[Mission 2023] STATIC QUIZ, 18 January 2023 – Modern India

Solution: b)

Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Nehru as the next Prime Minister of India. He ended the Indo-Pak war of 1965 by concluding the Tashkent Agreement in January 1966.

Solution: b)

There have been precedents when India and Pakistan have allowed a third-party to help resolve their issues.

Both nations were able to reach agreements through third party mediators in case of the Indus Waters Treaty and the negotiations on the Rann of Kutch dispute.

The Shimla Agreement, was signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla. It followed from the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 that led to the independence of Bangladesh, which was earlier known as East Pakistan and was part of the territory of Pakistan.

Solution: a)

The Indo–Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was a treaty signed between India and the Soviet Union in August 1971 that specified mutual strategic cooperation. That was a significant deviation from India’s previous position of non-alignment during the Cold War and was a factor in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.

The treaty was caused by increasing Pakistani ties with China and the United States and played an important role in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Solution: c)

Bangladesh Liberation War began after the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971.

Solution: d)

Popularly known as Father of Wheat Revolution, Dilbagh Singh Athwal was instrumental in developing ‘PV 18’ in 1966 and the most popular amber grained wheat variety ‘Kalyansona’ in 1967.

M. S. Swaminathan, the main architect or the Father of the Green Revolution in India.