Q60. The Communist Party of India was formed in 1925 at the first party conference in ______.
[Delhi Police Constable (20 November 2023, Shift 2)]
(A) Madras
(B) Kanpur
(C) Bombay
(D) Delhi
Answer: (B) Kanpur
Explanation: The Kanpur conference of December 1925 unified important communist groupings and is treated as the CPI’s formal foundation in India. Communists had already organised internationally, especially at Tashkent in 1920. The question explicitly refers to the first party conference in India.
Q59. The trial for the Meerut Conspiracy Case took place under whose viceroyalty?
[SSC JE Civil Paper-I (9 October 2023, Shift 1)]
(A) Lord Chelmsford
(B) Lord Reading
(C) Lord Irwin
(D) Lord Hardinge
Answer: (C) Lord Irwin
Explanation: The Meerut Conspiracy Case began in 1929 while Lord Irwin served as Viceroy. The British prosecuted trade unionists and communist activists accused of revolutionary conspiracy. The widely publicised trial placed colonial attitudes towards organised labour under scrutiny.
Q58. Match parties with founding years:
(a) CPI(M),
(b) CPI,
(c) BSP,
(d) AITC;
years
1–1964,
2–1998,
3–1925,
4–1984.
[69th BPSC Prelims (30 September 2023)]
(A) a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
(B) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
(C) a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
(D) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
Answer: (A) a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
Explanation: The CPI dates its formal Indian foundation to 1925, while CPI(M) emerged from its 1964 split. The Bahujan Samaj Party began in 1984 and the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998. Correctly separating the two communist party dates resolves the match.
Q57. When and under whose chairmanship was the All India Trade Union Congress formed?
[Bihar STET TGT Social Science (18 September 2023, Shift 6)]
(A) 31 October 1920, Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) 31 November 1920, N. M. Joshi
(C) 31 December 1920, Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) 31 December 1920, Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (A) 31 October 1920, Lala Lajpat Rai
Explanation: AITUC was established at Bombay on 31 October 1920, with Lala Lajpat Rai heading its founding session. Its organisational purpose was to provide a united national platform for workers. The other options give incorrect dates or personalities.
Q56. At which place was the first meeting of the Congress Socialist Party held?
[CISF Constable Fireman (26 September 2023, Shift 1)]
(A) Calcutta
(B) Patna
(C) Gaya
(D) Bhagalpur
Answer: (B) Patna
Explanation: The first major gathering of Congress socialists took place in Patna on 17 May 1934. Jayaprakash Narayan convened socialist colleagues, and Acharya Narendra Deva presided. A later all-India meeting in Bombay helped consolidate the party that October.
Q55. Where was the first All India Congress Socialist Conference held?
[Bihar Primary Teacher (24 August 2023, Shift 2)]
(A) Patna
(B) Bhagalpur
(C) Muzaffarpur
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
Answer: (A) Patna
Explanation: Patna hosted the formative May 1934 gathering of Congress socialists, often described as the first all-India Congress Socialist Conference. The socialists later organised a Bombay conference in October. Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan were central figures.
Q54. Who formed the Bihar Socialist Party?
[Bihar Senior Secondary Teacher (26 August 2023, Shift 2)]
(A) Phulan Chand Tiwari and Rajendra Prasad
(B) Phulan Prasad Varma and Jayaprakash Narayan
(C) Raj Kumar Shukla and Swami Agnivesh
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
Answer: (B) Phulan Prasad Varma and Jayaprakash Narayan
Explanation: The Bihar Socialist Party of 1931 was an important precursor to the Congress Socialist Party. Phulan Prasad Varma worked with Jayaprakash Narayan and other provincial socialists. Such early groups helped create networks consolidated by the nationwide socialist initiative of 1934.
Q53. Who among the following founded the Congress Socialist Party in 1934?
[OSSC TGT (11 March 2023, Shift 2)]
(A) Jayaprakash Narayan
(B) Chittu Pandey
(C) M. N. Roy
(D) Sheikh Abdullah
Answer: (A) Jayaprakash Narayan
Explanation: Jayaprakash Narayan helped found the CSP in 1934 with Acharya Narendra Deva, Ram Manohar Lohia and others. Its aim was to bring a more explicit socialist programme into the independence movement. Roy, in comparison, pioneered the communist movement.
Q52. Which Congress Socialist Party founder and Quit India participant withdrew from politics after independence?
[MPPGCL Junior Engineer Electrical (28 April 2023, Shift 1)]
(A) A. K. Fazlul Haq
(B) Acharya Narendra Dev
(C) Achyut S. Patwardhan
(D) Amir Chand
Answer: (C) Achyut S. Patwardhan
Explanation: Achyut Patwardhan helped establish the Congress Socialist Party and participated actively in underground resistance during Quit India. Following independence he withdrew from regular political life. Narendra Deva remained a prominent socialist intellectual and public leader.
Q51. Who wrote the essay ‘Gandhiji’s Leadership and the Congress Socialist Party’?
[UGC NET History Paper-II (28 February 2023, Shift 1)]
(A) Acharya Narendra Dev
(B) Purushottam Das Tandon
(C) S. A. Dange
(D) Jayaprakash Narayan
Answer: (D) Jayaprakash Narayan
Explanation: Jayaprakash Narayan authored the essay examining the relationship between Gandhian leadership and socialist politics. As a CSP founder, he sought greater attention to economic inequality within the nationalist movement. His writing reflected debates over methods, leadership and socialism.
