Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following most accurately compares Gandhi’s and Bose’s assessments of non-violent civil disobedience?

  1. Gandhi believed non-violence excluded mass participation, whereas Bose considered it the only means capable of involving the people.
  2. Bose dismissed civil disobedience as entirely ineffective and denied that it had contributed to national unity.
  3. Gandhi regarded non-violence as a practical and ethical means of mass participation, while Bose valued civil disobedience’s disruptive capacity but considered it inadequate without a total revolutionary struggle.
  4. Both considered violence indispensable once the colonial administration had been temporarily paralysed.
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