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Pop the nuclear yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the war yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the leadersRead the answer and worked solution →China or PakistanRead the answer and worked solution →Which Prime MinisterRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Foreign policy bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Nehru died in May 1964. Who consulted party leaders and found consensus for Lal Bahadur Shastri as successor?Read the answer and worked solution →Why were the 1960s labelled the dangerous decade?Read the answer and worked solution →Shastri had earlier resigned from which post, accepting moral responsibility for a rail accident?Read the answer and worked solution →Which slogan of Shastri symbolised India's resolve to face war and food crisis together?Read the answer and worked solution →Shastri died suddenly on 10 January 1966 in which city?Read the answer and worked solution →How was the contest between Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai for Prime Minister settled in 1966?Read the answer and worked solution →One of Indira Gandhi's first decisions, seen as under US pressure, was to do what to the rupee?Read the answer and worked solution →The fourth general elections, called a political earthquake, were held in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →In how many States did the Congress lose its majority in the 1967 assembly elections?Read the answer and worked solution →Which regional party won a clear majority in Madras State in 1967 after leading an anti-Hindi agitation?Read the answer and worked solution →Non-Congress coalitions formed after 1967 were called SVD governments. What does SVD stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Haryana MLA changed parties thrice in a fortnight in 1967, giving rise to the phrase Aya Ram Gaya Ram?Read the answer and worked solution →The Syndicate that controlled the Congress organisation was led by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten Point Programme in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1969 Presidential election followed the death of which President?Read the answer and worked solution →Whom did Indira Gandhi encourage to stand as an independent in the 1969 Presidential election?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi's call letting Congress MPs vote freely in the 1969 Presidential poll was termed a:Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1969 split, what was Indira Gandhi's faction called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which popular measure did Indira Gandhi announce in 1969, taking over fourteen leading private banks?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the privy purse?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi answered the opposition's Indira Hatao with which slogan in 1971?Read the answer and worked solution →How many seats did Indira Gandhi's Congress(R) win on its own in the 1971 Lok Sabha election?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the SyndicateRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the nuclear years

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Other terms
  1. 1947
  2. 1950
  3. 1962
Matching terms
  1. 1974
  2. 1998
  3. 1968
  4. 1964
  5. 1995
Instructions
Pop the years tied to India's nuclear story.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 4, India's External Relations._

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Run the war years

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1962
    Choices
    1. 1962
    2. 1965
    3. 1971
  2. Correct
    1965
    Choices
    1. 1962
    2. 1965
    3. 1971
  3. Correct
    1971
    Choices
    1. 1962
    2. 1965
    3. 1971
  4. Correct
    1954
    Choices
    1. 1954
    2. 1960
    3. 1966
  5. Correct
    1960
    Choices
    1. 1954
    2. 1960
    3. 1966
  6. Correct
    1966
    Choices
    1. 1954
    2. 1960
    3. 1966
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right year for each event.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 4, India's External Relations._

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Slice the leaders

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Does not match the category
  1. Kissinger
  2. Nixon
  3. Mujib
  4. Menon
Matches the category
  1. Zhou Enlai
  2. Ayub Khan
  3. Bhutto
  4. Nehru
  5. Shastri
Instructions
Slice only the leaders who signed pacts with India.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 4, India's External Relations._

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