Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 17)

Sampurnanand held the Finance, Education, and Home portfolios in the Uttar Pradesh government from 1946 to 1954, under Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pant.

Captain Vikram Batra was killed on 7 July 1999, fighting at Point 4875, after earlier capturing Point 5140.

After capturing Point 5140, Captain Vikram Batra radioed his famous message, “Yeh Dil Maange More” (“The heart wants more”).

Khawruhlian grew into one of the largest and most prestigious villages in the hills, with over 700 houses.

A severe ‘mautam’ famine, tied to the periodic flowering of local bamboo, forced Pawibawia to negotiate a temporary peace with rival chief Kalkhama.

M.C. Setalvad served as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha from 1966 to 1972.

In 1947, before becoming Attorney General, M.C. Setalvad represented the Congress before the Punjab Boundary Commission, which demarcated the India-Pakistan border at Partition.

PM Nehru was initially hesitant to dismiss an elected government, before Congress President Indira Gandhi convinced him to do so in 1959.

EMS helped found the Progressive Association for Arts and Letters, promoting socially engaged Malayalam literature, alongside writers like Joseph Mundassery.

E.M.S. Namboodiripad wrote “History of the Communist Movement in Kerala,” among other works reflecting his career as a Marxist theorist.

Pawan Chamling of Sikkim later broke Jyoti Basu’s record for the longest continuous tenure by an Indian Chief Minister.

Jyoti Basu served twice as Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal, in 1967 and 1969-70, both times under Chief Minister Ajoy Mukherjee.

After the CPI(M)’s Central Committee vetoed Jyoti Basu’s nomination in 1996, H.D. Deve Gowda became Prime Minister instead.

Operation Barga registered roughly 1.5 million sharecroppers, securing their tenancy rights on more than 11 lakh acres of land.

Jyoti Basu’s government launched Operation Barga, a land reform that registered sharecroppers and secured their tenancy rights on over 11 lakh acres.

Biswambhar Parida served as President of the All Odisha Freedom Fighters’ Samiti for more than 15 years.

Biswambhar Parida also published a poetry collection, rendered in different sources as ‘Shatabdira Dyani’ or ‘Shatabdira Dhwani’ (‘Voice of the Century’).

At Prajatantra, Biswambhar Parida was a close associate of Dr. Harekrushna Mahatab, Odisha’s first Chief Minister.

She organised women satyagrahis in the Salt Satyagraha during the Civil Disobedience Movement, and was imprisoned three times between 1930 and 1933 for this role.

She completed a B.A. and M.A. in political science, then a law degree from Madras University in 1942, before practising at the Madras High Court.

She founded the Andhra Mahila Sabha in 1937, a women’s welfare and education organisation that remains active in South India today.

Sucheta Kripalani, India’s first woman Chief Minister, served as a witness at the wedding alongside Jawaharlal Nehru.

Indira Gandhi served as Vice-Chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board from 1953 to 1957, working directly under Durgabai Deshmukh, its founding chairperson.

Richard Eaton calls her one of the most remarkable women in Indian history, devoting a full chapter of his academic study of the Deccan to her life.