Class 12 - Political Science - POLITICS IN INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCEChapter 1: CHALLENGES OF NATION BUILDING 
Very Short Answer Based Questions - Part 1
Q1. The state was carved out of Madhya Pradesh.
Answer: Chhattisgarh
Q2. State which opposed the merger after independence.
Answer: Manipur
Q3. The first state of free India had a communist government.
Answer: Kerala
Q4. State to which Nizam belonged?
Answer: Hyderabad
Q5. The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in which year?
Answer: December 1953
Q6. State out of which Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh were carved out?
Answer: Assam
Q7. Two states that were affected by the partition of the country?
Answer: Punjab & West Bengal
Q8. States where movements demanding separate smaller states were raised after Independence?
Answer: Vidarbha in Maharashtra, Harit Pradesh in the western region of Uttar Pradesh & northern region of West Bengal
Q9. State related to the Vishalandhra movement and was the first to get reorganised?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
Q10. States that were once a Union Territory
Answer: Goa & Tripura
Q11. The state was carved out of Punjab in 1966.
Answer: Punjab
Q12. The state adjoining Pakistan territory up to 1971.
Answer: Tripura
Q13. Mark the countries reorganized on religious grounds.
Answer: India and Pakistan
Q14(MCQ). The Cities that were divided into ‘communal zones’ during the partition violence were
(a) Lahore, Amritsar and Calcutta.
(b) Kashmir, Lucknow and Allahabad.
(c) Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore
(d) Delhi, Mumbai and Gwalior
Answer: (a) Lahore, Amritsar and Calcutta.
Q15. Who was the head of the interim government formed under the cabinet mission plan?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru (as Vice President of the Executive Council)
Name the following based on India's Independence and India Polity
Q16. First Prime Minister of Free India
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Q17. First President of Pakistan
Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Q18. Frontier Gandhi
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Q19. Advocator of Ahimsa & Satyagraha.
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Q20. India’s Deputy Prime Minister Following Independence
Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q21. India’s Home Minister Following Independence
Answer: Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Q22. Maharaja of Manipur following Independence
Answer: Bodhchandra Singh
Q23. Chairman of States Reorganization Commission
Answer: Fazal Ali
Q24. The Gandhian who demanded a separate state of Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Potti Sriramulu
Q25. The ruler who signed the Merger agreement
Answer: Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Kashmir
Q26. The ruler who signed the standstill agreement
Answer: Nizam of Hyderabad
Q27. Three states were created in 2000
Answer: Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh
Q28. The original states from which the following states were created:
a)Gujarat b)Haryana c) Meghalaya d) Chattisgarh
Answer:
a) Gujarat - Bombay State
b) Haryana - Punjab and Rajasthan
c) Meghalaya - Assam
d) Chattisgarh - Madhya Pradesh
Q29. The states that were affected by the partition.
Answer: Punjab, Bengal, Assam, and Jammu and Kashmir
Q30. The author of: Subh-e-azadi, Zindan Namna, Nagmani, Naksh-e-Fariyadi & Dast-e-Saba
Answer:
Subh-e-azad - Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Zindan-Nama - Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Nagmani - Amrita Pritam
Naqsh-E-Fariyadi - Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Dast-e-Saba - Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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