Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following best explains the relationship between Congress activity and the violent upsurges of 1945-46?

  1. The upsurges were wholly disconnected from Congress politics and arose without earlier nationalist mobilisation.
  2. They extended nationalist sentiment fostered by Congress campaigns but differed by expressing it through direct, violent challenges that Congress did not officially endorse.
  3. Congress secretly planned the naval revolt and directed each stage through its provincial ministries.
  4. Congress accepted the view that negotiations had become useless and that military revolt must immediately replace mass politics.
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