Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following features:

  • It began in response to a government demand that Gandhi condemn popular violence.
  • Gandhi directed it against the violence of the colonial state.
  • It provoked hartals, demonstrations and strikes in India and abroad.
  • Three members of the viceroy’s Executive Council resigned.

Which one of the following is described above?

  1. Individual Satyagraha
  2. Gandhi’s fast of February 1943
  3. The “Do or Die” address
  4. The Anti-Compromise Conference
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