Question

Which of the following statement(s) is/are not true about the Rowlatt Act?

• A. Rowlatt Act was nicknamed Black Act.
• B. It supressed individual freedom and freedom of speech.
• C. It was the brain child of Rowlatt.
• D. Rowlatt Act was passed in the year 1918.

Answer 1

The correct option is D Rowlatt Act was passed in the year 1918.

The Rowlatt Act was passed in the year 1919. According to this act, any suspicious person could be arrested and jailed without trial. Gandhiji called it a ‘Black Act’. Motilal Nehru considered it as ‘snatching away of argument, appeal and advocacy’. Gandhi called for a nationwide hartal on 6 April 1919 called the ‘Rowlatt Satyagraha’.