Indian History

Indian History

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  1. Complete the sentence about Mahatma Gandhi with the correct year: In August ______, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority Ind…
  2. Complete the sentence about Mahatma Gandhi with the correct year: The last of these was begun in Delhi on 12 January ______, when Gandhi was 78.
  3. Complete the sentence about Jawaharlal Nehru with the correct year: Upon India's independence in ______, he served as the country's first prime minister, holding office for 16 years and 286 days.
  4. Complete the sentence about Jawaharlal Nehru with the correct year: As Congress president in ______, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj.
  5. Complete the sentence about Jawaharlal Nehru with the correct year: Nehru promoted the idea of the secular nation-state in the ______ provincial elections, allowing the Congress to sweep the elections…
  6. Complete the sentence about Jawaharlal Nehru with the correct year: In September ______, the Congress ministries resigned to protest Viceroy Lord Linlithgow's decision to join the war without consulti…
  7. Complete the sentence about Jawaharlal Nehru with the correct year: After the All India Congress Committee's Quit India Resolution of 8 August ______, senior Congress leaders were imprisoned, and for…
  8. Complete the sentence about Subhas Chandra Bose with the correct year: Returning to India in ______, Bose joined the nationalist movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
  9. Complete the sentence about Subhas Chandra Bose with the correct year: Bose arrived in Nazi Germany in April ______, where the leadership offered unexpected but equivocal sympathy for India's independ…
  10. Complete the sentence about Subhas Chandra Bose with the correct year: Although peripheral to their main goals, the Germans inconclusively considered a land invasion of India throughout ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Subhas Chandra Bose with the correct year: By the spring of ______, the German army was mired in Russia and Bose became keen to move to southeast Asia, where Japan had just…
  12. Complete the sentence about Subhas Chandra Bose with the correct year: Adolf Hitler during his only meeting with Bose in late May ______ agreed to arrange a submarine.
  13. Complete the sentence about Bhagat Singh with the correct year: Bhagat Singh was convicted of the murder of John Saunders and Channan Singh, and hanged in March ______, aged 23.
  14. Complete the sentence about Bhagat Singh with the correct year: In ______, the British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India.
  15. Complete the sentence about Bhagat Singh with the correct year: When the Commission visited Lahore on 30 October ______, Lala Lajpat Rai led a march in protest against it.
  16. Complete the sentence about Bhagat Singh with the correct year: Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, as he was leaving the District Police Headquarters in Lahore on 17 December ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Bhagat Singh with the correct year: Politicians, activists, and newspapers, including The People, which Rai had founded in ______, stressed that non-cooperation was prefera…
  18. Complete the sentence about Lala Lajpat Rai with the correct year: In ______, he joined Government College at Lahore to study law, where he came in contact with patriots and future freedom fighters, s…
  19. Complete the sentence about Lala Lajpat Rai with the correct year: In ______, his father was transferred to Rohtak, and Rai came along after the completion of his studies at Lahore.
  20. Complete the sentence about Lala Lajpat Rai with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Hisar where his father was transferred, and started to practice law and became a founding member of the Bar Co…
  21. Complete the sentence about Lala Lajpat Rai with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Lahore to practise before the Lahore High Court.
  22. Complete the sentence about Lala Lajpat Rai with the correct year: In October ______, he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America in New York.
  23. Complete the sentence about Bal Gangadhar Tilak with the correct year: Tilak obtained his B.A. in Mathematics from the Deccan College of Poona in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he obtained his L.L.B degree from Government Law College.
  25. Complete the sentence about Bal Gangadhar Tilak with the correct year: The Society established the Fergusson College in ______ for post-secondary studies.
  26. Complete the sentence about Maulana Azad with the correct year: In ______, at an age of 35, he became the youngest person to serve as the President of the Indian National Congress.
  27. Complete the sentence about Maulana Azad with the correct year: In October ______, Azad was elected as a member of foundation committee to establish Jamia Millia Islamia at Aligarh in U.
  28. Complete the sentence about Maulana Azad with the correct year: Azad was born on 11 November ______ in Mecca, then a part of the Ottoman Empire, now a part of Saudi Arabia.
  29. Complete the sentence about Dadabhai Naoroji with the correct year: Naoroji's early career included serving as the Diwan of Baroda in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Dadabhai Naoroji with the correct year: In ______, the UK Government introduced the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards, launched by then-Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to honour co…
  31. Complete the sentence about B. R. Ambedkar with the correct year: In ______, he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.
  32. Complete the sentence about B. R. Ambedkar with the correct year: In ______, the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, was posthumously conferred on Ambedkar.
  33. Complete the sentence about B. R. Ambedkar with the correct year: Ramji Sakpal retired in ______ and the family moved to Satara two years later.
  34. Complete the sentence about B. R. Ambedkar with the correct year: In ______, Ambedkar's family moved to Mumbai where Ambedkar became the only untouchable enrolled at Elphinstone High School.
  35. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, when he was about 15 years old, he married a nine-year-old girl, Ramabai.
  36. Complete the sentence about B. R. Ambedkar with the correct year: In ______, Ramabai gave birth to their first child, Yashwant Ambedkar, at the age of 14.
  37. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: In ______, however, Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of satyagraha, which he regarded as pol…
  38. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: In ______, the Muslim League, led by Jinnah, passed the Lahore Resolution.
  39. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the correct year: Jinnah died at age 71 in September ______, just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom.
  40. Complete the sentence about Lahore Resolution with the correct year: Jinnah in an article in the London weekly Time & Tide on 9 March ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Cripps Mission with the correct year: The Cripps Mission was a failed attempt in late March ______ by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support f…
  42. Complete the sentence about Cripps Mission with the correct year: The Japanese declaration of war on the Dutch and the British Empires as well as the United States in December ______ altered the polit…
  43. Complete the sentence about Cripps Mission with the correct year: As a result, the British cabinet by 9 March ______ had agreed to despatch a mission to India to discuss its offer, and Cripps' plane l…
  44. Complete the sentence about Cripps Mission with the correct year: Incidentally, the next day was the second anniversary of the Lahore Resolution of ______ and so Cripps saw Muslims marching in the str…
  45. Complete the sentence about Cabinet Mission with the correct year: Jinnah explained in a letter to Karachi mayor Hatim Alavi on 10 June ______ that the acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan was only…
  46. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Act 1947 with the correct year: On 15 July ______ the House of Commons voted for the bill and the House of Lords gave its consent on the next day.
  47. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Act 1947 with the correct year: Following a breakdown of law and order, its Dewan requested India to take over the administration on 8 November ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition of India in ______ was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Do…
  49. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act ______ and resulted in the end of the British Raj, or Crown rule in Ind…
  50. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in ______ was a later partition of Pakistan, and not of India.
  51. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: In ______, Viceroy of India Lord Curzon split it into the Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam and the Hindu-major…
  52. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: The demarcation line was published on 17 August ______, two days after the independence of Pakistan and India.
  53. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: Bengal had in fact been partitioned by the then viceroy Lord Curzon in ______, along with its adjoining regions.
  54. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: Proposals for partitioning Punjab had been made starting in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Radcliffe Line with the correct year: After the ______ Lahore resolution of the Muslim League demanding Pakistan, B.
  56. Complete the sentence about Indian independence movement with the correct year: The first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who reached Calicut…
  57. Complete the sentence about Indian independence movement with the correct year: Just over a century later, the Dutch and English established trading outposts on the Indian subcontinent, with the first…
  58. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Day with the correct year: Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence fro…
  59. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Day with the correct year: On this day the Indian Independence Act ______ came into effect, transferring legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constitue…
  60. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Day with the correct year: On 15 August ______, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru raised the Indian national flag above the Lahori Gat…
  61. Complete the sentence about Indian Independence Day with the correct year: In the decades following, civic society gradually emerged across India, most notably the Indian National Congress Party, form…
  62. Complete the sentence about Republic Day with the correct year: India achieved independence from the British Raj on 15 August ______ following the success of the Indian independence movement which was…
  63. Complete the sentence about Republic Day with the correct year: Without a standalone constitution, its laws were based on the Government of India Act ______ and governed by the Constituent Assembly of…
  64. Complete the sentence about Republic Day with the correct year: On 29 August ______, a seven-member drafting committee was appointed to draft a permanent constitution.
  65. Complete the sentence about Republic Day with the correct year: A draft constitution prepared by the committee was submitted to the Constituent Assembly on 4 November ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Constitution of India with the correct year: The Government of India Act ______, mainly drafted by Samuel Hoare, provided the basis for the constitution of India.
  67. Complete the sentence about Constitution of India with the correct year: The original ______ constitution is preserved in a nitrogen-filled case at the Parliament Library Building in New Delhi.
  68. Complete the sentence about Constitution of India with the correct year: In ______, the All Parties Conference convened a committee in Lucknow to prepare the Constitution of India, which was known as…
  69. Complete the sentence about Constituent Assembly of India with the correct year: Renuka Ray and Annie Mascarene were later elected as well, and by ______ the assembly had 17 female members.
  70. Complete the sentence about Constituent Assembly of India with the correct year: The Indian National Congress held its session at Lucknow in April ______ presided by Jawaharlal Nehru.
  71. Complete the sentence about Constituent Assembly of India with the correct year: The official demand for a Constituent Assembly was raised and the Government of India Act ______ was rejected as it was…
  72. Complete the sentence about Preamble to the Constitution of India with the correct year: IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, ______, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSE…
  73. Complete the sentence about Preamble to the Constitution of India with the correct year: In the ______ case of Union Government vs LIC of India, the Supreme Court once again held that the Preamble is…
  74. Complete the sentence about Fundamental rights in India with the correct year: The first demand for fundamental rights came in the form of the "Constitution of India Bill, in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about President of India with the correct year: The office of president was created when India's constitution came into force and it became a republic on 26 January ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Vice President of India with the correct year: The conduct and procedure of the election of both the president and vice president is outlined in the Presidential and Vice-P…
  77. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of India with the correct year: After Indira Gandhi's assassination, her son Rajiv Gandhi took charge until ______, when a decade with five unstable governme…
  78. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of India with the correct year: India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, took oath on 15 August ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Parliament of India with the correct year: In ______ after the constitution came into force, the Constituent Assembly of India was disbanded, and succeeded by the Parliamen…
  80. Complete the sentence about Parliament of India with the correct year: The construction of the building took six years, and the opening ceremony was performed on 18 January ______ by the viceroy and g…
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, it was converted and refurbished into the Constituent Assembly Hall.
  82. Complete the sentence about Lok Sabha with the correct year: The Indian Councils Act ______ provided for a Legislative Council consisting of the members of the Executive Council and non-official membe…
  83. Complete the sentence about Lok Sabha with the correct year: The Indian Councils Act ______ established legislatures in each of the provinces of British India and increased the powers of the Legislati…
  84. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of India with the correct year: Three charter High Courts were established in the three cities which earlier had Supreme Courts, by the letters patent granted…
  85. Complete the sentence about Reserve Bank of India with the correct year: The RBI was nationalised on 1 January ______, almost a year and a half after India's independence.
  86. Complete the sentence about Reserve Bank of India with the correct year: The Reserve Bank of India was established in ______, under the Reserve Bank of India Act.
  87. Complete the sentence about Five-Year Plans of India with the correct year: The plans evolved to address changing developmental priorities, introducing innovations like the Gadgil formula in ______ fo…
  88. Complete the sentence about Five-Year Plans of India with the correct year: Joseph Stalin implemented the first Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Five-Year Plans of India with the correct year: India launched its First FYP in ______, soon after independence, under the socialist influence of India's first prime minist…
  90. Complete the sentence about Five-Year Plans of India with the correct year: The First Five-year Plan was launched in ______ which mainly focused on the development of the primary sector of the economy…
  91. Complete the sentence about Economy of India with the correct year: An acute balance-of-payments crisis in ______ led led India to adopt broad economic liberalisation.
  92. Complete the sentence about Economic liberalisation in India with the correct year: At his now famous budget speech that instituted the reforms, Manmohan Singh said on 24 July ______: "Let the whole w…
  93. Complete the sentence about Manmohan Singh with the correct year: Born in Gah in what is today Pakistan, Singh's family migrated to India during its partition in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Manmohan Singh with the correct year: In ______, opposition to a historic civil nuclear agreement with the United States nearly caused Singh's government to fall after Left…
  95. Complete the sentence about Manmohan Singh with the correct year: The ______ general election saw the UPA return with an increased mandate, with Singh retaining the office of prime minister.
  96. Complete the sentence about Manmohan Singh with the correct year: In ______, BRICS was established with India as one of the founding members.
  97. Complete the sentence about Rajiv Gandhi with the correct year: In ______, he married Sonia Maino; the couple settled in Delhi for a domestic life with their children Rahul and Priyanka.
  98. Complete the sentence about Rajiv Gandhi with the correct year: After Sanjay died in a plane crash in ______, Gandhi reluctantly entered politics at the behest of his mother.
  99. Complete the sentence about Rajiv Gandhi with the correct year: As part of his political grooming, Rajiv was made general secretary of the Congress party and given significant responsibility in organi…
  100. Complete the sentence about Lal Bahadur Shastri with the correct year: Shastri was born to Sharad Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai on 2 October ______.

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