14000+ MCQs Modern History (Communalism and Leftist Politics)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 03/11/2025
1. On what basis were the Gandhi-Jinnah talks held?
2. What is the name of the author who wrote, "The Muslims, if contented and satisfied, would become the greatest bulwark of British power in India."?
3. Consider the following statements.
I. The ‘Bombay Manifesto’ signed in 1936 openly opposed the preaching of socialist ideals. II. It evoked support from a large section of the business community from all across India.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
4. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim League?
5. Assertion (A): The Indian National Congress accepted the Mountbatten Plan. Reason (R): It believed in Two-Nation Theory.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
6. With reference to the Indian Freedom Struggle, the decade of the 1920s is popularly known for "Growth of Communalism." What was/were the reason/s?
I. Socio-economic backwardness. II. British policy of divide and rule. III. Side-effect of militant nationalism.
Which one of the above is/are correct reasons?
7. The Annual Session of Muslim League in the year 1907 was held at
8. Who among the following has not written about partition in his works?
9. The Congress Socialist Party was organised in 1934 by
10. Who wrote the pamphlet ‘Now or Never’?
11. Which among the following is not associated with the Kanpur Conspiracy Case?
12. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’?
13. The Session of All India Muslim Conference held at Delhi on December 31, 1928 was presided over by
14. The Gandhi-Jinnah talks started on
15. Who once remarked "Nehru is a patriot while Jinnah is a politician"?
16. Who had prepared the draft of the Lahore Resolution?
17. A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression
18. Consider the following statements related to events in 1946.
I. The plan of 16th May, 1946 had envisaged a united India in line with Congress and Muslim League aspirations. II. The 16th June, 1946 plan sought to arrange for India to be divided into Hindu-Majority India and a Muslim-Majority India that would later be renamed Pakistan, since Congress had vehemently rejected ‘parity’ at the centre. III. The Congress ruled out the June 16 plan, seeing it as the division of India into small states.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
19. The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to
20. Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party?
21. The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for
22. Who was the President of the first Conference of the Communist Party at Kanpur in 1925?
23. The Communist Party of India was formally founded in 1924 at which place?
24. The ‘Break Down Plan’ in 1946 for the transfer of power to India had been proposed by
25. Muslim League had accepted the Mountbatten Plan because
26. Two independent states of India and Pakistan were created by
27. What is the name of the party founded by Saumendra Nath Tagore?
28. In 1906 Muslim League was founded at
29. Who among the following led the movement for the separate state of Pakistan?
30. In which year did V.D. Savarkar become the President of Hindu Mahasabha?
31. Hindu Mahasabha was originally called as
32. Who founded the ‘Radical Democratic Party’ in 1940?
33. Who among the following in Congress represented the socialist view?
34. In the Delhi Congress Session on 14th June, 1947, the resolution for India’s Partition was passed. The Session was presided over by
35. The Kanpur Conspiracy Case was against the leaders of the
36. As an alternative to the Partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that he
37. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the Presidency of
38. Which day was declared as the Direct Action Day by the Muslim League?
39. Which one of the following pairs of organisation and their founders is not correctly matched?
40. Who was one of the founding members of the Bihar Socialist Party?
41. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) met Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
42. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of
43. In reference to the rise of the Left Wing in the Indian Freedom Movement, which one of the following observations in regard to Jawaharlal Nehru is not correct?
44. Who moved a resolution for the creation of Pakistan in the Muslim League Session of 1940?
45. Which of the following was/were connected primarily to the communist ideology?
I. Kirti Kisan Party II. Labour Swaraj Party
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
46. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
47. Which party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’ and which date was chosen as the ‘Direct Action Day’?
48. Who had proposed ‘Partyless Democracy’ in India?
49. The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah's Two-Nation Theory was held in
50. The first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party was held in
