression of the Khilafat Movement Dimposition of restrictions on freedom of the press

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Correct answer: B

Correct Option: B Explanation: The 1919 Rowlatt legislation continued exceptional wartime-style powers of detention and accelerated prosecution without normal safeguards. Option-wise Analysis: A: Incorrect - Raising war finance was not its central aim. B: Correct - Correct: detention without ordinary trial safeguards and special summary legal procedures. C: Incorrect - The Khilafat Movement was not the stated legislative target. D: Incorrect - Press restrictions existed under other colonial laws but do not best characterise the Rowlatt Act.

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