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CH-1- CHALLENGES OF NATION BUILDING- PRACTICE TEST-3

Class 12 - Political Science
Time Allowed: 1 hour and 20 minutes Maximum Marks: 60

Question No. 1 to 5 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
Just before Independence, it was announced by the British that with the end of their rule over India, the
paramountcy of the British crown over the Princely States would also lapse. This meant that all these
states, as many as 565 in all, would become legally independent. The British government took the view
that all these states were free to join either India or Pakistan or remain independent if they so wished.
This decision was left not to the people but to the princely rulers of these states. This was a very serious
problem and could threaten the very existence of a united India. The problems started very soon. First
of all, the ruler of Travancore announced that the state had decided on Independence. The Nizam of
Hyderabad made a similar announcement the next day. Rulers like the Nawab of Bhopal were averse to
joining the Constituent Assembly.

1. How many princely states were there in India at the time of independence? [1]

a) 565 b) 436

c) 665 d) 336
2. What was the ruler of Hyderabad was popularly referred to as? [1]

a) Iron Man b) Tipu

c) Maharaja d) Nizam
3. What were not the choices given to the princely states by the British? [1]

a) All of these b) Free to join Pakistan

c) Free to join India d) Free to remain independent

4. Which of the following were the largest princely states of India? [1]

a) Manipur b) Junagarh

c) Hyderabad d) Kashmir
5. Ruler of which of the following princely state was the first to decide on independence? [1]

a) Bhopal b) Hyderabad

c) Mysore d) Travancore

Question No. 6 to 10 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
A few days before Independence, the Maharaja of Manipur, Bodhachandra Singh, signed the
Instrument of Accession with the Indian government on the assurance that the internal autonomy of
Manipur would be maintained. Under the pressure of public opinion, the Maharaja held elections in
Manipur in June 1948 and the state became a constitutional monarchy. Thus Manipur was the first part
of India to hold an election based on a universal adult franchise. In the Legislative Assembly of

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Manipur, there were sharp differences over the question of the merger of Manipur with India. While
the state Congress wanted the merger, other political parties were opposed to this. The Government of
India succeeded in pressurizing the Maharaja into signing a Merger Agreement in September 1949,
without consulting the popularly elected Legislative Assembly of Manipur. This caused a lot of anger
and resentment in Manipur, the repercussions of which are still being felt.

6. Which of the following is the ruler of the Manipur? [1]

a) Hari Singh b) Bodhachandra Singh

c) Hari Chandra Meitei d) Chong Meitei

7. Which Indian states were first to held elections on universal adult suffrage? [1]

a) Manipur b) Gujarat

c) Rajasthan d) Punjab
8. Which of the following wanted Manipur to merge with India? [1]

a) Maharaja b) State Party

c) State Congress d) State Youth

9. When did the Government of India succeed in Pressurising the maharaja of Manipur? [1]

a) 1946 b) 1956

c) 1948 d) 1949
10. Choose the correct option for the blank. The merger of Manipur was ________. [1]

a) took time to get accepted b) was welcomed by the people

c) saw anger and resentment d) accepted wholeheartedly

Question No. 11 to 15 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:
On the 15th August 1947, Mahatma Gandhi did not participate in any of the Independence Day
celebrations. He was in Kolkata in the areas which were torn by gruesome riots between Hindus and
Muslims. He was saddened by the communal violence and disheartened that the principles of ahimsa
(non-violence) and satyagraha (active but non-violent resistance) that he had lived and worked for, had
failed to bind the people in troubled times. Gandhiji went on to persuade the Hindus and Muslims to
give up violence. His presence in Kolkata greatly improved the situation, and the coming of
independence was celebrated in a spirit of communal harmony, with joyous dancing in the streets.
Gandhiji’s prayer meetings attracted large crowds. But this was short-lived as riots between Hindus and
Muslims erupted once again and Gandhiji had to resort to a fast to bring peace. Finally, on 30 January
1948, one such extremist, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, walked up to Gandhiji during his evening prayer in
Delhi and fired three bullets at him, killing him instantly.

11. Which of the following city Gandhiji was there on 15th August 1947? [1]

a) Kolkata b) Delhi

c) Mumbai d) Chennai

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12. Which of the following killed Gandhiji on 30 January 1948? [1]

a) Nathuram Singh b) Nathuram Parikkar

c) Nathuram Godse d) Abdul Gaffar Khan

13. What was the effect of the Gandhiji’s death in Pakistan on subsiding of communal situation? [1]

a) None of these b) Magical

c) Neutral d) Disaster
14. Which of the following is known as Iron Man of India? [1]

a) Khan Abdul Gaffar b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Amrita Kaur d) Sardar Patel

15. When communal violence recurred, which of the following path did Gandhiji opt to? [1]

a) Fast b) March

c) Ahimsa d) Satyagraha

Question No. 16 to 20 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:
The acceptance of the principle of linguistic states did not mean, however, that all states immediately
became linguistic states. There was an experiment of ‘bilingual’ Bombay state, consisting of Gujarati-
and Marathi-speaking people. After a popular agitation, the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat were
created in 1960. In Punjab also, there were two linguistic groups: Hindi-speaking and Punjabi-speaking.
The Punjabi-speaking people demanded a separate state. But it was not granted with other states in
1956. Statehood for Punjab came ten years later, in 1966, when the territories of today’s Haryana and
Himachal Pradesh were separated from the larger Punjab state. Another major reorganisation of states
took place in the north-east in 1972. Meghalaya was carved out of Assam in 1972. Manipur and Tripura
too emerged as separate states in the same year. The states of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh came
into being in 1987. Nagaland had become a state much earlier in 1963.

16. Name the original state from which Gujarat was carved out? [1]

a) Saurastra b) Bombay

c) Rajputana d) Junagarh
17. Which year the states of Meghalaya have been carved out from Assam? [1]

a) 1990 b) 1982

c) 1987 d) 1972
18. When the Haryana and Punjab have been separated from Punjab? [1]

a) 1966 b) 1978

c) 1956 d) 1960
19. Which year the state of Nagaland had come into being? [1]

a) 1987 b) 1963

c) 1956 d) 1953

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20. Which of the following states were not created in the year 2000? [1]

a) Jharkhand b) Telangana

c) Uttarakhand d) Chhattisgarh
21. How many states and union territories were created on the basis of the State Reorganization [1]
Act of 1956?

a) 23 states and 5 union territories b) 14 states and 6 union territories

c) 18 states and 6 union territories d) 22 states and 5 union territories

22. Which of the following leaders was the first Deputy PM of India also known as Iron Man of [1]
India?

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Amrita Pritam d) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

23. Which among the following princely states proved to be most difficult to join Indian Union? [1]

a) Kashmir b) Junagadh

c) Manipur d) Saurashtra
24. Which of the following is not the reason for the process of the partition being painful? [1]

a) Not all Muslim majority areas b) The Congress ideology of Linguistic

wanted to be in Pakistan States

c) The problems of minorities on both d) There was no single belt of Muslim

sides of the border majority areas in British India
25. Which one of the following leaders played a vital role in the integration of princely states with [1]
India?

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar

c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Jawaharlal Nehru

26. How many princely states existed at the time of independence of India? [1]

a) 560 b) 565

c) 562 d) 563
27. Who among the following was the Maharaja of Manipur at the times of Independence? [1]

a) Ramachandra Singh b) Su-Kha-Pha

c) Bodhachandra Singh d) Hari Singh

28. Which of the following speech was given at midnight on 14-15 August 1947 by J.L.Nehru? [1]

a) Freedom from Slavery b) Awoke and Arise

c) Satyavev Jayate d) Tryst with Destiny

29. In which place of the Congress session in 1920, the party recognized the linguistic principle as [1]
the basis of the reorganization of states?

a) Lahore b) Nagpur

c) Kolkata d) Patna

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30. Which among the following was the effect of the Gandhiji's death on the communal situation [1]
in India?

a) Punjab and Bengal were divided as b) Creation of Bangladesh

the communal zone

c) Partition-related anger and violence d) East Pakistan and West Pakistan

suddenly subsided merged
31. Which of the following cities were not divided into the communal zone after the India [1]
Pakistan partition?

a) Hyderabad b) Lahore

c) Kolkata d) Amritsar
32. When was States Reorganisation Commission formed? [1]

a) 1963 b) 1964

c) 1953 d) 1950
33. When Gujarat was carved out of Bombay? [1]

a) 1980 b) 1960

c) 1950 d) 1970
34. Which of the following was not the government approach to the princely states? [1]

a) Territorial integration had assumed b) The government had used deceitful

supreme importance tactics to united princely states

c) People of the princely states wanted d) The government were flexible to

to part of the Indian Union give autonomy
[1]

35.

Identify the person handing over the constitution to the President of constituent assembly in
the above picture:

a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel b) Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad

c) Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad d) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

36. The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in which year? [1]

a) 1953 b) 1954

c) 1950 d) 1951
37. Which state was not created in 2000? [1]

a) Chhatisgarh b) Jharkhand

c) Bihar d) Uttaranchal

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38. Arrange the following the chronological order of occurrence. [1]
i. Birth of Pakistan
ii. Join of Hyderabad in Indian Union
iii. Carving out of Arunachal Pradesh from Assam
iv. Appointment of State Re-organisation commission

a) iv, i, iii, ii b) i, ii, iv, iii

c) i, ii, iv, iii d) iv, ii, i, iii

39. Identify the person extreme right in the below picture: [1]

a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Mount Batten

c) M. A. Jinnah d) C. Rajagopalachari
40. The states created in 1960 were ________. [1]

a) Punjab and Haryana b) Orissa and West Bengal

c) Maharashtra and Gujarat d) Rajasthan and Gujarat

41. The interim government formed under the Cabinet Mission plan was headed by [1]

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Rajagopalachari d) Jawaharlal Nehru

42. Name the original state from which the Chhattisgarh was carved out. [1]

a) Uttar Pradesh b) Maharashtra

c) Bihar d) Madya Pradesh

43. Who among the following is also known as Frontier Gandhi? [1]

a) Morarji Desai b) Loknayak JP Narayan

c) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan d) Sheikh Abdullah

44. The Cities that were divided into communal zones during the partition violence were: [1]

a) Kashmir, Lucknow and Allahabad b) Delhi, Mumbai and Gwalior

c) Lahore, Amritsar and Calcutta d) Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore

45. British India was divided into two parts, one was called the British Indian Provinces and the [1]
other was ___________

a) Princely States b) British India

c) Independent India d) Indian Provinces

46. Which one of the following is not a consequence of the partition? [1]

a) The Muslim population in India after b) The employees of the government

migration accounted for 12 percent and the railways were divided

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 in 1951

c) The integration of the princely states d) The division of financial assets and
things like tables, chairs, etc.
47. Name the 16th state of Indian union which was formed in 1963? [1]

a) Goa b) Mizoram

c) Gujarat d) Nagaland
48. Which among the following statements about the Partition is incorrect? [1]

a) Partition of India was the outcome of b) The scheme of Partition included a

the “two-nation theory” plan for the transfer of population
across the border

c) Punjab and Bengal were the two d) East Pakistan and West Pakistan
provinces divided on the basis of were not contiguous
religion
49. How many kinds of challenges that Independent India faced? [1]

a) 2 b) 1

c) 5 d) 3
50. Which one of the following is a princely state of India initially resisted joining the Indian [1]
Union?

a) Baroda b) Gwalior

c) Mysore d) Hyderabad
51. Assertion (A): Nehru, the architect of India's nation-building had clearly specified that India [1]
was not a mere geographical or historical entity. According to him, India had a unique
capability to synthesise alien culture and this had been the secret of India’s unity in diversity.
Reason (R): In the 21st century, the whole world has woken up to the facet of this diversity.
Selfish and petty politicians have sowed seeds of disintegration by using ethnic, lingual and
cultural factionalism for narrow political gains.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

52. Assertion (A): Writers, poets, and filmmakers in India and Pakistan have often used the [1]
phrase division of hearts to describe partition.
Reason (R): Muslim league put forward the Two nation theory that British did not consist of
one but two people.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

53. Assertion (A): The first deputy prime minister and home minister of India, [1]
Sardarvallabhbhaipatel, emerged as an Iron man of India.

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 Reason(R): Sardarvallabhbhaipatel faced key challenges of integration of Hyderabad,
Junagarh, Kashmir.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

54. Assertion (A): Nehru, believing in secularism, supported the declaration of India as a secular [1]
state. A secularist state means that the state will not have any religion of its own and will treat
all religions equally.
Reason (R): Nehru believed that a strong nation can be built by making India a secular state.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

55. Assertion (A): India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories by the state [1]
Reorganisation Act 1956.
Reason (R): The creation of linguistic provinces has helped a lot in instilling feelings of
regionalism in the Indian public.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

56. Assertion (A): The partition of the country proved everyone’s worst tears. There were serious [1]
questions about the future of India.
Reason (R): British government decided to give independence to India.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

57. Assertion (A): There were no single belt of uniform Muslim majority areas in British India. [1]
There were two areas of concentration one in the west and in the east.
Reason (R): Not all Muslim majority areas wanted to join with Pakistan.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

58. Assertion (A): Princely states covered one-third of the land area of the British Indian Empire. [1]
Reason (R): Some of the princely states clearly wanted to become part of the Indian Union.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

59. Assertion (A): The ruler of Travancore decided to remain independent and Nizam of [1]
Hyderabad made a similar announcement the next day.

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 Reason (R): With the end of British rule in India, the paramountcy of the British crown over
princely rulers also came to an end.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

60. Assertion (A): The partition of India was the outcome of the two-nation theory. [1]
Reason (R): Punjab and Bengal were the two provinces divided on the basis of religion.

a) Both A and R are true and R is the b) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct explanation of A. correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true.

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