In February 2021 Prime Minister inaugurates which Centenary Celebration?
- (a)Jalianwala Bagh Centenary Celebration
- (b)Non Co-operation Movement Centenary Celebration
- (c)Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebration
- (d)Champaran Centenary Celebration
Correct — C, Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebration. On 4 February 2021 the Prime Minister inaugurated the year-long Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations, marking 100 years of the Chauri Chaura incident of February 1922 (in present-day Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh), where a crowd clashed with police and set a police station on fire. The violence led Mahatma Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
- (a)Jalianwala Bagh Centenary Celebration — The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was in 1919, so its centenary fell in 2019, not February 2021.
- (b)Non Co-operation Movement Centenary Celebration — The Non-Cooperation Movement began in 1920-21, but the specific programme the PM launched in February 2021 was the Chauri Chaura centenary, not an NCM centenary event.
- (d)Champaran Centenary Celebration — The Champaran Satyagraha was in 1917, so its centenary was observed in 2017, not 2021.
The Chauri Chaura incident (February 1922) is a landmark of the freedom struggle: an agitated crowd, part of the Non-Cooperation Movement, torched a police station and killed policemen. Shocked by the violence, Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement, insisting the struggle stay non-violent. The 2021 centenary revived public memory of the event and its martyrs.
The four options are all freedom-struggle anniversaries, so the trick is date arithmetic: an event a hundred years before February 2021 must be from 1921-22. Only Chauri Chaura (1922) fits; Jallianwala Bagh (1919) and Champaran (1917) do not.
- Chauri Chaura incident — February 1922, near Gorakhpur, present-day Uttar Pradesh.
- A crowd set a police station on fire, killing policemen; Gandhi then withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement.
- The Prime Minister launched the Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations on 4 February 2021.
- Jallianwala Bagh (1919) → centenary 2019; Champaran Satyagraha (1917) → centenary 2017.
- Picking Non-Cooperation Movement because it is closely linked to Chauri Chaura — the February 2021 event was specifically the Chauri Chaura centenary.
- Getting the dates wrong: Jallianwala Bagh 1919, Champaran 1917, Chauri Chaura 1922.
Asked as a current-affairs 'which centenary/anniversary' item that also tests freedom-struggle chronology. Lock Chauri Chaura ↔ February 1922 ↔ withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Assertion (A): Gandhi stopped the Non-cooperation Movement in 1922. Reason (R): Violence at Chauri-Chaura led him to stop the movement.
- (a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
- (b) Both A and R are true, but R is NOT a correct explanation of A
- (c) A is true, but R is false
- (d) A is false, but R is true
Answer(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
Same event — UPSC 1998 tests that the Chauri Chaura violence was the reason Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement, the very incident whose centenary this 2020 question refers to.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Chauri Chaura incident (1922) directly led Mahatma Gandhi to withdraw which movement?
- (a)Non-Cooperation Movement
- (b)Quit India Movement
- (c)Civil Disobedience Movement
- (d)Khilafat Movement
Answer(a) Non-Cooperation Movement — Gandhi called it off after the violence.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Chauri Chaura, associated with the 1922 incident, is located in which present-day state?
- (a)Uttar Pradesh
- (b)Bihar
- (c)Gujarat
- (d)Madhya Pradesh
Answer(a) Uttar Pradesh — in Gorakhpur district.