14000+ MCQs Modern History (Communalism and Leftist Politics)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 27/10/2026
1. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the Presidency of
2. The Annual Session of Muslim League in the year 1907 was held at
3. In which year did V.D. Savarkar become the President of Hindu Mahasabha?
4. 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.
5. Consider the following events.
I. The first democratically elected Communist Party government formed in a state in India. II. India’s then largest bank, ‘Imperial Bank of India’ was renamed ‘State Bank of India’. III. Air India was Nationalised and became the National carrier. IV. Goa became a part of independent India.
Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?
6. Who once remarked "Nehru is a patriot while Jinnah is a politician"?
7. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) met Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
8. Who was the first President of the Muslim League?
9. 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?
10. Which party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’ and which date was chosen as the ‘Direct Action Day’?
11. The Gandhi-Jinnah talks started on
12. Who among the following has not written about partition in his works?
13. In October, 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India?
14. Which one of the following statements with regard to ‘Direct Action Day’ is correct?
15. What was the basic weakness of the Muslim League which came to be increasingly recognised by the patriotic Muslims?
16. Which political party was founded in 1906?
17. Who among the following led the movement for the separate state of Pakistan?
18. The Congress Socialist Party was organised in 1934 by
19. Which among the following is not associated with the Kanpur Conspiracy Case?
20. 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.
21. 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?
22. 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."?
23. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
24. Muslim League had accepted the Mountbatten Plan because
25. The first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party was held in
26. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of
27. Who had proposed ‘Partyless Democracy’ in India?
28. Who was one of the founding members of the Bihar Socialist Party?
29. 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?
30. Which day was declared as the Direct Action Day by the Muslim League?
31. Who was the Chairman of the Lahore Session (1940) of the Muslim League?
32. Who prepared the ‘CR Formula’ to remove the political deadlock between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress?
33. Consider the following statements relating to planning in India.
I. In the year 1938, the National Planning Committee was set up in India under the Chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru. II. The Bombay Plan was prepared by the Indian industrialists. III. Acharya Kripalani prepared the Gandhian Plan.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
34. The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to
35. In the Delhi Congress Session on 14th June, 1947, the resolution for India’s Partition was passed. The Session was presided over by
36. Which of the following trials attracted worldwide publicity and drew sympathetic comment from Albert Einstein, H G Wells, Harold Laski and Roosevelt in favour of the convicts?
37. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’?
38. In 1906 Muslim League was founded at
39. Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the time of the Partition of India?
40. Consider the following statements in respect of the growth of communalism in India.
I. Communalism initiated in India in the 1880s, when Syed Ahmad Khan opposed the National Movements led by the All India National Congress. II. Mahatma Gandhi and the All India National Congress made a deep analysis of the communal phenomenon to meet its challenges. III. Constant negotiation of the All India National Congress with the Muslim communal leaders weakened the position of secular, anti-imperialist Muslims and Muslim leaders.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
41. The Session of All India Muslim Conference held at Delhi on December 31, 1928 was presided over by
42. Which one of the following pairs of organisation and their founders is not correctly matched?
43. With reference to the Congress Socialist Party, consider the following statements.
I. It advocated the boycott of British goods and evasion of taxes. II. It wanted to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. III. It advocated a separate electorate for minorities and oppressed classes.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
44. A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression
45. What is the name of the party founded by Saumendra Nath Tagore?
46. Who established the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?
47. The famous Pakistan Resolution was passed at
48. As an alternative to the Partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that he
49. Which of the following Muslim leaders was not one of the founding fathers of All India Muslim League (1906)?
50. The Kanpur Conspiracy Case was against the leaders of the
