India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 4)

The Kalinga Prize is an international award for popularising science, later entrusted to UNESCO — the only such international prize to have originated in India.

He is widely credited as one of the pilots on that airlift, though historians dispute the exact record of whose aircraft landed first.

He was secretly flying underground Quit India Movement leaders, including Jayaprakash Narayan. He remained jailed until 1946.

He flew Sutan Sjahrir and Vice President Mohammad Hatta out of Java, under threat that the Dutch would shoot his aircraft down.

The 2001 ruling upheld the 1986 Act but interpreted it to require a husband to make reasonable provision covering his ex-wife’s future needs, not just the iddat period.

Section 125 CrPC is a secular law applying to every citizen, regardless of religion. The Court held it overrides a narrower personal-law reading.

A severe famine called Mautam hit the Mizo Hills in 1959, linked to a cyclical bamboo-flowering phenomenon. Assam’s slow relief response angered the local population and led to the Mizo National Famine Front, later the MNF.

He remained unmarried and owned almost no personal property; his estate amounted to just ₹130 in cash, a few clothes, and some books.

His government provided the land for IIT Madras, part of his wider push on education that also included free primary schooling and a statewide mid-day meal scheme.

He helped install Lal Bahadur Shastri after Nehru’s 1964 death, and Indira Gandhi after Shastri’s 1966 death, earning him the nickname “Kingmaker.”

Six Union Ministers and six Chief Ministers, including Kamaraj himself, resigned their posts under the plan, which he proposed and led by example.

He dropped out of school around age 12, and had almost no formal education, yet built one of India’s most ambitious state education systems as Chief Minister.

The Janata Party won 295 seats to Congress’s 154, and Indira Gandhi lost her own Lok Sabha seat at Rae Bareli. Morarji Desai became India’s first non-Congress Prime Minister.

The 42nd Amendment, passed during the Emergency, is often called the ‘Mini Constitution’ for how sweeping its changes were.

Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral malpractice, disqualifying her from holding elected office for six years — the immediate trigger for the Emergency.

Modi linked the date to Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary, saying his advocacy for full integration found “historic fulfilment” in 2019.

He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, in 1998. He died two years later, on 7 November 2000, in Chennai.

He held the Education, Law, and Finance portfolios in the Madras State Cabinet, from 1952 to 1962. He was also Leader of the House in the Madras Legislative Assembly during this period.

He served as Union Defence Minister under Prime Minister Charan Singh, from 1979 to 1980. He was actually Finance Minister under Indira Gandhi (1975-77, spanning the Emergency), Governor of Maharashtra only later (1990-93), and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after succeeding D.R. Gadgil, not Swaminathan.

He was Union Minister for Food and Agriculture, from 1964 to 1967, when he pushed through the Green Revolution reforms. He held Steel and Mines, Finance, and Defence at other, later points in his career.

His government abolished bonded labour, at a time when Mysore State had the highest recorded incidence in the country.

Siddaramaiah equalled the record on 6 January 2026, then surpassed it on 7 January 2026.

The Havanur Commission recommended 32% reservation for Backward Classes, based on a survey of 3.55 lakh people.

Bhubaneswar’s airport was named Biju Patnaik Airport in his honour, alongside a state university bearing his name.