India After Independence Questions & Answers

1. In which year was the Simla Agreement signed between India & Pakistan?

Answer :- July 2, 1972

2. Who were the leaders of India & Pakistan to sign the Simla Agreement? 
Answer :- Indira Gandhi & Zulfigar Ali Bhutto  

3.Which was the Gandhian method of tree protection agitation in the Himalayas?

Answer :- The Chipko Movement

4. In the 1970s, which Indian state witnessed the Chipko Movement? 

Answer :- Uttar Pradesh (at present in Uttarakhand)  

5.Who was the prominent leader of the Chipko Movement?

Answer :- Sunderlal Bahuguna 

6.What was the code name assigned to India's first nuclear explosion on 18 May 1974?

Answer :- Smiling Buddha

7. Which was the test site for India's first underground nuclear weapon detonation?

Answer :- Pokhran in the Thar Desert (Rajasthan)

8.India's first satellite 'Aryabhata' was launched from Kapustin Yar in Russia on ?

Answer :- 19 April 1975

9.In which year was the first phase of Bank Nationalisation?  

Answer :- July 19, 1969

10. The second phase of Bank Nationalisation was on:

Answer :- April 15, 1980

11. Who was the Prime Minister of India at the time of Bank Nationalisations?

Answer :- Indira Gandhi

12. Jawaharlal Nehru's famous work The Discovery of India' is dedicated to:  Answer :- The Prisoners of Ahmednagar Jail

13. Who was the first Indian President to die in office?

Answer :- Zakir Hussain

14. Which Indian Prime Minister raised the slogan of 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'? Answer :- Lal Bahadur Shastri  

15.Which Indian leader's famous slogan was 'Garibi Hatao'?

Answer :- Indira Gandhi

16.Which was the period of notorious 21 month long national emergency in India?

Answer :- 25 June 1975 - 21 March 1977

17. Who was the Indian President to proclaim the national emergency of 1975?

Answer :- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

18. Which Indian newspaper carried a blank editorial on 28 June, 1975 to protest the national emergency?

Answer :- Indian Express

19. Who was the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India?

Answer :- Morarji Desai

20. Who was the first Indian Prime Minister to be assassinated?

Answer :- Indira Gandhi

21. Who is the only Indian politician to have hold the key posts of state Chief Minister, Speaker of Lok Sabha, Union Minister & the President of India?

Answer :- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy

22. Which Indian leader made the call of 'Total Revolution'?

Answer :- Jayaprakash Narayan

23. Which President of India announced that he would be moving out of Rashtrapati Bhavan to a smaller accommodation and that he would be taking a 70 percent pay cut in solidarity with India's impoverished masses?
Answer :- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy

24. Who was the only Indian president to be elected unopposed?

Answer :- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy

25. Which incident is described as 'the world's worst industrial disaster'? Answer :- Bhopal Gas Tragedy

26. In which year was the Bhopal gas tragedy?

Answer :- December, 1984

27. The leakage of which poisonous gas caused the Bhopal tragedy?  

Answer :- Methyl isocyanate

28. Gas leakage in which pesticide company in Bhopal lead to the disaster? Answer :- The Union Carbide India Limited

29. While inaugurating the Bhakra Nangal Dam in 1954, who called it as 'the Temple of Modern India'?

Answer :- Jawaharlal Nehru