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Challenges To And Restoration Of The Congress System

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What is meant by Privy purses ?Why did Indira Gandhi want to abolish them in 1970?

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At the time of the integration of the Princely States, the Government of India assured the rulers' families would be allowed to retain certain private property, and give them a grant in heredity or goverment allowances, measured on the basis of the extent, revenue and potential of the merging states. This grant was called the privy purse.

The hereditory privileges were not consonant with the principles of equality and social and economic justice laid down in the Constitution of India.

Some More Questions From Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress system Chapter

Read the passage and answer the questions below : ... Indira Gandhi changed the Congress into highly centralised and undemocratic party organisation, from the earlier federal, democratic and ideological formation that Nehru had led.....But this ... could not have happened had not Indira Gandhi changed the entire nature of politics. This new. populist politics turned political ideology ....... into a mere electoral discourse, use of various slogans not meant to be translated into government policies ...... During its great electoral victories in early 1970s, amidst the celebration, the Congress party as a political organisation died................—Sudipta Kaviraj
(a) What according to the author is the difference between the strategies of Nehru and Indira Gandhi ?

(b) Why does the author say that the Congress party ‘died’ in the seventies ?

(c) In what way, did the change in the Congress party affect other political parties also ?

Who said the famous slogan of ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ ?

Who started the slogan ‘garibi hatao’ ?

Which popular policy measures were taken by Indira Gandhi?

What is the full form of SVD?

How was SVD government known in Punjab and which political parties were part of it ?

What is meant by the expression ‘Aya Ram, Gaya Ram’?

Explain ‘Kamraj Plan’ .

Name the official candidate of the Congress and independent candidate who recieved support from Indira Gandhi in the presidential elections of 1969.

What was the Grand Alliance?

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