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Slice the listsRead the answer and worked solution →Strong Centre or statesRead the answer and worked solution →Who spoke for whomRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Constituent Assembly bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Belgium is smaller in area than which Indian state?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of Belgium's population lives in the Flemish region and speaks Dutch?Read the answer and worked solution →People of Belgium's Wallonia region speak:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Belgian capital Brussels, what share of people speak French?Read the answer and worked solution →The Sinhala-speakers make up what share of Sri Lanka's population?Read the answer and worked solution →Tamil-speakers make up what share of Sri Lanka's population?Read the answer and worked solution →Tamils whose forefathers came from India as plantation workers are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Most Sinhala-speaking people of Sri Lanka follow:Read the answer and worked solution →Sri Lanka emerged as an independent country in:Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Sri Lanka pass an Act recognising Sinhala as the only official language?Read the answer and worked solution →Sri Lanka's new constitution stipulated that the state shall protect and foster:Read the answer and worked solution →The independent state demanded by Sri Lankan Tamil organisations in the 1980s was:Read the answer and worked solution →Sri Lanka's civil war ended in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1970 and 1993, Belgium amended its constitution how many times to accommodate diversity?Read the answer and worked solution →In Belgium's central government, the number of Dutch and French-speaking ministers must be:Read the answer and worked solution →A Belgian government elected by people of one language community, wherever they live, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Brussels was chosen as the headquarters of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Reasons for power sharing based on careful calculation of gains and losses are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Germany's 2005 grand coalition joined the Social Democratic Party with the:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Lebanon's power-sharing pact, the President must belong to which community?Read the answer and worked solution →The belief that the majority community should rule a country as it wishes, disregarding minorities, is:Read the answer and worked solution →A basic principle of democracy is that the source of all political power is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch Sri Lanka's communitiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Belgium wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the power sharing numbersRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the lists

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Does not match the category
  1. Royal
  2. Imperial
  3. Colonial
  4. Papal
Matches the category
  1. Union
  2. State
  3. Concurrent
  4. Centre
Instructions
Slice only the three lists of subjects in the Constitution.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 15, Framing the Constitution: The Beginning of a New Era._

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Strong Centre or states

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Upper category
Centre
Lower category
States
Items
  1. Category
    Centre
    Item
    Nehru
  2. Category
    Centre
    Item
    Ambedkar
  3. Category
    Centre
    Item
    Ayyangar
  4. Category
    Centre
    Item
    B. Sharma
  5. Category
    States
    Item
    Santhanam
  6. Category
    States
    Item
    Mudaliar
  7. Category
    States
    Item
    Orissa MP
Instructions
Send each speaker to the strong Centre side or the states' rights side.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 15, Framing the Constitution: The Beginning of a New Era._

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Who spoke for whom

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Items
  1. Group
    Tribals
    Item
    Jaipal Singh
  2. Group
    Tribals
    Item
    Adibasi
  3. Group
    Depressed
    Item
    Nagappa
  4. Group
    Depressed
    Item
    Dakshayani
  5. Group
    Depressed
    Item
    Khanderkar
  6. Group
    Minorities
    Item
    Pocker
  7. Group
    Minorities
    Item
    Aizaz Rasul
Groups
  1. Item
    Tribals
  2. Item
    Depressed
  3. Item
    Minorities
Instructions
Drop each speaker onto the group they spoke for.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 15, Framing the Constitution: The Beginning of a New Era._

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