Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Describe any three steps taken by the Indian Government to check the environmental degradation.

"Non-alignment does not imply neutrality or equidistance." What does this statement mean?

What was the main objective of the New International Economic Order?

Explain India’s stand on environmental issues.

What is the relevance of the Non-aligned Movement after the end of Cold War? Explain.

What is alliance politics? How has it influenced the Indian politics?

Which among the following statements does not reflect the objectives of NAM?

NAM Was Considered a ‘Third Option’ by Third World Countries. How Did this Option Benefit Their Growth During the Peak of the Cold War? 

What was Shock Therapy? Was this the best way to make a transition from communism to capitalism?

Which among the following statements is wrong with regard to ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’?

Give an example each of the three kinds of hegemony that are dealt with in the chapter. Do not cite examples that are in the chapter.

Name the principal players in the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. How do you assess the prospects of the resolution of this conflict?

Match the principal organs and agencies of the UN with their functions:

Though the UN has failed in preventing wars and related miseries, nations prefer its continuation. What makes the UN an indispensable organisation?

What are the differences in the threats that people in the third world face and those living in the First World face?

Rapid environmental degradation is causing a serious threat to security. Do you agree with the statement? Substantiate your arguments.

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

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.

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?

In what sense was the Congress an ideological coalition? Mention the various ideological currents present within the Congress.