Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 11)

The answer is Satara. Led by Nana Patil, the Satara Prati Sarkar ran for years and controlled over 150 villages before independence.

The answer is that it denied masters the use of courts. Act V of 1843 stopped any court from enforcing a master’s claim over a person as a slave, effectively ending slavery’s legal standing without a formal ban.

The answer is Vithalbhai Patel. He sided with C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru’s Pro-Changers, who wanted council entry. His younger brother, Vallabhbhai Patel, was a No-Changer instead.

King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeated the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel in 1741, a rare Asian victory over a European colonial power.

Kudi Arasu was E.V. Ramaswami Naicker’s journal, Kisan Bulletin was Indulal Yagnik’s, Bombay Chronicle was founded by Pherozeshah Mehta, and Bhawani Mandir was Aurobindo Ghosh’s pamphlet. So A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1.

NCERT says nationalism captured people’s imagination through cultural processes – history and fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols.

NCERT records the Act continued war-time measures such as detention without trial, and Gandhi called a countrywide campaign against it that was intense in the Punjab.

NCERT says the Summary Settlement treated the taluqdars as outsiders who had grabbed land by force, and removed them wherever possible, cutting their share of villages sharply.

The correct answer is (c) 3, 2, 1. The Satyashodhak Samaj was founded by Jyotirao Phule in 1873. The Bardoli Satyagraha took place in 1928. The Chipko Movement began in 1973.

The correct answer is (c) 1, 4, 3, 2. The Simla Agreement was signed in July 1972. India’s first nuclear test followed in May 1974. The SAARC Charter was signed in December 1985. The Agra Summit came much later, in July 2001.

The correct answer is Junagadh. Travancore’s ruler initially sought independence, then signed the Instrument of Accession himself — it was Junagadh that was actually settled by plebiscite.

The correct answer is the Swatantra Party, a free-market-oriented party. Menon joined it after leaving government service, and died in 1965.

The correct answer is immediate transfer of power through dominion status. Mountbatten adopted the idea, and it became the basis of the 3 June Plan, moving independence forward to August 1947.

The correct answer is a custom-made pen that concealed a small pistol. Accounts differ on whether he pointed it at Menon as a joke or a genuine threat before Mountbatten defused the moment.

The correct answer is the Governor of Assam. On 1 August 1965, oversight of the territory was also shifted from the Ministry of External Affairs to the Ministry of Home Affairs, reflecting its shift from a purely foreign-policy-sensitive frontier to more standard internal administration.

The correct answer is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The renaming, meaning roughly ‘Land of the Rising Sun,’ also granted the territory Union Territory status under the North Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971.

The correct answer is the Inner/Outer Tibet boundary, laid out in Article 9. China’s representative did not specifically object to the McMahon Line itself in the same way, but withheld consent over this separate article.

The correct answer is Article 371G. It specifically protects land ownership and transfer, not natural resources more broadly, along with Mizo customary law and religious/social practices.

The correct answer is bamboo flowering. It happens roughly every 48 years and triggers a rat population explosion that destroys crops, remaining a recognised ecological risk in the region today.

The correct answer is Daman and Diu. The two former Portuguese territories were merged into a single Union Territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, in 2020.

The correct answer is the 10th Constitutional Amendment. This came seven years after the 1954 volunteer takeover, during which the territory ran as an unofficial ‘Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli’ administration.

The correct answer is local pro-independence volunteer groups, including the United Front of Goans and the Azad Gomantak Dal. India avoided direct military involvement at the time.