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Under the Constitution, after which year was English to stop being used for official purposes?Read the answer and worked solution →In which state did the movement to keep English for official use take a violent form?Read the answer and worked solution →The Central Government agreed to continue English for official purposes alongside which language?Read the answer and worked solution →Which language did the Constitution identify as the official language without giving it national language status?Read the answer and worked solution →What after 1990 began coalition governments at the Centre?Read the answer and worked solution →What is a coalition government?Read the answer and worked solution →Which development made Centre dismissals of states harder?Read the answer and worked solution →How did the Centre act against rival-run states before 1990?Read the answer and worked solution →What is true about large countries of the world?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the world population lives in federal countries?Read the answer and worked solution →What does jurisdiction mean in federal government?Read the answer and worked solution →Seats in local bodies are reserved for SC, ST and which group?Read the answer and worked solution →What is rural local government popularly known as?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is the political head of a gram panchayat?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body is made up of all the voters in a village?Read the answer and worked solution →A panchayat samiti is formed by grouping what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tier was added later to India's two-tier federal system?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the basic idea behind decentralisation?Read the answer and worked solution →How many distinct mother tongues did the 2011 Census record?Read the answer and worked solution →After grouping, how many major languages did the 2011 Census find?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of Indians recorded English as their mother tongue in the 2011 Census?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is also a member of a district's zilla parishad?Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly how many people take part each year in the city budget decisions of Porto Alegre?Read the answer and worked solution →Who elects the members of a gram panchayat?Read the answer and worked solution →In which state is Pokharan, the site of India's nuclear tests?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group picks party candidates in the United States?Read the answer and worked solution →Grouping similar opinions into a few basic positions is done byRead the answer and worked solution →In the legislature, most members vote as directed byRead the answer and worked solution →Which body recruits leaders, trains them and makes them ministers?Read the answer and worked solution →Parties that lose an election play the role ofRead the answer and worked solution →

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Under the Constitution, after which year was English to stop being used for official purposes?

  1. 1950
  2. 1956
  3. 1980
  4. 1965
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Correct answer: D. 1965

The Constitution set 1965 as the end of English for official purposes, but English was later allowed to continue alongside Hindi.

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In which state did the movement to keep English for official use take a violent form?

  1. Gujarat
  2. Tamil Nadu
  3. Punjab
  4. Kerala
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Correct answer: B. Tamil Nadu

In Tamil Nadu the movement demanding continued use of English for official purposes turned violent.

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The Central Government agreed to continue English for official purposes alongside which language?

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Hindi
  3. Urdu
  4. Tamil
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Correct answer: B. Hindi

The Central Government agreed to continue English along with Hindi for official work after the demands from non-Hindi speaking States.

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