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2024Q1(ix)National Movement: 1919-1934 (Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement and Other Forces at Work)
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Select the correct answers to the questions from the given options. (Do not copy the questions, write the correct answer only.)

The Rowlatt Act was called the Black Act because the Indians:

Topic: The Rowlatt Act

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(c) could be arrested without a warrant.

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The Rowlatt Act of 1919 empowered the government to arrest and imprison any person WITHOUT A WARRANT and to detain him without trial, and allowed trial by a special court with no right of appeal. Gandhiji summed it up as "no appeal, no vakil, no daleel". Because it suspended the ordinary safeguards of law, Indians called it the Black Act. Option (a) describes the Arms Act of 1878 and option (d) the General Service Enlistment Act of 1856 — both real measures, but from different chapters.

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could be arrested without a warrant.

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