14000+ MCQs Modern History (Communalism and Leftist Politics)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 14/09/2026
1. As an alternative to the Partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that he
2. In which year the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded?
3. In 1906 Muslim League was founded at
4. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
5. The Annual Session of Muslim League in the year 1907 was held at
6. In which year did V.D. Savarkar become the President of Hindu Mahasabha?
7. The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to
8. Which day was declared as the Direct Action Day by the Muslim League?
9. Who among the following in Congress represented the socialist view?
10. The significance of the Lahore Resolution (1940) of the Muslim League was that
11. A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression
12. The Congress Socialist Party was organised in 1934 by
13. The Communist Party of India was formally founded in 1924 at which place?
14. 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?
15. Who had prepared the draft of the Lahore Resolution?
16. Who among the following first put forward the proposal for a separate Muslim state in India?
17. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) met Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
18. Which of the following Muslim leaders was not one of the founding fathers of All India Muslim League (1906)?
19. Who was the first President of the Muslim League?
20. The Congress Socialist Party was born in 1934 with its Secretary ……………
21. The first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party was held in
22. Which of the following statement is not true about Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
23. The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah's Two-Nation Theory was held in
24. The Indian National Congress agreed in 1947 to the partition of the country mainly because
25. In the Delhi Congress Session on 14th June, 1947, the resolution for India’s Partition was passed. The Session was presided over by
26. 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?
27. Which party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’ and which date was chosen as the ‘Direct Action Day’?
28. What was the basic weakness of the Muslim League which came to be increasingly recognised by the patriotic Muslims?
29. The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for
30. Aligarh Movement was started by whom?
31. What is the name of the party founded by Saumendra Nath Tagore?
32. The Session of All India Muslim Conference held at Delhi on December 31, 1928 was presided over by
33. Which one of the following pairs of organisation and their founders is not correctly matched?
34. On what basis were the Gandhi-Jinnah talks held?
35. 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?
36. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the Presidency of
37. Which among the following is not associated with the Kanpur Conspiracy Case?
38. Two independent states of India and Pakistan were created by
39. Who was the first Indian to be the member of the Communist International?
40. 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.
41. The Gandhi-Jinnah talks started on
42. Who was one of the founding members of the Bihar Socialist Party?
43. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’?
44. 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?
45. The ‘Break Down Plan’ in 1946 for the transfer of power to India had been proposed by
46. 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?
47. Who moved a resolution for the creation of Pakistan in the Muslim League Session of 1940?
48. In October, 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India?
49. Hindu Mahasabha was originally called as
50. Desai-Liaquat Pact is named after which of the following two leaders?