Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Resistance to Company rule involved different social groups whose distinct grievances could converge against alien authority.

Consider the following statements:

  1. Civil uprisings could combine dispossessed rulers or zamindars with peasants, artisans and demobilised soldiers.
  2. Urban tax protests could unite artisans and petty shopkeepers with prosperous urban groups.
  3. Company sepoys shared many of the social, religious and economic grievances affecting civilians.
  4. Peasants, tribals, religious leaders and former ruling groups always acted through a single central organisation.

How many of the above statements support the assertion?

  1. Only one
  2. Only two
  3. Only three
  4. All four
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