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Prepared by:
K.Gopikrishna,
Sr. Faculty
PAPER - I
1. INDIA-RELIEF FEATURES
1. The central longitude 82.30° E is taken as
____ for India.
2. The highest peak in Eastern Ghats is ____
found at Chinthapalli.
3. The time difference between GMT and
IST is ____.
4. The country's mainland lies between ____
north latitudes.
5. India has land frontier of ____ and a
coastal line of ____.
6. India lies entirely in the ____.
7. The Indian peninsula was part of ____.
8. Kashmir Valley, Kangra and Kulu are in
____.
9. Gravel and pebble sediments feature is
known as ____.
10. Shivaliks are called as Mishmi hills in
____.
respect from others.
5. Countries with higher income are ____
than less income countries.
6. Countries with per capita income of ____
and above per annum in 2012 are called
high income countries.
7. Countries with per capita income of ____
or less per annum in 2012 are called low
income countries.
8. The rich countries, excluding countries of
West Asia and certain other small countries are called ____.
9. Out of 1000 live children born, the number of children who die within one year is
called ____.
10. The % of literate population above 7 years
age is called ____.
ANSWERS
1) achieving goals; 2) Tirunelveli district
(T.N.); 3) Ivory Coast (Africa); 4) freedom, security; 5) developed; 6) US
$12,600; 7) US $1,035; 8) developed
countries; 9) Infant Mortality Rate; 10)
Literacy Rate.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
ANSWERS
1) Standard Meridian; 2) Aroya Konda;
3) 5½ hours; 4) 8°4' and 37°6'; 5) 15,200
kms, 7,516 kms; 6) Northern Hemisphere; 7) Gondwana land; 8) Lesser Himalayas; 9) Bhabar; 10) Arunachal Pradesh
2. IDEAS OF DEVELOPMENT
1. Development involves thinking about
____.
2. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is in
____.
3. A vessel dumped 500 tonnes of liquid
toxic wastes in Abidjan in ____.
4. Besides seeking more income, people also
seek things like equal treatment, ____ and
3. PRODUCTION AND
EMPLOYMENT
1. India’s GDP grew only ____ in 2012-13.
2. Nature has a dominant role in the production process is called ____.
3. Where goods are produced by people
using tools or machines is called ____.
4. The total value of goods and services produced in the country is ____.
5. Agriculture was the largest producing sector in ____.
6. Services was the largest producing sector
in ____.
7. Industry was the smallest producing sector
in ____.
8. Agriculture was the smallest producing
sector in ____.
9. Those are not being used by the final consumer is called ____.
10. The service sector has become the most
important in terms of ____.
ANSWERS
1) 5%; 2) Agriculture; 3) Manufacturing
process; 4) GDP; 5) 1972-73; 6) 20092010; 7) 1972-73; 8) 2009-10; 9) intermediary goods; 10) total production.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What are called 'Perennial rivers'?
A: Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra are called
Perennial rivers. The movement and melting of Himalayan glaciers are the source
of these Perennial rivers.
2. What are 'Duns'?
A: The valleys lying between the lesser
Himalayas and the Shivalik ranges are
called as Duns. Ex: Dehra dun; Patli Dun
2 Marks
1. What is the influence of Himalayas on the
climate of India?
2. What are the reasons for the high density
of population in Indo-Gangetic Plains?
4 Marks
1. Contrast the relief of the Himalayan
region with that of the Peninsular Plateau?
2. What is the influence of the Himalayas on
Indian Agriculture?
2. What is the relationship between Women's
work outside their homes and gender bias?
1 Mark
1. Which criteria is to be considered in comparing the development of various countries?
A: 1) To measure the development of the
countries is comparing the per capita
income. Countries with higher the average income are developed countries.
2) Human Development Index is to be
considered as other than the Per Capita
Income.
2. What criteria has the World Bank taken
for measuring the countries?
A: The World Bank has taken the Per Capita
Income of US $ 12,600 and above per
annum in 2012 are called high income
countries. Those with per capita income of
US $ 1,035 or less income countries in
2012 are called as Low Income Countries.
2 Marks
1. Why do we use averages? Are there any
limitations to their use?
2. What do you mean by development?
4 Marks
1. Why do you think parents accord less priority to girls education as compared to
boys?
1 Mark
1. What are the three sectors of economy?
A: There are three sectors of economy. They
are
(a) Primary sector-Agriculture
(b) Secondary sector-Industries
(c) Tertiary sector-Those activities that
donot directly produce goods but provides services that are required in production.
2. What is GDP?
A: a) The total value of goods and services
produced in the country used as indicator of income for the country. The technical term to denote this value is Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)
b) GDP is the value of all final goods and
services produced with in a country
during a particular year.
2 Marks
1. Differentiate the organised and unorganised sectors of economy?
2. How is the Service sector different from
other sectors?
4 Marks
1. The workers in the unorganised sector
need protection on the wages, safety and
health. Explain with examples?
4. CLIMATE OF INDIA
1. Ongole received ____ rainfall, which is
one third of the state's total annual rainfall.
2. Bursting monsoons are locally known as
____ in Andhra Pradesh.
3. The state of atmospheric conditions over
an area at a particular time refers to the
____.
4. June - September is a period of the retreat
of the ____ monsoon.
5. Intensity of temperature depends on the
____.
6. The factors of climatic controls are
Latitude, Landwater relationship, Relief
and ____.
7. The average temperature for the year drop
further away from the ____.
8. Intensity of temperature depends on ____.
9. The temperature of the atmosphere at a
particular place near the Earth’s surface
depends upon the ____.
10. Permanent winds blow toward the equatorial low pressure belt by reflecting
towards the west and are called ____.
ANSWERS
1) 341 mm; 2) mango showers; 3) weather; 4) south-west; 5) latitude; 6) Upper air
circulation; 7) equator; 8) the latitude; 9)
insolation; 10) trade winds.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. How does the latitude affect climate?
A: The southern part of India lies in tropical
belt close to the equator. This region has
higher average temperature than the northern part.
2. What are the elements of Climate?
A: a) Temperature
b) Atmospheric Pressure
c) Wind
d) Humidity
e) Precipitation
2 Marks
1. Describe India's climate controls?
2. How are the human activities contributing
to the global warming?
4 Marks
1. How is climate change causing global
warming? Suggest measures to minimise
the influence of the global warming?
5. INDIAN RIVERS AND
WATER RESOURCES
1. The Himalayan Rivers have carved out
deep ____ valleys.
2. The Indus enters Indian Territory in ____.
3. Bhagirathi and Alakananda join at
Devprayag to form the ____.
A parliamentary
system is a system of
governance of a state in
which the executive derives
its democratic legitimacy
form. It is held
accountable to the
legislature and
the executive.
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4. The Brahmaputra is known as the ____ in
Tibet.
5. The Brahmaputra rises from the
Chemayungdung glacier of the Kailas
range near ____.
6. Most of the major Peninsular Rivers
except ____ flow from west to east.
7. The Chambal, Sind, Betwa, Ken and Son,
belong to the ____.
8. Inflow = precipitation + ____ + ground
water flow.
9. Inflows of groundwater depend on the tree
cover in the ____.
10. Tungabhadra is the major tributary of
____.
ANSWERS
1) ‘v’ shaped; 2) Jammu and Kashmir;
3) Ganga; 4) Tsangpo; 5) Manasarovar;
6) Narmada and Tapati; 7) Ganga; 8) surface flow; 9) catchment areas; 10) the
Krishna river.
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births + number of in-migrants) –(number
of deaths + number of ____).
9. The population density of India in the year
2011 was ____ persons per sq km
10. In 1992 the birth rate in India was ____.
ANSWERS
1) census ; 2) ten years; 3) 1872; 4) 382;
5) 12%; 6) absolute numbers; 7) population at earlier date; 8) out-migrants;
9) 382; 10) 29.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. How does literacy impact on development?
A: Literacy make people conscious on health,
income, getting opportunities, civil matters like public governance, human rights
etc., People can follow the media to know
the changes taking place in all aspects of
the country
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. Why the 70% of surface water resources
are polluted?
A: a) Washing of animals, clothes, dumping
solid wastes and littering by humans in
rivers, lakes and oceans
b) Asbestos, lead, mercury and petro
chemicals pollutes the surface water.
c) Acid rains
2. What are the aims of the WALTA Act?
A: The aim of the WALTA Act is to protect
and conserve water resources, tree cover,
land and matters. It also regulates the
exploitation and the use of ground and surface water.
3. What is Ground Water?
A: Water beneath the earth’s surface is called
ground water, which is get stored often
between saturated soil and rock that supplies water to wells and springs.
2 Marks
1. Water is to be considered as common pool
of resource. Explain?
2. Which aspects of farming practices were
regulated in the context of Hiware Bazar
to improve the water conservation?
4 Marks
1. What are the different inflow and out flow
processes has most impact in the context
of ground water resources?
2. What are the steps to be taken to restrict
the overgrowth of population in India?
A: a) Child marriages should be stopped
b) Education must be provided to all
c) Family Welfare programmes should be
implemented effectively by the
Government
3. What is Population Density?
A: Population density provides a better picture of population distribution. Population
density is calculated as the number of persons per square kilometre area.
2 Marks
1. Distinguish between Population growth
and Population change?
2. List out the impacts on society if sex ratio
is too low or too high?
4 Marks
1. What are the causes for high density of
population in some areas of our country?
6. THE PEOPLE
1. A ____ is the procedure of systematically
acquiring and recording information about
the members of a given population.
2. Once in ____, information is collected
about all people living in India.
3. In India the first census was taken in .
4. The population density of India in the year
2011 was ____ persons per sq km.
5. At independence in 1947, ____ of the population were literate.
6. Change in the size of a population can be
expressed in as ____, or as percentage
changes.
7. Population change = (population at later
date) – (____)
8. Population change in a place = (number of
7. PEOPLE AND
SETTLEMENT
1. The way we organize ourselves and our
living spaces in a place is called as ____.
2. Nomadic means kept moving from ____.
3. About 1.8 lakh years humans lived in
bands as ____.
4. Delhi is the second largest city with more
than ____ people.
5. Slum areas in Delhi are also known as
resettlement colonies or regularized ____.
6. Unauthorised colonies or without being
accepted as legal settlements in Delhi are
known as the ____ clusters.
7. During the 19th century, the British and
French fought a naval battle over ____.
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8. People have been increasingly taking up
non agriculture work and living in cities
and towns this is called ____.
9. Today about ____ people live in the villages.
10. Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata accommodate
more than ____ people each.
ative sugar factories.
8. Large scale sugarcane cultivation began in
____ in the early 1970s.
9. Saora tribe men migrate to work in ____
plantations.
10. Munda and Santhal men migrate to work
in mining sites in ____.
ANSWERS
1) settlement; 2) place to place; 3) huntergatherers; 4) 1.6 crore; 5) unauthorised
colonies.; 6) Juggi Jhopdi; 7) Visakhapatnam; 8) urbanisation; 9) 850 million;
10) 10 million.
ANSWERS
1) 307 million; 2) migration; 3) 84.2%;
4) 30 million; 5) migration; 6) Kerala;
7) 186; 8) Maharashtra; 9) Assam;
10) Odisha.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. Why do people migrate from rural areas?
A: 1) Due to inadequate income and other
facilities
2) Due to insufficient employment opportunities.
2. Why were only unskilled workers from
India wanted West Asian countries?
A: They need the unskilled workers from
India to work in their oil exporting companies for lower wages
2 Marks
1. Compare and contrast the migration from
rural to urban and urban to rural areas?
2. How does rural to urban migration
increase the purchasing power of people
in the rural areas?
4 Marks
1. Describe the similarities and differences
between the impacts of internal and international migration?
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is aerotropolis?
A: A new kind of settlement and centered
around large airports. In an aerotropolis,
the airport functions as a city in its own
right. Many facilities are provided right
there. These are also known as airport
cities. These settlements are planned in
Urban areas.
2. What is a Settlement?
A: The way we organise ourselves and our
living spaces in a place is called a settlement.
3. What is Agglomeration?
9. RAMPUR:
A VILLAGE ECONOMY
A: It is an extended city or town area comprising the built up area of a central place
and any suburbs linked by continuous
urban area.
2 Marks
1. How did human life change with settlement?
2. Define features of Site and Situation?
4 Marks
1. What are the various problems of
Urbanisation?
8. PEOPLE AND MIGRATION
1. In India, according to census 2001, about
____ people have been reported as
migrants.
2. Females report marriage and males report
employment as the common reason for
____.
3. ____ migrated from one part of the state to
another.
4. During 1961-71, population living in
urban areas increased by ____.
5. In terms of percentage, 52% increase was
due to natural increase, 28% was due to
the expansion of urban areas and 20% was
due to ____.
6. ____ has set a new record in remittances
as of June-end at Rs. 75,883 crore.
7. Maharashtra produces about 70% of sugar
in the country with a total of ____ cooper-
1. In periods when no work is available, Dala
and many like him have applied to village
Panchayat for work under ____.
2. Rampur lies in the fertile alluvial plains of
the Gangetic basin in the western part of
____.
3. In the winter season (rabi), fields are sown
with ____ in Rampur.
4. Agricultural surplus sell at the marketyard in ____.
5. All farmers in Rampur grow at least ____.
6. Farmers in Rampur grow potato as the
____.
7. The first few tube wells were installed by
the government, almost ____.
8. Even today, a little less than ____ of the
total cultivated area in the country is irrigated.
9. One hectare is ____ meters.
10. The population of Rampur is about 2,660
with ____ families.
Population density provides a better
picture of population distribution. Population density is calculated as the
number of persons
per square kilometre area.
4
ANSWERS
1) MNREGA; 2) Uttar Pradesh; 3)wheat;
4) Raiganj; 5) two main crops; 6) third
crop; 7) fifty years ago; 8) 40%; 9) 10000
square; 10) 450.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What are the non-farming activities in
Rampur?
A: a) Dairy
b) Small Scale Manufacturing
c) The shop keeping
d) Transportation etc., are the manufacturing activities of Rampur.
2. What are the different ways of increasing
production on the piece of land?
A: Multiple cropping is the most common
way of increasing production on the same
piece of land. In rampur, people cultivate
wheat, sugar cane and potato in the same
land in different seasons.
3. What are Farm Activities and Non-Farm
Activities?
A: Farm Activities: The work done in agriculture to produce agricultural production
through agricultural activities such as
farming, irrigating, ploughing and harvesting.
Non-Farm activities: Other than the agricultural activities like dairy, small-scale
manufacturing, shop keeping etc.
2 Marks
1. How do the medium and large farmers
obtain capital for farming? How is it different from the small farmers?
2. Land is required for the production in
urban areas. In what ways is the use of
land different from a rural area?
4 Marks
1. Why it is required huge capital for the agricultural production in modern farming?
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A: The money that MNC's spent to buy assets
such as land, buildings, machines and
other equipment is called foreign investment.
2. What is the impact of Globalisation in
India?
A: Globalisation has been of advantage to
consumers. They enjoy improved quality
and lower prices for several products. As a
result, these people enjoy much higher
standards of living.
3. What are MNC's?
A: An MNC is a company that owns or controls production is more than one nation.
MNCs set up offices and factories for production in regions where they can get
cheap labour and other resources so that
they can earn greater profits.
2 Marks
1. Why did the Indian Government wish to
remove the barriers to foreign trade and
foreign investment?
2. How does foreign trade lead to integration
of markets across countries? Explain?
4 Marks
1. Globalisation will continue in the future.
Can you imagine that what the world
would be like twenty years from now?
Give reasons?
11. FOOD SECURITY
ANSWERS
1) 20th century; 2) Liberalisation;
3) Globalisation; 4) MNC; 5) India;
6) automobile manufacturers; 7) plastic
toys; 8) Chinese toys; 9) WTO;
10) Special Economic Zones
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is foreign investment?
ANSWERS
1) Food security; 2) Carbohydrates;
3) Coarse cereals; 4) Vitamins;
5) Proteins; 6) Hyderabad; 7) Minerals;
8) public distribution system; 9) The
Antyodaya; 10) 2013.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. "Public Distribution System (PDS) can
ensure better food security for people"Give reasons?
A: In PDS, food grains are made available to
the public at affordable prices to the below
poverty line families. Thus, it can ensure
better food security for people.
2. What ways can the government ensure
high availability of food grains for the
people during periods of natural calamity?
A: a) FCI releases the buffer stocks
b) PDS system, at subsidised prices the
food grains made available to the public
c) Mid-day meals provided to school children.
2 Marks
1. Describe the relationship between increase in food production and food security?
2. Describe the relationship between under
weight and access to food?
4 Marks
1. What factors have contributed to the high
growth of paddy and wheat yields over the
long period?
12. SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT WITH
EQUITY
10. GLOBALISATION
1. Globalisation is a major change in the late
____.
2. ____ means removing barriers to trade
and investment.
3. ____ is not merely about the market, ideas
are also being shared and expanded.
4. The most common route for ____ investments is to buy up local companies and
then to expand production.
5. Parakh Foods had four oil refineries and a
large marketing network in ____.
6. Ford Motors is an American company is
one of the world’s largest ____.
7. China started exporting ____ to India.
8. 70-80% replaced Indian toys with ____.
9. ____ aim is to liberalise international
trade.
10. SEZ means ____
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1. ____ means the government creates conditions so that farmers are able to produce
increasing amount of food grains.
2. ____ provide energy, through wheat, rice,
ragi, Jowar, oils, sugar, fats etc..
3. ____ are highly nutritious and wholesome
grains.
4. ____ provide protection and ensure the
working of many vital systems of the
body, through foods such as fruits, leafy
vegetables, sprouts, unpolished rice etc.
5. ____ help growth and regeneration of
body tissues, through beans, dals, meat,
eggs, rice, wheat etc..
6. National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is in
7. ____ required in small quantities for many
important functions such as iron for blood
formation. This is provided through green
leafy vegetables, ragi etc..
8. Southern states have a good record in
____.
9. ____ cardholders are entitled to get 35 kgs
of foodgrains per month per family.
10. National Food Security Act (Right to
Food) passed in ____.
1. ____ is an social indicator of education
and health.
2. In India, ____ of the workforce are in the
unorganized sector.
3. ____ activities are agriculture, mining,
quarrying.
4. Water from hand pumps and wells in ____
of districts of India, are unsafe for drinking.
5. ____ meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future.
6. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote a the book
____.
7. ____ is the single largest river development scheme in India.
8. A letter was written by Bava Mahaliya of
____ village in Jhabua district to the Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1994.
9. The resistance to Sardar Sarovar social
movement is called ____
10. ____ is following the same path of being
100% organic state.
ANSWERS
1) HDI; 2) 90%; 3) Primary sector;
4) 59%; 5) Sustainable development;
6) Silent Spring; 7) The Narmada Valley
Development Project; 8) Jalsindhi;
9) Narmada Bachao Andolan(NBA);
10) Uttarakhand.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is sustainable development?
A: The development that meets the needs of
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the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.
2. What is the main motive of Chipko
Movement?
A: Sunderlal Bahuguna started the Chipko
Movement. The main motive is to prevent
the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest nights.
2 Marks
1. Should the average temperature of the
earth be treated as natural resource for all
people?
2. Rapid extraction of minerals and other
natural resources would adversely impact
the future developments prospects. Do
you agree?
4 Marks
1. "Environment is crucially important for
the lives and livelihoods of the local communities and the life style of local communities are harmonious with the environment. Explain?
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13. THE WORLD BETWEEN
WARS: 1900-1950: PART-I
1. ____ was the leading industrial power.
2. Eric Hobsbawm called the 20th century as
the ____.
3. The ____ caused massive unemployment
and economic breakdown.
4. The First World War broke out in 1914
and ended in ____.
5. Germany was defeated by ____ in the
WWI.
6. The US attack on ____ in Japan with atom
bombs which killed 246,000 people.
7. ____ had the aggressive nationalism in
destructive mode.
8. The French made a mutual alliance with
Russia in 1891 and with Britain in ____.
9. WWI ended with the Conference on Peace
at ____.
10. ____ formed after WW II.
ANSWERS
1) Britain; 2) Age of Extremes; 3) Great
Depression; 4)1918; 5) Britain and France; 6) Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 7) Fascism and Nazis; 8) 1904; 9) Versailles in
1919; 10) United Nations Organisation
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What was the immediate cause for World
War - II?
A: The German tanks driving in to Poland on
September 1st 1939. Hitler invaded Pola-
Moving
of people from
one place to another
in search of employment
and facilities is called
migration. Migration arises out of various
social, economic
or political reasons.
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nd as punishment for refusing to hand over
the part of Danzig to Germany. This was
the immediate cause for the World War II.
2. What are the main objectives of UNO?
A: a) Preserve world peace
b) Uphold Human Rights
c) Respect International laws
d) Promote Social Progress
2 Marks
1. What are the different impacts of wars
during the first half of the 20th century?
2. What were the causes of two world wars?
3. How did the idea of nation states and
nationalism influence desire for war during world wars?
4 Marks
1. What are the comman consequences of
world wars? Suggest steps to prevent
wars?
14. THE WORLD BETWEEN
WARS: 1900-1950: PART-II
1. Russia had the ____ largest population in
the world after China and India.
2. The livelihood of most Russians was
derived from ____.
3. The feudal lords owned most of the lands
in ____.
4. The Russian army was the largest in the
world before ____.
5. Joseph Stalin introduced ____.
6. ____ ordered the army to suppress the
demonstrators, even by firing.
7. Russia changed from Julian calendar to
the Gregorian calendar on ____.
8. The Red banners with the Swastika was
the ____
9. Roosevelt, the President of US announced
____.
10. USA came up with ____ to fund their economic revival.
ANSWERS
1) third; 2) agriculture; 3) Russia;
4) World war I; 5) Collective Farms;
6) Tsar Nicholas II; 7) 1 February 1918;
8) Nazi Party flag; 9) the New Deal;
10) Marshall Plan
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is Marshal Plan?
A: It is the plan announced by US to give
economic support to the European countries to reconstruct and rebuilt after the
second world war.
2. What were the social security measures
were taken in Britain during great depression?
A: a) Unemployment doles
b) Sickness Coverage
c) Health Schemes d) Child care
2 Marks
1. What Challenges were faced by Germany
during great depression?
2. Russian revolution brought in many
changes in their society. What were they?
3. The experience of war and depression
gave rise to many new alternative models
of national development –what were these
and what were their limitations?
4. Russian revolution brought in many
changes in their society. What were they?
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And what challenges did they face?
5. Compare different points of view about
great depression, which one would you
agree with? Why?
6. In what ways were Jews persecuted during
the Nazi Germany? Do you think in every
country some people are differentiated
because of their identity?
4 Marks
1. What were the political changes brought
under the Nazi rule?
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6. Compare to the national movement in
India and Nigeria - can you explain why it
was stronger in India?
4 Marks
1. What are the challenges faced by the independent Nigerian nation? In what ways is
it similar or different from the challenges
faced by the independent India?
16. NATIONAL MOVEMENT
IN INDIA-PARTITION &
INDEPENDENCE 1939-1947
15. NATIONAL LIBERATION
MOVEMENT
IN THE COLONIES
1. ____ had become powerless to defend the
interests of China in the 20th century.
2. Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) is the founder of
____.
3. ____ meant overthrowing the Manchu
who was seen as a foreign dynasty.
4. ____ meant establishing a democratic
government.
5. ____ took a different path by basing his
revolutionary programme on the peasantry.
6. South Western portions are dominated by
____ tribes.
7. In 1940, Japan occupied ____.
8. Japan surrendered in August ____ and
CCP was successful.
9. ____ has a major impact on the mangrove
forests.
10. The British established their rule over the
coastal areas in ____.
ANSWERS
1) Manchu dynasty; 2) modern China;
3) Nationalism; 4) Democracy; 5) Mao
Zedong; 6) Yoruba; 7) Vietnam; 8) 1945;
9) Oil spillage; 10) 1861 .
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is Agent Orange?
A: Agent Orange is a defoliant, a plant killer
or herbicide. In US-Vietnam war, Agent
Orange was used by US. It's plan was to
destroy forests and fields, so that it would
be easier to kill if there was no forest
cover for people to hide in.
2. What is Pan Africanism?
A: It is an idea which promotes the unity of
all African people's irrespective of country
or tribe. Kwame Nkrumah was the key
person in Pan Africanism.
2 Marks
1. What role did schooling play in national
movement of China,Vietnam and Nigeria?
2. Unlike Vietnam or India, Nigeria didnot
have to struggle so hard for freedomexplain?
3. Try to remember the policies followed by
the British in India. Compare the colonial
policies followed by the British in India
and the French in Vietnam. What similarities and differences do you find between
them?
4. Compare the nature of land reforms in
China, Vietnam and India.
5. After the overthrow of monarchy, China
had two different types of regimes. How
were they similar or different?
1. The Government of India Act was passed
in ____ by the British parliament.
2. ____, was given 12% for provincial
assemblies and about 1% of the Central
assembly.
3. At the time of the War, Prime Minister of
Britain was ____.
4. Winston Churchill belong to ____.
5. In 1937 the Muslim League got only ____
of the total Muslim vote cast.
6. Congress members could be members of
____ before 1938.
7. In 1942, Prime Minister Churchill send
____ to India.
8. RSS means ____.
9. The writer of “Sare Jahan Se Achha” ____ (Urdu).
10. The name Pakistan was coined by a
Punjabi Muslim student at Cambridge,
____.
ANSWERS
1) 1935; 2) right to vote; 3) Churchill;
4) the Conservative party; 5) 4.4%; 6) the
Hindu Mahasabha; 7) Sir Stafford Cripps;
8) Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh;
9) Mohammad Iqbal; 10) Choudhry
Rehmat Ali.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is INA?
A: Subhash Chandra Bose recruited the prisoners of war from Japan in his army to
fight against the British forces for the freedom of India is known as the Indian
National Army
2. What is Quit India Movement?
A: In 1942, Gandhiji launched movement
against the British rule called Quit India.
He gave a historical slogan "Do or Die" to
the activists.
2 Marks
1. What were the different ways in which
religion was used in polities before partition?
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2. "Integration of various princely states in to
the new Indian Nation was a challenging
task" discuss?
4 Marks
1. What are the various reasons for the partition of the country?
17. THE MAKING OF
INDEPENDENT INDIA’S
CONSTITUTION
1. Nepal Interim Constitution was implemented in the year ____.
2. Japan Constitution adopted in ____.
3. In 1959, the first elections were held in
Nepal under a new constitution issued by
____.
4. In 2007 monarchy was abolished in ____.
5. The Constituent Assembly directed to take
information from ____.
6. The Draft Constitution contains ____.
7. A ____ was set up under the chairmanship
of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and its task was to
prepare the final draft taking in account all
view points.
8. The Constitution was finally adopted by
the CA on 26th November 1949 and it
came into force on ____.
9. Major changes in the Constitution were
the inclusion of two words into the
Preamble ____ and ____.
10. The second major event in the life of
Indian constitution has been a supreme
court Judgment popularly known as ____.
ANSWERS
1) 2007; 2) 1946; 3) King Mahendra;
4) Nepal.; 5) The Government of India
Act, 1935; 6) 315 Articles and 8
Schedules; 7) Drafting Committee;
8) 26th January 1950; 9) Secular,
Socialist; 10) Keshava-nada Bharati case.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is a Republic?
A: Nation which has an elected president or
head of the country is a Republic.
2. What is a Constitution?
A: A Constitution is a body of fundamental
principles according to which a state governed.
2 Marks
1. What are the basic principles of Indian
Constitution?
2. Describe the unitary and Federal principles of the Indian government as discussed in the CA debates?
4 Marks
1. How has the constitution defined and changed political institutions in the country?
Ration
shops are important means for people to
access food grains in India.
Southern states of India have
followed universal PDS systems, which mean low
cost food grains
would be available to all.
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18. INDEPENDENT INDIA
1. Women in Switzerland got the right to
vote only in ____.
2. The book “The Indian Experience with
Democratic Elections” written in 1958 by
____.
3. Punjab formed in ____.
4. 29. The nationalisation of banks and abolishing of princely pensions done by ____.
5. The Anti-Hindi agitation led by the ____.
6. ____ demanding the formation of a separate Telugu speaking state died after 58
days of fasting in October 1952.
7. State Reorganisation Act, 1956 led to the
creation of ____.
8. The Second Five Year Plan the emphasis
shifted to ____.
9. ____ had begun between US and USSR.
10. Nehru formulated the ____ policy of noninterference in each other’s internal
affairs.
ANSWERS
1) 1971; 2) Margaret W. Fisher and Joan
V. Bondurant; 3) 1966; 4) Indira Gandhi;
5) DMK; 6) Potti Sriramulu; 7)14 statesand six union territories; 8) industries;
9) The Cold War; 10) Panchasheel
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is Non Alignment Movement
(NAM)?
A: NAM means not to join with any power
blocks and maintaining independent foreign policy.
2. What measures of Indira Gandhi are
called "left turn"?
A: Indira Gandhi took up the challenge in her
party and outside by taking a sharp left
turns post 1967 elections. She adopted
removal of poverty from the country using
'Garibi Hatao' slogan. The Congress won
with a record margin in the 1971 elections.
2 Marks
1. What were the institutional changes that
came up after the emergency?
2. What were the major changes in political
system after 1967 elections?
4 Marks
2. What measures were taken to bring in
socio-economic change during the initial
years after independence?
19. EMERGING
POLITICAL TRENDS
1. The Congress party was defeated for the
first time in ____.
2. In 1994 in an important judgment the
Supreme Court laid down strict norms for
the use of Article ____ by the Central
Government
3. In West Bengal, the left front government
led by____ of C.P.M. was formed in 1977.
4. The ____ demand was to amend the
Constitution to give more powers to the
states.
5. The Congress returned to power in ____.
6. The first coalition government led by____
Janata Dal was formed
7. Punjab also claimed more water from the
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____ and greater recruitment of Sikhs in
the army.
8. N.T.R. began the ____ on his 60th birthday
in 1982.
9. The Governor appointed ____, who had
defected from TDP to the Congress.
10. When elections were held the ____ came
to power
ANSWERS
1) 1977; 2) 356; 3) Jyothi Basu; 4) Akali
Dal; 5) 1980; 6) V P Singh's; 7) Bhakra
Nangal dam; 8) Telugu Desam Party; 9)
N Bhaskar Rao;10) Assam Gana Parishad
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is Policy Paralysis?
A: In the coalition government, decision taking is difficult as there is a fear of withdrawl of the allies support. This is called
Policy Paralysis.
2. What is Operation Barga?
A: Operation Barga was a policy of the CPM
government of Jyothi Basu in support of
farmers.
2 Marks
1. How did regional aspirations lead to the
formation of regional parties? Compare
the similarities and differences between
the two different phases?
2. How do different types of regional aspirations draw from cultural and economic
dimensions?
4 Marks
1. In the early half of India after independence there was importance given to
planned development. In the later part
emphasis was given to liberalisation.
Discuss and find out how does it reflect
political ideals?
20. POST-WAR WORLD
AND INDIA
1. The USSR sent its armies to dismiss
unfriendly governments in Germany,
Hungary and ____.
2. The USSR, Poland and Yugoslavia ____
of its population.
3. The Bandung conference paved the way
for ____.
4. International Court of Justice located in
____.
5. Military supremacy, ideological conflicts
lead to the establishment of a ____.
6. Afghanistan fell to religious extremists led
by the ____.
7. Poland, Hungary, and East Germany,
China and Vietnam were aligned to ____.
8. The Secretary General is the main officer
of the ____.
9. Permanent members of the Security
Council are: ____.
10. The Democratic - Capitalistic Block led
by ____.
ANSWERS
1) Czechoslovakia; 2) lost 20%; 3) Non
Aligned Movement (NAM); 4) The
Hague; 5) bipolar world; 6) Taliban; 7)
USSR; 8) UNO; 9) China, France, UK,
USSR and USA; 10) the USA.
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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. Write any two aims of NAM?
A: a) Co-operation among the members
b) Economical and military support to the
members to solve their conflicts
2. Why West Asia became a center of tensions in the world?
A: The oil reserves and the holy place were
main cause for the tensions in the West
Asia.
2 Marks
1. How did cold war produce arms race as
well as arms control?
2. How were the super powers benefitted by
the military alliances?
4 Marks
1. "Formation of NAM was not merely in the
context of military alliances but also in the
context of economic policies". Justify?
21. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
IN OUR TIMES
1. In American Civil Rights Movement people fought for equal treatment of ____.
2. On 28th August 1963, marched to
Washington demanding the passage of
____.
3. In American Civil Rights Movement by
____.
4. The American court banned segregation in
buses in ____.
5. Medha Patkar is one of the leaders of the
____.
6. Dr. King who made his historic speech,
____.
7. SSP means ____.
8. The nuclear bombing on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki occurred in August ____.
9. AFSPA (1958) means ____.
10. Meira Paibi (in Meitei language) means
____.
ANSWERS
1) Afro-Americans.; 2) Civil Rights Act;
3) Dr. Martin Luther King Junior;
4) 1956.; 5) NBA; 6)“I have a dream..”;
7) Sardar Sarovar Project; 8) 1945;
9) Armed Forces Special Powers Act;
10) torch bearers.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. What is START?
A: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
2. What is cold war?
A: The ideological differences which led to
mutual suspicion and hatred is called a
cold war.
2 Marks
1. What are the basic features of social
movement?
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4 Marks
1. How are the rights of black people in USA
and Meira paibi movements similar or differnt?
22. CITIZENS AND
THE GOVERNMENTS
1. RTI means ____.
2. The Right to Information Act 2005 was
passed by the ____.
3. Government departments and ____ need
to be played in getting the benefits of RTI.
4. In every department there is an appellate
authority called ____.
5. The Legal Services Authority (amendment) Act has done in ____.
6. The Lok Adalats are constituted under the
Legal Services Authority Act, 1987 and
amended in l994 and ____.
7. The Lok Adalats settle disputes in an amicable atmosphere by ____ in the presence
of legal experts, officials and non official
dignitaries.
8. The State Legal Services Authority is
headed by ____ of the State High Court
who is its Patron-in-Chief.
9. A serving or retired Judge of the High
Court is nominated as ____.
10. The District Legal Services Authority is
constituted in every district to implement
____.
ANSWERS
1) the Right to Information Act;
2) Central Government; 3) the citizens;
4) Public Information Officers (PIO);
5) 2002; 6) 2002; 7) mutual consent;
8) the Chief Justice; 9) SLSA Executive
Chairman; 10) Legal Aid Programs and
Schemes.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
1 Mark
1. Who is Public Information Officer?
A: Public authorities have designated some
of its officers as Public Information
Officers. They are responsible to provide
information under RTI Act.
2. How is Central Information Commission
constituted?
A: The Central Information Commission to
be constituted by the Central Government
through a Gazette Notification.
2 Marks
1. What are the powers and functions of
Information Commissions?
4 Marks
1. How do you think RTI would help in
improving and monitering the work of the
governments?
In
1953, the States
Reorganisation Commission was appointed with
Fazal Ali, K.M. Panikkar
and Hridaynath Kunzru as
members to address the
issue of formation of
states on the basis
of the linguistic
principle.
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MAPPING SKILLS
Observe the following Map of India and
answer the questions.
Observe the following Map and
answer the questions.
1. What are the eastern and western
borders of Deccan Plateau?
2. Write two westward flowing rivers
of India?
3. Pointout the given geographical
places? Delhi; Chota Nagpur
Plateau; Mumbai; Ajmer;
Narmada River; Hyderabad;
Chennai; Thiruvanthapuram;
Deccan Plateau; Bangalore; Pune;
Aravali.
Answers:
1) Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats
2) Narmada and Tapati
1. In between which latitudes and longitudes is
India located?
2. What is the northern most latitude of India?
3. Name the eastern most and westernmost longitudes of India?
Answers:
1. India is located between 804' and 3706' North
latitudes.
6807' East longitudes to 97025'.
2. 3706' North latitude
3. 97025' East longitude and 6807' west longitude.
Shivalik: The Southern most range of
Himalayas. A mountain rage of the outer
Himalayas.
Purvanchal: In Arunachal Pradesh beyond
the Dihang valley, the Himalayas take hair
pin bend to the south and act as eastern
boundary of India and run through the north
eastern states. These division are known as
"Purvanchal ".
Public Facilities: The facilities like roads,
electricity, health and educational instaurations,rations shops provided by government
Gross Domestic Product: The total value of
finished goods and services produced in the
country is GDP.
Final goods: Goods, such as food and
clothing, that satisfy human wants through
their direct consumption or use.
Sectoral goods: Goods belonging to different sectors like food, clothing, beverages,
automobiles.
Employment shifts: Change of employment
from agriculture sector to industrial and
service sectors.
Climograph: It shows averages monthly
values of maximum temperature and minimum temperature, and rainfall for a given
place.
Monsoon: The climate of India is strongly
influenced by the monsoon winds. The regular periodic reversals of winds that blow
towards the Indian coast are monsoons.
Arab traders named this seasonal reversal of
wind system as Monsoon.
Water Sharing Law: Laws pertaining to
sharing of river waters.
Water Shed: A line of high land where streams on one side flow into one river and streams on other side flow into another river.
Catchment Area: Area around a river.
Drought: Scarcity of rain fall leading to
dryness of land.
Fertility Rate: Fertility rate is a term used to
refer to the capacity of people is a given
region to give birth. It is calculated per the
number of women who are the child bearing
age group. Presently, it is 2.7 in India.
Infanticide: The act of killing of a new born
child. Infanticide usually committed by the
parents or by others with parents’ consent
Situation: Situation describes the connections with other places. Places do not exist
IMPORTANT CONCEPTS
in isolation.They are in some way connected to other places. Ex: The ports would
enable export of raw materials to other
countries
Migration: Moving of people from one
place to another in search of employment
and facilities. To move from one region and
settle in another. Migration arises out of
various social, economic or political reasons.
Immigration: Migrated into and settle in a
foreign country.
Boarder: Staying in hostels for their studies.
Boundary: Limits or Boards of an area.
Factors of Production: Land, Labor,
Capital and Organization are called factors
of production.
Labour: People who will do the work.
Those who do not have a right over the
crops grown on the land but are paid wages
are farm laborers.
Working Capital: Capital requirement for
raw material and money for other expenditure.
Nation State: Countries interlink in trade
and political issues.
Foreign Investment: The investments made
by the MNCs and other foreign institutions.
Foreign Trade: Exports & Imports.
Access: Reaching. Everyone should be able
to buy food for consumption.
Nutrition: Food necessary for growth and
health. Food is required by the body for all
its functions - for growth and the capacity to
remain healthy and fight illness.
People’s Rights: Rights of the people, they
are legal, social or ethical principles of freedom.
Equity: The Quality of being fair or important fairness.
Militarism: The belief that a country should
maintain a strong military capacity and be
prepared to use it aggressively to depend or
promote national interest.
Fascism: It is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in
early 20th century Italy.
Imperialism: Imperialism is the polity of
extending a nation authority by territorial
acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other
nations.
Socialism: A Political and economic theory
of social organization which advocates that
the means of production, distribution and
exchange should be owned or regulated by
the community as a whole.
Communism: A system of social organization in which all property is owned by the
community and each person contributes and
receives according to their ability and
needs.
Centralization of power: It is one in which
power or legal authority is exerted or Coordinated itself only is called centralization
of power.
New Democracy: The People’s Republic of
China government was established in 1949.
It was based the principles of the ‘New
Democracy’ an alliance of all social classes
opposed to landlordism and imperialism.
Forced labour: Employing labour by force
without their consent.
Dominion status: It means an autonomous
polities that were nominally under the
British sovereignty. Constituting the British
Empire and British Commonwealth, beginning in the later of the 19th century.
Divide and Rule: The policy maintaining
control over colonies or sub-ordinates by
encouraging dissent between them, thereby
preventing them from uniting in opposition
the British followed the “Divide and Rule”
policy in India.
Separate Electorate: The type of election in
which minorities, scheduled castes, backward castes and women select their own
representatives separately. This means election for specific groups of the population.
These are called Separate Electorates.
Constituent Assembly: A group of representatives with the powers to make a constitution. The constitution of India was prepared
by the CA.
Concurrent List: Subjects related to both
state and central. A list of 47 items given in
PartXI of the constitution of India concerned with relation between the union and
states.
Regional Movements: Agitations for division of regions groups of people who want
to start a new state that is separate from an
exerting state.
Nationalisation: The act of the government
taking control over the industry is known as
Nationalisation. Rights of vital assets would
be transferred from private ownership to
state ownership.
Communalism: A strong sense of religious
belonging which lead to extreme behavior
or violence against other religions.
Majority: A party securing highest number
of seats in an electoral, the number that is
sufficient to control a house. Majority can
be secured by alliance of more than one parties, which is known as coalition.
Minority: A party having number of seats
that are sufficient to get to public office, but
next to the majority party/group is considered as minority government.
Unipolar World: Dominated by one super
power especially, the US. After the collapse
of the USSR, the US had no competition to
its world dominance.
Bipolar World: In bipolar world, two group
of countries i.e., USA, USSR influenced the
world.
Decolonisation: Handing over the colonies
to the natives was called as decolonization.
Peace: Friendly environment among the
countries and no scope for a war
Ethnic Conflict: Conflict between two
groups on the basis of religion or race.
Ethnic conflicts can take place within a
country and between two or more countries.
Civil Rights: Rights guaranteed by law.
Civil Disobedience: The refusal to obey
laws, pay taxes, non-violent opposition to
law or government policy by refusing to
comply with it.
Segregation: Practice of compelling differe-nt racial groups to live apart from each
other
Draft Age: Send people somewhere for a
special task
Weaponisation: Deploying of weapons
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Observe the following Climograph of India and
answer the questions.
1. Name two months that recieve highest rainfall?
2. Name three months that recieve lowest rainfall?
3. Give reason for high temperature in the months
of March and May?
4. What the graph indicates?
5. How are the climographs useful to forecast the
temperature of a given area?
Answers: 1) July, August, September; 2) December,
January, February; 3) Summer months; 4)
Climographs; 5) Based on the analysis we can
forecast the temperature levels.
INFORMATION SKILLS
Look at the pie charts and fill the the following table
Answer:
42
22
35
17
26
57
74
11
15
53
22
25
Expansion of Urban
Population in India,
1961-2011 (million)
Observe the following graph of foodgrains
and answer the questions.
1. What does the graph tells about?
2. Why the crop production of Jowar is relatively very low?
3. Which crop production is very high?
4. What was the trend in production of food
grains in India?
Answers:
1) Production of selected food grains; 2)
Change in food habits of people; 3) Paddy;
4) Wheat and Paddy are given top priority
Observe the following graph and answer
the questions.
1. Which was the least producing sector in
1972-73?
2. Which was the largest producing sector
in 2009-10?
3. Which was the largest producing sector
in 1972-73?
4. Which was the least producing sector in
2009-10?
5. How many times the total value of production of goods and services in India
increased during 1972-2010?
Answers:
1) Industry; 2) Services: 3) Agriculture;
4) Agriculture; 5) 8 times
Observe the following Bar
graph and answer the questions
1. What does the graph denotes?
2. How many times the female
population recorded more
than 940?
3. What was the highest sex ratio
after 1971?
4. Why the sex ratio was stagnated till 2011?
Answers: 1) Sex Ratio(1951-2011); 2) 3; 3) 940; 4) gender discrimination.
Observe the given graph and answer the following
questions
1. Which country has more nuclear stock piles?
2. Why was the stock of war heads decreased after 1995?
3. What will be the affect of nuclear blast?
4. What does this graph tells about?
Answers: 1) USSR; 2) peace activities increased; 3) huge
human loss; 4) the nuclear stock piles of US & USSR
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Natural increase
Due to declaration of rural
areas as urban areas and
expansion of urban areas
Due to migration of people
from Rural to Urban area
1. What does the graph say about?
2. In 1961-71, how much population was
migrated to urban areas?
3. In 1991-2001, how much natural increase
in the population of India?
4. From 1991-2011, how many millions of
people were migrated from rural to urban
areas?
5. From 1991-2011, how many Urban areas
expanded due to declaration of rural as
urban?
Answers: 1) Expansion of Urban population
in India(1961-2011); 2) 6 millions; 3) 40
millions; 4) 36 millions; 5) 42 millions.
Weight chart used in
Anganwadi to measure
the weight of children
in Telangana
1. What does the graph tells about?
2. Who provides this information?
3. What was indicated on OX-Axis and OYAxis?
4. What was the measuring formula for BMI?
5. What is the appropriate BMI?
Observe the given graph and
answer the following questions
1. How many Constitutional
amendments were made since
1950 till 2013?
2. What does the graph tell us?
3. Who has the power to amend
the constitution?
Answers:
1) 99; 2) Constitutional amendments are essential for smooth
functioning of government; 3) the
Parliament of India
Answers:
1) Weights of girls as per their ages;
2) WHO (World Health Organisation);
3) OX-Age of the girl, OY-Weight;
4) BMI = weight in kgs/Height2 in m;
5) 22-25 points.