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GS History Modern India
Q.

The emphasis on ‘atma shakti’ or self-reliance emerged as a response to which of the following?

Explanation:
  • Partition of Bengal led to varied responses from the extremists who put forward several fresh ideas at theoretical, propaganda and program levels as a response and protest mechanism which included emphasis on ‘atma shakti’ or self-reliance, boycott of foreign goods, public meetings and processions, organisation of corps of volunteers or samitis, imaginative use of traditional popular festivals and melas and propagation of programme of swadeshi or national education . The emphasis on atma Shakti implied re-assertion of national dignity, honour and confidence. Practically it included social reforms and campaigns against caste oppression, child marriage, dowry system, consumption of alcohol etc.

Thus, Option A is Correct.

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