In the outline political map of India, five States have been marked as A, B, C, D and E. Identify them With the help of the information given below, and write their correct names in your answer book along with the serial number of the information used and the related alphabet in the map.

(i) The 29th State of India, Telangana.

(ii) The State where Nagpur Session of the Congress Party was held in
1959.

(iii) The State to which used to be called the madras State earlier.

(iv) The State to which the Communist leader E.M.S. Namboodiripad belonged.

(v) The home State of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first Health Minister of free India.

Four statements regarding one-party dominance are given below. Mark each of them as true or false:

“Patel, the organisational man of the Congress; wanted to purge the Congress of other political groups and sought to make of it a cohesive and disciplined political party. He ...sought to take the Congress away from its all–embracing character and turn it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres. Being a ‘realist’ he looked more for discipline than for comprehension. While Gandhi took too romantic a view of “carrying on the movement”, Patel’s idea of transforming the Congress into strictly political party with a single ideology and tight discipline showed an equal lack of understanding of the eclectic role that the Congress, as a government, was to he called upon to perform in the decades to follow.” — Rajni Kothari

(a) Why does the author think that Congress should not have been a cohesive and disciplined party?

(b) Give some examples of the eclectic role of the Congress party in the early years.

(c) Why does the author say that Gandhi’s view about Congress future was romantic ?