Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following assertion:

The Moderate defence of civil rights helped convert individual acts of colonial repression into matters of wider political concern.

Which one of the following most strongly supports the assertion?

  1. Increased political consciousness produced public outrage over the arrest of Tilak and other journalists and the deportation of the Natu brothers without trial.
  2. The Moderates demanded greater expenditure on sanitation, education, irrigation and agricultural improvement.
  3. Members of the legislative councils were permitted to discuss the budget but could not vote upon it.
  4. The Congress held its annual sessions in December in different parts of India.
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