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SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A HISTORY
(2011 Admission onwards)
V SEMESTER
CORE COURSE
SITUATING INDEPENDENT INDIA
QUESTION BANK
1. The Indian Independence Act was passed in.............
a)1947 b)1948
c)1949 d)1950
2. The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided ...........August1947as the appointed date for the partition.
a) 14th b)15th
c)16th d)17th
3. The partition of India was set forth in the Indian Independence Act................. and resulted in the dissolution of the British Indian
Empire and the end of the British Raj.
a) 1940 b) 1943
c) 1945 d) 1947
4. The partition included the geographical division of the Bengalprovince into .......................... Bengal, which became part of
the Dominion of Pakistan.
a) East b) West
c) South d) North
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5. West Bengal became part of..................
a) India b) Islamabadc) Himachal Pradesh d) Pakistan
6. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally cameinto existence at the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August.............
a) 1937 b)1935
c)1947 d)1950
7. The ceremonies for the transfer of power were held a day earlierin ................, at the time the capital of the new state of Pakistan.
a) Mewar b) Dhaka
c) Karachi d) Kashmir
8. The last British Viceroy was ....................
a) Lord Curzon b) Rippon
c) Lord Mountbatten d) Dalhousie
9. Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. Augustand India's on 15 August 1947.
a) 12 b)14th
c)15th d)16th
10. As India's national movement gained ascendancy, it became clearthat the chief party the Congress was dominated by ....................
a) Hindus b) Muslims
c) Parsis d) Sikhs
11. The Muslim League had been founded in .............. in 1906.
a) Kashmir b) Mewar
c) Dhaka d) Bihar
12. Under Muslim League’s leader, ..................., the party put forthits 'two nation theory' that Hindus and Muslims were really twonations and that the Muslim majority areas of India should bepartitioned to form a separate state called Pakistan.
a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah b) P.K.Kunjali kutty
c) K.P.A.Majid d) Mujibur Rehman
13. In...................., the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that theywere being discriminated by the West, gained independenceunder their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military helpfrom India, to form Bangladesh.
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a) 1961 b) 1971
c) 1981 d) 1991
14. In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they werebeing discriminated by the West, gained independence undertheir leader Sheikh ................ with military help from India, toform Bangladesh.
a) Mujibur Rehman b)Parves Mushraf
c) Sardari d) Haseena
15. In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they werebeing discriminated by the West, gained independence undertheir leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military help fromIndia, to form..............................
a) Burma b) Pakistan
c)Nepal d) Bangladesh
16. Literature describing the human cost of independence andpartition comprises ................... Train to Pakistan (1956).
a) Khushwant Singh's b)Toba Tek Singh’s
c) by Saadat Hassan Manto’s d) Manohar Malgonkar's
17. Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom’s Dawn, 1947) was written by .................
a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz b) Bhisham Sahni
c) Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man d) Balwantrai Mehta
18. ................... novel was Midnight's Children (1980)
a) Salman Rushdie's b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sardar Vallabhai Patel d) Balwantrai Mehta
19. ............... is a work of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
a) Freedom at Midnight b) Discovery of India
c)Sepoy Mutiny d) Malabar Rebellion
20. The Subsidiary Alliance System of ............... had reduced manyIndian States into a subordinate position of the Company.
a) Wellesley b) Lord Mountbatten
c) Lord Lytton d) Curzon
21. The Doctrine of Lapse is connected with ............
a) Lord Mountbatten b) G.R.Abhyanka
c) Dalhousie d) Wellesley
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22. Vernacular press Act was introduced by..............
a) Rippon b) Lord Mountbatten
c) Lord Lytton d) Wellesley
23. In order to counter the rising nationalist trend in the princelyStates as well as British India, the British set up the Chamber ofPrinces in.................
a) 1821 b)1829
c)1921 d)1931
24. In ................. the Simon Commission was appointed
a) 1827 b)1877
c)1927 d)1935
25. An All-India States Peoples' Conference was convened (AISPC) inDecember ....................
a) 1827 b)1835
c)1927 d)1937
26. The AISPC presented a memorandum to the .............. Partyadvocating an all-India federal Constitution.
a) Congress b) BJP
c) Janatha Dal d) CPI
27. It was only in 1938 at its ..............Session that the Congressincluded the independence of the princely states as well in itsgoal of Poorna Swaraj.
a) Haripura b) Travancore
c) Mysore d) Hyderabad
28. The Tripura Session ................ decided that the organisationshould involve itself closely with the movements in the princelystates.
a) 1919 b)1925
c)1939 d)1937
29. ................became the president of the AISPC in 1939.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Lord Mountbatten
c) Sardar Patel d) V.P.Menon
30. ................. presided over the Udaipur and Gwalior Sessions of theAISPC (1945 & 47) and declared at Gwalior that the states
refusing to join the constituent Assembly would be treated as hostile.
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a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Mahatma Gandhi
c)W.C.Banerji d) Gokhale
31. ............... had decided in June 1947 to become an independentstate, and it was followed by Hyderabad.
a) Travancore b) Malabar
c) Cochi d) Manglore
32. ...................is called as Iron man of India.
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Lord Mountbatten
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Sardar Patel
33. By August 15, ................all states geographically contiguous toIndia, except Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh,had acceded to India by signing the Instrument of Accession.
a) 1937 b)1947
c)1949 d)1957
34. Junagadh in ...................whose population was overwhelminglyHindu (80%), was ruled by a Muslim ruler.
a) Kathiwar b) Hyderabad
c) Mysore d) Kashmir
35. In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the conditions were thereverse, with the ruler being a ................. and the population, }overwhelmingly Muslim (75%).
a) Muslim b) Parsi
c) Sikhs d) Hindu
36. The Constitution of India was adopted by the ConstituentAssembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force on
26th January ......................
a) 1940 b)1947
c)1948 d)1950
37. The constitutional head of the Executive of the Union is the ..........
a) President b) Prime Minister
c) Finance Minister d) Chief Minister
38. As per Article .............. of the Constitution of India, the council ofthe Parliament of the Union consists of the President and twoHouses to be known as the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) andthe House of the People (Lok Sabha).
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a) 39 b) 49
c)59 d)79
39. Article ...............of the Constitution provides that there shall be aCouncil of Ministers with a Prime Minister as its head to aid andadvice the President, who shall exercise his functions inaccordance to the advice.
a) 54(1) b) 64(I)
c) 71 (I) d)74 (I)
40. On October 19, 1952, .............., a devout follower of MahatmaGandhi, began a fast-unto-death in demanding that a separatestate be carved out of the province of Madras for its Telugu-speaking population.
a) Potti Sriramulu b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) V.K. Krishna Menon d) John Mathai
41. In December 1952, .................was forced to concede to protesters'demands as he announced the formation of a separate Andhrastate.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) V.K. Krishna Menon
c) Sant Fateh Singh d) Patel
42. The formation of a States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) in................. which was charged with ‘preservation….of unity andsecurity of India’.
a) 1903 b)1913
c)1923 d)1953
43. The first major reorganization of Indian states based on linguisticcharacteristics occurred in...............
a) 1906 b)1916
c)1936 d)1956
44. The States Reorganization Commission appointed by the PrimeMinister in December .............. discarded the demand for the
formation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state.
a) 1903 b)1913
c)1943 d)1953
45. The Akali Dal representing the Sikhs of ............. launched anagitation for reorganisation of the province on the basis oflinguistic homogeneity.
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a) Punjab b) Nepal
c) Haryana d)Gujarat
46. When a war between India and Pakistan seemed imminent in1965, .................., the President of the Akali Dal, refusing tosuspend the agitation affirmed that “the country is dear butPunjabi Suba [state] is dearer.”
a) Sant Fateh Singh b) V.K. Krishna Menon
c) W.C.Banerji d) Tilak
47. ..............., was a leader of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS)
a) K Chandrasekhara Rao b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sant Fateh Singh d) Sardar Patel
48. India’s Union Minister of Home Affairs Mr. P. Chidambaramannounced on December 9, 2009, that the government intendedto start the process of forming a separate .............state.
a) Telangana b) Kashmir
c) Satara d) Nagapur
49. ..............ended his 11-day fast on the hospital bed, expressing hisdelight that it was a “true victory of the people of Telangana”.
a) K. Chandrasekhara Rao b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Gokhale d) Tilak
50. .............is considered to be the architect of modern India.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) V.K. Krishna Menon
c) Sardar Patel d) Mahatma Gandhi
51. ................ can be said to be one of the greatest internationalinfluences on Nehru, but Gandhi's ideals of Satyagraha alsoinfluenced him to a great degree.
a) Capitalism b) Socialism
c) Mercantilism d) Communism
52. The Panchasheel agreement of 1954 was between New Delhiand...............
a) Dhaka b) Belgrade
c) Karachi d) Peking
53. The greatest success of .............non-committal internationalpolitics was the formation of the Non-Alignment Movement
(NAM).
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a) V.K. Krishna Menon’s b) Jawaharlal Nehru's
c) Sir. C.P’s d) V.P. Menon
54. ..............found allies in Tito, Nasser, Soekarno, U Nu andNkrumah at a later stage in his formation NAM.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) V.K. Krishna Menon
c) Subash Chandra Bose d) K.P. Kesava Menon
55. The five-point agreement or the Panchsheel between .......... andPeking initiated in 1954 was a result of these negotiations.
a) Tokyo b) Yugoslavia
c) New Delhi d) Manchuria
56. The ............ is a group of states which are not aligned formallywith or against any major bloc.
a) Common Wealth b) NAM
c) USSR d) SAARC
57. The organization NAM was founded in .............. in 1961
a) New Delhi b) Belgrade
c) Yugoslavia d) Peking
58. .....................'s president was Josip Broz Tito.
a) Yugoslavia b) Japan
c) America d) Egypt
59. .................. 's first president, Sukarno.
a) Japan b) Indonesia
c) Yugoslavia d) Tehran
60. ...................'s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
a) Egypt b) Yugoslavia
c) Ghana d) Iran
61. ...............'s first president Kwame Nkrumah.
a) Ghana b) New Delhi
c) Yugoslavia d) Veninsula
62. India's first Prime Minister is ................
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) V.K. Krishna Menon
c) Patel d) Rajendraprasad
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63. The phrase NAM was first used to represent the doctrine by Indiandiplomat and statesman ............ in 1953, at the United Nations.
a) V.K. Krishna Menon b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Zhou Enlai d) Patel
64. The 16th NAM summit took place in Tehran of Iran, from 26 to 31August ...............
a) 2006 b) 2008
c) 2012 d) 2018
65. The 17th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement is to be held inCaracas, ..................., in 2015.
a) Venezuela b) Tokyo
c) Chile d) America
66. The term "non-alignment" was coined by .................. in 1953remarks at the United Nations.
a) V.K. Krishna Menon b) Zhou Enlai
c) Chute d) Indira Gandhi
67. In his speech, Nehru described the Panchsheel to be used as aguide for Sino-Indian relations, which were first put forthby Chinese Premier ..............
a) Zhou Enlai b) Chute
c) Maotse Tung d) Sunyatsen
68. The Bandung Conference of 1955 was hosted by Indonesianpresident................, who gave a significant contribution topromote NAM.
a) Sukarno b) Nasser
c) Pt.J. Nehru d) Nkrumah
69. Six years after Bandung, an initiative of Yugoslav president....................led to the first Conference of Heads of State orGovernment of Non-Aligned Countries, which was held inSeptember 1961 in Belgrade.
a) Narasimha Rao b) Rajiv Gandhi
c) Josip Broz Tito d) Ho Chi Minh
70. The founding fathers of the ................were: Sukarno of Indonesia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, JosipBroz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and KwameNkrumah of Ghana.
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a) Common Wealth b) SAARC
c) NAM d) CENTO
71. The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as theCommonwealth and formerly known as the ..................Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisationof 54 independent states.
a) German b) French
c) American d) British
72. The ................. is an organisation of South Asian nations.
a) SEATO b) Commonwealth of Nations
c) NAM d) SAARC
73. The SAARC established on 8 December .......................
a)1945 b)1965
c)1975 d)1985
74. The SAARC is an organisation of South Asian nations, which wasestablished on 8 ................ 1985.
a) December b) September
c) October d) November
75. Afghanistan joined the organisation SAARC in ..................
a) 2001 b) 2002
c) 2005 d) 2007
76. The first concrete proposal for establishing a framework forregional cooperation in South Asia was made by the latepresident of......................, Ziaur Rahman, on May 2, 1980.
a) Bangladesh b) Bhutan
c) India d) Nepal
77. The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King Birendra Bir
Bikram Shah of ....................
a) India b) Bangladesh
c) Bhutan d) Nepal
78. The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King ............. ofNepal.
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a) Birendra Bir Bikram Shah b) Zhou Enlai
c)Norodom Sihanouk d) Mao
79. The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe .............. asthe SAARC Charter Day.
a)7 August b) 2 September
c) 4 October d) 8 December
80. HeadQuarters of SAARC Agricultural Centre (SAC),..........
a) Tokyo b) Delhi
c) Bhutan d) Dhaka
81. SAARC Tuberculosis Centre (STC), ..................
a) Kathmandu b) Bangladesh
c) Bhutan d) India
82. SAARC Documentation Centre (SDC), .............
a) New Delhi b) Maldives
c) Pakistan d) Sri Lanka
83. SAARC Human Resources Development Centre (SHRDC),.............
a) Islamabad b) Bangladesh
c) Bhutan d) Delhi
84. SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre (SCZMC), ........
a) Maldives b) Nepal
c) Pakistan d) Sri Lanka
85. The newly independent ...............adopted a “mixed economy”, inwhich features of both the capitalist model and socialist modelwere prevalent.
a) India b) Pakistan
c) Sri Lanka d) Bhutan
86. This crisis ............. forced India to open up its economy to theworld and adopt the policy of Liberalisation, Privatisation and
Globalisation.
a) 1951 b)1961
c)1991 d)1995
87. Soon after assuming power in 1991, the Congress Government,headed by the then Prime Minister, ................, announced itsdecision to liberalise, privatise and globalise the Indian economy.
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a) P.V. Narasimha Rao b) Dr. Manmohan Singh
c) Indira Gandhi d) Rajiv Gandhi
88. The ...................have passionately opposed liberalisation policies,and termed them as “abject surrender to the IMF”.
a) Communists b) Congress
c) BJP d) Thrinamool Congress
89. The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was avoluntary land reform movement in India started by.............. in
1951.
a) Acharya Vinoba Bhave b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Maqbool Butt d) EMS
90. The father of the Bhoodan (Land Gift) Movement, a freedomfighter and spiritual leader, Vinoba Bhave was born at Gagode in
Kolaba district, ...................on September 11, 1895.
a) Maharashtra b) Punjab
c) Tamil Nadu d) Rajasthan
91. During his stay at Wardha, Vinoba Bhave brought out a monthlyin ................., named, `Maharashtra Dharma'.
a) Punjabi b) Marathi
c) Kannada d)Hindi
92. In 1932, while participating in the Indian Independence movementactivities, Vinoba Bhave was sent to jail for six monthsin ..............
a) Karachi b) Dhulia
c) Delhi d) Poona
93. Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan Movement as a voluntaryland reform movement in 1951 at Pochampally village in ............
a) Maharashtra b) Telangana
c) Gujarat d) Tamilnadu
94. Some people Demand for a separate Telangana state in ............
a) Maharashtra b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Orissa d) Madhya Pradesh
95. In the recent past a separate ...............state was created fromMadhya Pradesh, Jharkhand from Bihar and Uttaranchal fromUttar Pradesh.
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a) Chhattisgarh b) Telengana
c) Goa d) Uttaranchal
96. In ................state, there are three regions namely the coastalregion, the rayalaseema region and the telengana region.
a) Bihar b) Andhra Pradesh
c)Rajasthan d) Uttar Pradesh
97. The secessionist movement in the Kashmir Valley started in April................
a) 1978 b)1988
c)1993 d)1996
98. Resurgence in the activities of the Jammu & Kashmir LiberationFront (JKLF) following the return of ...............from UK to Pakistanin early 1987.
a) Amanullah Khan b) Shabir Ahmed Shah
c) Dr. Farooq Abdullah d) Maulvi Farooq
99. Khalistan movement refers to a political secessionist movement tocreate a separate Sikh country, called Khālistān ("The Land ofthe Pure") in the ................. region of South Asia.
a) Punjab b) Hyderabad
c) New Delhi d) Kolkata
100. The Punjabi Suba Movement led by the ............... aimed atcreation of a Punjabi-majority state ("subah") in the Punjab
region of India in the 1950s.
a) Akali Dal b) Amanullah Khan
c) Shabir Ahmed Shah d) JKLF
101. Following the Indo-Pak war of ................... Punjabi was finallyrecognized as the official language of Punjab.
a) 1935 b)1946
c) 1965 d)1968
102. In 1971, Khalistan proponent Jagjit Singh Chauhan, travelled tothe....................
a) United States b) Hyderabad
c) Himachal Pradesh d) Haryana
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103. Jagjit Singh Chauhan placed an advertisement in The New YorkTimes proclaiming the formation of ............. and was able tocollect millions of dollars.
a) Khalistan b) Telengana
c) Maratha d) Punjab
104. On 12 April.............., Jagjit Singh Chauhan held a meeting withthe Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring the
formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur Sahib.
a)1946 b)1957
c) 1980 d)1987
105. On 12 April 1980, ...................held a meeting with the IndianPrime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring the formation of
"National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur Sahib.
a) Balbir Singh Sandhu b) Anandpur Sahib
c) Jagjit Singh Chauhan d) Jarnail Singh
106. On 12 April 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan held a meeting with theIndian Prime Minister, ................. before declaring theformation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur Sahib.
a) Indira Gandhi b) Balbir Singh Sandhu
c) Anandpur Sahib d) Jagjit Singh
107. On 12 April 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan held a meeting with theIndian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring theformation of "National Council of Khalistan", at ...............
a) Anandpur Sahib b) Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
c) Indira Gandhi d) Rajiv Gandhi
108. In May 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan travelled to ............. andannounced the formation of Khalistan.
a) Germany b) Hydreabad
c) London d) Japan
109. In June 1984, the Indian Army led by the Sikh General KuldipSingh Brar forcibly entered the Harimandir Sahib (the GoldenTemple) to overpower the armed militants and the religiousleader ..............
a) Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale b) Jagjit Singh
c) Rajiv Gandhi d) Anandpur Sahib
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110. The Indian Prime Minister .............. was assassinated by her twoSikh bodyguards in retaliation.
a) Indira Gandhi b) Rajiv Gandhi
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Morarji Desai
111. Following ............................ death, thousands of Sikhs weremassacred in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, termed as genocide bythe Sikh groups.
a) I.K. Gujaral b) Charan Singh
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Indira Gandhi
112. In January............, the Golden Temple was occupied by militantsbelonging to All India Sikh Students Federation and Damdami
Taksal.
a)1947 b)1958
c)1966 d) 1986
113. On 26 January.............., the gathering passed a resolution(gurmattā) favouring the creation of Khalistan.
a)1928 b)1936
c)1949 d) 1986
114. Indian security forces suppressed the insurgency in the early1990s, but Sikh political groups such as the Khalsa RajParty and SAD (A) continued to pursue an independent
............... through non-violent means.
a) Khalistan b) ULFA
c) Telengana d) Marathwada
115. The Government of India had banned ‘The United LiberationFront of Assam’ organization in ...................
a)1920 b)1940
c)1960 d) 1990
116. ULFA claims to have been founded at the site of Rang Ghar onApril 7, ............., a historic structure from the Ahom kingdom.
a)1919 b)1929
c)1969 d) 1979
117. The peasant insurrection of 1946-51 in the Telengana region ofthe erstwhile .............state was a pivotal moment in Indian
history.
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a) Madras b) Pune
c) Ahmadabad d) Hyderabad
118. Before Indian independence, ..............state was a princely statewithin the territory of British India, comprised of three linguisticregions: the Telugu-speaking Telengana area (including thecapital city, Hyderabad), the Marathi-speaking Marathwada
area, and a small Kannada-speaking area.
a) Mumbai b) Pune
c) Ahmadabad d) Hyderabad
119. The death of ..................enraged the people, sparking a massiverevolt amongst the Telengana peasantry, with people fromneighbouring villages marching, holding meetings in front of thelandlords’ house, and declaring: “Sangham is organised here.
No more vetti, no more illegal exactions, no evictions”.
a) Komarayya b) Indira Gandhi
c) J.N.Chaudhuri d) J.Nehru
120. In October................, the Nizam’s government banned the AMS,and a spurt of arrests and military raids took place.
a)1926 b)1936
c)1939 d) 1946
121. In February 1948, the ...................introduced a new policy aimedat encouraging guerrilla offensives, largely influenced by the
success of the Telengana insurrection.
a) Congress b) Janatha
c) CPI d) BJP
122. Following the capture of the razakars, a military administrationwas set up under General.............., and a military offensive was
directed at the peasant rebels in the Telengana region.
a) J.N.Chaudhuri b) Indira Gandhi
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Morarji Desai
123. The Jagir Abolition Regulation was passed on August ............
a)1909 b)1919
c)1939 d)1949
124. General ................., the military governor made a statement fromHyderabad, calling all “communists to surrender within a week,
failing which they would be exterminated”.
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a) J.N. Chaudhuri b) Indira Gandhi
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Morarji Desai
125. The Telengana struggle withdrawn on October 21, .................
a)1911 b)1921
c)1941 d) 1951
126. Naxalbari is a small village in the southern part of India’s.............. province.
a) Bengal b) Andhra Pardesh
c) Chattisgarh d) Orissa
127. The CPI (Leninist-Marxist) emerged when the Indian CommunistParty broke up into several factions in...............
a)1917 b)1927
c)1937 d) 1967
128. The Santhal tribals of ............., armed with bows and arrows,forcibly occupied the land of the kulaks and ploughed them to
establish their ownership.
a) Naxalbari b) Telengana
c) Kerala d) Hyderabad
129. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the ............. Police detectiveson July 16, 1972.
a) Calcutta b) Hyderabad
c) Pune d) Ahmadabad
130. The Naxalite movement, drawing inspiration from the ..............ideology, had a meteoric phase for about two years from the
formation of the party till the end of June 1971.
a) Maoist b) Congress
c) BJP d)CPI
131. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the Calcutta Police detectiveson July 16,..............
a) 1942 b)1952
c)1962 d)1972
132. ............. death marked the end of a phase in the Naxalitemovement.
a) Charu Mazumdar b) Indira Gandhi
c)AKG d)EMS
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133. The formation of People’s War Group in Andhra Pradeshsubsequently in 1980 under the leadership of ................ gave a
new lease of life to the Naxalite movement.
a) Kondapalli Seetharamaiah b) Indira Gandhi
c) Charu Mazumdar d) K. Ajitha
134. The revolutionary writers of the Jana Natya Mandali, the culturalfront of the PWG, greatly helped in preparing the environment in
which the .............ideology found ready acceptance.
a) Naxalite b) Communist
c) Congress d) BJP
135. The Andhra Pradesh government banned the PWG and its sixfront organizations in.............
a) 1952 b)1962
c)1972 d)1992
136. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency in...................
a)1965 b)1975
c)1985 d)1995
137. The Indian Emergency of 25th June 1975-21st March 1977 wasa 21 month period, when President................, upon advice byPrime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergencyunder Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectivelybestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending
elections and civil liberties.
a) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed b) Indira Gandhi
c) Rajiv Gandhi d) Morarji Desai
138. The imposition of the emergency in ............... struck at the verycore of these ideals, which constitute our democracy.
a)1935 b)1965
c)1968 d) 1975
139. On 25th June 1975, Prime Minister ............ imposed anemergency in the country.
a) Indira Gandhi b) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
c) Morarji Desai d) Rajiv Gandhi
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140. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid whenthe ...............High Court set aside Indira Gandhi’s re-election tothe Lok Sabha in 1971 on the grounds of electoral malpractices.
a) Allahabad b) Ahmedabad
c) Islamabad d) Hyderabad
141. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid whenthe Allahabad High Court set aside Indira Gandhi’s re-electionto the Lok Sabha in ............. on the grounds of electoral
malpractices.
a)1931 b)1941
c)1961 d) 1971
142. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid whenthe Allahabad High Court set aside .............. re-election to theLok Sabha in 1971 on the grounds of electoral malpractices.
a) Indira Gandhi’s b) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
c) Charan Singh d) I.K. Gujaral
143. Many regard .............as “the Gandhi of Independent India”.
a) Jayaprakash Narayan b) Indira Gandhi
c) Charan Singh d) Morarji Desai
144. After the .............High Court verdict, “JP”, as JayaprakashNarayan was better known, gave the call for a “TotalRevolution” and also demanded the resignation of Mrs. Gandhi.
a) Islamabad b) Ahmedabad
c) Allahabad d) Poona
145. Prof. ............., Secretary to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi andher chief official advisor during this period.
a) P.N. Dhar b) Rabindranth Tagore
c) A.K. Menon d) I. K. Gujral
146. In his book “Indira Gandhi, the emergency and IndianDemocracy”, Prof. ..............states that it was largely because ofthe opposition pressure that she was forced to resign.
a) R.C.Datt b) I. K. Gujral
c) P.N. Dhar d) Romila Thaper
147. ...............poem was “Where the mind is without fear and thehead is held high”.
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a) Rabindranth Tagore’s b)P.Sukathakumari
c) O.N.V. Kurup d) Vallathol
148. One of Indira Gandhi’s first acts on 26th June 1975 was toremove her mild-mannered and democratically inclinedInformation minister ................ and replace him with VidyaCharan Shukla, who she thought would better serve herGoebbelsian design.”
a) I. K. Gujral b) P.N. Dhar
c) Charan Singh d) Rajiv Gandhi
149. Vinod Mehta, who edited the sleazy girlie magazine Debonairfrom ............, was asked to have his articles and picturescleared before they were sent to the printer.
a) Poona b) Allahabad
c) Bombay d) Bhubaneswar
150. The .............. conflict is a dispute over sacred space between thetwo largest religious communities in South Asia: Hindus andMuslims.
a) Allahabad b) Bombay
c) Ayodhya d) Bhopal
151. 'Two Nations Theory' was put forward by ............ in 1930.
a) Muhammad Iqbal b) Jinnah
c) Kunjalikutty d) Ali brothers
152. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in ............. on 6 December1992 by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.
a) Cuttack b) Allahabad
c) Varanasi d) Ayodhya
153. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December............... by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.
a) 1932 b) 1942
c)1962 d)1992
154. On December 6, 1992, Hindu Karsevaks destroyed the 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, .............., India, in an
attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram Janmabhoomi.
a) Uttar Pradesh b) Madya Pradesh
c) Rajasthan d) Bihar
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155. The city of ................. is regarded by Hindus to be the birthplaceof the God-king Rama and is regarded as one of India's most
sacred and religious sites.
a) Ahmadabad b) Calcutta
c) Bombay d) Ayodhya
156. In 1528, after the Mughal invasion, a mosque was built byMughal general ................, who reportedly destroyed a pre-existing temple of Rama at the site, and named it afterEmperor Babur.
a) Mir Banki b) Bairamkan
c) Rajathodarmal d) L. K. Advani
157. In September 1990, .................leader L. K. Advani started RathYatra, a tour of the country to educate the masses about theAyodhya struggle.
a) BJP b) CPM
c) Congress d) Janatha Dal
158. On 6 December ................., the BJP and other supportingorganizations organized a religious ceremony to symbolicallystart the building of a temple at the sacred site.
a) 1912 b) 1922
c) 1942 d) 1992
159. On 16 December 1992, the Union home ministry set upthe Liberhan Commission to investigate the destruction of theMosque, headed by retired High Court Judge .................
a) M. S. Liberhan b) L. K. Advani
c) Murli Manohar Joshi d) Sekkizhar
160. In fiction, Lajja, a controversial 1993 novel in Bengali byBangladeshi writer ................, has a story based in the days
after the demolition.
a) Taslima Nasrin b) Prakash Karat
c) M. S. Liberhan d) Tagore
161. India attained Independence on 15th August ...............
a) 1907 b) 1917
c) 1927 d) 1947
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162. Indian Constitution came into force on 26th January ............that the picture became clear regarding the structure of
government and the rights of the citizens of India.
a) 1910 b)1920
c)1930 d)1950
163. Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam portraying ............ women like half-naked and sexually exploitable.
a) Dalit b) Namboothiri
c) Nair d) Kshtriya
164. In 1993, Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad organized first "AkhilBhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan" in Wardha, ...............to reconceptualize and transform "Dalit Sahitya (literature) into"Ambedkari Sahitya".
a) Maharashtra b) Bengal
c) U.P d) Delhi
165. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad successfully organized Third AkhilBhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan in .............. and became
a strong advocacy force of this transformation.
a) 1926 b) 1936
c) 1946 d) 1996
166. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............
a) 1952 b) 1962
c) 1972 d) 1992
167. Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"?
a) Madara Chennaiah b) Dalai Lama
c) Ambedkar d) R.C. Datt
168. One of the first Dalit writers was Madara Chennaiah, an 11th-century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of .....................
a) Western Chalukyas b) Vijayanagara
c) Bhamini d) Mughal
169. Madara Chennaiah a Dalit Writer and an 11th-century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of ......................
a) Western Chalukyas b) Pandyas
c) Pallavas d) Cholas
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170. The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when thefirst conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was heldat Mumbai.
a) 1918 b) 1928
c) 1948 d) 1958
171. Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writingsin ...............
a) Marathi b) Malayalam
c) Hindi d) Kannada
172. ............. first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali (When Ihad Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stirin Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a crude
society.
a) Baburao Bagul’s b) Dalai Lama
c) Madara Chennaiah d) Namdeo Dhasal
173. Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in............, createda stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a
crude society.
a) 1913 b) 1933
c) 1953 d) 1963
174. Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created astir in ............. literature with its passionate depiction of a crude
society.
a) Marathi b) Bengali
c) Binary d) Assamese
175. Who founded Dalit Panther?
a) Namdeo Dhasal b) Dalai Lama
c) Baburao Bagul d) Madara Chennaiah
176. The .............. movement is a movement that practicedthe Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violentresistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them
from being felled.
a) Chipko b) Panther
c) Silent Valley d) CDM
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177. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s inthe Garhwal Himalayas of .............., then in Uttar Pradesh withgrowing awareness towards rapid deforestation.
a) Uttarakhand b) Karnataka
c) West Bengal d) Kerala
178. On March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Renivillage, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, ............. acted toprevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forestrights that were threatened by the contractor system of thestate Forest Department.
a) Uttarakhand b) Rajasthan
c) U.P. d) Bengal
179. In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the RightLivelihood Award.
a) 1947 b)1957
c) 1967 d) 1987
180. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........
a) 1924 b) 1934
c) 1944 d) 1964
181. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964.
a) Chandi Prasad Bhatt b) Jayaprakash Narayan
c) Sunderlal d) Pandurang Hegde
182. The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................
a) Gopeshwar b) Uttarakhand
c) Mysore d) Mylapore
183. In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workersheld a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the
policies of the Forest Department.
a) 1931 b) 1941
c) 1951 d) 1971
184. The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fieryactivist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’sChipko movement in U.P.
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a) Pandurang Hegde b) Sunderlal Bahugana
c) Narendra Modi d) Dalai Lama
185. The Appiko movement, started on September 8, ............ by fieryactivist Pandurang Hegde.
a) 1943 b) 1953
c) 1963 d) 1983
186. Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protectionof Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............
district of Kerala, India.
a) Kannur b) Palakkad
c) Malappuram d) Ernakulam
187. Silent Valley movement was started in ............ to save the SilentValley Reserve Forest in from being flooded bya hydroelectric project.
a) 1943 b) 1953
c) 1963 d) 1973
188. The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in.............
a) 1945 b) 1955
c) 1965 d) 1985
189. The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest fromSilent Valley.
a) Kuntipuzha b) Nila
c) Pamba d) Periyar
190. In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River wasidentified as an ideal site for electricity generation.
a) Kunthipuzha b) Narmada
c) Valapattanam d) Bharathapuzha
191. In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study ofthe Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a
Biosphere Reserve.
a) Orissa b) Tamilnadu
c) Karnataka d) Kerala
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192. In ............. Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Honourable Prime Ministerof India, approved the project, with the condition that the State
Government enact Legislation ensuring the necessarysafeguards.
a)1948 b)1958
c)1968 d) 1978
193. The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silentvalley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree)became a symbol for the protest from the intellectualcommunity and was the opening song/prayer of most of the
"save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.
a) Sugathakumari b) P.Valsala
c) O.N.V. Kurup d) Ravindranath Tagore
194. .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural HistorySociety, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of
the Hydroelectric Project.
a) Dr. Salim Ali b) Prof. M. G. K. Menon
c) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan d) Dalai Lama
195. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................
a) Agricultural Scientist b) Historian
c) Capitalist d) Chemist
196. On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.
a) Indira Gandhi b) Rajiv Gandhi
c) Morarji Desai d) Charan Singh
197. On September 7, 1985 the Silent Valley National Park wasformally inaugurated and a memorial at Sairandhri to IndiraGandhi was unveiled by ............., the new Hon. Prime Ministerof India.
a) Rajiv Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Morarji Desai d) Vajpei
198. On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park wasdesignated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
a)1956 b)1966
c)1976 d) 1986
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199. Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement,started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on
the Narmada river.
a) 1965 b) 1975
c) 1982 d) 1985
200. The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian BorderConflict was a war between China and India that occurred in...........
a)1952 b)1956
c)1959 d) 1962
201. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............
a) Zhou Enlai b) Yasser Arafat
c) Mahmoud Abbas d) Dalai Lama
202. India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along theborder, including several north of the McMahon Line, theeastern portion of a Control proclaimed by ChinesePremier ............ in 1959.
a) Zhou Enlai b) Dalai Lama
c) Yasser Arafat d) Mahmoud Abbas
203. Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territoryalong the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chineselaunched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across theMcMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
a) Ladakh b) Kargil
c) Burma d) Tibet
204. Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First KashmirWar.a)1927 b) 1937
c)1945 d) 1947
205. Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.
a)1969 b) 1972
c)1992 d) 1999
206. ................provided global trade rules as well as a framework fortrade disputes from 1948 to 1994.
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a) GATT b) WTO
c) CENTO d) SEATO
207. WTO officially commenced on 1 January ......... underthe Marrakech Agreement, replacing the GATT, which
commenced in 1948.
a) 1965 b) 1975
c) 1985 d) 1995
208. WTO's current Director-General is Pascal Lamy, who leads a staffof over 600 people in............., Switzerland.
a) Geneva b) Genoa
c) Ladach d) Florence
209. In............., India voted against the partition of Palestine at theUnited Nations General Assembly.
a) 1927 b) 1937
c) 1946 d) 1947
210. India was the first Non‐Arab State to recognize PLO as sole andlegitimate representative of the Palestinian people in.............
a) 1947 b) 1957
c) 1964 d) 1974
211. India was one of the first countries to recognize the State ofPalestine in..............
a) 1968 b) 1978
c) 1984 d) 1988
212. In 1996, India opened its Representative Office to the PalestineAuthority in Gaza, which later was shifted to ............. in 2003.
a) Ramallah b) Egypt
c) Israel d) Ladach
213. Under India‐Brazil‐South Africa (IBSA) Forum’s assistance, anIndoor Multi‐purpose Sports Complex has been constructed in.................
a) Ladach b) Ramallah
c) Kargil d) Bombay
214. Sri Lankans protested the presence of the IPKF, and the newly-elected Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa demandedits withdrawal, which was completed by March .............
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a) 1970 b) 1980
c) 1983 d) 1990
215. On May 21, ................, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated and theLTTE was alleged to be the perpetrator.
a) 1971 b) 1981
c) 1986 d) 1991
216. Interethnic conflict has hit India at the highest levels, with PrimeMinister ............... assassinated in 1984 by Sikh body guards.
a) Indira Gandhi b) Rajive Gandhi
c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Charan Singh
217. It was from................, in September 1990, that LK Advanilaunched his Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra leaving anationwide trail of violence in its wake.
a) Gujarat b) Maharashtra
c) Delhi d) Madya Pradesh
218. In 1990 itself, there was major violence in .............. because ofAdvani's rath yatra.
a) Kerala b) Gujarat
c) Bombay d) Madya Pradesh
219. The demolition of the Babri Masjid on..............., 1992.
a) December 6 b) December 4
c) December 3 d) December 8
220. Communalism and Globalisation is the work of ....................
a) Ahammed Aijaz b) Bipan Chandra
c) K.N.Panikkar d) V.P.Menon
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