Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following most accurately describes the effect of the government’s arrest of senior Congress leaders on August 9, 1942?

  1. The movement ended before any popular action could occur because all local organisations awaited further instructions.
  2. The movement remained completely centralised and followed Gandhi’s unissued instructions without local variation.
  3. The removal of established leadership increased local initiative, spontaneity and violence, although Congress had prepared the political atmosphere beforehand.
  4. The arrests transformed the movement into an exclusively military campaign conducted by trained underground units.
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