Read the following passage and answer the questions from that follow: 'The nationalist movement was from the beginning zealous in defence of civil liberties. Hence, the nationalists fought against the attack by the colonial authorities on the freedom of the Press, speech and association, and other civil liberties. Jawaharlal Nehru, perhaps, was the strongest champion of civil liberties. He assigned as much importance to them as he did to economic equality and socialism. The resolution on fundamental rights, passed by the Karachi Congress in 1931 and drafted by him, guaranteed the rights of free expression through speech and Press. Secularism was from the beginning made a basic constituent of the nationalist ideology and a strong emphasis was laid on Hindu-Muslim unity. Furthermore, it was clearly understood that the objective of unifying the Indian people into a nation would have to be realised by taking into account regional, religious, caste, ethnic and linguistic differences. The cultural aspirations of different linguistic groups were given full recognition in 1921 by organizing provincial and area committees of the Indian National Congress along linguistic lines and not according to British-created multi-lingual provinces. From its earliest-phase, the Indian nationalists accepted, with near unanimity,' the objective of complete economic transformation of the country on the basis of modern industrial and agricultural development, with a view to make India economically self-reliant, to be based on independence from foreign capital, creation of an indigenous capital goods, the foundation and development of independent science and technology.96. Why did the British deny civil liberties to Indians?

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