Indian History MCQ Practice
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- The Congress resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy was adopted at the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress in 1931.
- Other years are incorrect:
- 1940 – not the session for these resolutions
- 1935 – different reforms and congress activities
- 1921 – Non-Cooperation era, but not this resolution
- He founded the Khudai Khidmatgar in 1929 in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).
- The organization promoted non-violent social service and reform, inspired by his principles of nonviolence.
- B. Abdul Rab Nishtar – prominent politician, not founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar.
- C. Shaukatullah Ansari – not the founder.
- D. Khan Abdul Quayumkhan – not associated as founder.
- Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and Batukeshwar Dutta were hanged in connection with the Lahore Conspiracy Case, relating to their revolutionary activities against British rule in Punjab.
- They were involved in actions inspired by the broader freedom struggle, not the Merut Conspiracy Case (1920s mutiny plot) or the Nasik Conspiracy Case (1915 arms conspiracy).
- The Merut and Nasik cases were separate trials for different plots; the Lahore case specifically linked to the events in Punjab and the associated executions in 1931.
The first Round Table Conference (1930) in London included Indian delegates such as Tej Bahadur Sapru. He was a prominent liberal lawyer-diplomat who represented moderate nationalist views. M. K. Gandhi, Abul Kalam Azad, and S. C. Bose attended later sessions or in different capacities, but not as a participant in the very first conference. Sapru’s presence marked the participation of a mainstream, reform-oriented leadership that talked about constitutional reforms and federal structure. The other options did not represent the first session's attendee list.
The Round Table Conferences were held in London between 1930 and 1932 to discuss constitutional reforms in India.
Tej Bahadur Sapru attended the first Round Table Conference in London.
Abul Kalam Azad was the Congress President who led negotiations with the Cripps Mission in 1942 and later participated in talks with Viceroy Wavell at the Shimla Conference. He was a senior Congress leader and one of its key negotiators during World War II, representing the party in critical discussions with the British government. The other options did not chair these specific negotiations during that period. Nehru, Kripalani, and Rajagopalachari held leadership roles at different times, but Azad is the one linked to both Cripps and Shimla talks in this context.
Abul Kalam Azad later served as the first Minister of Education of independent India (1947–1958).
Abul Kalam Azad = Congress President involved in Cripps and Shimla negotiations during WWII.
- Why A is correct: Lord Dalhousie introduced the Doctrine of Lapse. He refused to recognize the adopted son of Rani Lakshmibai as heir after the death of the husband and annexed Jhansi to British rule.
- Why others are incorrect:
- Lord William Bentinck (B) did not apply the Doctrine of Lapse to Jhansi.
- Lord Wellesley (C) ruled earlier and focused on expansion in the Indian territories, not Jhansi’s doctrine of lapse.
- Lord Canning (D) governed during 1850s but did not enact the Jhansi annexation under the Doctrine of Lapse.