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Event Communal Award
Asked 6 times across 3 UPSC exams over 13 years (2012–2025), peaking in 2012.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 4 of 6 PYQs
- Most asked in 2012
- Recurs across 3 years (2012–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CSE 2012 → CDS 2017 → NDA 2025
How the concept evolved
Long-running — most appearances (4 of 6) predate 2016, and it still returns.
Related concepts
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
NDA2025
Chronologically arrange the following political events related to Indian National Movement beginning from the earliest
- Formation of Swaraj Party
- Communal Award
- Lucknow Pact
- Simla Conference
- A 3, 1, 2, 4 ✓
- B 1, 3, 2, 4
- C 2, 1, 4, 3
- D 1, 2, 3, 4
✓ Correct answer: (A)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
CDS2017
Statement IThe Poona Pact provided for 151 reserved seats for the scheduled castes to be elected by a joint, not separate, electorate
Statement IIDr. B. R. Ambedkar withdrew from active politics for almost a decade when the Communal Award was revoked
- A Both the statements are individually true and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I
- B Both the statements are individually true but Statement II is not the correct explanation of Statement I
- C Statement I is true but Statement II is false ✓
- D Statement I is false but Statement II is true
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
CSE2012
Mahatma Gandhi undertook fast unto death in 1932, mainly because
- A Round Table Conference failed to satisfy Indian political aspirations
- B Congress and Muslim League had differences of opinion
- C Ramsay Macdonald announced the Communal Award ✓
- D None of the statements (a), (b) and (c) given above is correct in this context
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
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