Modern History PYQ 499 of 636 · Partition of India and Independence

The Department of State was established under whose headship?

  1. AMahatma Gandhi
  2. BJ.L. Nehru
  3. CG.B. Pant
  4. DSardar Patel
  5. ENone of the above/ More than one of the above

63rd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2017

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Correct answer: (d) Sardar Patel

Explanation

Mountbatten announced that after Partition, the issues of the princely states falling in the two new countries—India and Pakistan—would be settled separately by “States Departments.” Nehru entrusted the responsibility of the “States Department” for the integration of the princely states to Sardar Patel. Sardar Patel took charge on 5 July, 1947, and V.P. Menon took charge as his Secretary.

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