14000+ MCQs Modern History (Communalism and Leftist Politics)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 15/03/2026
1. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) met Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
2. Which one of the following pairs of organisation and their founders is not correctly matched?
3. Hindu Mahasabha was originally called as
4. Who was the first Indian to be the member of the Communist International?
5. What was the basic weakness of the Muslim League which came to be increasingly recognised by the patriotic Muslims?
6. Muslim League had accepted the Mountbatten Plan because
7. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’?
8. On what basis were the Gandhi-Jinnah talks held?
9. A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression
10. Who was the President of the first Conference of the Communist Party at Kanpur in 1925?
11. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim League?
12. In which year the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded?
13. Who was the Chairman of the Lahore Session (1940) of the Muslim League?
14. 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?
15. Who had proposed ‘Partyless Democracy’ in India?
16. 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.
17. The first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party was held in
18. The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for
19. Who founded the ‘Radical Democratic Party’ in 1940?
20. Who was the first President of the Muslim League?
21. In October, 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India?
22. 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?
23. 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.
24. 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?
25. Which day was declared as the Direct Action Day by the Muslim League?
26. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of
27. The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah's Two-Nation Theory was held in
28. Desai-Liaquat Pact is named after which of the following two leaders?
29. Which of the following Muslim leaders was not one of the founding fathers of All India Muslim League (1906)?
30. 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?
31. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
32. Which among the following is not associated with the Kanpur Conspiracy Case?
33. The ‘Break Down Plan’ in 1946 for the transfer of power to India had been proposed by
34. Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party?
35. Who once remarked "Nehru is a patriot while Jinnah is a politician"?
36. Who had prepared the draft of the Lahore Resolution?
37. Who wrote the pamphlet ‘Now or Never’?
38. Who among the following in Congress represented the socialist view?
39. 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?
40. Who conceived the name 'Pakistan'?
41. The Indian National Congress agreed in 1947 to the partition of the country mainly because
42. Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the time of the Partition of India?
43. Who became a champion of socialism and wanted the overthrow of British Rule, Princely States, Landlordism, and Capitalism in 1933?
44. The Communist Party of India was formally founded in 1924 at which place?
45. The significance of the Lahore Resolution (1940) of the Muslim League was that
46. Who was one of the founding members of the Bihar Socialist Party?
47. Two independent states of India and Pakistan were created by
48. The Gandhi-Jinnah talks started on
49. The Session of All India Muslim Conference held at Delhi on December 31, 1928 was presided over by
50. 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?