Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Regional Aspirations

Question:

Match the following States in List 1 correctly with the year in which they were formed in List 2:

List 1- State

List-2 Year

(a) Mizoram 

(i) 1972

(b) Nagaland

(ii) 1987

(c) Tripura

(iii) 1966

(d) Punjab

(iv) 1963

Options:

(a)- iv, (b)- ii, (c)- i, (d)- iii

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- iii

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- iii

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- iii, (d)- i

Correct Answer:

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- iii

Explanation:

Punjab -1966

Nagaland -1963

Tripura -1972 

Mizoram -1987

Statehood for Punjab came ten years later, in 1966 when the territories of today’s Haryana and Himachal Pradesh were separated from the larger Punjab state.

Another major reorganisation of states took place in the northeast in 1972. Meghalaya was carved out of Assam in 1972. Manipur and Tripura too emerged as separate states in the same year. The states of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh came into being in 1987. Nagaland had become a state much earlier in 1963