Question

Arrange the following events in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

1. Appointment of Simon Commission

2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

3. Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March

4. Death of Ferozshah Mehta

1. 4, 2, 1, 3
2. 4, 3, 2, 1
3. 1, 2, 4, 3
4. 2, 3, 4, 1

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : 4, 2, 1, 3

The correct answer is 4, 2, 1, 3.

• The chronological events in order are
  1. Death of Ferozshah Mehta (1915)
  2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919)
  3. Appointment of Simon Commission (1927)
  4. Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March (1930)

• Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta 
  • ​He was an Indian Parsi politician and lawyer from Bombay.
  • He was one of the founding members and President of the Indian National Congress in 1890.
  • He died on 5 November 1915, in Bombay.
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 
  • It was a massacre that happened on April 13, 1919,
  • in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in Punjab.
• Simon Commission 
  • It was a commission appointed in November 1927 by the British Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin
  • It was tasked to report on the working of the Indian constitution established by the Government of India Act of 1919.
• Dandi March
  • On March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out from his ashram, or religious retreat, at Sabarmati near Ahmedabad with several dozen followers on a trek of some 240 miles to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea.