(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for History and Civics

Describe how Parliament controls the executive through Adjournment Motion?

Mention two ways in which the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Council can control the executive. Explain one of its limitations in this regard.

What are the Administrative Powers of the Rajya Sabha?

Mention three instances when the Parliament can make laws on the subjects entered in the State list.

Mention three Legislative Powers of Union Parliament.

Mention three of Financial Powers of the Union Parliament.

Explain the powers of the Union Parliament in respect of matters in the Union List and Concurrent List.

In the context of the Union Parliament, describe the Financial Powers of the Union Parliament.

Mention four of Administrative or Executive Powers. 

Discuss the procedure to be followed by the Union Parliament in Passing a Money Bill.

Give a reason for the decline of cottage industries in India during the British rule.

In what way did the land revenue charged by the British, affect the Indian peasants?

What was the role of Zamindars during the British rule?

How could a moneylender exploit farmers during the British rule?

Who exposed the economic exploitation of India through his book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’?

What did Lord Ripon do against the British Policy of discrimination?

 Why did the educated middle class people join the National Movement?

 What feelings did the re-discovery of India’s past foster among Indians?

State the objective of the Landholders’ Society founded in 1837.

Name the two organizations, which merged in 1851 to form the British India Association of Bengal.