Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following correctly describes women’s participation in the Swadeshi Movement?

  1. Women participated only through national schools and did not join public protests.
  2. Participation was confined to women from plantation-labour communities.
  3. Urban middle-class women joined processions and picketing, marking an important expansion of their political role.
  4. Women entered the movement only after the partition of Bengal was annulled.
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