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Nagaland became a state in:Read the answer and worked solution →Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became full states in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mizo National Front began its armed campaign for independence in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1986 Mizoram peace accord was signed between Rajiv Gandhi and:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the North-East statesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Punjab wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the regional yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the regional wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Punjab or MizoramRead the answer and worked solution →Sort Kashmir, Punjab and North-EastRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Regional aspirations bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In the 1984 Lok Sabha election the Congress won how many seats?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1989 the Congress was reduced to how many Lok Sabha seats?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1990 National Front decision to implement the Mandal Commission report reserved central government jobs for:Read the answer and worked solution →Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in May 1991 by a Sri Lankan Tamil linked to the:Read the answer and worked solution →After Rajiv Gandhi's death, the Congress chose which Prime Minister in 1991?Read the answer and worked solution →No single party won a clear Lok Sabha majority in any election from 1989 till:Read the answer and worked solution →The NDA government formed in October 1999 under Vajpayee:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Bihar Chief Minister pioneered OBC reservations in north India during 1977-79?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mandal Commission recommended reserving what share of seats in education and government jobs for OBCs?Read the answer and worked solution →The Supreme Court upheld OBC reservations in November 1992 in the case known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) was formed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bharatiya Janata Party was formed by former Jana Sangh supporters in:Read the answer and worked solution →Initially the BJP embraced which ideology as its platform?Read the answer and worked solution →Hindutva as the basis of Indian nationhood was defined by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Shah Bano case, in which a divorced Muslim woman sought maintenance, was decided in:Read the answer and worked solution →The law that nullified the Shah Bano judgment was the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Babri Masjid, a sixteenth-century mosque, was built by:Read the answer and worked solution →The BJP's Rathyatra to Ayodhya started from:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Nagaland became a state in:

  1. 1963
  2. 1972
  3. 1987
  4. 1951
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Correct answer: A. 1963

1. Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya followed in 1972. 2. Nagaland was created in 1963. 3. Mizoram and Arunachal became states in 1987. _Source: syllabus Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 8, Regional Aspirations._

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Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became full states in:

  1. 1966
  2. 1987
  3. 1972
  4. 1963
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Correct answer: B. 1987

1. Mizoram's statehood followed the 1986 accord. 2. Both became states in 1987. 3. The North-East reorganisation had begun in 1972. _Source: syllabus Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 8, Regional Aspirations._

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The Mizo National Front began its armed campaign for independence in:

  1. 1986
  2. 1972
  3. 1966
  4. 1959
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Correct answer: C. 1966

1. Anger over the 1959 famine fed the movement. 2. The armed campaign began in 1966. 3. It lasted two decades. _Source: syllabus Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 8, Regional Aspirations._

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