Civil Services Prep

Prelims 2012 · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle · Question 70

The Rowlatt Act aimed at

  1. Compulsory economic support to war efforts.
  2. Imprisonment without trial and summary procedures for trial.
  3. Suppression of the Khilafat Movement.
  4. Imposition of restrictions on freedom of the press.

Answer

Imprisonment without trial and summary procedures for trial.

  • (a) Incorrect. The Rowlatt Act, 1919 was not about compulsory economic support for war; it extended wartime repressive measures into peacetime.
  • (b) Correct. It authorized detention without trial and allowed summary procedures/special courts for political cases.
  • (c) Incorrect. It was not enacted specifically to suppress the Khilafat Movement; the Khilafat agitation gathered momentum later.
  • (d) Incorrect. Though colonial laws often curbed the press, the core aim of the Rowlatt Act was preventive detention and trial without normal judicial safeguards.

Answer: (b)

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