Situating Independent India | Set 1
1. The Indian Independence Act was passed in.............
2. The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided ...........August1947
as the appointed date for the partition.
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.
4. West Bengal became part of..................
5. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came
into existence at the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August.............
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.
7. The last British Viceroy was ....................
8. Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. August
and India's on 15 August 1947.
9. As India's national movement gained ascendancy, it became clear
that the chief party the Congress was dominated by ....................
10. The Muslim League had been founded in .............. in 1906.
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.
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.
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.
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..............................
15. Literature describing the human cost of independence and
partition comprises ................... Train to Pakistan (1956).
16. Subh-e-Azadi (Freedom’s Dawn, 1947) was written by .................
17. ................... novel was Midnight's Children (1980)
18. ............... is a work of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
19. The Subsidiary Alliance System of ............... had reduced many
Indian States into a subordinate position of the Company.
20. The Doctrine of Lapse is connected with ............
21. Vernacular press Act was introduced by..............
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.................
23. In ................. the Simon Commission was appointed
24. An All-India States Peoples' Conference was convened (AISPC) in
December ....................
25. The AISPC presented a memorandum to the .............. Party
advocating an all-India federal Constitution.
26. It was only in 1938 at its ..............Session that the Congress
included the independence of the princely states as well in its goal of Poorna Swaraj.
27. The Tripura Session ................ decided that the organisation
should involve itself closely with the movements in the princely states.
28. ................became the president of the AISPC in 1939.
29. ................. presided over the Udaipur and Gwalior Sessions of the
AISPC (1945 & 47) and declared at Gwalior that the states refusing to join the constituent Assembly would be treated as hostile.
30. ............... had decided in June 1947 to become an independent
state, and it was followed by Hyderabad.
31. ...................is called as Iron man of India.
32. By August 15, ................all states geographically contiguous to
India, except Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh, had acceded to India by signing the Instrument of Accession.
33. Junagadh in ...................whose population was overwhelmingly
Hindu (80%), was ruled by a Muslim ruler.
34. In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the conditions were the
reverse, with the ruler being a ................. and the population, } overwhelmingly Muslim (75%).
35. The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force on
26th January ......................
36. The constitutional head of the Executive of the Union is the ..........
37. As per Article .............. of the Constitution of India, the council of
the Parliament of the Union consists of the President and two Houses to be known as the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and the House of the People (Lok Sabha).
38. Article ...............of the Constitution provides that there shall be a
Council of Ministers with a Prime Minister as its head to aid and advice the President, who shall exercise his functions in accordance to the advice.
39. On October 19, 1952, .............., a devout follower of Mahatma
Gandhi, began a fast-unto-death in demanding that a separate state be carved out of the province of Madras for its Telugu- speaking population.
40. The formation of a States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) in
................. which was charged with ‘preservation….of unity and security of India’.
41. The first major reorganization of Indian states based on linguistic
characteristics occurred in...............
42. The States Reorganization Commission appointed by the Prime
Minister in December .............. discarded the demand for the formation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state.
43. The Akali Dal representing the Sikhs of ............. launched an
agitation for reorganisation of the province on the basis of linguistic homogeneity.
44. When a war between India and Pakistan seemed imminent in
1965, .................., the President of the Akali Dal, refusing to suspend the agitation affirmed that “the country is dear but Punjabi Suba [state] is dearer.”
45. ..............., was a leader of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS)
46. India’s Union Minister of Home Affairs Mr. P. Chidambaram
announced on December 9, 2009, that the government intended to start the process of forming a separate .............state.
47. ..............ended his 11-day fast on the hospital bed, expressing his
delight that it was a “true victory of the people of Telangana”.
48. .............is considered to be the architect of modern India.
49. ................ can be said to be one of the greatest international
influences on Nehru, but Gandhi's ideals of Satyagraha also influenced him to a great degree.
50. The Panchasheel agreement of 1954 was between New Delhi
and...............
51. The greatest success of .............non-committal international
politics was the formation of the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM).
52. ..............found allies in Tito, Nasser, Soekarno, U Nu and
Nkrumah at a later stage in his formation NAM.
53. The five-point agreement or the Panchsheel between .......... and Peking initiated in 1954 was a result of these negotiations.
54. The ............ is a group of states which are not aligned formally
with or against any major bloc.
55. The organization NAM was founded in .............. in 1961
56. .....................'s president was Josip Broz Tito.
57. .................. 's first president, Sukarno.
58. ...................'s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
59. ...............'s first president Kwame Nkrumah.
60. India's first Prime Minister is ................
61. The phrase NAM was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian
diplomat and statesman ............ in 1953, at the United Nations.
62. The 16th NAM summit took place in Tehran of Iran, from 26 to 31
August ...............
63. The 17th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement is to be held in
Caracas, ..................., in 2015.
64. The term "non-alignment" was coined by .................. in 1953
remarks at the United Nations.
65. In his speech, Nehru described the Panchsheel to be used as a
guide for Sino-Indian relations, which were first put forth by Chinese Premier ..............
66. The Bandung Conference of 1955 was hosted by Indonesian
president................, who gave a significant contribution to promote NAM.
67. Six years after Bandung, an initiative of Yugoslav president
....................led to the first Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, which was held in September 1961 in Belgrade.
68. The founding fathers of the ................
were: Sukarno of Indonesia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
69. The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the .................. Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 54 independent states.
70. The ................. is an organisation of South Asian nations.
71. The SAARC established on 8 December .......................
72. The SAARC is an organisation of South Asian nations, which was
established on 8 ................ 1985.
73. Afghanistan joined the organisation SAARC in ..................
74. The first concrete proposal for establishing a framework for
regional cooperation in South Asia was made by the late president of......................, Ziaur Rahman, on May 2, 1980.
75. The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16
January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of ....................
76. The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16
January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King ............. of Nepal.
77. The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe .............. as
the SAARC Charter Day.
78. HeadQuarters of SAARC Agricultural Centre (SAC),..........
79. SAARC Tuberculosis Centre (STC), ..................
80. SAARC Documentation Centre (SDC), .............
81. SAARC Human Resources Development Centre (SHRDC),.............
82. SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre (SCZMC), ........
83. The newly independent ...............adopted a “mixed economy”, in
which features of both the capitalist model and socialist model were prevalent.
84. This crisis ............. forced India to open up its economy to the
world and adopt the policy of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation.
85. Soon after assuming power in 1991, the Congress Government,
headed by the then Prime Minister, ................, announced its decision to liberalise, privatise and globalise the Indian economy.
86. The ...................have passionately opposed liberalisation policies,
and termed them as “abject surrender to the IMF”.
87. The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India started by.............. in 1951.
88. The father of the Bhoodan (Land Gift) Movement, a freedom fighter and spiritual leader, Vinoba Bhave was born at Gagode in Kolaba district, ...................on September 11, 1895.
89. During his stay at Wardha, Vinoba Bhave brought out a monthly in ................., named, `Maharashtra Dharma'.
90. In 1932, while participating in the Indian Independence movement
activities, Vinoba Bhave was sent to jail for six months in ..............
91. Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan Movement as a voluntary
land reform movement in 1951 at Pochampally village in ............
92. Some people Demand for a separate Telangana state in ............
93. In the recent past a separate ...............state was created from
Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand from Bihar and Uttaranchal from Uttar Pradesh.
94. In ................state, there are three regions namely the coastal
region, the rayalaseema region and the telengana region.
95. The secessionist movement in the Kashmir Valley started in April ................
96. Resurgence in the activities of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation
Front (JKLF) following the return of ...............from UK to Pakistan in early 1987.
97. Khalistan movement refers to a political secessionist movement to
create a separate Sikh country, called Khālistān ("The Land of the Pure") in the ................. region of South Asia.
98. The Punjabi Suba Movement led by the ............... aimed at
creation of a Punjabi-majority state ("subah") in the Punjab region of India in the 1950s.
99. Following the Indo-Pak war of ................... Punjabi was finally
recognized as the official language of Punjab.
100. In 1971, Khalistan proponent Jagjit Singh Chauhan, travelled to
the....................