Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following most accurately describes the peasant movements that arose in India after 1857 during the nineteenth century?

  1. Peasants generally fought specific economic grievances against immediate exploiters, often using legal rights, but lacked a sustained programme directed against colonialism as a system.
  2. Peasants sought to overthrow the colonial state through a coordinated nationwide organisation with a common political programme.
  3. The movements were led principally by dispossessed princes and taluqdars seeking restoration of their former privileges.
  4. The movements completely rejected courts and legal procedures and relied exclusively on armed resistance.
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