India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 2)

The correct answer is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The renaming, meaning roughly ‘Land of the Rising Sun,’ also granted the territory Union Territory status under the North Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971.

The correct answer is the Inner/Outer Tibet boundary, laid out in Article 9. China’s representative did not specifically object to the McMahon Line itself in the same way, but withheld consent over this separate article.

The correct answer is Article 371G. It specifically protects land ownership and transfer, not natural resources more broadly, along with Mizo customary law and religious/social practices.

The correct answer is bamboo flowering. It happens roughly every 48 years and triggers a rat population explosion that destroys crops, remaining a recognised ecological risk in the region today.

The correct answer is Daman and Diu. The two former Portuguese territories were merged into a single Union Territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, in 2020.

The correct answer is the 10th Constitutional Amendment. This came seven years after the 1954 volunteer takeover, during which the territory ran as an unofficial ‘Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli’ administration.

The correct answer is local pro-independence volunteer groups, including the United Front of Goans and the Azad Gomantak Dal. India avoided direct military involvement at the time.

The correct answer is Jagjit Singh Aurora. He accepted Niazi’s surrender at Dhaka’s Ramna Race Course, in one of the largest military surrenders since World War II.

The correct answer is a plebiscite of the state’s own people. Junagadh was resolved by a February 1948 referendum, unlike Hyderabad (settled by military action) or Kashmir (a contested accession signed under invasion).

The correct answer is prolonged legal proceedings and prosecutions. Formal investigations and court cases connected to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence continued well into the 21st century.

The correct answer is Rajiv Gandhi. He was sworn in as Prime Minister the same day his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her own bodyguards.

The correct answer is the Akal Takht. The damage to this major Sikh religious structure during Operation Blue Star deeply angered many in the Sikh community, who saw it as an attack on their religious identity.

The correct answer is Maj. Gen. Kuldip Singh Brar. He commanded the 9th Infantry Division’s assault on the Golden Temple complex, under the overall coordination of Lt. Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji.

The ‘Garibi Hatao’ (Remove Poverty) slogan of Indira Gandhi’s 1971 election campaign was incorporated as the central objective of the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-79) – removal of poverty and attainment of self-reliance. The Fourth Plan (1969-74) predates the slogan’s prominence.

The Hind Mazdoor Sabha (founded December 1948) was established by Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta – socialists and independent trade unionists who wanted a workers’ federation free of Congress and Communist party control. The other options pair communist (Namboodiripad, M.N. Roy), RSS-linked (Deen Dayal Upadhyay) and Congress leaders, none of whom founded HMS.

Katju’s grandson, Markandey Katju, became a judge of the Supreme Court of India, continuing a family legal legacy that also included Katju’s son, Brahma Nath Katju, Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.

Katju was one of the original founders of Associated Journals Ltd, publisher of the National Herald newspaper.

Katju served as Governor of Orissa from 1947 to 1948, then as Governor of West Bengal from 1948 to 1951.

Katju served as Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in Govind Ballabh Pant’s United Provinces government, from July 1937 to November 1939.

Kailash Nath Katju was born on 17 June 1887 in Jaora, a princely state in present-day Madhya Pradesh.

Sampurnanand served as the 2nd Governor of Rajasthan from 1962 to 1967, after his term as UP Chief Minister ended.