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Challenges of Nation Building
| A. Mapping of boundaries on religious | (i) Pakistan and Bangladesh grounds |
| B. Mapping of boundaries on grounds of | (ii) India and Pakistan different languages |
| C. Demarcating boundaries within a | (iii) Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh country by geographical zones |
| D. Demarcating boundaries within a country | (iv) Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on administrative and political grounds |
A. Mapping of boundaries on religious | (i) India and Pakistan different languages |
B. Mapping of boundaries on grounds of | (ii) Pakistan and Bangladesh grounds |
C. Demarcating boundaries within a | (iii) Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on administrative and political grounds |
D. Demarcating boundaries within a country | (iv) Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh country by geographical zones |
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“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 ?
“According to the ________ advanced by the ______-,India consisted of not
one but ________ people, _______ and Muslims.
(i) What does this picture depict?
(ii) Which cities were divided into communal zones ?
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