Assertion (A): The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919.

Reason (R): The Act allowed the detention of political prisoners without trial for three years.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true but (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true

answer is C.

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Encouraged by the achievement, Gandhiji 1919 chose to send off a cross-country Satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act (1919). This Act had been briskly gone through the Imperial Legislative Council regardless of the assembled resistance of the Indian individuals.
The Rowlatt Act gave the public authority tremendous powers to curb political exercises and permitted the detainment of political detainees without permission for a long time. Mahatma Gandhi needed peaceful common ground in subordination against such offensive regulations, which would begin with a hartal on 6 April.
Therefore, A is true, but R is false.

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