Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following statements regarding the record of the Congress provincial ministries on civil liberties:

No. Statement
1. Laws conferring emergency powers were repealed.
2. The prohibitions imposed on organisations such as the Hindustan Seva Dal and Youth Leagues were continued.
3. Newspapers were removed from official blacklists.
4. The use of the Criminal Investigation Department against communists and leftists was completely discontinued in every Congress-ruled province.

How many of the statements given above are correct?

  1. Only one
  2. Only two
  3. Only three
  4. All four
  1. A socio-religious organisation was founded in New York in 1875 and later shifted its headquarters to Adyar. It…
  2. After its inaugural session, which one of the following practices was followed by the Indian National…
  3. After the withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhi supported the Struggle-Truce-Struggle…
  4. Al-Biruni relied heavily on normative Sanskritic texts, compared the caste system with social divisions in…
  5. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  6. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…