India After Independence (Chapter-12)

Q.5   What is nonalignment ?

Q.4   How is the relationship between India and Pakistan ?

Q.3   Why did Kashmir give problem to the India Union ?

Q.2   How were the princely states brought under control ?

Q.1   What is the refugee crisis which India faced after independence ?

Choose The Correct Answer

Q.1   The person who solved the problem of the princely states was

          (A) Sardar Patel

          (B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

          (C) Dr. Ambedkar

Q.2   At the time of independence, Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu ruler named

          (A) Maharaj Hari Singh

          (B) Maharaj Jai Singh

          (C) Maharaj Karan Singh

Q.3   The present name of Burma is

          (A) Thailand

          (B) Myanmar

Fill In The Blanks

Q.1   _________called the Iron Man of India.

Q.2   The Indian states were reorganised on the  basis of _________ .

Q.3   In 1954, India and China signed the _________ agreement.

Q.4   The Planning Commission was set-up in _________.

Q.5   India was partitioned in _________.

State True Or False

Q.1   Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of free India.

Q.2   Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.

Q.3   India won the war with China in1962.

Q.4   The Shimla Agreement was signed between India and Bangladesh.

General Terms

1.Nonaligned : Not providing support or receiving support to/from any super power.

2.Fanatic : a person with extreme views.

3.Princely states : which were ruled by Indian rules.

4.Constitution : A set of laws.

How was the economic development of India visualised in the early decades after Independence?

Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.

After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?

What did Dr Ambedkar mean when he said that "In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality"?

State whether true or false:

(a) At independence, the majority of Indians lived in villages.

(b) The Constituent Assembly was made up of members of the Congress party.

(c) In the first national election, only men were allowed to vote.

(d) The Second Five Year Plan focussed on the development of heavy industry.

Fill in the blanks:

(a) Subjects that were placed on the Union List were ________, ________ and ___________.

(b) Subjects on the Concurrent List were __________ and _________.

(c) Economic planning by which both the state and the private sector played a role in development was called a ________ _________ model.

(d) 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.

What was the role of the Planning Commission?

Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.