Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following social groups increasingly dominated political associations during the second half of the nineteenth century and supplied much of the leadership of early Indian nationalism?

  1. Hereditary rulers of princely states
  2. Plantation labourers and landless peasants
  3. Educated urban middle-class professionals
  4. European commercial and military officials
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