Deck 1: Key Events and Figures in Indias Independence and Partition

Question 1

The Indian Independence Act was passed in.............

A)1947
B)1948
C)1949
D)1950

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided ...........August1947 as the appointed date for the partition.

A)14th
B)15th
C)16th
D)17th

Answer 2

15th

Question 3

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.

A)1940
B)1943
C)1945
D)1947

Answer 3

1947

Question 4

West Bengal became part of..................

A)india
B)islamabad
C)himachal pradesh
D)pakistan

Question 5

The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on 14-15 August.............

A)1937
B)1935
C)1947
D)1950

Question 6

The ceremonies for the transfer of power were held a day earlier in ................, at the time the capital of the new state of Pakistan.

A)mewar
B)dhaka
C)karachi
D)kashmir

Question 7

The last British Viceroy was ....................

A)lord curzon
B)rippon
C)lord mountbatten
D)dalhousie

Question 8

Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. August and India's on 15 August 1947.

A)12th
B)14th
C)15th
D)16th

Question 9

As India's national movement gained ascendancy, it became clear that the chief party the Congress was dominated by ....................

A)hindus
B)muslims
C)parsis
D)sikhs

Question 10

The Muslim League had been founded in .............. in 1906.

A)kashmir
B)mewar
C)dhaka
D)bihar

Question 11

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 be partitioned to form a separate state called Pakistan.

A)mohammad ali jinnah
B)p.k.kunjali kutty
C)k.p.a.majid
D)mujibur rehman

Question 12

In...................., the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they were being discriminated by the West, gained independence under their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military help from India, to form Bangladesh.

A)1961
B)1971
C)1981
D)1991

Question 13

In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they were being discriminated by the West, gained independence under their leader Sheikh ................ with military help from India, to form Bangladesh.

A)mujibur rehman
B)parves mushraf
C)sardari
D)haseena

Question 14

In 1971, the Bengalis in East Pakistan who felt that they were being discriminated by the West, gained independence under their leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman with military help from India, to form..............................

A)burma
B)pakistan
C)nepal
D)bangladesh

Question 15

Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition comprises ................... Train to Pakistan (1956).

A)khushwant singh's
B)toba tek singh's
C)by saadat hassan manto's
D)manohar malgonkar's

Question 16

Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom's Dawn, 1947) was written by .................

A)faiz ahmad faiz
B)bhisham sahni
C)bapsi sidhwa's ice-candy man
D)balwantrai mehta

Question 17

................... novel was Midnight's Children (1980)

A)salman rushdie's
B)jawaharlal nehru
C)sardar vallabhai patel
D)balwantrai mehta

Question 18

............... is a work of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

A)freedom at midnight
B)discovery of india
C)sepoy mutiny
D)malabar rebellion

Question 19

The Subsidiary Alliance System of ............... had reduced many Indian States into a subordinate position of the Company.

A)wellesley
B)lord mountbatten
C)lord lytton
D)curzon

Question 20

The Doctrine of Lapse is connected with ............

A)lord mountbatten
B)g.r.abhyanka
C)dalhousie
D)wellesley

Question 21

Vernacular press Act was introduced by..............

A)rippon
B)lord mountbatten
C)lord lytton
D)wellesley

Question 22

In order to counter the rising nationalist trend in the princely States as well as British India, the British set up the Chamber of Princes in.................

A)1821
B)1829
C)1921
D)1931

Question 23

In ................. the Simon Commission was appointed

A)1827
B)1877
C)1927
D)1935

Question 24

An All-India States Peoples' Conference was convened (AISPC) in December ....................

A)1827
B)1835
C)1927
D)1937

Question 25

The AISPC presented a memorandum to the .............. Party advocating an all-India federal Constitution.

A)congress
B)bjp
C)janatha dal
D)cpi