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Gandhian Movements

Gandhian Movements is a History concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 2 past MPSC questions (2020, 2025). Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.

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2 · 2020–2025
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What you need to know first

Civil Disobedience MovementNational awakeningHistory of Civil Disobedience and Non-CooperationWomen participation in Congress

Real questions that test this

पुढीलपैकी कोणत्या स्त्रियांनी स्त्री वर्गाला स्वातंत्र्याचा अहिंसक लढा लढण्यास उद्युक्त केले होते ?

(a)कमलादेवी

(b)हंसा मेहता

(c)रतनबेन मेहता

(d)रमीबाई कामदार

(e)लक्ष्मीबाई गर्दे

1)(a), (c) आणि (e) फक्त
2)(b), (c), (d) आणि (e) फक्त
3)(a), (b), (c) आणि (d) फक्त✓ Correct
4)(a), (b), (c), (d) आणि (e)

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Hansa Mehta, Ratanben Mehta, and Ramibai Kamdar were prominent women who mobilized women to participate in the non-violent freedom struggle, particularly during the Civil Disobedience Movement.

no answer to a mass movement that was non-violent and had massive popular support. In practice the colonial authorities constantly vacillated between the two choices, usually plumbing in the end for suppression. By taking resource to suppression of a non-violent movement, they had to suffer constant erosion of hegemony by exposing the basic underpinning of colonial rule in force and coercion. Consequently, the hegemony of colonial rule or its moral basis was destroyed bit by bit.

स्त्रियांना भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळीत सहभाग होता आले, कारण Women were able to participate in the Indian National Movement because

a)भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळीच्या स्वरूपाचा, अहिंसा एक अंगभूत भाग होती.✓ Correct
b)हिंसक चळवळीमध्ये स्त्रियांना सहभागी होणे शक्य नव्हते.
c)सशस्त्र लढ्यात स्त्रिया मोठ्या संख्येने सहभागी होत्या.
d)नैतिक शक्तीच्या मैदानात लढणे असा अहिंसेचा अर्थ होता.

Women were able to participate extensively in the Indian National Movement primarily because non-violence was an intrinsic part of the movement's character, which eliminated physical combat barriers and encouraged moral resistance.

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