Arts (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

What is Human Rights Watch? Describe its main contribution to the field of human right.

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'.

How did the U.S. respond to the 9/11 attacks?

Highlight any one major distinction between the Soviet economy and the Capitalist economy.

The South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was signed by the members of __________ in the year____________.

What is the main function of Amnesty International?

What was ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’?

How far is it correct to say that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre as the attack on the US hegemony? Explain?

Explain any two features India's nuclear policy

"1960s were labelled as the 'dangerous decade'." Explain with the help of any four arguments.

“Like India, why could democracy not take roots in Pakistan despite the fact that both the countries share a common past?

Write short note on the following:

India’s nuclear policy

Some of the statements below are incorrect. Identify the incorrect statements and rewrite those with necessary correction.

(а) Social movements are hampering the functioning of India’s democracy.

(b) The main strength of social movements lies in their mass base across social sections.

(c) Social movements in India emerged because there were many issues that political parties did not address.

Do movements and protests in a country strengthen democracy? Justify your answer with examples.

Read the passage and answer questions below:

…., nearly all ‘new social movements’ have emerged as corrective to new maladies – environmental degradation, violation of the status of women, destruction of tribal cultures and the undermining of human rights – none of which are in and by themselves transformative of the social order. They are in that way quite different from revolutionar- ideologies of the past. But their weakness lies in their being so heavily fragmented ................ ..... .........a large part of the space occupied by the new social movements seem to be suffering from … various characteristics which have prevented them from being relevant to the truly oppressed and the poor in the form of a solid unified movement of the people. They are too fragmented, reactive, ad hocish, providing no comprehensive framework of basic social change. Their being anti-this or that (anti-West, anti-capitalist, anti-development, etc.) does not make them any more coherent, any more relevant to oppressed and peripheralized communities. --Rajni Kothari

(a) What is the difference between new social movements and revolutionary ideologies?

(b) What according to the author are the limitations of social movements?

(c) If social movements address specific issues, would you say that they are ‘fragmented’ or that they are more focused? Give reasons for you answer by giving examples.

The Janata Party government came to power in ______.

India conducted its I and II nuclear tests at Pokhran in the year ______ and ______.

The Russian Revolution was inspired by the ideals of ______ as opposed to capitalism and the need for an ______ Society.

The result of Arab Spring was ______ 

Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows;

India's nuclear policy has always been peace-oriented, whose clear impression is reflected in the policy of 'No First Use'. But in view of contemporary regional security challenges, the present government has made it clear that the policy of 'No First use' can be reviewed and changed in consonance with India's regional and national security. In addition, India is committed to ensuring its membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and opposing partisan and unjust nuclear treaties like CTBT and NPT.

Why was the policy of 'No First Use' reviewed and changed?