Political Institutions in India – UGC NET – Practice Questions

Historical Development and Basic Structure of Constitution

1. For the first time, a separate legislative machinery was created by enlarging the Council of Governor-General under the

(a) Montague-Chelmsford Reform Act, 1919

(b) Government of India Act, 1935

(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861

(d) Charter Act, 1833

2. The name of famous person of India, who returned the knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a taken of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was

(a) Tej Bahadur Sapru

(b) Ashutosh Mukherjee

(c) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Syed Ahmed Khan

3. With reference to India freedom struggle, which one of the following statement is not correct?

(a) A Rowlatt Act aroused a wave of popular indignation and led to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

(b) Subhash Chandra Bose formed the Forward Bloc

(c) Bhagat Singh was one of the founders of Hindustan Republican Socialist Association

(d) In 1931, the Congress Session at Karachi opposed Gandhi-Irwin Pact.

4. Which one of the following is not a feature of the Government of India Act of 1935?

(a) Diarchy at the centre as well as in the provinces

(b) A bicameral legislature

(c) Provincial autonomy

(d) An All India Federation

5. Constituent Assembly had been created on the advice of

(a) Simon Commission

(b) Committee of Provincial Legislative Assembly Members

(c) Cabinet Mission

(d) Wavell Committee

6. Which one of the following is in proper chronological order?

(a) Rowlatt Act – Jallianwala Bagh Massacre – Hunter’s Report

(b) Hunter’s Report – Rowlatt Act – Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

(c) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre – Rowlatt Act – Hunter’s Report

(d) Rowlatt Act – Jallianwala Bagh Massacre – Hunter’s Report

7. The most important cause for the outbreak of the Ghadar Revolution was the

(a) arrest of Lala Har Dayal

(b) outbreak of World War

(c) hanging of Kartar Singh Sarabha

(d) Kamagata Maru Incident

8. Who among the early nationalists worked in England to mobilise public opinion in favour of the Indian National Movement?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) DE Wacha

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

9. Sir Charles Wood Despatch of 1854 dealt primarily with

(a) administrative reforms

(b) social reforms

(c) economic reforms

(d) educational reforms

10. Which Indian nationalist leader looked upon a war between Germany and Britain as a God-sent opportunity, which would enable Indians to exploit the situation to their advantage?

(a) C Rajagopalachari

(b) MA Jinnah

(c) Subhash Chandra Bose

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

11. Which one of the following leaders of the Congress was totally in favour of Cabinet Mission Plan?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Sardar Patel

(d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

12. Which one of the following Indian leaders was dismissed by the British from the Indian Civil Service?

(a) Satyendranath Tagore

(b) Surendranath Banerjee

(c) RC Dutt

(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

13. The first venture of Gandhi in All India Politics was the

(a) Non-cooperation Movement

(b) Rowlatt Satyagraha

(c) Champaran Movement

(d) Dandi March

14. The Congress policy of Pray and Petition ultimately came to an end under the guidance of

(a) Aurobindo Ghosh

(b) Lokmanya Tilak

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

15. Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel

(b) Acharya JB Kriplani and C Rajagopalachari

(c) Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad

(d) Dr Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

16. The Indian National Army (INA) came into existence in 1943 in

(a) Japan

(b) Burma

(c) Singapore

(d) Malaya

17. As an alternative to the partition of India, Gandhiji suggested to Mountbatten that, he

(a) postponed granting of independence

(b) invited Jinnah to form the government

(c) invited Nehru and Jinnah to form the government together

(d) invite the army to take over for sometime

18. The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was the brain child of

(a) W Churchill

(b) MA Jinnah

(c) Lord Mountbatten

(d) VP Menon

19. Who among the following leaders proposed to adopt complete independence as the goal of the Congress in the Ahmedabad Session of 1920?

(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(b) Hasrat Mohani

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

20. When Congress leaders condemned the Montague-Chelmsford Report, many moderates left the party to form the

(a) Swaraj Party

(b) Indian Freedom Party

(c) Independence Federation of India

(d) India Liberal Federation

21. For the Karachi Session of India National Congress in 1931 presided over by Sardar Patel, who drafted the Resolution of Fundamental Rights and Economic Programme?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Dr Rajendra Prasad

(d) Dr BR Ambedkar

22. The last opportunity to avoid the Partition of India was lost with the rejection of

(a) Cripps Mission

(b) Rajagopalachari Formula

(c) Cabinet Mission

(d) Wavell Plan

23. Representative institutions in Indian were introduced for the first time by the

(a) Charter Act, 1853

(b) Government of India Act, 1858

(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861

(d) Indian Councils Act, 1892

24. Who among the following is the author of the book “The Indian Struggle”?

(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(b) Sardar Patel

(c) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

25. In which of the following, who was called the ‘Father of Indian Unrest”?

(a) AO Hume

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Lokmanya Tilak

26. “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”. Who said this?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya

(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(d) Surendranath Bannerjee

27. Who said this, “Politics should be spiritualised”?

(a) Madan Mohan Malaviya

(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Vinoba Bhave

28. “The village was a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow mindness and communalism”. Who said this?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Rajendra Prasad

(c) BR Ambedkar

(d) Mahatma Gandhi