Q. Consider the following international events:
  1. Italian-Abyssinian War, 1898
  2. Boxer Movement in China
  3. Revolutionary Movement in Ireland
  4. Victory of Japan in the Russo-Japanese War
Which of these events influenced the course of the national movement in India before the advent of Mahatma Gandhi?

Answer: 1, 2 and 4 only
Notes:
  1. The First Italo-Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale which, the Italians claimed, turned the country into an Italian protectorate.
  2. The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty.
  3. In April 1916, Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising against British rule and proclaimed an Irish Republic.
  4. Russo-Japanese War was military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.

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