INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

Upon the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, who among the following leaders advocated for immediate mass Satyagraha?

1. Gandhiji

2. Subhas Chandra Bose

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

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Which among the following provides an edge to the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) over the Non-cooperation Movement?

1. Participation of Muslims

2. Absence of communal clashes

3. Participation of laborers

4. Responses from the business groups

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Consider the following statements about the “Doctrine of lapse” implemented by Lord Dalhousie.Which of the following statement(s) is/arecorrect?

1. Dalhousie made use of 'Doctrine of Lapse' for the first time in India as a part of Britisher's annexation policy.

2. After the death of a ruler, the adopted heir could not rule the state without prior British approval.

3. Satara was the first Indian state to be annexed under the doctrine.

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The Swadeshi movement failed to attract Muslim peasantry on a wider scale because of?

1. Divide and rule policy of British which divided Bengal on communal lines.

2. The use of traditional popular customs, festivals and institutions for mobilizing the masses.

3. Promise of abolition of zamindari system by British in East Bengal.

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Consider the following statements in the context of INA agitation:

1. Mass pressure against the trial of INA Prisoner of wars, sometimes described as an edge of a volcano, brought about a decisive shift in Government’s Policy.

2. Defense of INA Prisoners in the Court was organized by Kailash Nath Katju and Asaf Ali among others.

3. Muslim League, RSS and Unionist Party also among others supported INA cause.

4. INA Day was celebrated on 12, December 1945.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

With reference to modern India, the 'Black hole tragedy' in 1750s in Bengal, refers to what?

Consider the following statements:

1. Abhinav Bharat, a secret society of revolutionaries, was organised by V. D. Savarkar.

2. Newspapers Sandhya in Bengal and Kal in Maharashtra advocated revolutionary terrorism.

3. Anushilan Samiti was a revolutionary organisation active in Bengal.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

The breaking of the salt laws at Dandi on April 5, 1930, marked formal inauguration of the Civil Disobedience Movement. Which of the following statements is/are true about this :-

1. It is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.

2. East India became the scene of a new kind of no tax campaign - refusal to pay the chowkidari tax.

3. Boycott of law courts by lawyers as well as litigants.

4. Picketing of only those shops which sell foreign goods.

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Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Which among the following were the reasons for the restrictions on Indian immigration into Canada in 1908 which lead to Komagata Maru incident?

1. Resentment of Native American labourers against Indian labourers who offered competition.

2. Apprehension of British officials that familiarity of Indians with Whites was not good for British prestige.

3. British were apprehensive that Indians would come under influence of socialist ideas.

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