1. The constitution of the Indian National Congress was written by: (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)

2. Who wrote ‘Hind Swaraj'? (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)

3. Kautilya is compared with: (GUJARAT SET JANUARY 2002)

4. Who is the author of the 'First War of Independence'? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2002)

5. Who proposed 'Constructive Programme' as integral part of Swaraj? (GUJARAT SET JULY 2004)

6. Who is the pioneer of Hindu nationalism? (GUJARATE SET JULY 2006 PAPER II)

7. The Congress Session in which the split between the moderates and the extremists took place in 1907 was held at: (GUJARAT SET 2011)

8. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's version of  Buddhism is known as: (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER II)

9. Kautilya's Arthashastra is aptly described as a treatise on: (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER II)

10. About the office of the President, who said, "The Constitution wants to create neither a real executive nor a mere figurehead, but a head that neither reigns nor governs : it wants to create a great  figurehead.......... (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER III)

11. Which concept played a central role in the final phase of Aurobindo Ghosh's career? (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER III)

12. Which pair is correctly matched? (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER III)

13. Sarvodaya is principally associated with (GUJARAT SET 2014 PAPER II)

14. Which group of organs of the state was not propounded by Kautilya as one of the seven organs? (GUJARAT SET 2014 PAPER II)

15. To which ideology did M. N. Roy subscribed before he espoused Radical Humanism? (GUJARAT SET 2014 PAPER III)

16. Which concept did Gandhi formulate to convey his vision of social welfare? (GUJARAT SET 2014 PAPER III)

17. Which one of the following books did Gandhi translate into his native Gujarati? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER II)

18. Which one of the following is not an element of Kautilya's idea of the state? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER II)

19. The debate over the decolonization thesis took place between: (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

20. Who among the following said that "Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul; but in politics, Bhakti or hero worship is a sure road to degradation and eventual dictatorship?" (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

21. Who among the following rejected the idea that caste status was the result of divine reward or punishment? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

22. Who among the following was the first Satyagrahi of the individual civil disobedience movement started by Gandhi in October 1940? (GUJARAT SET 2018)

23. Who founded the Mexican Socialist Workers Party which was later named as Mexican Communist Party? (GUJARAT SET 2018)

24. "Nai Talim" was advocated by: (GUJARAT SET 2018)

25. Who is the author of Savitri? (GUJARAT SET 2018)

26. "We should destroy all those who are hurdles to a life of self-respect of a nation or country .... we should remove the obstacles in the path and become free by attaining self-respect." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

27. Who authored the book Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

28. Which of the following pairs of Political Thinkers and Quote on Nationalism is wrongly matched? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

29. "People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting man into animals." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

30. Which of the following statements are true about Gandhi and his work Hind Swaraj? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

a.       Gandhi first met Savarkar in October 1906 before he wrote Hind Swaraj.

b.      Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj on board the ship Queen's Castle while travelling from South Africa to London.

c.       In Hind Swaraj, Gandhi argues that it is not enough that Britishers leave and Indians adopt a British- styled society.

d.      Gandhi first wrote Hind Swaraj in Gujarati, which was banned by the British Government.

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31. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. (GUJARAT SET 2023)

Assertion (A): Gandhi disagreed with Ambedkar in 1932, after the Communal Award of the British Government granted separate electorates for the depressed classes.

Reason (R): Gandhi believed that only a change of heart on the part of caste Hindus would remove untouchability; Ambedkar believed in the guarantee of legal rights and redress, backed by political power.

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32. Which of the following text is authored by and/or associated with Kabir? (GUJARAT SET 2023)

33. Which of the following trade unions was founded by Mahatma Gandhi? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

34. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2022)

Assertion (A): According to Nehruvian idea, post-independence India faces biggest development challenge of transforming one of the oldest, most complex, continuous civilization into a modern nation-state.

Reason (R): One of the important measures of India's march towards political modernization is high level of institutional development and democratic polity.

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35. Which of the following is not correct about Gandhi's book titled Hind Swaraj? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

36. Which of the following are correct about B. R. Ambedkar's book titled The Untouchables published in 1948? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

a. In the book, Ambedkar identifies a racial and occupational basis for the origin of untouchability.

b. In the book, Ambedkar concludes that untouchables were pushed aside in the struggle for supremacy between Buddhism and Brahmanism.

c. In the book, Ambedkar specifically denies a racial, ethnic or occupational basis for the origin of untouchability.

d. The book is dedicated to three saints, namely, Nandnar, Ravidas and Chokamela.

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37. Who is the author of the book titled The High-Caste Hindu Woman? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

38. "It is freedom alone that is desirable .... It is not law that we want but ability to break law. We want to be outlaws. If you are bound by laws, you will be a lump of clay." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

39. Which of the following matches is correct in terms of author and book? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

40. Which of the following thinkers is conceptualised by Partha Chatterjee in his work Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? as "the moment of arrival"? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

41. "The problem of raising the lower order in India.... is to remove from them that inferiority complex which has stunted their growth... nothing. can achieve this purpose except the spread of higher education." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

42. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2022)

43. Which of the following is not an element of Kautilya's Saptanga theory of the state? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

44. Which of the following is not a principle advocated by Nehru's political thought? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

45. Who is the author of the book The Artic Home in the Vedas? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

46. "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

47. Which of the following Indian political thinkers held the view that a crisis of the world capitalist structure should be expected from the side of the colonies, not from the metropolitan centres? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

48. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

49. Which of the following books is/are authored by B.R. Ambedkar? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

a. Gulamgiri

b. Why I am a Dalit

c. The Untouchables: Who were they and why they become untouchable

d. Pakistan or the Partition of India

Select the correct answer from the choices given below.

50. "Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science". Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

51. Who among the following identifies nationalism in terms of allegiance to the land as Pitrubhu and Punyabhu? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

52. Which of the following is not a purpose of Dandaniti, according to Kautilya? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

53. Who made the following statement in the Constituent Assembly in connection with the Amendment Procedure of the Constitution of India "while we want this constitution to be solid and as permanent a structure we can make it; nevertheless there is no permanence in constitutions."? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

54. "Once God is let in, there is an end to the sovereignty of man." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

55. Who among the following is regarded as the key architect of the Dravidian movement? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

56. Who among the following was associated with the "Resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy," proposed in 1931? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

57. "Means are after all everything; as the means so the end. There is no wall of separation between means and end." Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

58. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a work written by B. R. Ambedkar? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

59. Who among the following said "Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind"? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

60. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

61. Who among the following founded the Mukti Mission at Kedgaon? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

62. Who among the following was not a poet of the Bhakti tradition? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

63. Which of the following is not an element of Kautilya's Saptanga theory of the state? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

64. The 1963 Kamraj Plan was initiated by Nehru : (GUJARAT SET 2017 AUG PAPER II)

65. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2017 AUG PAPER II)

66. Gandhi's Satyavir Ki Katha is the Gujarati translation of which of the following? (GUJARAT SET 2017 AUG PAPER II)

67. Who is the author of the book India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER III) 

68. "Means are after all everything. As the means, so the end; there is no wall of separation between means and end." The above statement is characteristic of: (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER 3)

69. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a work authored by B. R. Ambedkar? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER 3)

70. Who among the following advocated a partyless democracy? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER 3)