Challenges for the New Nation

Amrita Pritam was a prominent poet from ____________.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah addressed the constituent assembly of Pakistan in Karachi on:

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

Which was the biggest challenge before the newly independent India?

Read the following passage and answer the questions below :-

“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

(a) List the commonalities that the author mentions between India and Soviet Union and give one example for each of these from India.

(b) The author does not talk about dissimilarities between the two experiments. Can you mention two dissimilarities?

(c) In retrospect which of these two experiments worked better and why?

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.