CUET 2025 Political Science Question Paper with Answers & Solutions

Correct answer: B

The three challenges post-independence were nation-building (unity in diversity), establishing democracy, and ensuring development/equality. Structural adjustment programme came with economic reforms of 1991, not the immediate post-independence period.

Correct answer: D

(A), (C), (D) are correct per NCERT. (B) is incorrect because Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was from the North-WESTERN Frontier Province (NWFP), not North Eastern. So (B) is factually wrong; answer is (A),(C),(D) only.

Correct answer: B

Directive Principles of State Policy are contained in Part IV (Articles 36-51) of the Constitution. Part III contains Fundamental Rights.

Correct answer: A

India's first general elections were held between October 1951 and February 1952.

Correct answer: C

Per NCERT, about 30 lakh (3 million) women were not recorded by their own names in the first draft of the electoral rolls and were listed only as 'wife of...' or 'daughter of...'; these entries were deleted by the Election Commission.

Correct answer: D

Mahatma Gandhi did not participate in the Independence Day celebrations on 15 August 1947; he was in Calcutta trying to restore communal harmony.

Correct answer: A

Among the given options, the 'Development Outcome Programme' is presented as the development campaign initiative of that period. The Kamraj Plan (1963) and Socialist pattern of society (1955) are from earlier periods, so they don't fit the 1987-91 window.

Correct answer: A

Operation Flood was the White Revolution dairy programme creating a nationwide milk grid, linking milk producers to consumers across the country.

Correct answer: A

Article 51 (a Directive Principle) directs the State to promote international peace and security. Article 21 is right to life, 25 freedom of religion, 44 uniform civil code.

Correct answer: A

Jawaharlal Nehru, as PM and Foreign Minister, shaped India's foreign policy and built ties with newly independent Asian and African states (Afro-Asian unity, Non-Aligned Movement).

Correct answer: C

In August 1971 India signed the 20-year Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union.

Correct answer: D

Statements (A), (B), (C) are true. (D) is NOT true: hereditary privileges were NOT consonant with the principles of equality and social/economic justice (this contradiction was the argument for abolishing privy purses). So only (D) is untrue.

Correct answer: D

DMK formed 1949 (A); Kamaraj Plan 1963 (C); Ten Point Programme 1967 (B); fifth Lok Sabha elections 1971 (D). Order: A, C, B, D.

Correct answer: C

DMK came to power in Tamil Nadu in 1967 after leading a massive anti-Hindi imposition agitation against the Centre.

Correct answer: B

The Department of Defence Supplies was established in 1965 to promote indigenisation and self-reliance in defence production.

Correct answer: A

Gujarat (Nav Nirman) movement began January 1974 (IV); Bihar movement March 1974 (III); Assam anti-foreigner movement 1979 (II); Railway strike May 1974 (I). So A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I = option A.

Correct answer: D

This Tamil slogan ('the north thrives even as the south decays') belongs to the Dravidian movement, which emphasised regional pride and grievances against the north.

Correct answer: A

The Self-Respect Movement was started by E.V. Ramasami Naicker (Periyar) in the 1920s in Tamil Nadu.

Correct answer: D

(A) false: Congress won fewer seats in 1989 than its record 1984 win. (B) false: end of Congress system is dated to 1989, not 1991. (C) true: Congress lost in 1989 with no majority for any party. (D) true: National Front coalition formed govt in 1989. So (C) and (D) only.

Correct answer: C

Article 370 granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Correct answer: A

The AASU-led anti-foreigner (Assam) movement began in 1979.

Correct answer: C

Naxalbari uprising 1967 (A); Kesavananda Bharati case 1973 (D); JP's Ramlila demonstration June 1975 (B); Shah Commission appointed 1977 (C). Order: A, D, B, C.

Correct answer: B

The Shah Bano case (1985) dealt with maintenance for a divorced Muslim woman from her husband under Section 125 CrPC.

Correct answer: D

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolised the collapse of the Second World (the socialist/communist bloc) and the end of the Cold War. While it led to German unification, the NCERT framing treats it as marking the collapse of the Second World.

Correct answer: C

China occupied Aksai Chin (late 1950s, A); China's massive invasion 1962 (D); Vajpayee (as External Affairs Minister) visited China 1979 (C); full diplomatic relations restored 1976 (B). NCERT order matches A, D, B, C = option C (B in 1976 precedes Vajpayee's 1979 visit).

Correct answer: A

Yeltsin appointed head of Moscow Communist Party 1985 (A); USSR declares Warsaw Pact members free 1989 (B); Yeltsin elected President of Russia June 1991 (C); CIS established December 1991 (D). Order: A, B, C, D.

Correct answer: C

South Korea's rapid economic growth is known as the 'Miracle on the Han River' (named after the river flowing through Seoul).

Correct answer: B

The Maastricht Treaty (1992), which established the European Union and the euro, faced Euro-skeptic resistance from Denmark and Sweden.

Correct answer: B

The Shimla Agreement was signed in July 1972 between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war.

Correct answer: D

The Ganges Water Sharing (Farakka) Treaty between India and Bangladesh was signed in 1996.

Correct answer: C

The olive branches in the UN emblem are a symbol of peace, representing the UN's goal of world peace.

Correct answer: A

The WTO (1995) succeeded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Correct answer: A

Brundtland Report 1987 (IV); Antarctic Treaty 1959 (III); Antarctic Environmental Protocol 1991 (II); Earth Summit Rio 1992 (I). So A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I = option A.

Correct answer: A

The 2001 Vajpayee-Musharraf summit was held in Agra (the Agra Summit).

Correct answer: C

ABM Treaty 1972 (III); NPT 1968 (I); Chemical Weapons Convention 1992 (IV); India first nuclear test 1974 (II). So A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II = option C.

Correct answer: A

The Club of Rome's 'Limits to Growth' (1972) warned about the depletion of the Earth's finite natural resources due to growing population and consumption.

Correct answer: D

The Antarctic and Arctic polar regions are subject to special regional environmental protection rules due to their fragile ecosystems.

Correct answer: A

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plays an important role in shaping economic policies worldwide. IAEA deals with atomic energy; the others are human-rights NGOs.

Correct answer: A

All four statements are correct descriptions of globalisation's impact on state capacity per NCERT: erosion of state capacity, reduced government ability, shift to minimalist state, and market becoming prime determinant.

Correct answer: C

McDonaldisation is cited as a cultural consequence of globalisation, reflecting cultural homogenisation worldwide.

Correct answer: C

Nepal abolished its monarchy and became a federal democratic republic in 2008.

Correct answer: A

Statement (A) is not correct: Nepal was a Hindu Kingdom in the past, not a Buddhist Kingdom. The other statements are accurate per NCERT.

Correct answer: B

In 1990 the King of Nepal accepted the demand for a new democratic constitution under the first pro-democracy movement.

Correct answer: B

The NCERT image of the Nepal pro-democracy movement identifies the woman activist as Durga Thapa.

Correct answer: D

The 2006 pro-democracy movement in Nepal was led by the Seven Party Alliance (SPA).

Correct answer: B

The passage states the Sinhala community was the majority; the Tamils were the minority.

Correct answer: B

The passage states Sri Lanka 'was then known as Ceylon'.

Correct answer: C

The passage states the LTTE demanded a 'Tamil Eelam' or separate country for the Tamilians of Sri Lanka.

Correct answer: B

(A) and (B) are stated in the passage; (C) the LTTE was defeated in 2009 (correct); (D) is wrong because Sri Lanka's independence was 1948, not 1947. So (A), (B), (C) only.

Correct answer: B

The passage states that in 1989 the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) pulled out of Sri Lanka.