Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following assertion:

The early nationalist economic critique transformed poverty from an apparently local or unavoidable condition into a national political issue and weakened the ideological legitimacy of British rule.

Which one of the following most strongly supports the assertion?

  1. Nationalists regarded poverty as the inevitable result of natural scarcity and accepted foreign rule as essential for economic progress.
  2. Nationalists advocated complete reliance on foreign capital because it necessarily strengthened indigenous industries and political autonomy.
  3. Nationalists connected poverty with man-made colonial policies, emphasised productive capacity and Indian-led industrialisation, and demanded an end to economic subservience.
  4. Nationalist criticism was confined to individual landlords and avoided questions of trade, taxation, railways and the drain of wealth.
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