Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following is the most appropriate assessment of the Swadeshi Movement?

  1. Its failure to prevent repression meant that it produced no lasting change in nationalist politics.
  2. Its durable success lay mainly in creating a disciplined nationwide party organisation.
  3. It declined because of organisational and social limitations, yet introduced forms and participants that shaped later nationalist politics.
  4. It remained a conventional petitioning campaign confined entirely to the educated upper classes.
  1. A socio-religious organisation was founded in New York in 1875 and later shifted its headquarters to Adyar. It…
  2. After its inaugural session, which one of the following practices was followed by the Indian National…
  3. After the withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhi supported the Struggle-Truce-Struggle…
  4. Al-Biruni relied heavily on normative Sanskritic texts, compared the caste system with social divisions in…
  5. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  6. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…