Ans: B

Exp:

Pair 1 is incorrectly matched: C.H. Bhabha was the Minister of Commerce, whereas Jawaharlal Nehru was the Minister of Scientific Research along with the Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations.

Pairs 2 and 3 are correctly matched: The first Council of Ministers of Independent India was as follows:

• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Home Affairs and States; Minister of Information and Broadcasting
•  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: Minister of Education
•  Sardar Baldev Singh: Minister of Defence
•  Amrit Kaur: Minister of Health
•  Narhar Vishnu Gadgil: Minister of Works, Mines and Power

Ans: D

Exp:

The Boundary Commission was a commission established to demarcate the boundaries between India and the newly created Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947.

Statement 1 is incorrect: The British government appointed the Boundary Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The Boundary Commission consisted of two Muslims and two non-Muslim judges in each case.

Statement 2 is incorrect: The report of the Boundary Commission was ready by August 12. However, Lord Mountbatten intentionally made it public on August 17, 1947, so that the responsibility for the consequences—communal riots and its repercussions—would not fall on the British.

Statement 3 is incorrect: Although religious demography was the deciding factor, other factors such as rivers as natural boundaries, administrative units, economic viability, railway and roadway connectivity, and other infrastructural facilities such as the canal system were also to be taken into consideration.

Ans: C

Exp:

On 29th August 1947, the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution was appointed and had seven members :

• Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar

• • N. Gopalaswami.
  • B.R. Ambedkar (Chairman of the drafting committee.)

• K.M Munshi (Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi)

• Mohammad Saadullah.
• B.L. Mitter.
• D.P. Khaitan. (died in 1948 and hence T.T. Krishnamachari (Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari) was appointed as member)

It had taken 2 years, 11 months, and 18 days to complete the Draft. On November 26, 1949, the people of India in the Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted, and gave to themselves the Constitution of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of India.

Ans: A

Exp:

Statement 1 is correct: The Telangana uprising began in July 1946, during which the communist-led guerrillas had built a strong base in Telangana villages through Andhra Mahasabha and had been leading local struggles on issues such as wartime exactions, abuse of rationing, excessive rent, and vethi.

Statement 2 is incorrect: This was the biggest peasant guerrilla war in modern Indian history, affecting 3000 villages and 3 million people. The princely state of Hyderabad under the Asajahi Nizams was marked by a combination of religious-linguistic domination, a total lack of political and civil liberties, and forced exploitation by Deshmukh, jagirdars, and doras (landlords) in forms of forced labour (vethi) and illegal exactions.

Ans: A

Exp:

Eka Movement: Towards the end of 1921, peasant discontent resurfaced in some northern districts of the United Provinces. The meetings of the Eka or the Unity Movement involved a symbolic religious ritual in which the assembled peasants vowed that they would pay only the recorded rent but would pay it on time.

Bardoli Satyagraha: The Bardoli taluka in Surat district witnessed intense politicisation after the coming of Gandhi on the national political scene. The movement sparked off in January 1926 when the authorities decided to increase the land revenue by 30 percent.

Tebhaga Movement: In September 1946, the Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha gave a call to implement, through mass struggle, the Flood Commission recommendations of Tebhaga to the share-croppers instead of the one-half share.