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What was the Green Revolution? Mention two positive and two negative consequences of the Green Revolution.
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What were the reasons which led to the mid-term elections in 1980?
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What were the factors which led to the popularity of Indira Gandhi’s Government in the early 1970s?
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Read the passage and answer the questions below:
| “… Indira Gandhi changed the Congress into highly centralised and undemocratic party organisation, from the earlier federal, democratic and ideological formation that Nehru had led. … But this … could not have happened had not Indira Gandhi changed the entire nature of politics. This new, populist politics turned political ideology … into a mere electoral discourse, use of various slogans not meant to be translated into government policies…. During its great electoral victories in early 1970s, amidst the celebration, the Congress party as a political organisation died........... —Sudipta Kaviraj |
- What according to the author, is the difference between the strategies of Nehru and Indira Gandhi?
- Why does the author say that the Congress party ‘died’ in the seventies?
- In what way did the change in the Congress party affect other political parties also?
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Regional aspirations of the people of North-East get expressed in different ways. These include movements against outsiders, movement for greater autonomy and movement for separate . national existence. On the map of the North-East, using different shades for these three, show the States where these expressions are prominently found.
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_______ was introduced to bring about revolutionary changes in agriculture.
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The event that took place in 1961 was ____________.
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Which of the following is not a feature of Indian planning?
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The Marshall Plan is also known as ____________.
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The Truman administration unveiled the so-called ‘Truman Doctrine’ in ____________.
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The Berlin Blockade happened in ____________.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion occurred in ____________.
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Korea was a colony of ____________.
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Which of the following is not a member of G-8?
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The number of non-permanent members of UN Security Council is ____________.
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Which of the following has veto power in the Security Council?
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IGOs have a special legal status under the ____________.
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Which of the following is used as the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?
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When did the central Government appoint the states reorganization commission?
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Which one of the following was a part of its global war on terrorism by the US.?
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