Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following most accurately compares Gandhi’s and Bose’s positions on caste?

  1. Both opposed untouchability, but Gandhi retained a reciprocal conception of varna while Bose envisaged a casteless and classless society.
  2. Gandhi defended untouchability as scripturally ordained, whereas Bose opposed it only within the Indian National Army.
  3. Bose supported varna as the basis of social harmony, while Gandhi advocated the immediate abolition of every caste distinction.
  4. Both regarded caste hierarchy as necessary during the transition to industrial socialism.
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