Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

After the withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhi supported the Struggle-Truce-Struggle strategy, while Jawaharlal Nehru proposed a Struggle-Victory strategy. Which one of the following best captures the difference between them?

  1. Gandhi regarded parliamentary politics as sufficient for attaining freedom, whereas Nehru regarded it as insufficient.
  2. Gandhi considered a period of reprieve necessary between mass struggles, whereas Nehru advocated continuous direct action without an intervening constitutionalist phase.
  3. Nehru opposed further mass mobilisation because prolonged sacrifice had exhausted the people, whereas Gandhi favoured its immediate continuation.
  4. Both strategies regarded council entry as a permanent substitute for extra-constitutional mass struggle.
  1. A socio-religious organisation was founded in New York in 1875 and later shifted its headquarters to Adyar. It…
  2. After its inaugural session, which one of the following practices was followed by the Indian National…
  3. Al-Biruni relied heavily on normative Sanskritic texts, compared the caste system with social divisions in…
  4. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  5. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…
  6. Although the Desai-Liaqat proposals did not produce a settlement, why were they considered politically…