Sri Krishna Sinha — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

In 1939 all Congress ministries resigned. They objected to India being involved in the Second World War without the consent of its people.

Anugrah Narayan Sinha worked with Sri Krishna Sinha for decades. Bihar remembers them, with Rajendra Prasad, as its three Babus.

Rajendra Setu was built during Sri Krishna Sinha’s term as Bihar Chief Minister. It was the first railroad bridge on the Ganges in independent India.

The Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949, created a management committee with equal Hindu and Buddhist representation for the Mahabodhi Temple.

As Chief Minister, Sri Krishna Sinha backed major river valley projects on the Koshi, Aghaur, and Sakri rivers.

Sri Krishna Sinha led the movement for Dalit entry into the Baidyanath Dham temple at Deoghar.

Sri Krishna Sinha played a key role in the 1930 Namak Satyagraha at Garhpura, suffering severe scalding injuries to his hands and chest during his arrest.

Sri Krishna Sinha studied law and began his legal practice at Munger, Bihar, from 1915.

He died on 31 January 1961, in Patna, at the age of 74, still serving as Chief Minister.

He donated 17,000 personal books to Munger’s public library in 1959; it was later renamed Sri Krishna Seva Sadan in his honour.

Sri Krishna Sinha, who had earlier been active in Bihar’s Non-Cooperation Movement activities, served as the province’s Chief Minister during the severe 1946 communal violence, working alongside Gandhi’s direct peace-building interventions to help restore order and communal confidence during this extremely tense period immediately preceding independence. His administration’s response to the crisis, combined with Gandhi’s own sustained personal presence and moral appeals, illustrates how the final pre-independence months required Congress leaders at both the national and provincial levels to urgently manage the rapidly escalating communal tensions that would soon culminate in Partition’s far larger-scale violence. Sinha’s subsequent long tenure as independent India’s first Chief Minister of Bihar, continuing until his death in 1961, gave him a particularly significant and sustained role in shaping the state’s early post-independence development.