India After Independence Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 7)

The region was earlier administered as NEFA, the North-East Frontier Agency, under central government control.

Mizoram formally became India’s 23rd state in 1987, with Laldenga becoming its Chief Minister soon after the accord.

The Mizoram Peace Accord, ending the two-decade insurgency, was signed between the government and the MNF in 1986.

The Indian Air Force controversially used aerial bombing against insurgent-held areas in Aizawl in 1966.

Laldenga founded the Mizo National Front and led its armed insurgency, declaring independence from India in 1966.

Article 371A gives Nagaland special constitutional protections over its own customary law and land ownership.

A hardline faction rejected the Shillong Accord, leading to further splits within the Naga insurgent movement.

The Sixteen Point Agreement, 1960, laid out the terms for Nagaland’s statehood, negotiated with the moderate Naga People’s Convention.

Nagaland became India’s 16th state in 1963, carved out of Assam, after years of insurgency and negotiation.

Angami Zapu Phizo, leader of the Naga National Council, declared Naga independence just before India’s own 1947 independence.

The related schooling policy, encouraging Hindi, English, and a regional language, is often called the three-language formula.

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri assured non-Hindi states that English would not be abruptly removed, helping calm the crisis.

Tamil Nadu saw large, sometimes violent, anti-Hindi agitations in 1965, fearing disadvantage in jobs and exams.

The Constitution allowed English to continue for official purposes for only 15 years after 1950, until 1965.

The ICJ ruled Portugal had a right of passage for civilian purposes, but not for armed forces, letting India control security access.

Portugal took India to the ICJ over the enclaves in the Right of Passage case, which was decided in 1960.

India formally integrated Dadra and Nagar Haveli as a Union Territory in 1961, through the 10th Constitutional Amendment.

Local pro-independence volunteers seized Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese control in 1954, well before Goa’s liberation.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli were two small Portuguese enclaves, surrounded by Indian territory, freed by local volunteers years before Goa’s liberation.

The 2019 move was challenged in the Supreme Court, which later upheld the government’s action.

The Indian government revoked Article 370’s special provisions in August 2019, through a presidential order and parliamentary resolutions.

Under Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir could make its own laws in most areas, except defence, foreign affairs, and communications.

Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granted special autonomous status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Emergency was declared on 25-26 June 1975, giving the government sweeping powers used for mass arrests and press censorship.

Indira Gandhi advised the President to declare a National Emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution, citing internal disturbance.