SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 23 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 23 of 100

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Jayaprakash Narayan's concept of Total Revolution included which of the following components? 1. Social reforms to eradicate corruption 2. Political reforms to decentralize power 3. Armed struggle against the government 4. Economic reforms focusing on privatization Which of these are correct?

(a)1 and 2 only
(b)2 and 3 only
(c)1, 3 and 4 only
(d)1,2,3 and 4

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Statement 1 holds. The movement JP led from Bihar in 1974 began as a protest against corruption and misrule, and Total Revolution carried that fight into society.

Statement 2 holds. JP wanted power decentralised to the people rather than concentrated in the state.

Statement 3 fails because his movement was non-violent, and statement 4 because his economics was socialist and Gandhian, not privatisation. 1 and 2 only → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
2 and 3 only — Statement 3 is false. JP's Total Revolution was a non-violent programme in the Gandhian tradition, not an armed struggle, so any option carrying statement 3 fails.
(c)
1, 3 and 4 only — Statements 3 and 4 are false. JP rejected armed struggle, and privatisation was no part of his socialist and Gandhian economics. Statement 2, left out here, is true.
(d)
1,2,3 and 4 — 'All four' takes in armed struggle and privatisation, neither of which JP proposed. His revolution was non-violent, and his economics looked to decentralisation, not the market.

Concept

Total Revolution (Sampoorna Kranti) was Jayaprakash Narayan's call at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, on 5 June 1974. It grew out of the Bihar students' movement against corruption and misrule.

JP named seven revolutions in one: political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, educational and spiritual. The aim was to change society and politics together, by peaceful means.

Key facts

JP called for Total Revolution (Sampoorna Kranti) at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, on 5 June 1974.
It combined seven revolutions: political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, educational and spiritual.
The JP movement began in Bihar in 1974 as a student protest against corruption and misrule.
The Emergency was proclaimed on 25 June 1975.

Study next

The Bihar movement of 1974 and the Emergency of 1975JP's idea of partyless democracyVinoba Bhave's Bhoodan and the Sarvodaya movement

Common traps

Keeping statement 3 because 'revolution' sounds violent. JP's revolution was explicitly peaceful.
Reading 'economic reforms' as privatisation. JP's economics was socialist and Gandhian.

Here JP's programme is tested by elimination: two planted components clash with his non-violent, socialist outlook. JP himself appears as an option at 9 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.13, a question on who formed the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha.

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