Asked by caleb

How did the British Raj treat the people of India after their loyal military support for Britain during World War I?

The British rewarded the Indians with a greater voice in Parliament.

The British raised taxes on those who did not serve in the military.

The British finally gave India a much greater level of independence.

The British imposed wartime laws during peacetime--just on the citizens of India.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The fourth option is correct.

After World War I the British government in India tightened repressive controls rather than granting real power. In 1919 they passed the Rowlatt Acts, which extended wartime emergency powers into peacetime (detention without trial, restrictions on speech and assembly, press censorship). The Acts sparked nationwide protests and were followed by harsh measures such as martial law in parts of Punjab and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.

There were limited political concessions (the 1917 Montagu Declaration and the Government of India Act 1919 introduced a very restricted form of provincial “dyarchy”), but these fell far short of a real voice in British Parliament or genuine independence. The claim that Britain raised special taxes on non-servicemen is not accurate as a defining policy in the way the Rowlatt-style repression was.