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CAPF - Modern history Test 1416
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  • Question 1/5
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    Which of the following statements relating to the historic Objectives Resolution, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly, is/are correct?
    1) The Objectives Resolution inspired the shaping of the Constitution through all its subsequent stages.
    2) It was not just a resolution, but a declaration, a firm resolve and a pledge.
    3) It provided the underlying philosophy of our Constitution.
    Select the correct answer using the code given below.
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    The assembly first met on 9 December 1946. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru introduced the Objective Resolution on December 13, 1946, which established the concept and guiding principles for building the Constitution and eventually took the shape of the Preamble to the Indian Constitution. On 22 January 1947, the Constituent Assembly accepted this Resolution. 

    Objective Resolution enshrined the aspirations and values of the constitution-makers. Under this, the people of India were guaranteed social, economic and political justice, equality and fundamental freedoms.

    They include equality of status, of opportunity and before law, social, economic and political justice, and freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship and association, subject to (the) law and public morality.

    Hence, Option C is correct.
  • Question 2/5
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    Who among the following was not a member of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
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    Drafting committee was set up by the constituent assembly on 29, August 1947 and was headed by B.R Ambedkar. The task given to it was to draft a new constitution for India. Its members were- N.G Ayyangar, Krishnaswamy Ayyangar, Dr D.K munshi, Syed Mohammad Saadullah, B.L Mitter(replaced by N Madhava Rau) and D.P Khaitan( replaced by T T Krishanchari).
    Hence, Option C is correct.
  • Question 3/5
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    What was the privy purse in the context of the history of Modern India?
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    In India, the Privy Purse was a payment made to the royal families of erstwhile princely states as part of their agreements to first integrate with India in 1947, and later to merge their states in 1949 whereby they lost all ruling rights.
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    Who among the following were the members of cabinet mission?

    1) Stafford Cripps

    2) Patrick Lawrence

    3) AV Alexander

    Solutions
    Cabinet mission was announced by Attlee government having all three British members.

    Cabinet Mission was a high-powered mission sent in February 1946 to India by the Atlee Government (British Prime Minister.) The mission had three British cabinet members Pethick Lawrence, Stafford Cripps, & and A.V. Alexander. The Cabinet Mission’s aim was to discuss the transfer of power from British to Indian leadership.

    Objectives of Cabinet Mission: 
    • To obtain an agreement with the Indian leaders as to the framing of a constitution for India.
    • To formulate a constitution-making body (the Constituent Assembly of India).
    • To establish an Executive Council with the support of the major Indian parties.
    Hence, Option D is correct.
  • Question 5/5
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    Who among the following had moved the objective resolution in the Constituent Assembly?
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    • Before the framing of the constitution started, an Objectives Resolution (the resolution that defined the aims of the Assembly) was moved by Nehru in 1946.
    • This resolution enshrined the aspirations and values behind the Constitution making.
    • On the basis of the Objectives Resolution, India’s Constitution gave institutional expression to the fundamental commitments: equality, liberty, democracy, sovereignty and a cosmopolitan identity.
    • This made the moral commitment to establish a government that will fulfill the many promises that the nationalist movement held before the people of India.
    Hence, Option D is correct.
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