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16B
QUESTION BANK
CHAPTER 1 END OF BIPOLARITY
Q1- Discuss the reform policies of Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Q2- What is shock therapy?
Q3- State the reasons of disintegration of Soviet
Union.
Q4- Highlight any one major distinction between the
Soviet economy and the capitalist economy.
Q5-Mention any two characteristics of the Soviet
political system.
Q6-Why is it said that the collapse of the Berlin Wall
signified the collapse of the bipolar world?
CHAPTER-2 ALTERNATIVE CENTRES OF POWER
1. When did China get independence?
2. What are the components of the ASEAN Vision
2020?
3. Give any two reasons why regionally and
globally China has become an economic power
to reckon with.
4. Highlight any four drawbacks in the changed
Chinese economic system.
 5. Explain the role of emerging alternative centres
of power in transforming the different countries
into prosperous economies.
6. Identify the contentious issues between China
and India. How could these be resolved for
greater cooperation ? Give your suggestions.
7. What steps should be taken to strengthen the
ASEAN in the international community?
CHAPTER-3 CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
1. Whose mediation resolved the ‘Indus River
Waters Dispute’ between India and Pakistan?
2. Which political party dominates the political
affairs of Maldives?
3. Mention any two objectives of SAARC.
4. Mention the names of member states of SAARC.
5. “Democracy in South Asia has expanded the
global imagination of democracy”. Do you
agree? Justify.
6. Mention some features of Indo-Bhutan
relationship.
7. Highlight any two issues of cooperation as well
as confrontation each between India and
Bangladesh.
8. Explain India’s changing relationship with
Pakistan.
9. Explain any five points of conflict
between India and Bangladesh.
CHAPTER-4 INTERNATIONAL
ORGANISATIONS
1. What is meant by security council?
Mention its composition.
2. What is the World Health
Organisation (WHO)?
3. Name the international agency
relating to environmental programme.
4. Discuss the composition of General
Assembly.
5. Why are international organisations
like the UN required?
6. Suggest some reforms required in
the United Nations.
7. Can the UN serve as a balance
against the US dominance?
8. Assess the role of the United Nations
as the most important international
organisation.
9. Why do some countries question the
issue of India’s inclusion as a
permanent member of the UN Security
Council? Explain.
CHAPTER-5 SECURITY IN CONTEMPORARY
WORLD
1. What is the basic difference between
the ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’
concept of security?
2. Mention any two human rights in
political field.
 3. How is balance of power a
component of traditional security?
4. Which threats are included in the
Global Security?
5. What is the significance of Kyoto
Protocol? Is India a signatory to this
protocol?
6. Mention any four components of
traditional security.
7. Differentiate between the traditional
and non-traditional notions of security.
8. Identify and explain new sources of
threat to security.
9. Explain the differences between
migrants and refugees and internally
displaced persons.
CHAPTER-6 ENVIORNMENT AND NATURAL
RESOURCES
1. What do you mean by ‘global North’
and ‘global South’?
2. Why should the ‘environmental
concerns’ be part of contemporary
global politics?
3. At the Rio Summit which difference
became clear between the First World
and the Third World countries?
4. What was Brundtland Report?
5. What is UNEP? What does the UNEP
stand for?
6. Cooperation over the global
commons is not easy. Explain.
7. Identify the most important outcome
of the Rio summit.
8. Explain India’s stand on
environmental issues.
9. Explain the steps taken by
Governments of India to curb the
emission of greenhouse gases.

10.What do you mean by environmental

movements? Explain.

CHAPTER-7 GLOABALISATION

1. Mention the main function of the

World Trade Organisation (WTO).
2. When was new economic policy
adopted?
3. What is the problem of increasing
interdependence of countries?
4. How has globalisation involved
greater trade in commodities across the
globe?
5. What are the causes of
globalisation?
6. “Welfare State is getting replaced
by market.” Analyse the reason for this
change?
7. Define globalisation. Describe any
three economic implications of
globalisation.
8. Explain the economic consequences
of globalisation.
9. Explain arguments given by the
advocates of economic globalization.
CHAPTER-1 CHALLENGES OF NATION
BUILDING
1. What was the huge obstacle in
nation building at the time of India’s
independence?
2. Which states were created on the
basis of separate regional culture or
complaints of regional imbalance in
development?
3. What were the circumstances when
India attained its independence?
4. Who played a historic role in
negotiating with the rulers of princely
states to join the Indian Union?
5. Explain the role played by Sardar
Patel in the unification of princely
states in India.
6. Name the leader who advocated
separate state of Andhra Pradesh by
observing fast unto death and
participation in Salt Satyagraha.
7. How did the state of Hyderabad
became a part of the Indian Union after
partition?
8. What are the reasons being used by
Nehru for keeping India secular? Do you
think these reasons were only ethical
 and sentimental? Or were there some
prudential reasons as well?
9. Describe the challenges that India
faced at the time of independence in
1947.
CHAPTER-2 ERA OF ONE-PARTY
DOMINANCE
1. What is meant by ‘one-party
dominance’ in the Indian context?
2. Differentiate between one party
dominance and one party system.
3. Who was the Chairman of the
Drafting Committee of the Constituent
Assembly?
4. What were the election symbols of
the Congress Party and Bharatiya Jana
Sangh in the first general election of
1952?
5. How did the dominance of Congress
Party in the first three general elections
help in establishing a democratic set-up
in India?
6. Why was the first general election in
India considered unusual?
7. How has the method of voting
changed from the first General Election
of 1952 to the General Election of 2004?
8. Explain any five reasons for the
dominance of the Congress Party in the
first three general elections.
9. State the ideologies of the
Swatantra Party.
CHAPTER-3 POLITICS OF PLANNED
DEVELOPMENT
1. What is ‘Development’?
2. What is Plan Holiday?
3. What was the main objective of the
second Five Year Plan?
4. What are the objectives of planning?
5. Differentiate between the capitalist
and socialist models of development.
6. Which state was prone to food crisis
in the early years of independence?
7. What were the key controversies
regarding development in India?
8. How was the Planning Commission
of India set up? Mention its scope of
work.
9. What do you know about land
reforms in India during planning period?
CHAPTER-4 INDIA’S EXTERNAL
RELATION
1. What was the main demand of the
Awami League in 1970?
2. Which treaty was signed by India in
August 1971 and with which country?
3. Mention the causes of Kargil
Conflict.
4. What is Panchsheel? When was it
adopted and by whom?
5. Access any four principles of India’s
foreign policy.
6. Why did India refuse to sign the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
of 1968?
7. Highlight the contribution made by
Jawaharlal Nehru to the foreign policy of
India.
8. Describe any two major issues of
conflict between India and Pakistan
leading to war of 1971.
9. In the Post Cold War Era what is the
nature of India’s foreign policy in terms
of shifting alliances in world politics?
CHAPTER-5 CHALLENGES TO THE
CONGRESS SYSTEM
1. Write the names of the two
successive Presidents of India after the
death of Dr Zakir Hussain.
2. Which theoretical argument did Ram
Manohar Lohia give in defence on non-
Congressism?
3. Correct and rewrite the statement
given below: Gaya Lal, an MP from the
Haryana Legislature in 1967, changed
his party twice in a fortnight.
4. Mention any two problems which
were faced by the Government of Indira
Gandhi during 1969 – 1971.
5. ‘Coalition governments proved to be
a boon for democracy in India.’ Support
 this statement with any two suitable
arguments.
6. Why was the year 1967 considered
as landmark year in India’s political and
electoral history? Explain.
7. What is meant by ‘Privy Purses’?
Why did Indira Gandhi insist on
abolishing them in 1970?
8. Explain reasons for the popularity of
Indira Gandhi during 1971 elections.
CHAPTER-6 CRISIS TO THE DEMOCRATIC
ORDER
1. Why did Congress win in Southern
states?
2. Who led the Railway Strike in 1974?
What was its main demand?
3. Who was appointed Chief Justice of
India in 1973? Why did this appointment
become controversial?
4. How many Lok Sabha seats were won by
the Janata Party and its allies in the
General Elections of March 1977?
5. Mention the issues on which the
campaign of Janata Party was focused in
the general elections of 1977.
6. How far do you agree that the
government had misused its emergency
powers during 1975-77? Explain.
7. Explain lessons learnt from emergency
imposed in 1975.
8. Evaluate the consequences of
declaration of emergency in 1975?
9. Explain the reasons for students
movement of 1974 in Bihar and the role
played by Jayaprakash Narayan in this
movement.

CHAPTER-7 REGIONAL ASPIRATIONS

1. Why do some people feel that Article
370 should be revoked?
2. Explain the term autonomy.
3. Mention the issues which India has
to face immediately after independence.
4. Why were the seven small states
created in North-East India?
5. What was the role of Congress in the
politics of Jammu and Kashmir?
6. Why did Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh apologise to the Nation on 11
August 2005 in Rajya Sabha?
7. What were the main provisions of
the Punjab accord? In what way can
they be the basis for further tensions
between the Punjab and its
neighbouring States?
8. Why did the movement for secession
in the Mizo hills area gain popular
support? How was the problem
resolved?
9. Describe the demands of AASU, AGP
and ULFA.
 CHAPTER-8 RECENT DEVLOPMENTS IN
INDIAN POLITICS
1. Mention any two incidents of violence
against the minority community which are
a threat to democracy.
2. Name the two alliances-fronts that
formed the government at the centre in
1989 and 1996 respectively.
3. Identify anyone similarity between the
United Front Government of 1996 and the
National Front Government of 1989.
4. Which two diametrically opposite
political groups supported the National
Front Government in 1989?
5. Political equations in coalition
governments are unstable. How was this
concept reflected in the formation of the
National Front Government in 1989 and
the United Front Government in 1996?
6. What was the main reason for the anti-
Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002?
7. List the four groups to be emerged in
1990s.
8. What was Godhra episode? What were
its after-effects?
9. What was change in electoral
performance of Congress party and BJP
from 1984-2004?