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Challenges of Nation Building
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What were the consideration of Government of India in its approaches towards the Princely States ?

Answer

The government’s approach was guided by three considerations:

(i) The people of most of the Princely States clearly wanted to become part of the Indian Union.

(ii) The government was prepared to be flexible in giving autonomy to some regions.

(iii)In the back drop of partition which brought into focus the contest over demarcation of territory. The integration and consolidation of the territorial boundaries of the nation had assumed supreme importance.

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Some More Questions From Challenges of Nation Building Chapter

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

What was the task of the States Reorganisation Commission ? What was its most salient recommendation ?

It is said that the nation is to a 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 ?

Which famous speech did Jawaharlal Nehru deliver in 1947 and where? 

What was borne by India with its independence ?

Fill in the blanks:

“According to the ________ advanced by the ______-,India consisted of not

one but ________ people, _______ and Muslims.

What was percentage of Muslim population in India in 1951 ?

Name the political organisation that was formed to protect the interest of the Muslims in colonial India.

Which states were created on the basis of separate regional culture or complaints of regional imbalance in development ?