The President of India is the Indian Republic While the Governor is the Head of the State Government. In this context, answer the following questions.
Justify the need for 'Indirect Election' of the President.
The President of India is the Indian Republic While the Governor is the Head of the State Government. In this context, answer the following questions.
Describe the circumstances under which the President can declare an emergency in the country.
The President of India is the Indian Republic While the Governor is the Head of the State Government. In this context, answer the following questions.
Enumerate four similar features in the legislative powers of the President and the Governor.
'The Supreme Court is the apex judicial body in the country'. With reference to this, answer the following questions :
State the composition of the Supreme Court. 'The Supreme Court is the apex judicial body in the country'. With reference to this, answer the following questions :
'The Supreme Court is the apex judicial body in the country'. With reference to this, answer the following questions :
Describe the Supreme Court's power of judicial review. What is meant by Court of Record?
'The Supreme Court is the apex judicial body in the country'. With reference to this, answer the following questions :
Explain how the independence of the Judges of the Supreme Court is ensured by the Constitution.
a. Name the person represented in the picture given below. Write about his contribution to the National Movement.
b. State the demand made by the Moderates.
c. Give any four achievements of the Moderates.
a. The Person is Lokmanya Tilak.
i. He started the Home Rule Movement in 1916.
ii. He transformed the freedom struggle, into the agitation of the millions and the common masses.
b. i. Their major demand was Indianization of services through simultaneous ICS examination in England and India.
ii. Abolition of salt tax.
iii. Reduction in land revenue and expenditure on military.
c.
i. They created national awakening among people which made Indians conscious of the bonds of common political, economic and cultural interests that united them.
ii. They trained people in politics by popularising the ideas of democracy , civil liberties, secularism and nationalism.
iii. They did pioneering work by exposing the true nature of the British rule in India. They made the people realise the economic content and character of British Imperialism and weakened the foundations of the British rule in India.
iv. Their political and economic programmes established the truth that India must be ruled in the interest of the Indians.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
'On August 7th and 8th, in Bombay the All - India Congress Committee considered and debated in Public the resolution,...... . The Committee resolves therefore to sanction, .... the starting of a mass struggle on non- violent lines under the inevitable leadership of Gandhiji.
........ The resolution was finally passed late in the evening of August 8th, 1942. A few hours later, in the early morning of August 9th, a large number of arrests were made in Bombay and all over the country. (From: The Discovery of India - Jawahar Lal Nehru)
(a) What is meant by 'mass struggle on non- Violent lines' ? Which resolution was passed on the 8th of August , 1942 leading to a mass struggle on non-Violent lines ?
(b) State any reasons behind the launching of the August, 1942 movement.
(c) Discuss any four consequences of the 1942 Movement.