Political Science CBSE Class 12
Includes:
● Comprehensive questions for all chapters
Politics in India Since Independence
Challenges of Nation-Building
Questions
1. What were the two goals post-independence that almost everyone agreed on?
2. Briefly describe the three challenges faced by independent India.
3. What was the ‘two-nation’ theory?
4. For the process of partition, it was decided to follow the principle of ____.
5. What difficulties were presented during the course of the process of partition?
6. What cities were divided into communal zones?
7. What were the consequences of the partition?
8. What things were divided as a result of the Partition?
9. It is estimated that the Partition forced about ___ people to migrate across the new
border.
10. What was the deeper issue besides the financial and administrative strains behind the
Partition?
11. British India was divided into ___ and ___.
12. Princely States covered ___ of the land area of the British Indian Empire and __ out
of four Indians lived under the princely rule.
13. What view did the British government take regarding the Princely States?
14. What problems arose from the British governments view to leave the decision to the
princely rulers?
15. What was the government’s approach to the princely states' problems?
16. Who was India’s Deputy Prime Minister in the period immediately following
independence? What was his role in negotiating with the princely states?
17. What were the three considerations that guided the government’s approach to the
princely states?
18. The rulers of most of the states signed a document called the ____ which meant that
their state agreed to become a part of the Union of India.
19. How was the issue of Junagarh resolved?
20. The ruler of Hyderabad carried the title ___.
21. What were the issues regarding the accession of Hyderabad? How was it finally
resolved?
, 22. Which groups were at the forefront of the uprising in Hyderabad against the Nizam?
23. ____ was the first part of India to hold an election based on a universal adult
franchise.
24. What were the issues regarding accession in Manipur?
25. The process of nation-building did not come to an end with the Partition and
integration of Princely States. Justify.
26. How were the state boundaries drawn during colonial rule?
27. Why did our leaders not want to carve states based on language?
28. Which Congress leader’s death after an indefinite fast led to violent outbursts?
29. The Prime Minister announced the formation of a separate Andhra state in ___.
30. What forced the Central Government into appointing a States Reorganization
Commission? What was included in this Commission’s report?
Era of One-Party Dominance
Questions
1. Why did many of the countries that gained freedom from colonialism experience
non-democratic rule? What forms did this kind of rule take?
2. When was our Constitution signed?
3. When was the Election Commission of India set up? Who was the first Chief Election
Commissioner?
4. Why were the country’s first general elections not held in 1950?
Includes:
● Comprehensive questions for all chapters
Politics in India Since Independence
Challenges of Nation-Building
Questions
1. What were the two goals post-independence that almost everyone agreed on?
2. Briefly describe the three challenges faced by independent India.
3. What was the ‘two-nation’ theory?
4. For the process of partition, it was decided to follow the principle of ____.
5. What difficulties were presented during the course of the process of partition?
6. What cities were divided into communal zones?
7. What were the consequences of the partition?
8. What things were divided as a result of the Partition?
9. It is estimated that the Partition forced about ___ people to migrate across the new
border.
10. What was the deeper issue besides the financial and administrative strains behind the
Partition?
11. British India was divided into ___ and ___.
12. Princely States covered ___ of the land area of the British Indian Empire and __ out
of four Indians lived under the princely rule.
13. What view did the British government take regarding the Princely States?
14. What problems arose from the British governments view to leave the decision to the
princely rulers?
15. What was the government’s approach to the princely states' problems?
16. Who was India’s Deputy Prime Minister in the period immediately following
independence? What was his role in negotiating with the princely states?
17. What were the three considerations that guided the government’s approach to the
princely states?
18. The rulers of most of the states signed a document called the ____ which meant that
their state agreed to become a part of the Union of India.
19. How was the issue of Junagarh resolved?
20. The ruler of Hyderabad carried the title ___.
21. What were the issues regarding the accession of Hyderabad? How was it finally
resolved?
, 22. Which groups were at the forefront of the uprising in Hyderabad against the Nizam?
23. ____ was the first part of India to hold an election based on a universal adult
franchise.
24. What were the issues regarding accession in Manipur?
25. The process of nation-building did not come to an end with the Partition and
integration of Princely States. Justify.
26. How were the state boundaries drawn during colonial rule?
27. Why did our leaders not want to carve states based on language?
28. Which Congress leader’s death after an indefinite fast led to violent outbursts?
29. The Prime Minister announced the formation of a separate Andhra state in ___.
30. What forced the Central Government into appointing a States Reorganization
Commission? What was included in this Commission’s report?
Era of One-Party Dominance
Questions
1. Why did many of the countries that gained freedom from colonialism experience
non-democratic rule? What forms did this kind of rule take?
2. When was our Constitution signed?
3. When was the Election Commission of India set up? Who was the first Chief Election
Commissioner?
4. Why were the country’s first general elections not held in 1950?
