14000+ MCQs Modern History (Communalism and Leftist Politics)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 04/05/2026
1. Aligarh Movement was started by whom?
2. Who conceived the name 'Pakistan'?
3. Two independent states of India and Pakistan were created by
4. Who had prepared the draft of the Lahore Resolution?
5. Which one of the following pairs of organisation and their founders is not correctly matched?
6. 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?
7. 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.
8. Who among the following in Congress represented the socialist view?
9. Desai-Liaquat Pact is named after which of the following two leaders?
10. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
11. Who was the Chairman of the Lahore Session (1940) of the Muslim League?
12. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’?
13. Who was one of the founding members of the Bihar Socialist Party?
14. The Annual Session of Muslim League in the year 1907 was held at
15. As an alternative to the Partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that he
16. 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.
17. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of
18. In the Delhi Congress Session on 14th June, 1947, the resolution for India’s Partition was passed. The Session was presided over by
19. The first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party was held in
20. 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?
21. 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?
22. In 1906 Muslim League was founded at
23. Who among the following first put forward the proposal for a separate Muslim state in India?
24. Who was the President of the first Conference of the Communist Party at Kanpur in 1925?
25. The Communist Party of India was formally founded in 1924 at which place?
26. Who wrote the pamphlet ‘Now or Never’?
27. Who prepared the ‘CR Formula’ to remove the political deadlock between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress?
28. Who among the following has not written about partition in his works?
29. The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah's Two-Nation Theory was held in
30. 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?
31. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) met Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
32. On what basis were the Gandhi-Jinnah talks held?
33. The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for
34. Muslim League had accepted the Mountbatten Plan because
35. In which year the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded?
36. In October, 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India?
37. The Kanpur Conspiracy Case was against the leaders of the
38. In which year the Pakistan Resolution was adopted by the Muslim League and where?
39. Which party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’ and which date was chosen as the ‘Direct Action Day’?
40. Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party?
41. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim League?
42. The Congress Socialist Party was born in 1934 with its Secretary ……………
43. Which one of the following statements with regard to ‘Direct Action Day’ is correct?
44. Who among the following led the movement for the separate state of Pakistan?
45. The Congress Socialist Party was organised in 1934 by
46. The famous Pakistan Resolution was passed at
47. The significance of the Lahore Resolution (1940) of the Muslim League was that
48. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the Presidency of
49. 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?
50. 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?