Indian National Movement PYQ – Communalism And Partition

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Indian National Movement PYQ – Communalism And Partition – 22 questions, subject: Indian National Movement. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.

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1.  
VAS-AGHS – 2020
In March 1947, Mountbatten replaced ______ as Viceroy of India.

Correct Answer: C [Wavell]

Explanation:

Lord Mountbatten replaced Lord Wavell as Viceroy of India in March 1947.

2.  
PSY – 2022
Who announced in the House of Commons to hand over power to the people of India?

Correct Answer: D [Prime Minister Attlee]

Explanation:

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons on 20 February 1947 that power would be transferred to Indians by June 1948.

3.  
DPGS – 2022
India emerged as a Sovereign State on

Correct Answer: C [15 August 1947]

Explanation:

India became a sovereign dominion on 15 August 1947 under the Indian Independence Act, together with Pakistan.

4.  
DPGS – 2022
The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at

Correct Answer: B [Dhaka]

Explanation:

The All India Muslim League was formed in December 1906 at Dhaka, following the Simla Deputation to Lord Minto.

5.  
JAILOR – 2022
The famous Patriotic song "Sare Jahanse Acha" was composed by ______.

Correct Answer: A [Mohammed Iqbal]

Explanation:

The patriotic Urdu song Sare Jahan Se Accha was written by the poet Muhammad Iqbal.

6.  
MASS INTERVIEWER – 2023 · GROUP 1 – 2022
Who was the first person to place the demand for a separate Muslim state in British India?

Correct Answer: A [Mohammad Iqbal]

Explanation:

Muhammad Iqbal, in his 1930 presidential address to the Muslim League at Allahabad, was the first to propose a separate Muslim state in north-west India.

7.  
COMBINED TECHNICAL SERVICES (IV POST – II) – 2024 · ACF – 2023
The term 'PAKISTAN' was coined by

Correct Answer: D [Rahmad Ali]

Explanation:

The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Cambridge student, in his 1933 pamphlet Now or Never.

8.  
ACF – 2023
Who put forward the fourteen points programme in the Muslim League meeting held at Delhi?

Correct Answer: B [Muhammad Ali Jinnah]

Explanation:

Muhammad Ali Jinnah put forward his Fourteen Points in 1929 at Delhi as the Muslim League's answer to the Nehru Report.

9.  
DEO – 2023
Assertion [A]: Muslim League celebrated the 'day of deliverance' on 22 December 1939.
Reason [R]: All the Congress Ministries in the provinces resigned in protest of the Viceroy's announcement on India joining the Second World War without consulting the Congress.

Correct Answer: C [Both [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the right explanation]

Explanation:

Congress ministries resigned in 1939 over India being drawn into the war, and the Muslim League celebrated this as a Day of Deliverance on 22 December 1939.

10.  
DEO – 2023
______ Defence Minister of Interim Government of India in 1946, A.D.

Correct Answer: B [Baldev Singh]

Explanation:

Sardar Baldev Singh, the Sikh representative, held the defence portfolio in the Interim Government formed in September 1946.

11.  
BURSAR – 2023
Members of the Cabinet Mission sent to India in 1946 were

Correct Answer: A [Lord Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander]

Explanation:

The 1946 Cabinet Mission consisted of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander.

12.  
JSO – 2023
It was at this stage that the communalists declared that Muslims, 'Muslim culture' and Islam and Hindus, 'Hindu culture' and Hinduism were in danger of being suppressed and exterminated. It was also at this stage that both the Muslim and Hindu communalists put forward the theory that Muslims and Hindus constituted separate nations whose mutual antagonism was permanent and irresolvable. The Muslim League and the Hindu Mahasabha after 1937 and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) increasingly veered towards extreme or Fascistic communalism.
Which one of the following is best implied in the passage?

Correct Answer: B [The Muslim League, Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were responsible for the extreme communalism]

Explanation:

The passage's main idea is that after 1937 the Muslim League, Hindu Mahasabha and RSS moved towards extreme communalism.

13.  
BURSAR – 2023
The British Cabinet Mission was headed by ______ in the year 1946.

Correct Answer: D [Pethick Lawrence]

Explanation:

The 1946 Cabinet Mission was headed by Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India.

14.  
EO GRADE I (HR&CE) – 2024
Regarding the partition of India, which of the following statements are true?
  1. The Congress accepted the partition.
  1. Mountbatten put his plan for the partition of India on June 2nd 1947.
  1. The Act of 1947 provided for the creation of two independent dominions.

Correct Answer: D [1, 2 and 3]

Explanation:

The Congress accepted partition on 15 June 1947 and Mountbatten put forward his plan on 3 June 1947, so statements 1, 2 and 3 are true.

15.  
COMBINED ACCOUNTANT – TREASURY DEPT – 2024
Nehru signed Delhi Pact with Liaquat Ali Khan on

Correct Answer: B [8 April 1950]

Explanation:

Nehru and Pakistan's prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan signed the Delhi Pact on 8 April 1950 to protect minorities in both countries.

16.  
GROUP 2 & 2A – 2024
The Pakistan resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its Lahore Session on

Correct Answer: C [March 23rd, 1940]

Explanation:

The Muslim League passed the Pakistan (Lahore) Resolution at its Lahore session on 23 March 1940.

17.  
GROUP 1 – 2024
In 1947 Indian National Congress agreed for the partition, because
(1) The principle of two-nation theory was then acceptable to them
(2) It was imposed by the British Govt. and the congress was helpless in this regard
(3) They wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots
(4) All the above reasons

Correct Answer: C [(3) only correct]

Explanation:

The Congress accepted partition in 1947 reluctantly and never accepted the two-nation theory, so only statement (3) is correct.

18.  
GROUP 1 – 2024
______ was the first Muslim leader to demand for Pakistan in 1933.

Correct Answer: D [Rehmat Ali]

Explanation:

Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Cambridge student, was the first Muslim to demand a separate state called Pakistan, in 1933.

19.  
COMBINED TECHNICAL SERVICES (IV POST) – 2024
The demand for Pakistan was first placed in ______ INC session. [TNPSC வினாத்தாளில் உள்ளபடி; சரியானது: Muslim League]

Correct Answer: A [Lahore Session]

Explanation:

The demand for Pakistan was first made at the Muslim League's Lahore session in March 1940, not at a Congress session.

20.  
COMBINED TECHNICAL SERVICES (NON IV POST) – 2024
Which among the following was mainly responsible for communalism in India?

Correct Answer: D [Divide and Rule]

Explanation:

The British used separate electorates, as in the 1909 Act, to foster communalism, which shows their divide-and-rule policy was mainly responsible.

21.  
GROUP 1B & 1C – 2024
On March, 1940, the Pakistan resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its ______ Session.

Correct Answer: D [Lahore]

Explanation:

The Pakistan resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its Lahore session in March 1940.

22.  
GROUP 1 & 1A – 2025
Assertion [A]: In 1946, the Muslim League withdrew its acceptance to the Cabinet Mission Plan.
Reason [R]: The Muslim League joined the interim government formed in 1946.

Correct Answer: B [Both [A] and [R] are true, but [R] is not the correct explanation of [A]]

Explanation:

The Muslim League withdrew its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan in July 1946 and later joined the interim government, so both are true but the reason does not explain the assertion.

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