Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following correctly identifies the two principal strands of India’s national upsurge during the final two years of British rule?

  1. Constitutional negotiations accompanied by communal violence, and localised militant action by workers, peasants, service personnel and states’ peoples
  2. Complete suspension of negotiations, and an exclusively rural movement directed against Indian landlords
  3. Cooperation between Congress and the League over partition, and the disappearance of strikes and peasant movements
  4. A British-led constitutional campaign, and an armed struggle confined entirely to former INA soldiers
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