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Pop the 1956 makersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the 1947 wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Which state joined howRead the answer and worked solution →Which year, which stateRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Nation building bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Election Commission of India was set up in January 1950. Who was the first Chief Election Commissioner?Read the answer and worked solution →The first draft electoral rolls listed nearly 40 lakh people only as wife of or daughter of someone. Who were they?Read the answer and worked solution →How many eligible voters did India have at the first general election?Read the answer and worked solution →How many Lok Sabha seats were contested in the first general election?Read the answer and worked solution →In the first election each voter dropped a blank ballot into a box marked with a candidate's symbol. How many steel boxes were used?Read the answer and worked solution →By which year had the whole country shifted to Electronic Voting Machines?Read the answer and worked solution →An Indian editor called universal adult franchise in 1952 what?Read the answer and worked solution →The first general election was held over which months?Read the answer and worked solution →How many of the 489 seats did the Congress win in the first Lok Sabha?Read the answer and worked solution →Which party came second in seats in the first Lok Sabha, with only 16?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1952 the Congress won 74 per cent of seats with what share of votes?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1957 the Communist Party won 60 of 126 seats in which State, forming the world's first elected Communist government?Read the answer and worked solution →The Kerala Communist government was dismissed in 1959 under which article?Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress Socialist Party was formed within the Congress in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1955 the Congress declared its own goal to be what, leaving the Socialists in a dilemma?Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress began in 1885 as a pressure group for which classes?Read the answer and worked solution →The Communists parted ways with the Congress in December 1941 over what?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the CPI abandon violent revolution and decide to contest elections?Read the answer and worked solution →The Communist Party split in 1964 into the CPI and which new party?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded in 1951 by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →The Swatantra Party was formed in August 1959 after which Congress resolution?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is the first decade of Indian politics said to have the Congress as both ruling party and opposition?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the socialistsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the 1956 makers

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Other terms
  1. Razakars
  2. Godse
  3. Nizam
Matching terms
  1. Sriramulu
  2. SRC 1953
  3. 1956 Act
  4. Vishalandhra
Instructions
Pop the people and bodies behind linguistic states.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 1, Challenges of Nation Building._

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Run the years

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1948
    Choices
    1. 1948
    2. 1952
    3. 1956
  2. Correct
    1952
    Choices
    1. 1948
    2. 1952
    3. 1956
  3. Correct
    1956
    Choices
    1. 1948
    2. 1952
    3. 1956
  4. Correct
    1960
    Choices
    1. 1960
    2. 1966
    3. 1972
  5. Correct
    1966
    Choices
    1. 1960
    2. 1966
    3. 1972
  6. Correct
    1972
    Choices
    1. 1960
    2. 1966
    3. 1972
  7. Correct
    1987
    Choices
    1. 1963
    2. 1987
    3. 2000
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right year for each event.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 1, Challenges of Nation Building._

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Slice the 1947 words

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Does not match the category
  1. Monsoon
  2. Tariff
  3. Glacier
  4. Isobar
Matches the category
  1. Partition
  2. Accession
  3. Standstill
  4. Razakars
  5. Plebiscite
  6. Refugee
Instructions
Slice only the terms tied to Partition and integration.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 1, Challenges of Nation Building._

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