India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 5)

He served as Union Minister for Steel and Mines, under Prime Ministers Morarji Desai and Charan Singh.

His second term began on 5 March 1990, after he led Janata Dal to a two-thirds majority in Odisha.

The mission happened in July 1947, before India itself formally became independent on 15 August 1947.

Kamaraj led the breakaway Congress (Organisation) after his conflict with Indira Gandhi, the very leader he had earlier helped install as PM.

He backed Shastri after Nehru’s death in 1964, then Indira Gandhi after Shastri’s death in 1966, without seeking the post himself either time.

Under the Kamaraj Plan, he and several other senior leaders resigned their posts; six Union Ministers and six Chief Ministers followed.

His own party’s Central Committee vetoed the idea, which he later called a ‘historic blunder.’

The Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, which he founded in Varanasi in 1958, was renamed in his honour in 1974.

He served until 7 December 1960, a tenure of nearly six years that remained UP’s longest until 2023.

Katju opposed capital punishment. He argued that the death penalty made courts more likely to acquit an accused person, rather than convict them.

Kailash Nath Katju became Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on 31 January 1957, serving until 1962.

PM Modi addressed the 125th Janma Jayanti by video message, citing a pre-scheduled travel itinerary.

Portuguese rule ended in Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954. Volunteers acted with local inhabitants. Formal incorporation into India followed in 1961. Liberation and incorporation were separate events, so 1961 does not answer this question.

Review the territory’s liberation and incorporation timeline.

The Tashkent Declaration, signed on 10 January 1966, ended the 1965 war and required both sides to withdraw to pre-war positions.

The 1971 war ended with Pakistan’s surrender, and East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh.

On 5 August 2019, the government’s abrogation of Article 370 also ended Article 35A, superseding the 1954 Order entirely, after which all Indian citizens gained equal rights to buy property, seek employment, and settle in Jammu and Kashmir, subject to ordinary law.

Article 35A drew particular controversy over how it treated women. A woman from Jammu and Kashmir who married a man from outside the state could lose her own property rights there.

From 2014 onward, several petitions in the Supreme Court challenged Article 35A. Petitioners argued the 1954 Order bypassed the formal amendment procedure under Article 368.

It empowered Jammu and Kashmir’s own legislature to define who counted as a ‘permanent resident’ of the state.

Article 35A was added to the Constitution in 1954. A Presidential Order under Article 370, The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, inserted it.

The Jana Sangh merged into the Janata Party in 1977, then its former members split off in 1980 to form the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mookerjee was arrested at the Kashmir border for entering without the special permit then required, and died in custody in Srinagar on 23 June 1953.