Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Salt-making remained largely symbolic in landlocked Bihar and was overtaken by a no-chaukidari-tax campaign. Forest regions witnessed defiance of grazing and timber restrictions, Gujarat developed a no-tax movement, and the United Provinces saw no-revenue and no-rent campaigns.

Which one of the following conclusions best follows?

  1. The movement lost its national character as soon as regions departed from salt manufacture.
  2. The Congress required every region to reproduce the Dandi method without altering the immediate grievance.
  3. A common anti-colonial movement was translated into locally meaningful forms of law-breaking and revenue resistance.
  4. Regional movements were unrelated local disturbances that lacked any connection with civil disobedience.
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