UPSC Prelims 2010 · General Studies
Question 52: History and Culture
Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolutions became the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions ?
AnswerThe answer is (a).
At the Calcutta session of 1906, presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji, the Congress passed resolutions on Swaraj, Boycott, Swadeshi and National Education. Whether to keep or drop them divided the moderates and the extremists and led to the split at Surat in 1907. Annulment of the partition of Bengal was a general demand of the movement but was not one of those four resolutions. Remember: the four = Swaraj, Boycott, Swadeshi, National Education.
Why each option is right or wrong
- (a) Right: annulment of the partition was not one of the four resolutions.
- (b) Boycott was one of the four resolutions.
- (c) National education was one of the four resolutions.
- (d) Swadeshi was one of the four resolutions.
Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.
Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2010, General Studies, Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.