Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Why did Gandhi and his supporters oppose the immediate launching of mass satyagraha after Linlithgow’s statement of October 1939?

  1. They considered the Allied cause relatively just, feared communal conflict, found Congress organisationally weak and believed the masses were not ready.
  2. They accepted dominion status and believed that Britain had already conceded responsible government at the Centre.
  3. They regarded the war as irrelevant to India and proposed permanent withdrawal from political activity.
  4. They supported unrestricted participation in the war under the existing colonial constitution.
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