During which movement did Gandhiji call for boycott of the Prince of Wales?

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Correct — B, Non-Cooperation Movement. When Edward, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), toured India and landed at Bombay on 17 November 1921, the Congress — as part of the ongoing Non-Cooperation Movement (launched 1920) — called for a total boycott of the visit. The day was marked by a nationwide hartal: shops, mills and markets shut, and bonfires of foreign cloth were lit as part of the movement's swadeshi component.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The Khilafat agitation over the Ottoman Caliphate ran alongside and merged with the Non-Cooperation Movement in this same period, but the Prince of Wales boycott was a Non-Cooperation Movement action, not a distinct Khilafat demand.  (c) Launched in 1930 with the Dandi March — nearly a decade after the Prince of Wales's 1921 visit, so it could not have called for this boycott.  (d) Launched in August 1942 — over two decades after the 1921 Prince of Wales visit, so it is chronologically impossible.

Concept: The Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22) combined the Khilafat grievance with the demand for Swaraj, using boycotts of British goods, titles, courts and institutions as its method. The boycott of the Prince of Wales's November 1921 visit was one of its most visible mass actions — a coordinated, nationwide hartal rather than a spontaneous protest.

State PCS 2024 Q63 — History PYQ with Answer

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