India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to fight for democracy against the Chogyal monarchy. He later became Sikkim’s first Chief Minister after the 1975 merger.

MISA, a 1971 preventive-detention law, was widely used during the Emergency. The Janata government later repealed it.

Operation Vijay ended Portuguese rule in Goa in December 1961. Vijay means victory. The army, navy and air force took part.

Laldenga signed for the MNF. R. D. Pradhan, the Union Home Secretary, signed for the Centre.

The IAF’s role was Operation Safed Sagar. The Army’s campaign was Operation Vijay. Kargil Vijay Diwas is marked every year on 26 July.

Article 356 deals with failure of constitutional machinery in a state. It was used against the elected Kerala ministry in 1959.

He was one of the founders in 1934. He served as its all-India joint secretary from 1934 to 1940.

Basu became Chief Minister on 21 June 1977, at the head of the Left Front.

Basu was the Communist Party candidate for the railway workers seat in 1946. He had organised railway workers since 1944.

Open jails let convicts live with families and work outside. Rajasthan began a camp named after him on an experimental basis in 1963.

Maryada was founded by Madan Mohan Malaviya. Sampurnanand worked as its editor during the Non-Cooperation years.

The Government Sanskrit College in Varanasi took his name in 1974. Sampurnanand had planned an observatory there while he was Education Minister.

Katju chaired the Allahabad Municipal Board from 1935 to 1937. In 1937 he became Law Minister of the United Provinces.

Katju defended the military officers tried at the Red Fort in Delhi. These were the Indian National Army trials.

The correct answer is A-3 B-4 C-1 D-2, based on each State’s real position: Tripura sits furthest west, Mizoram furthest south, Nagaland in the north-east corner, and Manipur to its south, matching the map’s marked locations.

The answer is the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, codenamed ‘Little Boy.’ Nagasaki’s bomb, ‘Fat Man,’ was a plutonium implosion device.

The answer is 1948. India’s military action, Operation Polo, ended the Nizam’s resistance and brought Hyderabad into the Union that September.

The correct answer is (c) 1, 4, 3, 2. The Simla Agreement was signed in July 1972. India’s first nuclear test followed in May 1974. The SAARC Charter was signed in December 1985. The Agra Summit came much later, in July 2001.

The correct answer is Junagadh. Travancore’s ruler initially sought independence, then signed the Instrument of Accession himself — it was Junagadh that was actually settled by plebiscite.

The correct answer is the Swatantra Party, a free-market-oriented party. Menon joined it after leaving government service, and died in 1965.

The correct answer is immediate transfer of power through dominion status. Mountbatten adopted the idea, and it became the basis of the 3 June Plan, moving independence forward to August 1947.

The correct answer is a custom-made pen that concealed a small pistol. Accounts differ on whether he pointed it at Menon as a joke or a genuine threat before Mountbatten defused the moment.

The correct answer is the Governor of Assam. On 1 August 1965, oversight of the territory was also shifted from the Ministry of External Affairs to the Ministry of Home Affairs, reflecting its shift from a purely foreign-policy-sensitive frontier to more standard internal administration.

Justice H. R. Khanna was the lone dissenter. The 2017 Puttaswamy judgment expressly overruled the majority view.

Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, declared in December 1962 that China bore responsibility for the Sino-Indian War – a statement that hurt the China-Soviet alliance and pleased India. The other names are earlier or lesser Soviet leaders.