According to Dr. BR Ambedkar, political democracy has to be accompanied by two kinds of democracy, namely economic democracy and

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(a)

representative democracy

(b)

linguistic democracy

(c)

religious democracy

(d)

social democracy

Who is called the father of the Indian Constitution?

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(a)

Mahatma Gandhi

(b)

BR Ambedkar

(c)

Jawaharlal Nehru

(d)

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

In 1966, the state of Punjab was divided into........

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(a)

Punjab and Haryana

(b)

Punjab and Delhi

(c)

Punjab an Chandigarh

(d)

Chandigarh and Haryana

When was the Second Five Year Plan formulated?

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(a)

1950

(b)

1948

(c)

1956

(d)

1960

What happened when Nehru went to Telugu speaking districts of Madras Presidency

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(a)

People warmly welcomed him

(b)

He was met with black flags and slogans

(c)

People threw stone at him

(d)

People stopped his car and insulted him

When India became independent in August 1947, it faced a series of great..........

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(a)

challenges

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was also the.......minister of newly independent India.

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(a)

foreign

Soon after independence, India chose to grant.............. right to all its citizens regardless of gender, class or education.

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(a)

voting

The death of....................sparked off such violent protests that the government was forced to give in to the demand for the linguistic state of Andhra.

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(a)

Potti Sriramulu

.............was of the opinion that India could not and must not become a 'Hindu Pakistan'

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(a)

Jawaharlal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi returned to India leaving South Africa for ever in 1920

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(a) True

(b) False

Jawaharlal Nehru said that 'Do or die'.

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(a) True

(b) False

The United Nations formed in 1945.

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(a) False

(b) True

In 1960 the bilingual state of Bombay was divided into two separate states

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(a) False

(b) True

Indian Constitution came into effect on 26th January, 1947.

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(a) True

(b) False

What was the population of India in 1947?

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(a)

India's population in 1947 was almost 345 million

How many Indians were involved in forming the Constitution

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(a)

Three hundred Indians were involved in forming the Constitution.

Who were against the creation of Andhra state on the basis of language?

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(a)

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were against the creation of state on the basis of language.

When was the Bhilai Steel Plant set-up?

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(a)

The Bhilai Steel Plant was set-up with the help of the former Soviet Union in 1959

Name two subjects of the concurrent list

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(a)

Forest and Agriculture

Discuss in your class, one advantage and one disadvantage today of the decision to keep English as a language of India

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(a)

Who was Mira Behn? Find out more about her life and her ideas

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(a)

Why was the nation in mourning less than 6 month after Independence?

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(a)

On the eve of independence what was the composition of India's population?

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(a)

Why was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru against the creation of linguistic states?

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(a)

When was the Indian Constitution adopted and what were its features?

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(a)

(i) Whose ashes are being immersed in the picture?
(ii) When was he assassinated?
(iii) By whom was he assassinated

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(a)

Look at the given figures 5(a), 5(b) and 5(c). Notice how the Princely States disappear in 5(b). Identify the new states that were formed in 1956 and later and the languages of these states

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(a)