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Pop the Grand AllianceRead the answer and worked solution →Run the 1960s yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the slogansRead the answer and worked solution →Old or new CongressRead the answer and worked solution →Which Prime MinisterRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Congress system bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Prices rose 23 per cent in 1973 and again sharply in 1974. By how much did they rise in 1974?Read the answer and worked solution →In January 1974 students in which Congress-ruled State began an agitation against rising prices and corruption?Read the answer and worked solution →Who threatened an indefinite fast unless fresh elections were held in Gujarat?Read the answer and worked solution →Bihar students in 1974 invited which leader out of retirement to head their movement?Read the answer and worked solution →JP's call for sweeping change in social, economic and political life was known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Naxalite movement takes its name from a 1967 peasant uprising in which district of West Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) formed in 1969?Read the answer and worked solution →The nationwide railway strike of May 1974 was led by which trade union leader?Read the answer and worked solution →For how many days did the 1974 railway strike last before it was called off?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1973 case ruled that Parliament cannot amend the basic features of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1973 the government superseded three senior judges to appoint whom as Chief Justice of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which High Court judge declared Indira Gandhi's Lok Sabha election invalid on 12 June 1975?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose election petition led to the Allahabad High Court verdict against Indira Gandhi?Read the answer and worked solution →Under which Article of the Constitution was the Emergency proclaimed on 25 June 1975?Read the answer and worked solution →Which President signed the Emergency proclamation on the night of 25 June 1975?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two organisations were banned during the Emergency fearing communal disharmony?Read the answer and worked solution →In April 1976 the Supreme Court accepted the government's plea on which point?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Kannada writer returned his Padma Bhushan in protest against the Emergency?Read the answer and worked solution →The forty-second amendment extended the term of legislatures from five years to how many?Read the answer and worked solution →Which retired Chief Justice headed the 1977 commission of inquiry into Emergency excesses?Read the answer and worked solution →How many seats did the Janata Party win on its own in the 1977 Lok Sabha election?Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi lost her own seat in 1977 from which constituency?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Janata leadersRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the Grand Alliance

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Other terms
  1. CPI
  2. DMK
  3. Congress R
Matching terms
  1. SSP
  2. PSP
  3. Jana Sangh
  4. Swatantra
  5. Kranti Dal
Instructions
Pop the parties that formed the Grand Alliance of 1971.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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Run the 1960s years

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1964
    Choices
    1. 1964
    2. 1966
    3. 1967
  2. Correct
    1966
    Choices
    1. 1964
    2. 1966
    3. 1967
  3. Correct
    1967
    Choices
    1. 1964
    2. 1966
    3. 1967
  4. Correct
    1969
    Choices
    1. 1969
    2. 1970
    3. 1971
  5. Correct
    1970
    Choices
    1. 1969
    2. 1970
    3. 1971
  6. Correct
    1971
    Choices
    1. 1969
    2. 1970
    3. 1971
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right year for each event.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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Slice the slogans

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Tariff
  3. Monsoon
  4. Bauxite
Matches the category
  1. Garibi
  2. Hatao
  3. Jai Jawan
  4. Aya Ram
Instructions
Slice only the political slogans of the era.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._

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