Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following best explains how socio-religious reform and militant nationalism could unintentionally strengthen communal politics?

  1. Every religious reform movement was founded by the colonial government for the explicit purpose of creating partition.
  2. Reform and nationalist organisations completely abandoned religion and therefore lost all contact with ordinary people.
  3. Community-insulating campaigns and heavily religious political symbols encouraged people to interpret modern political questions through separate communal identities.
  4. The use of religious imagery automatically eliminated competition over employment, representation and political power.
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