CH1: CHALLENGES OF NATION BUILDING

Question 1

WHEN DID INDIA ATTAIN INDEPENDENCE?

Answer 1

ON 15TH AUGUST 1947

Question 2

WHAT WAS THE SPEECH NEHRU GAVE IN SPECIAL SESSION OF CONSTITUETN ASSEMBLY?

Answer 2

TRYST WITH DESTINY

Question 3

WHAT WERE THE TWO GOALS AT THE TIME OF INDEPENDENCE?

Answer 3

*COUNTRY WOULD BE RUN BY
DEMOC GOVT
*GOVT WILL RUN FOR
ALL(POOR, SOCIALLY
DISADVANTAGED,ETC)

Question 4

WHAT WERE THE THREE KINDS OF CHALLENGES THAT INDEPENDENT INDIA FACED?

Answer 4

*SHAPE A NATION THAT WAS
UNITED YET ACCOMODATIVE
OF THE DIVERSITY
*TO ESTABLISH DEMOC
*ENSURE DEVELOPMENT(ECO
TOO) AND WELL BEING OF
ENTIRE SOCIETY(ERADICATE
POVERTY, ETC)

Question 5

WHAT FORM OF GOVT DID INDIA CHOOSE?

Answer 5

INDIA ADOPTED A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOC BASED ON PARLIAMENTARY FORM OF GOVT.

Question 6

WHO ADVANCED THE TWO NATION THEORY?

Answer 6

MUSLIM LEAGUE

Question 7

WHAT WAS THE TWO NATION THEORY?

Answer 7

IT SAID THAT INDIA CONSISTED OF TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE MUSLIM AND HINDU

Question 8

WHAT PRINCIPLE WAS FOLLOWED FOR DIVISION OF INDIA AND PAK?

Answer 8

PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS MAJORITIES

Question 9

WHAT WAS THE PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES?

Answer 9

MUSLIM MAJORITY AREAS WOULD MAKE PAK AND REST WOULD BE INDIA

Question 10

WHAT WERE THE DIFFICULTY FACED TO CARRY OUT PARTITION?(4)

Answer 10

*NO SINGLE BELT OF MUSLIM
MAJ IN BRIT INDIA
*NOT ALL MUSLIM MAJ AREAS
WANTED TO BE IN PAK
*PUNJAB AND BENGAL HAD
LARGE NO OF NON MUS
MAJORITY AREAS WITHIN
*MINORITIES ON BOTH SIDES
WERE TRAPPED AND SUFFERED

Question 11

WHY WAS PAK DIVIDED INTO TWO TERRITORIES, WEST AND EAST?

Answer 11

BCZ THERE WAS NO SINGLE BELT OF MULSIM MAJ, THESE TWO COULDNT BE JOINED

Question 12

CONSEQUENCES OF PARTITION(11)

Answer 12

FROM BOOK

Question 13

WHO WAS KHAN ABDUL GAFFAR KHAN?(3)

Answer 13

*UNDISPUTED LEADER OF
NORTH WESTERN FRONTIER
PROVINCE
*KNOWN AS FRONTIER GANDHI
*WAS OPPOSED TO TWO
NATION THEORY

Question 14

WHICH CITIES BECAME COMMUNAL ZONES IN MIDST OF PARTITION?(3)

Answer 14

KOLKATA, AMRITSAR AND LAHORE

Question 15

WHAT DID SURVIVORS OF PARTITION DESCRIBED IT AS?

Answer 15

DIVISION OF HEARTS

Question 16

HOW MUCH LAND AND POPULATION WAS UNDER PRINCELY RULE?

Answer 16

1/3RD OF LAND OF BRIT INDIA AND 1 OUT OF 4 INDIANS LIVED IN PRINCELY

Question 17

HOW MANY PRINCELY STATES WERE THERE IN BRIT INDIA?

Answer 17

565 PRINCELY STATES

Question 18

WHO WAS FREE INDIA’S DEPUTY PM AND HOME MINISTER?

Answer 18

SARDAR VALLABH BHAI PATEL

Question 19

WHO ALL BACKED FROM INDIA RIGHT AFTER INDEPENDENCE?(3)

Answer 19

RULER OF TRAVANCORE, NIZAM OF HYDEREBAD AND NAWAB OF BHOPAL

Question 20

HOW MANY SMALL STATES WERE THERE IN TODAYS ORISSA AT TIME OF INDEPENDENCE?

Answer 20

26 SMALL STATES

Question 21

GOVT’S APPROACH WAS GUIDED BY WHAT 3 CONSIDERATIONS

Answer 21

*MOST PEEPS OF PSs WANTED
TO BE IN INDIA
*GOVT COULD GIVE FLEXIBILTY
OF AUTONOMY TO SOME
REGIONS
*INTEGRATION AND
CONSOLIDAITON OF THE
TERRITORIAL BOUNDARY WAS
SUPREME

Question 22

HOW MUCH WAS SAURASHTRA REGION OF GUJARAT DIVIDED AT INDEPENDENCE?

Answer 22

14 BIG STATES, 119 SMALL STATES AND OTHER DIFF ADMINISTRATIONS

Question 23

WHAT WAS INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION?

Answer 23

DOCUMENT OF AGREEMENT TO BECOME A PART OF THE INDIAN UNION

Question 24

ACESSION OF WHICH STATES WAS DIFF THAN THE REST?

Answer 24

JUNAGARH, HYDERABAD, KASHMIR AND MANIPUR

Question 25

HOW WAS JUNAGARH ACCESSED?

Answer 25

A PLEBBSCITE CONFIRMED PEOPLE'S DESIRE TO JOIN INDIA

Question 26

FEATURES OF THEN HYDERABAD?(5)

Answer 26

*LARGEST PRINCELY STATE *SOME PARTS OF OLD HYDERABAD ARE TODAY PARTS OF MAHARASHTRA, KARNATAKA AND ANDHRA PRADESH *RULER HAD TITLE OF NIZAM *RULER WAS ONE OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN OF THE TIME *HE WANTED HYDERABAD TO BE INDEPENDENT

Question 27

WHEN WAS THE STANDSTILL AGREET SIGNED BTW INDIA AND HYDERABAD?

Answer 27

IN NOV 1947 FOR A YEAR

Question 28

WHO ALL PARTICIPATED IN THE PROTEST AGAINST THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD?(4)

Answer 28

*PEASANTRY IN TELENGANA REGION VICTIM OF THE OPPRESSIVE RULE *WOMEN WHO SAW WORST OF IT *HYDERABAD TOWN WAS THE NERVE CENTRE OF THE MOVEMENT *COMMUNISTS AND HYDERABAD CONG WERE IN FOREFRONT

Question 29

HOW DID NIZAM RESPOND TO THE PROTESTS?

Answer 29

BY UNLEASHING RAZAKARS

Question 30

WHO WERE RAZAKARS?

Answer 30

PARA MILITARY FORCE OF COMMUNAL NATURE AND PERFORMED ATROCITIES (MURDERED,RAPED, MAIMED, LOOTED ESP NON MUSLIMS)

Question 31

WHO WAS THE MAHARAJA OF MANIPUR?

Answer 31

BODHACHANDRA SINGH

Question 32

HOW WAS HYDERABAD FINALLY ACCESSED?

Answer 32

AFTER LONG FIGHT BTW INDIAN ARMY AND RAZAKARS, NIZAM SURRENDERED AND HYD WAS ACCESSED

Question 33

WHEN DID INDIAN ARMY MOVE IN TO CONTROL HYDERABAD ISSUE?

Answer 33

IN SEPT 1948

Question 34

ON WHAT CONDITION DID MANIPUR SIGN THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION A FEW DAYS BEFORE INDEPENDENCE?

Answer 34

THAT THE INTERNAL AUTONOMY OF MANIPUR WOULD BE MAINTAINED

Question 35

WHEN AND WHY DID MANIPUR HOLD ELECTIONS?

Answer 35

UNDER PUBLIC PRESSURE, IN JUNE 1948 AND BECAME A CONTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

Question 36

WAS MANIPUR THE FIRST PART OF INDIA TO HOLD ELECTIONS UNDER UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE?

Answer 36

YES

Question 37

WHEN DID MANIPUR SIGN THE MERGER AGREET?

Answer 37

IN SEPT 1949

Question 38

HOW DID INDIA GET MANIPUR TO SIGN THE MERGER?

Answer 38

BY PRESSURISING THE MAHARAJA AND WO CONSULTING THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

Question 39

WHAT WAS THE PRINCIPLE FOLLOWED BY THE BRITS TO DRAW THE STATE BOUNDARIES OF INDIA?

Answer 39

THEY WERE DRAWN ON ADMINISTRATIVE CONVENIENCE OR SIMPLY COINCIDED WITH THE TERRITORIES ANNEXED BY THE BRIT OR RULED BY THE PRINCELY POWERS

Question 40

WHERE WAS THE LINGUISTIC PRINCIPLE RECOGNISED AS THE BASIS OF REORGANISATION OF NIC?

Answer 40

NAGPUR SESSION OF CONGRESS 1920

Question 41

WHY DID THE LEADERS POSTPONE STATE REORGANISATION?(2)

Answer 41

*COULD LEAD TO DISRUPTION AND DISINTEGRATION *COULD DRAW ATTENTION FROM SOCIAL AND ECO CHALLENGES

Question 42

WHERE DID THE PROTESTS FOR STATE REORGANISATION BEGIN?

Answer 42

IN TELEGU SPEAKING AREAS OF MADRAS PROVINCE, WHICH IS TODAYS TAMIL NADU, PARTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH, KERALA AND KARNATAKA

Question 43

WHAT IS VISHALANDHRA MOVEMENT AND ITS PURPOSE?

Answer 43

A MOVEMENT FOR SEPERATE ANDHRA FROM MADRAS PROVINCE FOR TELEGU SPEAKING PEOPLE

Question 44

WHO WAS POTTI SRIRAMULU?

Answer 44

*A CONG LEADER *A VETERAN GANDHIAN *WENT ON AN INDEFINITE FAST THAT LED TO HIS DEATH AFTER 56 DAYS

Question 45

WHAT LED TO GREAT UNREST AND OUTBURST IN VISHALANDHRA MOVEMENT THAT FORCED GOVT TO TAKE AN ACTION?

Answer 45

DEATH OF POTTI SRIRAMULU

Question 46

WHEN DID ANDHRA FINALLY BECOME A SEPERATE STATE?

Answer 46

IN DEC 1952

Question 47

WHEN WAS STATES REORGANISATION COMMISSION FORMED?

Answer 47

IN 1953

Question 48

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF STATES REORGANISATION?

Answer 48

TO LOOK INTO THE QUESTION OF DRAWING OF THE BOUNDERIES OF STATES

Question 49

WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE STATES REORG ACT?

Answer 49

CREATION OF 14 STATES AND 6 UTs

Question 50

WHEN WERE THE STATES OF MAHARASHTRA AND GUJARAT CREATED OUT OF BOMBAY?

Answer 50

1960

Question 51

WAS THE STATEHOOD GRANTED TO PUNJAB WITH OTHER STATES IN 1956?

Answer 51

NO

Question 52

WHEN WERE TERRITORIES OF NOW HARYANA, PUNJAB AND PARTS OF HP SEPERATED?

Answer 52

1966

Question 53

WHEN WAS MEGHALAYA CARVED OUT OF ASSAM?

Answer 53

IN 1972

Question 54

WHEN DID MNAIPUR AND TRIPURA EMERGE AS SEPERATE STATES?

Answer 54

1972

Question 55

WHEN WERE MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH FORMED?

Answer 55

IN 1987

Question 56

WHEN DID NAGALAND BECOME A STATE?

Answer 56

IN 1963

Question 57

WHEN WERE CHHATTISGARH, UTTRAKHAND AND JHARKHAND FORMED?

Answer 57

2000

Question 58

WERE CHHATTISGARH, UTTRAKHAND AND JHARKHAND CREATED ON LINGUISTIC BASIS?

Answer 58

NO, THEY WERE CREATED ON BASIS OF SEPARATE REGIONAL CULTURE OR COMPLAINTS OF REGIONAL IMBALANCE IN DEVELOPMENT

Question 59

WHEN WAS TELENGANA GIVEN STATEHOOD?

Answer 59

2014

Question 60

WHEN WAS J&K AND LEH LADAKH SEPARATED?

Answer 60

2019