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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2019 — General Studies · Question 70 of 200

Q70
Indian National MovementGandhian Era: Khilafat, NCM, CDM
Which leader died on the day the Non-cooperation movement was launched in 1920?
  1. a.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. b.Lala Lajpat Rai
  3. c.P. Sitaramayya
  4. d.C. Rajagopalachari

Answer: (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak died on 1 August 1920, the very day the Non-Cooperation Movement was formally launched — a striking coincidence marking the transition from the Tilak-led "extremist" phase to Gandhi's mass-movement leadership of the Congress.

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