India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 3)

Sampurnanand held the Finance, Education, and Home portfolios in the Uttar Pradesh government from 1946 to 1954, under Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pant.

The Kargil War claimed 545 lives in total, per the government’s official 2026 count, including 537 Indian Army personnel.

Captain Vikram Batra was killed on 7 July 1999, fighting at Point 4875, after earlier capturing Point 5140.

After capturing Point 5140, Captain Vikram Batra radioed his famous message, “Yeh Dil Maange More” (“The heart wants more”).

PM Nehru was initially hesitant to dismiss an elected government, before Congress President Indira Gandhi convinced him to do so in 1959.

EMS helped found the Progressive Association for Arts and Letters, promoting socially engaged Malayalam literature, alongside writers like Joseph Mundassery.

E.M.S. Namboodiripad wrote “History of the Communist Movement in Kerala,” among other works reflecting his career as a Marxist theorist.

Pawan Chamling of Sikkim later broke Jyoti Basu’s record for the longest continuous tenure by an Indian Chief Minister.

Jyoti Basu served twice as Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal, in 1967 and 1969-70, both times under Chief Minister Ajoy Mukherjee.

After the CPI(M)’s Central Committee vetoed Jyoti Basu’s nomination in 1996, H.D. Deve Gowda became Prime Minister instead.

Operation Barga registered roughly 1.5 million sharecroppers, securing their tenancy rights on more than 11 lakh acres of land.

Jyoti Basu’s government launched Operation Barga, a land reform that registered sharecroppers and secured their tenancy rights on over 11 lakh acres.

He had the lawn of his own official Delhi bungalow dug up and personally planted the new wheat variety there, a direct, hands-on demonstration of his confidence in the policy.

He held Steel and Heavy Industry, Finance, and Defence at the Union level, along with Food and Agriculture — but never External Affairs, across an unusually wide-ranging ministerial career.

The 1969 breakaway faction was known as Congress (Requisitionists), or Congress (R) — the ‘Congress (I)’ name only came into use after a later 1978 split, so applying it to 1969 is an anachronism.

By 1968, food-grain output had risen sharply enough that India moved away from ‘ship-to-mouth’ import dependency — the clearest early payoff, not a later 1972 harvest as sometimes claimed.

Burma became independent on 4 January 1948, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) followed on 4 February 1948. Indonesia and Vietnam won independence in different years (1949 and 1954); Ghana (1957) and Nigeria (1960) were also years apart; India and Pakistan became independent in 1947, not 1948.

The Non-Aligned Movement was founded at Belgrade in September 1961. Nehru, Tito, Nasser, Nkrumah, and Sukarno were its five founding leaders.

India and Pakistan both became independent on 15 August 1947, at the partition of British India.

Mysore district specifically, not the state as a whole, had the highest recorded incidence of bonded labour in the country when his government abolished the practice.

Siddaramaiah equalled Urs’s combined 2,792-day tenure record on 6 January 2026, then surpassed it the following day, reaching 2,793 days as Karnataka’s longest-serving Chief Minister.

His land reforms transferred ownership to over 1.5 million tenants, who gained rights directly from landlords through decentralised tribunals — a shift in who held ownership, not a redistribution of a fixed acreage figure.

The Havanur Commission’s 32% figure was specifically for Backward Classes among Hindus. It recommended a separate 13% reservation for Muslims, bringing the combined figure to 45%.

He was already Mysore State’s 5th Chief Minister when the state was renamed Karnataka on 1 November 1973, mid-way through his unbroken first term. He held the title of Karnataka’s first CM continuously from that point, not just from his second term.

Indonesia awarded him the Bintang Jasa Utama for the 1947 rescue, and the Soviet Union separately awarded him the Order of Lenin, for supporting Allied forces during World War II.