UPSC CAPF 2017 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The correct answer is C, Statement I is true but Statement II is false. Plantations do lie mostly in the humid tropics, but the soils there are generally poor, not highly fertile.

Plantation farming grows a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa, banana or oil palm on large estates with heavy capital and hired labour. It spread in the humid tropics of Asia, Africa and Latin America, largely under colonial rule, because these crops need high temperatures and heavy rain throughout the year. The same heavy rain leaches nutrients out of the soil, leaving laterite and other weathered red soils that are low in humus and plant food; the lush forest survives by quickly recycling nutrients from fallen leaves.

A is wrong: Statement II is false, so it cannot explain Statement I.

B is wrong: it treats the false Statement II as true.

D is wrong: Statement I is true and Statement II is false, the reverse of this option.

Exam tip: humid tropics have lush forest but leached, infertile laterite soil; plantations need the climate, not rich soil.

The correct answer is B, Separate Electorate. The Nehru Report of August 1928 was the draft constitution prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference under Motilal Nehru, with Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, as Indians’ answer to Lord Birkenhead’s taunt that they could not agree on a constitution of their own. The report firmly rejected separate electorates, the device introduced by the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909, and asked instead for joint electorates with seats reserved for minorities where they were in a minority. Option A is wrong because dominion status was its central demand, which is exactly why the younger leaders who wanted complete independence objected. Option C is wrong because the report did favour a unitary and democratic centre with responsible government. Option D is wrong because adult suffrage, along with a list of fundamental rights, was one of its clear recommendations. Jinnah replied to it with his Fourteen Points in 1929. Exam tip: Nehru Report 1928 — dominion status, joint electorates, adult suffrage, fundamental rights.