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Explain the importance of the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
Explain the significance of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Concept: Knowing Gandhi
Explain the provisions of Irwin-Gandhi pact.
Concept: The Salt Satyagraha a Case Study
Why was Irwin-Gandhi's pact criticised by the radical nationalists?
Concept: The Salt Satyagraha a Case Study
How did Gandhiji try to bring peace in various areas after the independence of India? Explain.
Concept: The Last Heroic Days
How did 'Salt Satyagraha' of Gandhiji become the All-India campaign in opposition to the British? Explain with examples.
Concept: The Salt Satyagraha a Case Study
"As a consequence of the Non-cooperation Movement the British Raj was shaken to its foundation for the first time since the Revolt of 1857." Explain the statement with examples.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
"There are different sources that provide us special insight into the working of Mahatma Gandhi in the National Movement of India." Explain the statement with example.
Concept: Knowing Gandhi
"Mahatma Gandhi's own role was vital in the growth of 'Gandhian Nationalism' but it also depended on his followers". Explain the statement with examples.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
Examine the role of Gandhiji as a Nationalist leader from 1929 till 1931.
Concept: The Salt Satyagraha a Case Study
Describe the causes and events of the Quit India Movement.
Concept: Quit India
Describe the role of Gandhiji in the Indian freedom struggle from 1922 till 1931.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
Explain the causes and events of the 'Salt Satyagraha'.
Concept: The Salt Satyagraha a Case Study
Explain the role Gandhiji in Indian Freedom movement from 1916 till 1922.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
Describe the sources to know about Gandhiji as a Nationalist Leader.
Concept: Knowing Gandhi
Describe the causes and events of the 'Non Co-operation Movement'.
Concept: The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation
Explain the significance of the Congress session held at Lahore in the end of 1929.
Concept: Why and How Did Partition Happen?
Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?
Concept: A Tumultuous Time
Which one of the following languages was favored by Gandhiji as the national language?
Concept: The Language of the Nation
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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We say that it is our firm and solemn resolve to have an independent sovereign republic. India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it is bound to be a republic. Now, some friends have raised the question: “Why have you not put in the word ‘democratic’ here.?” Well, I told them that it is conceivable, of course, that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously, we are aiming at democracy and nothing less than democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and elsewhere, have played a great part in the world’s progress. Yet it may be doubtful if those democracies may not have to change their shape somewhat before long if they have to remain completely democratic. We are not going just to copy, I hope, a certain democratic procedure or an institution of a so-called democratic country. We may improve upon it. In any event whatever system of government we may establish here must fit in with the temper of our people and be acceptable to them. We stand for democracy. It will be for this House to determine what shape to give to that democracy, the fullest democracy, I hope. The House will notice that in this Resolution, although we have not used the word “democratic” because we thought it is obvious that the word "republic” contains that word and we did not want to use unnecessary words and redundant words, we have done something much more than using the word. We have given the content of democracy in this Resolution and not only the content of democracy but the content, if I may say so, of economic democracy in this Resolution. Others might take objection to this Resolution on the ground that we have not said that it should be a Socialist State. Well, I stand for Socialism and, I hope, India will stand for Socialism and that India will go towards the constitution of a Socialist State and I do believe that the whole world will have to go that way. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY DEBATES (CAD), VOL.I |
- Explain the term sovereignty
- How has democracy been related to sovereignty in the passage?
- How did the Constitutional framers highlight the need for economic democracy?
Concept: The Vision of the Constitution
