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question_answer1) Which of the guiding values of the Constitution of India means that people have the supreme right to make decisions?
question_answer2) How many members did the Constituent Assembly have that wrote the Indian Constitution?
question_answer3) Name the President of the Constituent Assembly?
question_answer4) Is it true that non-democratic countries do not have a Constitution?
question_answer5) Name the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee of India?
question_answer6) Earlier to 1992, South Africa practiced a form of racial discrimination. What is it termed as?
question_answer7) In a republic, how is the Head of State decided or chosen?
question_answer8) Nelson Mandela remained in prison for treason for how many years?
question_answer9) On which day did South Africa gain independence from the rule of the White minority?
question_answer10) What is the title of the autobiography of Nelson Mandela?
question_answer11) Which national leader tried to draft a Constitution for India as far back as in 1928?
question_answer12) When were the elections to the Constituent Assembly held in India?
question_answer13) The Constituent Assembly originally had how many members and was left with how many after the partition of the country?
question_answer14) In which country did a large number of 'Whites' settle and become the local rulers?
question_answer15) Who said, ".... I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country in whose making they have an effective voice. ......"?
question_answer16) Did the ideals of the Quit India Movement contribute to the making of the Indian Constitution?
question_answer17) Which organisation led the freedom movement in South Africa?
question_answer18) Which Indian politician bitterly criticized Mahatma Gandhi's vision?
question_answer19) From which country's Constitution have most countries of the world chosen to begin their Constitution with a Preamble?
question_answer20) Did all members of the Constituent Assembly of India hold the same views on all provisions of the Constitution?
question_answer21) Why is India considered as a sovereign country?
question_answer22) How do you define a country where citizens have complete freedom to follow any religion?
question_answer23) Define the Preamble.
question_answer24) Name the leader who used to write in the magazine 'Young India' in 1931.
question_answer25) Who is known as the Father of Indian Constitution?
question_answer26) What is 'Constituent Assembly Debates'?
question_answer27) In which session of the Congress did Indian National Congress Plan on how independent India's Constitution should look like?
question_answer28) When did the Indian Constitution come into force?
question_answer29) In the Constituent Assembly, the first captain of the Indian hockey team also has a role. Who was he?
question_answer30) Which country has the largest written Constitution of the world?
question_answer31) Who often bitterly criticised Mahatma Gandhi and his vision regarding how to remove inequalities from our society?
question_answer32) On the basis of what did the system of apartheid divide people?
question_answer33) "I have fought against the white domination and I have fought against the Black domination''. Who said this sentence?
question_answer34) If the head of the state is an elected person and not a hereditary position. What is it called?
question_answer35) Name the founder of Andhra Mahila Sabha.
question_answer36) What would have happened in South Africa if the black majority had decided to take revenge on the whites for all their oppression and exploitation?
question_answer37) Match the following leaders with their roles in the making of the Constitution. (a) Motilal Nehru (i) President of the Constituent (b) BR Ambedkar (ii) Member of the Constituent Assembly (c) Rajendra Prasad (iii) Chairman of the Drafting Committee (d) Sarojini Naidu (iv) Prepared a Constitution for India in 1928
question_answer38) Read again the extracts from Nehru's speech "Tryst with Destiny" and answer the following Why did Nehru use the expression "not wholly or in full measure" in the first sentence? What pledge did he want the makers of the Indian Constitution to take? "The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye". Who was he referring to?
question_answer39) Here are some of the guiding values of the Constitution and their meanings. Rewrite them by matching them correctly. (a) Sovereign (i) Government will not favour any religion (b) Republic (ii) People have the supreme right to make decisions. (c) Fraternity (iii) Head of the State is an elected person. (d) Secular (iv) People should live like brothers and sisters
question_answer40) Here are different opinions about what made India a democracy. How much importance would you give to each of these factors? Democracy in India is a gift of the British rulers. We received training to work with representative legislative institutions under the British rule. Freedom struggle challenged the colonial exploitation and denial of different freedoms to Indians. Free India could not be anything but democratic. We were lucky to have leaders who had democratic convictions. The denial of democracy in several other newly independent countries shows the important role of these leaders.
question_answer41) What do you understand by the term 'apartheid'?
question_answer42) What was the 'Drafting Committee'?
question_answer43) How did the Blacks of South Africa fight against the practice of apartheid? What is meant by apartheid? How did the people of South Africa struggle against it? Or Describe any three efforts made by the people of South Africa to struggle against the apartheid system.
question_answer44) What is meant by 'sovereign, socialist and secular' as the key words of our Constitution?
question_answer45) The South African Constitution inspires democrats all over the world'. Justify the statement.
question_answer46) Who led the struggle against apartheid? State any four practices following in the system of apartheid in South Africa.
question_answer47) What is a Constitution? Why do we need a Constitution? Give any five reasons. Or Why do we need a Constitution in a democracy? Explain any three reasons. Or What is a Constitution? Why do we need a Constitution? Give any four reasons.
question_answer48) "The manner in which the Constituent Assembly worked gives sanctity to the constitution of India. "Justify the statement with three arguments.
question_answer49) How has the Indian Constitution embodied the basic values into institutional arrangements? Explain.
question_answer50) Explain the major factors that contributed to the making of Indian Constitution. Or List the factors that contributed to the making of Indian Constitution.
question_answer51) What do you understand by Preamble? What is the significance of 'We the people of India' and 'Secular' in the Preamble?
question_answer52) Why did the Constitution framers make provisions for amendments in the Indian Constitution?
question_answer53) "Like the Constitution of South Africa, Indian Constitution was also drawn up under very difficult circumstances." Elaborate this statement with the help of any four circumstances.
question_answer54) Why is the Preamble very important?
question_answer55) Throw some light on the composition of the Constituent Assembly.
question_answer56) How was the new Constitution of South Africa formed?
question_answer57) How did South Africa get independence?
question_answer58) Why do you think there is more importance of a Constitution to a democratic country?
question_answer59) "Indian Constitution is both rigid and flexible", explain.
question_answer60) "Formation of Indian Constitution was no less struggle than that of Africa" - Do you agree Explain with five arguments.
question_answer61) Why should we accept the Constitution made by the Constituent Assembly more than fifty years ago? Explain any three reason. Or Why should we accept the Constitution made by the Constituent Assembly more than 62 years ago? Give three reasons. Or Why all the citizens of our country must accept the Constitution that was framed more than fifty years ago? Give any five reasons. Or Why should the Indian Constitution formulated in 1950 be applicable in 21st century? Write any five reasons.
question_answer62) Assess the contribution made by the Constituent Assembly to form the Indian Constitution. State the steps involved in the framing of Indian Constitution. Or Mention (he land mark years in the making of the Indian Constitution.
question_answer63) When did the Constituent Assembly adopt the Constitution of India? When did it come into force?
question_answer64) Who framed the Constitution of India?
question_answer65) Name some important members of the Constituent Assembly.
question_answer66) Who was the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly?
question_answer67) Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter. (a) Leaders of the freedom movement had an open mind about whether the country should be democratic or not after independence. (b) Members of the Constituent Assembly of India held the same views on all provisions of the Constitution. (c) A country that has a Constitution must be a democracy. (d) Constitution cannot be amended because it is the supreme law of the country.
question_answer68) Which of these was the most salient underlying conflict in the making of a democratic Constitution in South Africa? (a) Between South Africa and its neighbours (b) Between men and women (c) Between the white majority and the black minority (d) Between the coloured minority and the black majority
question_answer69) Which of these is a provision that a democratic Constitution does not have? (a) Powers of the Head of State (b) Name of the Head of State (c) Powers of the Legislature (d) Name of the country
question_answer70) What are the ideals before the Indian nation?
question_answer71) How much time did the Constituent Assembly take in framing the Constitution of India?
question_answer72) Which Constitution has inspired democrats all over the world? (a) Indian (b) South African (c) Russian (d) French
question_answer73) Who was Abul Kalam Azad?
question_answer74) What is the meaning of the term 'fraternity' in the Indian Constitution?
question_answer75) Which one of the following words is not in the preamble of Indian constitution? (a) Justice (b) Liberty (c) Knowledge (d) Equality
question_answer76) A famous speech of Jawaharlal Nehru is (a) Full measures (b) Triumph towards Victory (c) Tryst with Destiny (d) None of these
question_answer77) Which among the following statement is not true for secularism? (a) Citizens have complete freedom to follow any religion (b) There is no official religion. (c) Government treats all religions with equal respect (d) Each state has its own religion.
question_answer78) Name the leader who has played a decisive role in the integration of the Indian princely state.
question_answer79) Name the Education Minister in the first Union Cabinet.
question_answer80) Name the founder President of Bharatiya Jansangh.
question_answer81) The image Raptures the spirit at South Africa today. South Africans call themselves a 'rainbow nation'. Can you guess why?
question_answer82) Does the story of South African struggle for freedom remind you of the Indian national movement? Make a list of similarities and dissimilarities between the two on the following points ? Relationship between different communities ?Nature of colonialism ?Leadership: Gandhi/Mandela ?Party that led the stuggle: African National Congress/Indian National Congress ?Method of struggle
question_answer83) This is not fair! What was the point in having a Constituent Assembly in India if all the basics were already decided?
question_answer84) Read the information about the makers of the Indian Constitution given in the side columns here. You don't need to memorise this information. Just give examples from these to support the following statements 1. The Assembly had many members who were not with the Congress, j 2. The Assembly represented members from different social groups. 3. Members of the Assembly believed in different ideologies.
question_answer85) Read the three quotations above carefully. I shall strive for a constitution which will release India from all thralldom and patronage... 1 shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country in whose making they have an effective voice; an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people; an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony. There can be no room in such an India for the curse of un touch ability or the curse of the intoxicating drinks and drugs. Women will enjoy the same rights as men ... I shall be satisfied with nothing else. On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognising the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall we continue to live this life fo contradiction? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. (i) Can you identify one idea that is common to all these three quotations? (ii) What are the differences in their ways of expressing that common idea?
question_answer86) Compare the Preambles to the Constitutions of the United States of America, India and South Africa. (i) Make a list of ideas that are common to all these three. (ii) Note down at least one of the major differences among them. (iii) Which of the three makes a reference to the past? (iv) Which of these does not invoke God?
question_answer87) A friend from Nepal has written you a letter describing the politics situation there. Many political parties are opposing the rule of the king. Some of them say that the existing Constitution given by the monarch can be amended to allow more powers to elected representatives. Others are demanding a new Constituent Assembly to write a Republican Constitution. Reply to your friend giving your opinions on the subject.
question_answer88) Read the following extract from a conduct book for 'married women', published in 1912. 'God has made the female species delicate and fragile both physically and emotionally, pitiably incapable of self-defence. They are destined thus by God to remain in male protection ? of father, husband and son - all their lives. Women should, therefore, not despair, but feel obliged that they can dedicate themselves to the service of men'. Do you think the values expressed in this para reflected the values underlying our Constitution? Or does this go against the constitutional values?
question_answer89) Read the following statements about a Constitution. Give reasons why each of these is true or not true. (a) The authority of the rules of the Constitution is the same as that of any other law. (b) Constitution lays down how different organs of the government will be formed. (c) Rights of citizens and limits on the power of the government are laid down in the Constitution. (d) A Constitution is about institutions, not about values. Follow the newspapers for any report on a discussion on any Constitutional Amendment or demand for any Constitutional Amendment. You could, e.g., focus on the demand for Constitutional Amendment for reservation for women in legislatures. Was there a public debate? What reasons were put forward in favour of the amendment? How did different parties react to Constitutional Amendment? Did the amendment take place?
question_answer90) Who was Nelson Mandela?
question_answer91) What does 'Apartheid' mean?
question_answer92) Who were called 'blacks' in South Africa?
question_answer93) How non-whites were treated in South Africa?
question_answer94) What does 'Segregation' mean in South Africa?
question_answer95) What was ANC?
question_answer96) How white racist continued their apartheid besides protests?
question_answer97) When did apartheid end in South Africa?
question_answer98) What policies were changed by white regime in South Africa?
question_answer99) Who formed the constitution of New democratic South Africa?
question_answer100) When was the constitution of South Africa completed?
question_answer101) How a state denounced by the entire world was being seen as a model of democracy?
question_answer102) What does South African constitution teach us?
question_answer103) What compromise was made by whites minority in South Africa?
question_answer104) What compromise was made by black majority in South Africa?
question_answer105) With which rules trust was built between blacks and whites in South Africa?
question_answer106) What is this set of basic rules called?
question_answer107) What is a 'Constitution'?
question_answer108) Why is Constitution considered the Supreme law?
question_answer109) How difficult it was for India to frame a constitution for united India after independence?
question_answer110) What advantage did Indian Constitution makers have unlike South Africa?
question_answer111) Who was the first one to draft a constitution for India?
question_answer112) What resolution was made in 1931, Karachi session?
question_answer113) Which basic values were incorporated in our constitution from these pre- independence decisions?
question_answer114) What institutional details and procedures Indians derive from colonial laws?
question_answer115) Which countries constitutional features inspired Indian Constitution makers?
question_answer116) What was 'Constituent Assembly'?
question_answer117) How was Constituent Assembly formed?
question_answer118) How many members did the Constituent Assembly have?
question_answer119) When was the Constitution work completed and when did it come into effect?
question_answer120) Why did the Constitution come into effect on 26th January 1950?
question_answer121) What is the unusual achievement of our Constitution?
question_answer122) In which manner Constituent Assembly worked?
question_answer123) Why was a drafting committee formulated? Who was its Chairman?
question_answer124) Who was the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly?
question_answer125) How many amendments were considered on the draft?
question_answer126) How much time it took to form the Constitution of India?
question_answer127) What are 'Constituent Assembly Debates'?
question_answer128) How these Constituent Assembly Debates are used?
question_answer129) What features formed the foundation for India's democracy?
question_answer130) What is Preamble?
question_answer131) What does 'Sovereign' mean?
question_answer132) What does 'Socialist' in a democratic Constitution mean?
question_answer133) What is the meaning of the form 'Secular'?
question_answer134) What does 'democratic' mean?
question_answer135) What does 'Republic' mean?
question_answer136) Why is the term 'Justice' included in our Preamble?
question_answer137) What kind of liberty is given in the Preamble?
question_answer138) What does 'Equality' term mean in the Indian Constitution?
question_answer139) What does the term 'Fraternity' signify in the Preamble?
question_answer140) What are 'Constitutional Amendments'?
question_answer141) Why do we need to make amendments in our constitution?
question_answer142) Name some of the members of the Constituent Assembly?
question_answer143) What do you know about Nelson Mandela?
question_answer144) What do you understand by the term 'apartheid'?
question_answer145) What basic rules are followed to form a Constitution?
question_answer146) What documents were taken by the Constituent Assembly to form the Indian Constitution?
question_answer147) Indian leaders were inspired by which countries to frame the Indian Constitution?
question_answer148) How was the Constituent Assembly formed?
question_answer149) When was the Constitution completed and why was it imposed on 26 January 1950?
question_answer150) Give reasons for accepting the Constitution made by the Constituent Assembly more than 50 years ago.
question_answer151) What was the 'Drafting Committee'?
question_answer152) What are 'Constituent Assembly Debates'?
question_answer153) In which two ways can the philosophy of the Indian Constitution be understood?
question_answer154) What is the role of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in making the Constitution?
question_answer155) How did the blacks of South Africa fight against the practice of apartheid?
question_answer156) What kind of inspiration do we get from South Africa?
question_answer157) What were Nelson Mandela's views on the South African constitution?
question_answer158) What compromises were made by both ethnic groups of South Africa for their constitution?
question_answer159) Why are rules formed in the constitutions of countries?
question_answer160) Which basic values were accepted by all leaders before the Constituent Assembly met to form the constitution?
question_answer161) Who was Dr. B.R. Ambedkar? How did he play a key role in the making of Indian constitution?
question_answer162) How values of freedom struggle were embedded in the Preamble of the Indian constitution?
question_answer163) What does the Indian Preamble on the constitution contain?
question_answer164) How was 'apartheid' practised in South Africa?
question_answer165) What efforts were made to form a new constitution after independence in South Africa?
question_answer166) What are the main functions of a Constitution?
question_answer167) Give a brief description about any five members of the Constituent Assembly.
question_answer168) How was the institutional design formed for the Indian Constitution?
question_answer169) Write a short note on the main features of the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.
question_answer170) How did South Africa get Independence?
question_answer171) How was a new constitution of South Africa formed?
question_answer172) What problems were faced by the South Africans before the formation of the constitution?
question_answer173) Is it true that the constitution of India expresses a broad consensus of its time?
question_answer174) What steps were taken by the Constituent Assembly to form the Indian Constitution?
question_answer175) Nelson Mandela remained in prison for treason for about: (a) 25 years (b) 26 years (c) 28 years (d) 20 years
question_answer176) How many members were there in the Constituent Assembly that wrote the Indian Constitution? (a) 299 members (b) 101 members (c) 36 members (d) 206 members
question_answer177) When was the Constitution of India completed or adopted? (a) 26 January, 1950 (b) 26 November, 1949 (c) 26 October, 1949 (d) 17 December, 1947
question_answer178) The Chairman of the drafting committee was: (a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (c) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Mahatma Gandhi
question_answer179) A form of government where people enjoy equal political rights is: (a) Socialist (b) Dictatorial (c) Democratic (d) Autocratic
question_answer180) What is a constitution? Why do we need a constitution for a country?
question_answer181) "Most of the countries of the world keep changing their constitution as needed but Indian Constitutions is accepted even today." Is it an unusual achievement for any constitution? Give reasons in support of your answer.
question_answer182) Why Preamble is called the preface of the Indian constitution?
question_answer183) What are the exclusive features of the Indian constitution?
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