When and where was the 1st Non-Congress State Government formed after India’s independence?
In 1957, Kerala.
Name the founder President of the Congress Socialist party. What name was given to this Party after 1948?
“Acharya Narendra Dev” was the founder President of the Congress Socialist Party. After 1948, this party was given the name of ‘Praja Socialist Party‘.
In the given political outline map of India, five States are marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Identify them on the basis of the information given below and write their correct names in your answer-book with their respective serial numbers and the alphabets concerned :
(i) The State which was carved out of Madhya Pradesh.
(ii) The State which opposed its merger with India after independence.
(iii) The first State of free India having a Communist government.
(iv) The State adjoining Pakistan territory up to 1971.
(v) The State which became agriculturally prosperous due to Green Revolution.
(i) Chhattisgarh
(ii) Manipur
(iii) Kerala
(iv) Tripura/Assam.
(v) Punjab.
Which characteristics made the Congress an ideological coalition during the freedom movement of India ?
It brought together diverse groups, whose interests were often contradictory. Peasants and industrialists, urban dwellers and villagers, workers and owners, middle, lower, upper classes and castes, all found space in the congress.
It accommodated the revolutionary and pacifist, conservatives and radical, extremist and moderate and the right, left and all shades of the centre. The congress was a ’platform’ for numerous groups, interests and even political parties to take part in the national movement.
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