Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following Assertion and Reason:

Assertion (A): The downward filtration policy did not transmit mass education in the manner intended by its colonial advocates, yet modern education contributed to the spread of modern political and social ideas.

Reason (R): Western scientific and social literature equipped nationalists for critical analysis, while political parties, newspapers, pamphlets and public platforms carried these ideas beyond the educated elite.

Which one of the following is correct?

  1. A is false, but R is true.
  2. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. A is true, but R is false.
  4. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
  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. After the withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhi supported the Struggle-Truce-Struggle…
  4. Al-Biruni relied heavily on normative Sanskritic texts, compared the caste system with social divisions in…
  5. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  6. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…