Explanation

The Taj Mahal is located on the west side of the Yamuna River.

The Taj Mahal "Crown of Palaces", also "the Taj"

It is a white marble mausoleum.

It is located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Explanation

The creation of Pakistan was based on the ideology of Islam

which provided legitimacy to the leadership and established a monolithic Islamic

affinity transcending the political, economic and social realms.

Explanation

The Cripps Mission was a failed attempt in late March 1942.

The Cripps Mission was sent by the British government to India

  to obtain Indian cooperation for the British war efforts in the 2nd World War.

The mission was headed by a senior minister Sir Stafford Cripps.

the objective of Cripps Mission: To reform the constitutional issues

Explanation

Lord Mountbatten replaced Lord Wavell as the viceroy of India in 1947.

Explanation

Direct Action Day, also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings.

All India Muslim League observed “Direct Action Day” on August 16, 1946.

It was a day of nationwide communal riots announced by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India.

Explanation

Cabinet Mission and it was headed by Lord Pethick Lawrence.

The Cabinet mission arrived in India on March 24, 1946, sent by the British government.

The Cabinet Mission was formed at the initiative of British Prime Minister Clement Atlee

The mission had three British cabinet members:
1. Pethick Lawrence
2. Stafford Cripps
3. A.V. Alexander

The Cabinet Mission`s aim was to discuss the transfer of power from British to Indian leadership.

Explanation

• Sindh was annexed to the Bombay Presidency in 1843.
• It became a province of British India on 1 April 1936 with Karachi as its capital until 1947.
• After the partition of British India, Sindh became part of the Dominion of Pakistan from 14 August 1947 to 14 October 1955, with Hyderabad as its capital.
• Bombay was separated from Sindh in 1936 under the Indian Act of 1935, following demands by Jinnah in 1929.
• The first Muslim League Government in Sindh was established in 1943.

Explanation

• The Pak-Afghan border, known as the Durand Line, was drawn in 1893.
• It was established through an agreement between the British Indian government and the Afghan Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan.
• The line demarcates the boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Explanation

The word was first introduced now or never in 1933 by Chaudhry Rahmat Ali.

The "Pakistan Declaration" titled Now or Never means Are We to Live or Perish Forever?

In this pamphlet, the word Pakistan was used for the first time 

This pamphlet was derived from the two-nation theory of Muslim reformer Syed Ahmed Khan

it was a pamphlet, referring to the names of the five northern regions of British India: 

1. Punjab
2. Afghanistan
3. Kashmir
4. Sindh
5. Baluchistan. (Pakistan)

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Explanation

Bahawalpur was founded in 1748 by Nawab Bahawal Khan I, after migrating to the region around Uch from Shikarpur, Sindh.

On 5 October 1947 the Nawab signed an agreement with the government of Pakistan according to which Bahawalpur State acceded to Pakistan, and the accession was accepted on 9 October. Thus the State of Bahawalpur was the first state to accede to Pakistan.

Bahawalpur is located in Punjab.

Bahawalpur mostly consists of Deserts.