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Event Poona Pact
Asked 5 times across 2 UPSC exams over 8 years (2017–2025), peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 4 of 5 PYQs
- First appeared in CDS 2017 — 8 years before CSE 2025 (allied exams preview CSE)
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 2 years (2017–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CDS 2017 → CSE 2025
How the concept evolved
Long-running — most appearances (3 of 5) predate 2016, and it still returns.
Related concepts
Ideas UPSC tests alongside this one — keep exploring.
Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CSE2025
Subsequent to which one of the following events, Gandhiji, who consistently opposed untouchability and appealed for its eradication from all spheres, decided to include the upliftment of 'Harijans' in his political and social programme?
- A The Poona Pact ✓
- B The Gandhi-Irwin Agreement (Delhi Pact)
- C Arrest of Congress leadership at the time of the Quit India Movement
- D Promulgation of the Government of India Act, 1935
✓ 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 B. R. Ambedkar withdrew from active politics for almost a decade when the Communal Award was revoked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)
CSE
Consider the following statements
- In the First Round Table Conference, Dr. Ambedkar demanded separate electorates for the depressed classes
- In the Poona Act, special provisions for representation of the depressed people in the local bodies and civil services were made
- The Indian National Congress did not take part in the Third Round Table Conference
Which of the statements given above are correct?
- A land2
- B 2and3
- C 1 and 3 ✓
- D 1, 2 and 3
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
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