Situating Independent India Set 1

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This set of Situating Independent India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Situating Independent India Set 1

Q1 | The Indian Independence Act was passed in.............
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949
  • 1950
Answer: 1947
Q2 | The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided ...........August1947as the appointed date for the partition.
  • 14th
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
Answer: 15th
Q3 | The partition of India was set forth in the Indian Independence Act................. and resulted in the dissolution of the British Indian Empire and the end of the British Raj.
  • 1940
  • 1943
  • 1945
  • 1947
Answer: 1947
Q4 | West Bengal became part of..................
  • india
  • islamabad
  • himachal pradesh
  • pakistan
Answer: india
Q5 | The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally cameinto existence at the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August.............
  • 1937
  • 1935
  • 1947
  • 1950
Answer: 1947
Q6 | The ceremonies for the transfer of power were held a day earlierin ................, at the time the capital of the new state of Pakistan.
  • mewar
  • dhaka
  • karachi
  • kashmir
Answer: karachi
Q7 | The last British Viceroy was ....................
  • lord curzon
  • rippon
  • lord mountbatten
  • dalhousie
Answer: lord mountbatten
Q8 | Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. Augustand India's on 15 August 1947.
  • 12
  • 14th
  • 15th
  • 16th
Answer: 14th
Q9 | As India's national movement gained ascendancy, it became clearthat the chief party the Congress was dominated by ....................
  • hindus
  • muslims
  • parsis
  • sikhs
Answer: hindus
Q10 | The Muslim League had been founded in .............. in 1906.
  • kashmir
  • mewar
  • dhaka
  • bihar
Answer: dhaka
Q11 | Under Muslim League’s leader, ..................., the party put forth its 'two nation theory' that Hindus and Muslims were really two nations and that the Muslim majority areas of India should bepartitioned to form a separate state called Pakistan.
  • mohammad ali jinnah
  • p.k.kunjali kutty
  • k.p.a.majid
  • mujibur rehman
Answer: mohammad ali jinnah
Q12 | In...................., the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they were being discriminated by the West, gained independenceunder their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military help from India, to form Bangladesh.
  • 1961
  • 1971
  • 1981
  • 1991
Answer: 1971
Q13 | In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they were being discriminated by the West, gained independence undertheir leader Sheikh ................ with military help from India, to form Bangladesh.
  • mujibur rehman
  • parves mushraf
  • sardari
  • haseena
Answer: mujibur rehman
Q14 | In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they werebeing discriminated by the West, gained independence under their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military help from India, to form..............................
  • burma
  • pakistan
  • nepal
  • bangladesh
Answer: bangladesh
Q15 | Literature describing the human cost of independence andpartition comprises ................... Train to Pakistan (1956).
  • khushwant singh's
  • toba tek singh’s
  • by saadat hassan manto’s
  • manohar malgonkar's
Answer: khushwant singh's
Q16 | Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom’s Dawn, 1947) was written by .................
  • faiz ahmad faiz
  • bhisham sahni
  • bapsi sidhwa's ice-candy man
  • balwantrai mehta
Answer: faiz ahmad faiz
Q17 | ................... novel was Midnight's Children (1980)
  • salman rushdie's
  • jawaharlal nehru
  • sardar vallabhai patel
  • balwantrai mehta
Answer: salman rushdie's
Q18 | ............... is a work of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
  • freedom at midnight
  • discovery of india
  • sepoy mutiny
  • malabar rebellion
Answer: freedom at midnight
Q19 | The Subsidiary Alliance System of ............... had reduced manyIndian States into a subordinate position of the Company.
  • wellesley
  • lord mountbatten
  • lord lytton
  • curzon
Answer: wellesley
Q20 | The Doctrine of Lapse is connected with ............
  • lord mountbatten
  • g.r.abhyanka
  • dalhousie
  • wellesley
Answer: dalhousie
Q21 | Vernacular press Act was introduced by..............
  • rippon
  • lord mountbatten
  • lord lytton
  • wellesley
Answer: lord lytton
Q22 | In order to counter the rising nationalist trend in the princelyStates as well as British India, the British set up the Chamber of Princes in.................
  • 1821
  • 1829
  • 1921
  • 1931
Answer: 1921
Q23 | In ................. the Simon Commission was appointed
  • 1827
  • 1877
  • 1927
  • 1935
Answer: 1927
Q24 | An All-India States Peoples' Conference was convened (AISPC) inDecember ....................
  • 1827
  • 1835
  • 1927
  • 1937
Answer: 1927
Q25 | The AISPC presented a memorandum to the .............. Partyadvocating an all-India federal Constitution.
  • congress
  • bjp
  • janatha dal
  • cpi
Answer: congress
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