Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following circumstances:

  • British reverses in South-East Asia created a serious Japanese threat to India.
  • The United States, Soviet Union and China pressed Britain to obtain Indian cooperation.
  • Indian nationalists had offered Allied support if substantial authority was transferred immediately and complete independence followed the war.

These circumstances most directly led to which one of the following?

  1. Establishment of the Forward Bloc
  2. Dispatch of the Cripps Mission
  3. Launch of Individual Satyagraha
  4. Resignation of Congress provincial ministries
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