One Mark Questions: Contemporary South Asian
Question 1. Name the countries of South Asia?
Answer: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Question 2. When did the parliament of Maldives vote to introduce a multi party system?
Answer: in June 2005.
Question 3. Which party dominates the political affairs of Maldives?
Answer: the Maldivian democratic party.
Question 4. What is other name for Sri Lanka?
Answer: Ceylon.
Question 5. When did Sri Lanka gain its independence?
Answer: 1948.
Question 6. When did Pakistan join called war military blocks SEATO and CENTO?
Answer: between 1954-55.
Question 7. When did India Pakistan sign the Indus water treaty?
Answer: September 1960.
Question 8. When did India Pakistan sign the Tashkent agreement?
Answer: 1966.
Question 10. When did Bangladeshi leaders proclaim independence?
Answer: March 1971.
Question 11. When did India Pakistan Shimla agreement?
Answer: July 1972.
Question 12. When did India conduct a nuclear test?
Answer: May 1974.
Question 13. When did South Asian leaders sign the SAARC charter?
Answer: December 1985.
Question 14. When was the Indian peacekeeping force sent to Sri Lanka?
Answer: 1987.
Question 15. What was the Farakka Treaty and when was it signed?
Answer: Farakka Treaty was signed for sharing of Ganga water in December 1996.
Question 16. When did India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests?
Answer: May 1998.
Question 17. When did India and Sri Lanka sign free trade agreements?
Answer: December 1998.
Question 18. Who took over administration of Pakistan soon after its first constitution was framed?
Answer: General Ayub Khan.
Question 19. When was the Bhutto government removed?
Answer: 1977.
Question 20. When did the king of Nepal accept the demand for a new democratic constitution?
Answer: 1990.
Question 21. Where was SAFTA signed between South Asian countries?
Answer: Islamabad.
Question 22. What do you understand by "AAA"?
Answer: Allah, Army , America.
Question 23. When did the Awami League led by Sheikh Mujib win all seats in East Pakistan?
Answer: In the 1970 election.
Question 24. When was Sheikh Mujib assassinated by military uprising?
Answer: in 1975.
Question 25. When did the king of Nepal abolish parliament?
Answer: 2002.
Question 26. When did Sri Lanka got independence?
Answer: 1948.
Question 27. What is the full form of LTTE?
Answer: Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam.
Question 28. What was the demand of the LTTE group?
Answer: the demand of LTTE was Tamil Eelam or a separate country for the Tamils of Sri Lanka.
Question 29. When was IKPF withdrawn from Sri Lanka?
Answer: 1989.
Question 30. When did Maldives became a republic and adopt a presidential system of government?
Answer: 1968.
Question 31. When did the parliament of Maldives vote in favour of a multi party system?
Answer: 2005.
Question 32. Name the dominating parties of Pakistan?
Answer: Pakistan people's party and the Muslim league.
Question 33. When did general Pervez Musharraf get elected himself as president of Pakistan?
Answer: 2001.
Question 34. When did lieutenant general H.M. Irshad declared himself President of Bangladesh?
Answer: 1983.
Question 35. Who formed the Bangladesh National Party?
Answer: military ruler Ziaur Rahman.
Question 36. When was Ziaur Rahman assassinated?
Answer: 30 May, 1981
Question 37. When was monarchy abolished in Nepal?
Answer: 2008.
Question 38. When was the new constitution adopted in Nepal?
Answer: 2015.
Question 39. What does Scandinavian mean?
Answer: Scandinavian means belonging or relating to a group of Northern European countries that includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Question 40. When did the civil war End in Sri Lanka?
Answer: the civil war ended with Prabhakaran's death on May 18, 2009.
Question 41. When did Raja Harish Singh join India by signing an 'instrument of accession'?
Answer: 26 October 1947.
Question 42. When did Pakistan attack Chhamb Region of Jammu and Kashmir?
Answer: August 1965.
Question 43. Who mediated Tashkent agreement?
Answer: Aleksey Kosygin.
Question 44. When did terrorist attack on parliament of India?
Answer: 13 December 2001.
Question 45. When did terrorist attack on Taj hotel in Mumbai?
Answer: 26 November 2008.
Question 46. When did terrorist attack Pathankot?
Answer: January 2016.
Question 47. When did terrorist attack on CRPF bus in Pulwama?
Answer: February 2019.
Question 48. When did the Indian prime minister declare the Siachen glacier as a "zone of peace"?
Answer: in 2005.
Question 49. What is the official religion of Maldives?
Answer: Sunni Islam.
Question 50. When did SAFTA come into effect?
Answer: from 1st January 2006.
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