Commerce (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Important Questions

Study the given cartoon and answer the questions that follow:

1. Identify any two leaders shown in the cartoon who had won the 1977 elections.
2. Explain the term MISA.
3. Why was the Congress voted out of power?

Explain any two lessons learnt from the emergency imposed in 1975.

What does the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Articles 370 mean?

Why is it said that history of petroleum is also the history of war and struggles?

What was 'Operation Blue Star'? Why did it hurt the sentiments of the Sikh Community?

Examine the conditions responsible for the growth of Naxalite Movement in India. Suggest ways and means to crush it.

Globalisation does not always reduce state capacity. The primacy of the state continues to be unchallenged basis of political community. The old jealousies and rivalries between countries have not ceased to matter in world politics. The state continues to discharge its essential functions (law and order national security) and consciously withdraws from certain domains from which it wishes to. States continue to be important

Indeed, in some respects state capacity has received a boost as a consequence of globalisation, with enhanced technologies available at the disposal of the state to collect information about its citizens.

Read the passage given above carefully and answer the following questions:-

1. What are the two most essential functions of the state?
2. How do enhanced technologies enable the state to rule better?
3. Justify with the help of an example that globalisation gives a boost to the state capacity.

In the given outline map of South Asia, five countries have been marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Identify them on the basis of the information given below and write their correct names in your answer book with their respective serial number of the information used and the alphabet concerned as per the following format:

Information used

(i) to (v)

(i) The country has experienced civilian as well as military rule both.

(ii) Democracy was restored in this country in 2006.

(iii) This country is still a monarchy.

(iv) The Parliament of this country voted unanimously to introduce multiparty system in June 2005.

(v) This country is a part of India's 'Look East Policy via Myanmar'.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Above all, the linguistic states underlined the acceptance of the principle of diversity. When we say that India adopted democracy, it does not simply mean that India embraced a democratic constitution, nor does it merely mean that India adopted the format of elections. The choice was larger than that. It was a choice in favour of recognising and accepting the existence of differences which could at times be oppositional. Democracy, in other words, was associated with plurality of ideas and ways of life.

1. What is meant by 'linguistic states'?
2. Why were linguistic states formed in India? Explain any two reasons.
3. How is democracy in India associated with plurality of ideas and ways of life?

Describe any three effects of globalisation on the culture of a country.

Differentiate between 'regionalism' and 'separatism'

What was the main outcome of the Rajiv Gandhi -Longowal Accord in July 1985?

Study the given political outline map of north-East India in which six states have been marked as A, B, C, D, E and F. Identify these states with the help of information provided below and write their names along with their respective letters i.e. A, B, C, D, E, and F in your answer book.

i. Two states which were not part of the state of Assam were at the time of India’s independence.

ii. The state whose leader signed an agreement with Rajiv Gandhi in 1986.

iii. The state which declared independence from India in 1951.

iv. The state which was carved out of Assam in 1972.

v. The 22nd state of India due to its merger.

Regional demands from different parts of India exemplify the principle of unity with diversity. Do you agree? Give reasons.

‘Bodo’ is a community in ______ state of India.

Name the leader who led a peoples’ march to Parliament in 1975 and state as to what was unique about this march.

Highlight any two issues that dominate the politics of North-East India.

How far did the Rajiv Gandhi-Longowal Accord succeed in bringing normalcy to Punjab?

Give an analysis of the cultural and political consequences of globalization.

Analyze any three reasons for resistance to globalization.