Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following assertion:

The Independence Pledge of January 1930 presented purna swaraj as liberation from several dimensions of colonial domination rather than merely a transfer of political authority.

Which one of the following most strongly supports the assertion?

  1. It attributed Indian poverty exclusively to the salt tax and proposed only its abolition.
  2. It confined the meaning of freedom to representation within the existing colonial administration.
  3. It treated compulsory disarmament as the only injury inflicted by British rule.
  4. It connected economic exploitation, denial of political rights, cultural dislocation and spiritual degradation with the demand to sever the British connection.
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