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Mass mobilization

Mass mobilization is a History concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 2 past MPSC questions (2014, 2025). Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.

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Modern Indian History by Bipan ChandraChronology of Gandhian movements

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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.

खालील विधाने वाचा : a. 'व्यापक जनसंघटनांच्या आधारे चालविण्यात येणारी एक वर्चस्ववादी चळवळ' असे भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळीचे स्वरूप होते. b. वर्चस्ववादी जनआंदोलनांच्या स्वरूपामुळे अहिंसा राष्ट्रीय चळवळीचा एक मूलभूत घटक ठरली. c. चळवळीचे अहिंसक प्रकार स्वीकारल्याने सर्वसामान्य जनतेला या चळवळीत सहभागी होता आले. Read the statements : a. The Indian National Movement was in the form of a 'hegemonic movement carried out on the basis of broad mass organization'. b. Non-violence became a fundamental element of the National Movement due to the hegemonic nature of the mass movement. c. The adoption of non-violent forms of movement enabled the common people to participate in this movement.

(a)'व्यापक जनसंघटनांच्या आधारे चालविण्यात येणारी एक वर्चस्ववादी चळवळ' असे भारतीय राष्ट्रीय चळवळीचे स्वरूप होते.

(b)वर्चस्ववादी जनआंदोलनांच्या स्वरूपामुळे अहिंसा राष्ट्रीय चळवळीचा एक मूलभूत घटक ठरली.

(c)चळवळीचे अहिंसक प्रकार स्वीकारल्याने सर्वसामान्य जनतेला या चळवळीत सहभागी होता आले.

1)b हे विधान a चे कारण आहे
2)a हे विधान b चा परिणाम आहे
3)c हे विधान a चे कारण आहे
4)c हे विधान b चा परिणाम आहे✓ Correct

Statement b posits that non-violence became a fundamental element due to the hegemonic mass-movement nature of the Indian freedom struggle. Statement c logically follows as an outcome (result) of this adoption, making c the result of b.

इंग्रजी सत्तेविरुद्ध महात्मा गांधीच्या नेतृखालील अहिंसक आंदोलनापैकी जनमानसाला गतिशिल करणारी सगळयात प्रभावी चळवळ तुमच्या मते कोणती ? / Which of the following non-violent movements led by Mahatma Gandhi against the British Raj, you would rank as the most effective to mobilize the masses ?

1)चलेजाव चळवळ / Quit India Movement
2)स्वदेशीचा वापर व परदेशी मालावर बहिष्कार चळवळ / Swadesi use and Boycott of foreign goods Movement
3)सविनय कायदेभंग चळवळ / Civil Disobedience Movement✓ Correct
4)उपोषण / Fasting

The Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, and Quit India Movement mobilized millions across India, with the Quit India and Civil Disobedience movements marking unprecedented mass participation.

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