Consider the following events connected with Indian National Movement and find the correct chronological order of the events from the codes given below: (1) Demise of B.G.Tilak (2) Passing of Rowlatt Bill as an Act (3) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (4) Amritsar Session of Indian National Congress, 1919 Codes:

The correct answer is A. The chronological order is Rowlatt Act (March 1919), Jallianwala Bagh massacre (13 April 1919), Amritsar Session of the Indian National Congress (December 1919), and Tilak's death (1 August 1920). The Rowlatt Act, which allowed detention without trial on the basis of the Rowlatt Committee's recommendations, triggered the Satyagraha protests, and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre followed in April. The Amritsar session took up the Punjab atrocities and the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, and Tilak died in Bombay in 1920.

• Option B reverses the sequence and places Tilak's 1920 death first.
• Option C places Jallianwala Bagh and the Amritsar session before the Rowlatt Act, which ignores that the Act was the immediate trigger.
• Option D places Tilak's death in 1919. He died in 1920, so it has to come last.

The core concept is the Rowlatt Satyagraha as the bridge from constitutional politics to Gandhi's mass mobilisation and the Non-Cooperation Movement. For Mains, it helps explain why the 1919 repression shifted the Congress's strategy.

Trap: Aspirants often place Tilak's death within the Home Rule period or confuse the Amritsar session's date with the massacre's date.