1. At the time of independence, India was a signatory to approximately how many treaties?
2. India signed the Versailles Treaty after the First World War primarily on account of which contribution?
3. Consider the following statements:
(I) India was a founding member of the League of Nations.
(II) India was a founding member of the International Labour Organisation.
(III) India was a founding member of the International Court of Justice.
Which of the above is/are correct?
4. India participated in the Washington Conference on Naval Armaments in which years?
5. From which year was there an Indian high commissioner in London?
6. Which of the following expansionist expeditions undertaken by the British after 1878 was opposed by the Indian nationalists?
7. Consider the following pairs:
(I) Annexation of Burma – 1885
(II) Invasion of Tibet under Curzon – 1903
(III) Dispatch of troops to suppress Col. Arabi's uprising in Egypt – 1882
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
8. Who was the Congress president in 1897 who stated, "Our true policy is a peaceful policy"?
9. Consider the following statements regarding the pan-Asian feeling of Indian nationalists during 1880-1914:
(I) They condemned the annexation of Burma in 1885.
(II) They drew inspiration from Japan's industrial development.
(III) They condemned Japan's participation in suppressing the I-Ho-Tuan uprising.
Which of the above is/are correct?
10. Defeat of which country by Japan exploded the myth of European superiority among Indian nationalists?
11. In which year did the Congress urge the people not to join the Army to fight in the West?
12. In 1925, the Congress condemned the dispatch of the Indian Army to suppress the Chinese nationalist army under whom?
13. Who among the following attended the Hague session of the International Socialist Congress?
14. Dadabhai Naoroji was a close friend of which famous socialist?
15. Lajpat Rai made contacts with American socialists during his visit to the USA between which years?
16. Gandhi had close relations with which of the following?
17. On behalf of the Indian National Congress, Nehru attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalists at Brussels in which year?
18. Consider the following statements about the 1927 Brussels Congress of Oppressed Nationalists:
(I) Nehru was one of its honorary presidents.
(II) Einstein was also an honorary president.
(III) Madam Sun-Yat-Sen was also an honorary president.
Which of the above is/are correct?
19. Nehru was nominated to the executive council of which organisation?
20. Nehru visited the Soviet Union in which year and came to see it as a bulwark against imperialism?
21. The nationalists saw imperialism and fascism as organs of which system?
22. Consider the following statements:
(I) The Congress lent support to the anti-fascist struggle in Ethiopia, Spain, China and Czechoslovakia.
(II) At the Tripuri session in 1939, the Congress dissociated itself from British policy supporting fascism in Europe.
(III) In 1939, the nationalists condemned the Japanese attack on China.
Which of the above is/are correct?
23. The Congress sent a medical mission to China in 1939 under whom?
24. On the Palestine issue, what was the Congress's stance?
25. Nehru laid the foundations of independent India's foreign policy in his address to the Constituent Assembly on which date?
26. Panchsheel, or the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, was first formally enunciated on which date?
27. The Agreement embodying Panchsheel concerned trade and intercourse between India and which region?
28. Consider the following as being among the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence:
(I) Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty
(II) Mutual non-aggression
(III) Equality and mutual benefit
Which of the above is/are correct?
29. The joint statement elaborating Panchsheel as a framework for India-China relations was issued in June 1954 during whose visit to India?
30. As per the historical perspective on Panchsheel, credit for formulating the five principles is attributed to whom?
31. Who, as a joint secretary in the external affairs ministry, took the initiative to include the five principles at the outset of the draft agreement text in January 1954?
32. Panchsheel was incorporated into the Ten Principles of International Peace and Cooperation put forward at the Bandung Conference held in which month and year?
33. Consider the following statements:
(I) A UN resolution on peaceful co-existence incorporating Panchsheel's tenets was presented by India, Yugoslavia and Sweden.
(II) This resolution was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1957.
(III) The Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1961 accepted Panchsheel as the basic principles of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Which of the above is/are correct?
34. The term 'non-alignment' got currency in the aftermath of which conference?
35. The first Non-Aligned Movement summit was held in Belgrade in which year?
36. Which of the following pioneering leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement was the President of Egypt?
37. What was the original name of Yugoslavia's President Tito, a pioneering leader of the NAM?
38. How does non-alignment differ from neutrality as India's foreign policy stance?
39. The Preparatory Committee of the first non-aligned conference laid down criteria of non-alignment. Which of the following was one such criterion?
40. Consider the following statements:
(I) The United States followed an isolationist policy before the Second World War.
(II) The Soviet Union tested its own nuclear weapon in 1949.
(III) China remained aligned with the Soviet Union till the mid-fifties.
Which of the above is/are correct?
