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SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

SITUTATING INDEPENDENT INDIA

UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT


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



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.



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



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.



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).



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.



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.


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).



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.


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 ................


c) Patel d) Rajendraprasad



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.



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.



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.



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.



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



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



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.



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


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”.



a) J.N. Chaudhuri b) Indira Gandhi


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



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



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”.



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



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



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



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



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.



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



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



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.



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 .............



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



ANSWER KEY

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33.b34.a35.d36.d37.a38.d39.d40.a41.a42.d43.d44.d45.a46.a47.a48.a49.a50.a51.b52.d53.b54.a55.c56.b57.b58.a59.b60.a61.a62.a63.a64.c

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97.b98.a99.a100.a101.c102.a103.a104.c105.c106.a107.a108.c109.a110.a111.d112.d113.d114.a115.d116.d117.d118.d119.a120.d121.c122.a123.d124.a125.d126.a127.d128.a

129.a130.a131.d132.a133.a134.a135.d136.b137.a138.d139.a140.a141.d142.a143.a144.c145.a146.c147.a148.a149.c150.c151.a152.d153.d154.a155.d156.a157.a158.d159.a160.a

161.d162.d163.a164.a165.d166.d167.a168.a169.a170.d171.a172.a173.d174.a175.a176.a177.a178.a179.d180.d181.a182.a183.d184.a185.d186.b187.d188.d189.a190.a191.d192.d

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