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Write a brief note on Sardar Patel's role in integration of Princely states .

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Sardar Patel was India’s Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Home Minister during the crucial period immediately following independence. He played a historic role in negotiating with the rulers of the Princely States firmly but diplomatically and bringing most of them into the Indian Union.

Some More Questions From Challenges of Nation Building Chapter

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 ?

Read the cartoon given below and answer the question that follow :

What does the above cartoon show ?

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