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Social Change and Development in India

Class 12 · Society

Ch 8 · Social Movements

Real UPSC Prelims questions from 2016–2026, linked to this book. Try each one first, then open the answer. 2026 answers follow UPSC's provisional answer key.

Prelims 2018 · Q69

Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?

  1. (a)Active all-India participation of lawyers, students and women in the National Movement
  2. (b)Active involvement of Dalit and Tribal communities of India in the National Movement
  3. (c)Joining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement
  4. (d)Drastic decrease in the cultivation of plantation crops and commercial crops
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UPSC's answer: (c)

NCERT answers it: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Theme 11 (Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond); Class 12 Social Change and Development in India, Ch 8 (Social Movements).

How to solve it with NCERT: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Theme 11: a Champaran peasant told Gandhi about the indigo planters' abuses, and Gandhi spent 1917 there. Class 12 Social Change and Development, ch 8, adds that under Gandhi such peasant struggles became linked to the independence movement. Answer (c).

Hindi version: UPSC's official question paper (2018), question 69 ↗

Prelims 2026 · Q9

Which one of the following statements about the Eka Movement and Bardoli Satyagraha is correct?

  1. (a)The Eka Movement was throughout supported and organized by the Congress while Bardoli Satyagraha was initially independent of Congress influence and was only in the last stages supported by the Congress.
  2. (b)The Eka Movement was provided leadership by the taluqdars of Awadh, whereas the Bardoli Satyagraha was a movement of the landless labourers.
  3. (c)The Bardoli Satyagraha was a campaign against the enhancement of land revenue, while the Eka Movement was a protest against excessive extraction of rents.
  4. (d)The Eka Movement was located in the Varanasi and Mirzapur districts of the present-day U.P., while the Bardoli Satyagraha took place in Saurashtra.
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UPSC's provisional answer: (c)

NCERT answers it: Class 10 India and the Contemporary World – II, Ch 2 (Nationalism in India); Class 12 Social Change and Development in India, Ch 8 (Social Movements).

How to solve it with NCERT: Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II, ch 2: in 1928 Vallabhbhai Patel led the Bardoli peasants against enhanced land revenue, and Class 12 Sociology places Bardoli in Surat district. So (b), (d) and (a)'s claim about Bardoli are wrong. Answer (c).

Hindi version: UPSC's official question paper (2026), question 9 ↗

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