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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

1. Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks.
   (c) One of the guiding principles of the ideology of the Swatantra Party was ________ (Working class interest/protection of Princely States/Economy free from State control/Autonomy of States within the Union)

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2. Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks.
   (b) The party that won the second largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the first elections was the ________ (Praja Socialist Party/Bharatiya Jana Sangh/Communist Party of India/Bharatiya Janata Party)

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3. Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks.
   (a) The First General Elections in 1952 involved simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and ________ (The President of India/State Assemblies/Rajya Sabha/The Prime Minister)

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4. Read the following passage and answer the questions below: <br>
   “In the history of nation-building only the Soviet experiment bears comparison with the Indian. There too, a sense of unity had to be forged between many diverse ethnic groups, religious, linguistic communities
   and social classes. The scale – geographic as well as demographic – was comparably massive. The raw material the state had to work with
   was equally unpropitious: a people divided by faith and driven by debt and disease.” — RAMACHANDRA GUHA <br>
   (a) List the commonalities that the author mentions between India and Soviet Union and give one example for each of these from India. <br>
   (b) The author do

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5. It is said that the nation is to large extent an “imagined community” held together by common beliefs, history, political aspirations and imaginations. Identify the features that make India a nation.

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6. What was the task of the States Reorganisation Commission? What was its most salient recommendation?

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7. Bring out two major differences between the challenge of nation building for eastern and western regions of the country at the time of Independence.

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8. What are the reasons being used by Nehru for keeping India secular? Do you think these reasons were only ethical and sentimental? Or were there some prudential reasons as well?

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9. Read the following very different statements made in August 1947: “Today you have worn on your heads a crown of thorns. The seat of power is a nasty thing. You have to remain ever wakeful on that seat… you have to he more humble and forbearing… now there will be no end to your being tested. ”<br>
   -M.K, Gandhi “India will awake to a life of freedom…. we step out from, the old to the new…. we end, today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity …”,<br>
   -Jawaharlal Nehru Spell out the agenda of nation building that flows from these two statements. Which one appeals more to you and why?

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10. Here are two opinions: <br>
    Bismay: “The merger with the Indian State was an extension of democracy to the people of the Princely States.” Inderpreet: “I am not so sure, there was force being used. Democracy comes by creating consensus. ”
    What is your opinion in the light of accession of Princely States and the responses of the people in these parts?

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