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Modern Indian History UPPSC 2013 GS-I
Question

The Mounthantten Plan became the basis for

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option C: Partition of the country

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Partition of the country”.
The Mountbatten Plan (3 June 1947), also known as the 3rd June Plan, became the basis for the partition of British India into two independent countries, India and Pakistan.

Similar Questions:

Consider the following events and arrange them in chronological order.

I. Battle of Mudki
II. Battle of Porto Novo
III. Battle of Shakarkheda
IV. Battle of Bedara

Select the correct answer from the code given below:
Code:
  1. A) II III IV I
  2. B) III IV II I
  3. C) IV III II I
  4. D) I II III IV
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established in the period of Warren Hastings and he modestly declined the offer of Presidentship of that learned body in favour of Sir William Jones.

Reason (R): Warren Hastings was himself a great scholar and an ardent orientalist who used to encourage the study of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
  1. A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
  2. B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
  3. C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
  4. D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Which one of the following is not a tax/duty levied by the Government of India?
  1. A) Service Tax
  2. B) Education Tax
  3. C) Custom Duty
  4. D) Toll Tax
Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
  1. A) Bhagat Singh : The Indian Sociologist
  2. B) Sachindranath Sanyal : Bandi Jivan
  3. C) Lala Ramsaran : Das The Dreamland
  4. D) Bhagawati Charan Vohra : The Philosophy of Bomb
When were High Courts established in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta?
  1. A) 1861
  2. B) 1851
  3. C) 1871
  4. D) 1881
Who among the following supported the Swaraj Party in Central Legislative Assembly in pre-independent India?
  1. A) M. Jinnah
  2. B) M. K. Gandhi
  3. C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
  4. D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Given below are four events connected with India's struggle for independence. Select their correct chronological order by using the codes given below the events:

1. Second Round Table Conference.
2. Karachi Session of Indian National Congress.
3. Execution of Bhagat Singh.
4. Gandhi-Irwin Pact.

Codes:
  1. A) 1,2,3,4
  2. B) 2,1,3,4
  3. C) 4,3,2,1
  4. D) 2,4,3,1
The Right to Information Act of Parliament received the assent of the President of India on
  1. A) 15th May, 2005
  2. B) 5th June, 2005
  3. C) 15th June, 2005
  4. D) 12th October, 2005
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
List-I (River) - List-II (Dam)

A) Colorado - 1) Aswan
B) Damodar - 2) Cariba
C) Nile - 3) Panchet Hill
D) Zambezi - 4) Hoover
  1. A) A-1 B-2 C-3 D-4
  2. B) A-1 B-3 C-4 D-2
  3. C) A-3 B-4 C-1 D-2
  4. D) A-4 B-3 C-1 D-2
U.P. Science Congress was organised from 2nd to 4th March, 2013 at:
  1. A) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
  2. B) Lucknow University, Lucknow
  3. C) Rohilkhand University, Bareilly
  4. D) D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur
The first meeting of Indian National Congress was held at-
  1. A) Bombay
  2. B) Poona
  3. C) Madras
  4. D) Calcutta
The country at the top in terms of percentage of total coffee production in the world is:
  1. A) Colombia
  2. B) Brazil
  3. C) India
  4. D) Ethiopia