In North Korea, USSR set up the People's Democratic Republic, a Communist government, headed by_____________.

The Moscow declaration of 1943 recognised the need for an international organisation to replace the____________.

____________began to playa prominent role in the pacific.

The German approach was emulated in East Asia by_______________.

The Battle of Guadalcanal in the ______________ was a combined offensive of the army and the navy.

The objective of France was to recover Alsace and Lorraine that it had lost after the___________

The __________ was a period of accumulation of capital that facilitated the industrial revolution in Europe.

Garibaldi submitted his conquest to King Victor Emmanuel II and retreated to lead the rest of his life in his home at the island of _________.

_____________adopted a 'blood and iron' policy to achieve the unification.

Assertion (A): In Europe the countries that first achieved national unity were France, Spain and England.
Reason(R): Cities in Asia like Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples and Milan were the capitals of small states.

__________the arbiter of Europe and enemy of nationality, was forced to leave Vienna in disguise.

Socialist ideas in the modem sense came to be articulated by the __________

Statement I: Haiti, earlier known as Saint-Domingue was the richest French colon in the Caribbean Sea.
Statement II: Its plantations produced more sugar than all of Europe's other Caribbean and American colonies put together.
Statement III: The island's indigenous population, forced to mine for gold, was devastated by European diseases and brutal working conditions and by the end of the sixteenth century it had virtually vanished.

____________in his Social Contract argued that the relationship between the rulers and ruled should be bound by a contract.

The clergy and the nobility enjoyed special privileges and they were exempted from various taxes imposed by the_____________.

The political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution was called_________.

The pilgrims from Britain sailed in a ship called__________

(i) Various initiatives are being taken by the government to such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
(ii) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and
(iii) the recenly integrated scheme of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan to redress the issue of dropouts

Match the following
a) 33.3% - Marginal farmers and agricultural labourers
b) 50% - the assets
c) 25% - non-farm activites
d) 15% - minor irrigation works

The economy was liberalised during the Eighth Five Year Plan ___________.

Abolition of __________ was part of the manifesto of the Indian National Congress party even before independence.

In 1980 a consolidated rural development programme called __________ Programme was introduced.

There were only __________ public-sector enterprises in India in 1951.

The first IIT was located in

Which is the correct sequence of the following events?

The partition of India on Hindu-Muslim lines was put forth at_________________

The Congress ensured the election of ____________from a seat in Bombay

The Mountbatten plan for independence along with partition of India was accepted at the AICC meeting at Meerut on.____________

Assertion (A): INC passed a resolution offering cooperation with the war effort to Britain.
Reason (R): Britain promised independence to India after the war and transfer power to Indians

After Bose escape to Germany and Singapore formed_____________

Which of the following, statements are cotrect.
Statement I: The British Government was consistent in promoting communalism.
Statement II: Even the delegates for the second Round Table Conference were chosen on the basis of their communal bearings.
Statement III: After the failure of the Round Table Conferences, the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award which further vitiated the political climate.

A religious organization

Islamic code of law based on Koran and the teachings of the Prophet

A desire to revive a former customs or practice

The policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation

The condition of being an untouchable; tainted by one's birth into a caste system that deems him or her impure

The policy or technique of refraining from the use of violence.

Social or political movements that aim at fundamental change in the structure of society.

A member of the-majority faction of the Russian Communist Party

The first attempt at mobilizing the Indian masses was made by Gandhi on an invitation by peasants of

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in

Assertion(a): Lala Hardayal, who settled in San Francisco, founded Pacific Coast Hindustan Association in 1913, with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president.
Reason(R): This organization was popularly called Ghadar Party. ('Ghadar' means rebellion in Urdu.)

A secret plan by a group of people to do something illegal

Which of the following statements are correct.
Statement I: The growth of newspapers, both in English and Tamil language, aided the swadeshi movement in Tamil Nadu.
Statement II: G. Subramaniam was one of the first among the leaders to use newspapers to spread the nationalist message across a larger audience.
Statement III: In 1916 a book was published by Subramaniam to condemn the British actions during the Congress Conference in Barsal.

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

Made in one's own country

Highly educated or the intellectual elite of a society.

Modern intelligentsia formed political organisation like

The growth of heavy machine industries in Britain allowed East India Company to ____________ raw materials from India to Britain.

Grand Old Man of Indian Nationalism