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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

1. State the main arguments in the debate that ensued between industrialisation and agricultural development at the time of the Second Five Year Plan.

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2. What was the Green Revolution? Mention two positive and two negative consequences of the Green Revolution.

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3. What was the major thrust of the First Five Year Plan? In which ways did the Second Plan differ from the first one?

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4. What were the major differences in the approach towards development at the time of Independence? Has the debate been resolved?

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5. Match the following:
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6. The idea of planning in India was drawn from
   (a) The Bombay plan
   (b) Experiences of the Soviet bloc countries
   (c) Gandhian vision of society
   (d) Demand by peasant organisations
   

   • (i) (b) and (d) only
   • (ii) (d) and (c) only
   • (iii) (a) and (b) only
   • (iv) All the above

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7. Which of the following ideas did not form part of the early phase of India’s development policy?

   • (a) Planning
   • (b) Liberalisation
   • (c) Cooperative farming
   • (d) Self sufficiency

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8. Which of these statements about the Bombay Plan is incorrect?

   • (a) It was a blueprint for India’s economic future.
   • (b) It supported state-ownership of industry.
   • (c) It was made by some leading industrialists.
   • (d) It supported strongly the idea of planning.

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9. Read the following passage: <br>
   “Patel, the organisational man of the Congress, wanted to purge the Congress of other political groups and sought to make of it a cohesive and disciplined political party. He … sought to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character
   and turn it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres. Being a ‘ r list he looked more for discipline than for took too romantic a view of “eariging on the movement,” Patel’s idea of transforming the Congress into strictly political party with a single ideology and tight discipline showed an equal lack of understanding of the eclectic role that the Congress, as a government, was to be called upon to perform in the decades

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10. Take a political map of India (with State outlines) and mark: <br>
    (a) Two states where Congress was not in poiver at some point during 1952-67. <br>
    (b) Two states where the Congress remained in power through this period.

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