Communalism and Leftist Politics Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question 1. “The Muslims, if contented and satisfied, would become the greatest bulwark of British power in India.” Who wrote it? [BPSC 2017]

(a) Herbert Risley
(b) Lord Lytton
(c) WW Hunter
(d) HN Brailsford

Solution: c

Question 2. With reference to the Indian Freedom Struggle, the decade of 1920s is popularly known for “Growth of Communalism”. What was/were the reason/s?

I. Socio-economic backwardness.
II. British policy of divide and rule.
III. Side-effect of militant nationalism.

Which one of the above is/are correct reasons?

(a) I, II and III
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) I and II

Solution: a

Question 3. Consider the following statements in respect of 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 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?

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) None of the above

Solution: c

Question 4. Aligarh Movement was started by whom?

(a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan [MPPSC 2002]
(b) Acharya Aryavold
(c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(d) Maulana Ahmed Khan

Solution: a

Question 5. Which political party was founded in 1906? [WBCS 2017]

(a) Bharat Sabha
(b) Muslim League
(c) Bengal Zamindars League
(d) Communist Party of India

Solution: b

Question 6. In 1906 Muslim League was founded at [MPPSC (Pre) 1992]

(a) Lahore
(b) Delhi
(c) Calcutta
(d) Dhaka

Solution: d

Question 7. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim League? [CDS 2009]

(a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(b) Shaukat Ali
(c) Nawab Salimullah
(d) Aga Khan

Solution: c

Question 8. Which of the following Muslim leaders was not one of the founding fathers of All India Muslim League (1906)?

(a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(b) Aga Khan
(c) Nawab Salimullah of Decca
(d) Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk

Solution: a

Question 9. Who was the first President of the Muslim League? [UPPSC (Pre) 1997]

(a) Aga Khan
(b) Hamid Khan
(c) Hasan Khan
(d) MA Jinnah

Solution: a

Question 10. The Muslim deputation (under the leadership of Aga Khan) meets Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for [BPSC (Pre) 2004]

(a) separate electorate for Muslims.
(b) a composite electorate.
(c) higher representation of the Hindus.
(d) special representation to Muslim by nomination.

Solution: a

Question 11. The Annual Session of Muslim League in the year 1907 was held at [UP Lower Sub (Pre) 2008]

(a) Dhaka
(b) Karachi
(c) Aligarh
(d) Lucknow

Solution: b

Question 12. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the Presidency of

(a) Aga Khan
(b) Ameer Ali
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) MA Jinnah

Solution: b

Question 13. The Session of All India Muslim Conference held at Delhi on December 31, 1928 was presided over by [IAS (Pre) 2018]

(a) Aga Khan
(b) Mohd. Shafi
(c) Mohd Ali Jinnah
(d) Fazle Hussain

Solution: a

Question 14. What was the basic weakness of the Muslim League which came to be increasingly recognised by the patriotic Muslims?

(a) Its upper class leaders had little common corner with the interests of the Muslim masses.
(b) Its religious bases was not good for the country.
(c) Its loyalty to the British ruler was a dangerous doctrine.
(d) Its support for Muslims and their cause was only superficial.

Solution: a

Question 15. Which one of the following has changed the name of Hindu Mahasabha to ‘All India Hindu Mahasabha’ in 1915?

(a) Deen Dayal Upadhyay
(b) Madan Mohan Malviya
(c) Deenanath Banerjee
(d) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

Solution: b

Question 16. Hindu Mahasabha was originally called as

(a) Sarvadharma Hindu Sabha
(b) Sarvadeshak Hindu Sabha
(c) Sarvahitaishi Hindu Sabha
(d) None of the above

Solution: b

Question 17. In which year did VD Savarkar become the Chairman of Hindu Mahasabha? [UPPSC 2001]

(a) 1936
(b) 1937
(c) 1938
(d) 1940

Solution: c

Question 18. In which year the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded?

(a) 1925
(b) 1926
(c) 1927
(d) 1928

Solution: a

Question 19. Who established Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?

(a) Hedgewar
(b) Govalkar
(c) Veer Savarkar
(d) Deen Dayal Upadhyay

Solution: a

Question 20. Who wrote the pamphlet ‘Now or Never’? [BPSC 2018]

(a) Md. Jinnah
(b) Md. Iqbal
(c) Rahmat Ali
(d) Khafi Khan

Solution: c

Question 21. Who conceived the idea of Pakistan?

(a) Asaf Ali [WBCS 2019]
(b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(c) HS Suhrawardy
(d) Choudhary Rahmat Ali

Solution: d

Question 22. Who among the following first put forward the proposal for a separate Muslim state in India? [UPRO/ARO (Mains) 2014]

(a) Aga Khan
(b) MA Jinnah
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) Muhammad Iqbal

Solution: d

Question 23. Who among the following led the movement for the separate state of Pakistan? [BPSC (Pre) 1992]

(a) Aga Khan
(b) Nawab Salim Ullah
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) Md. Ali Jinnah

Solution: d

Question 24. Who once remarked “Nehru is a patriot while Jinnah is a politician”? [WBCS 2019]

(a) Maulana Azad
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Sir Muhammad Iqbal
(d) Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Solution: c

Question 25. Which of the following statement is not true about Mohammad Ali Jinnah? [UP UDA/LDA (Pre) 2008]

(a) He was the supporter of the TwoNation Theory.
(b) He presided the Lahore Session of Hindu-Muslim League in 1940.
(c) He had not participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement.
(d) He always used to keep a diary.

Solution: d

Question 26. A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression [UPPSC (Mains) 2013]

(a) in the Presidential speech of Iqbal at the Allahabad Session of Muslim League (1930).
(b) in the Cambridge pamphlet.
(c) in the Lahore Session of Muslim League in 1940.
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 27. The famous Pakistan Resolution was passed at [WBCS 2019]

(a) Lahore
(b) Delhi
(c) Bombay
(d) Lucknow

Solution: a

Question 28. In which year the Pakistan Resolution was adopted by the Muslim League and where? [WBCS 2017]

(a) 1929, Lahore
(b) 1930, Allahabad
(c) 1940, Lahore
(d) 1940, Dhaka

Solution: c

Question 29. Significance of Lahore Resolution (1940) of the Muslim League was that [WBCS 2018]

(a) to cooperate with National Congress.
(b) to create a Constitution for the Muslim League.
(c) to cooperate with the British.
(d) Pakistan resolution was taken.

Solution: d

Question 30. Who has moved a resolution for the creation of Pakistan in the Muslim League Session of 1940? [UPPSC (Pre) 2000]

(a) MA Jinnah
(b) Mohammad Iqbal
(c) Rahmat Ali
(d) Khaliquzzaman

Solution: d

Question 31. The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah’s Two- Nation Theory was held in [UPPSC (Mains) 2012]

(a) Lahore
(b) Karachi
(c) Bombay
(d) Lucknow

Solution: a

Question 32. Who had prepared the Lahore Resolution?

(a) Sikandar Hayat Khan
(b) Fazlul Haq
(c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 33. Who did the Chairmanship of Lahore Session (1940) of Muslim League? [UPPSC (Pre) 2013]

(a) Liaquat Ali Khan
(b) Chaudhary Khaliquzzaman
(c) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
(d) Fatimah Jinnah

Solution: c

Question 34. When did the Muslim League celebrate the ‘Pakistan Day’? [UPPSC (Pre) 2008]

(a) 25th April, 1920
(b) 5th February, 1922
(c) 14th July, 1942
(d) 23rd March, 1943

Solution: d

Question 35. Who prepared ‘CR Formula’ to remove the political deadlock between Muslim League and India National Congress? [UPPSC 2019, SSC CGL 2020]

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) C Rajagopalachari
(c) Chittaranjan Das
(d) VP Menon

Solution: b

Question 36. On what basis Gandhi-Jinnah talk held?

(a) Rajagopalachari formula
(b) Lahore resolution
(c) Wavell Plan
(d) Cripps Mission

Solution: a

Question 37. Gandhi-Jinnah talk started on

(a) 9th September, 1944
(b) 27th September, 1944
(c) 9th August, 1945
(d) 8th August, 1948

Solution: a

Question 38. Desai-Liaquat Pact is named after which of the following two leaders?

(a) Bhulabhai Desai
(b) Manmohan Desai
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Solution: d

Question 39. Which day was declared as the Direct Action Day by the Muslim League? [WBCS 2019]

(a) 3rd September, 1946
(b) 16th August, 1946
(c) 16th May, 1946
(d) 4th December, 1946

Solution: b

Question 40. Which party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’ and which date was chosen as the ‘Direct Action Day’? [WBCS 2017]

(a) Muslim League; 16th August, 1946
(b) Indian National Congress; 8th August, 1942
(c) The Hindu Mahasabha; 3rd June, 1946
(d) Indian National Army; 18th August, 1945

Solution: a

Question 41. Which one of the following statements with regard to ‘Direct Action Day’ is correct? [NDA 2010]

(a) Hasan Suhrawardi presided over the ‘Direct Action Day’.
(b) ‘Direct Action’ took place in Delhi.
(c) ‘Direct Action Day’ led to the Bihar riot.
(d) ‘Direct Action’ was endorsed by the Congress Party.

Solution: a

Question 42. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of [IAS (Pre) 2002]

(a) Cripps Mission
(b) Rajagopalachari Formula
(c) Cabinet Mission
(d) Wavell Plan

Solution: c

Question 43. The ‘Break Down Plan’ in 1946 for transfer of power to India had been proposed by [WBCS 2018]

(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Viceroy Lord Wavell
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Clement Attlee

Solution: b

Question 44. The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for [UPPSC (Pre) 2013]

(a) continuity of British rule
(b) transfer of power.
(c) partition of the country.
(d) solution of the communal problems.

Solution: c

Question 45. Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the time of Partition of India? [BPSC 2019]

(a) JB Kripalani
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(d) C Rajagopalachari

Solution: a

Question 46. In Delhi Congress Session on 14th June, 1947, the resolution for India’s Partition was passed. The Session was presided over by [UPPSC 2007]

(a) Rajendra Prasad
(b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(c) Acharya JB Kripalani
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Solution: a

Question 47. Muslim League had accepted Mountbatten Plan because [WBCS 2018]

(a) Muslims were given separate electorate.
(b) it was not accepted by Congress.
(c) it had the provision for creation of Pakistan.
(d) it gave recognition to Muslim League.

Solution: c

Question 48. As an alternative to the Partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that he [IAS (Pre) 2000]

(a) postponed granting of independence.
(b) invite Jinnah to form the government.
(c) invite Nehru and Jinnah to form the government together.
(d) invite the Army to take over for some time.

Solution: b

Question 49. The Indian National Congress agreed in 1947 to the partition of the country mainly because [IAS (Pre) 1998]

(a) the principle of Two-Nation Theory was then acceptable to them.
(b) it was imposed by the British Government and the Congress was helpless in the regard.
(c) they wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots.
(d) India would have otherwise lost the opportunity to attain freedom.

Solution: c

Question 50. The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to [IAS (Pre) 2014]

(a) solve the problem of minorities in India.
(b) give effect to the Independence Bill.
(c) delimit the boundaries between India and Pakistan.
(d) enquire into the riots in East Bengal.

Solution: c

Question 51. Two independent states of India and Pakistan were created by [CDS 2003]

(a) the Simla Conference
(b) the Cripps Proposal
(c) the Cabinet Mission Plan
(d) the Indian Independence Act

Solution: d

Question 52. Who among the following has not written about partition in his works? [Astt. Comm. 2018]

(a) Saadat Hasan Manto
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(c) Bhisham Sahni
(d) Narendranath Mitra

Solution: b

Question 53. Consider the following statements related with events in 1946.

I. The plan of 16th May, 1946 had envisaged a united India in line with Congress and Muslim League aspirations.
II. 16th June, 1946 plan sought to arrange for India to be divided into Hindu-Majority India and a MuslimMajority 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?

(a) Only I
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 54. 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. [UPPSC (Pre) 1998]

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true

Solution: c

Question 55. Who was the first Indian to be the member of Communist International? [BPSC (Pre) 1998]

(a) MN Roy
(b) Muzaffar Ahmad
(c) SS Dange
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 56. In October, 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist Party of India? [IAS (Pre) 2005]

(a) HK Sarkar
(b) PC Joshi
(c) MC Chagla
(d) MN Roy

Solution: d

Question 57. Communist Party of India was founded in 1924 at which place?

(a) Nagpur
(b) Kanpur
(c) Calcutta
(d) Delhi

Solution: b

Question 58. Kanpur Conspiracy Case was against the leaders of [UPPSC 2010]

(a) Khilafat Movement
(b) Non-Cooperation Movement
(c) Communist Movement
(d) Revolutionary Movement

Solution: c

Question 59. Which among the following is not associated with Kanpur Conspiracy?

(a) Sripad Amrit Dange
(b) Muzaffar Ahmed
(c) Nalin Gupta
(d) Jayaprakash Narayan

Solution: d

Question 60. Which of the following trials attracted the worldwide publicity and drew sympathetic comment from Albert Einstein, HG Wells, Harold laski and Roosevelt ih favour of the convicts? [UPPSC (Pre) 2017]

(a) INA trial
(b) Lahore Conspiracy Case
(c) Meerut Conspiracy Case
(d) None of the above

Solution: c

Question 61. Who was the President of first Conference of Communist Party at Kanpur in 1925?

(a) Satyabhakta
(b) Manabendra Nath Roy
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Singaravelu Chettiar

Solution: d

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