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Chapter 11 The Making of the National Movement Solutions

Question - 11 : -
Find out more about the life and work of any two participants or leaders of the national movement and write a short essay about them. You may choose a person not mentioned in this chapter.

Answer - 11 : -

Life and work of two leaders:
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

  1. He played an important role with Gandhiji before the Gandhi-Jinnah talks, 1944.
  2. A veteran nationalist and leader of the Salt Satyagraha in the South. C. Rajagopalachari is popularly known as Rajaji.
  3. He served as a member of the Interim Government of 1946 and as free IndiaтАЩs first Indian Governor-General.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

  1. He played an important role in the negotiations for independence from 1945-47.
  2. Patel hailed from an impoverished peasant-proprietor family of Nadiad, Gujarat.
  3. A foremost organiser of the freedom movement from 1918 onwards, Patel served as President of the Congress in 1931.
  4. The British government declared 565 states, small and big, independent. They were given freedom: whether to join in India or Pakistan or remain independent.
  5. Sardar Patel did herculean efforts for merging all the states, included in Indian territory, in India.

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