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UPSC CDS Indian Polity — practice questions — page 12

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Sort the countriesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →South Asia bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A constitution whose preamble says its people desire peace for all time is popularly called the peace constitution. Which country's is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Article of the Japanese Constitution renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation?Read the answer and worked solution →Who called the Constituent Assembly a nation on the move, throwing away the shell of its past?Read the answer and worked solution →Who protested against curtailment of press freedom by the colonial state early in the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which infamous colonial law, opposed by the national movement, sought to deny freedom from arbitrary arrest?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian liberalism differs from classical western liberalism because it is always linked to what?Read the answer and worked solution →The western idea that state and religion must stay out of each other's affairs is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism lets the state intervene in or abstain from religion depending on which promotes liberty and equality. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Affirmative action began in the USA after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. How much earlier had India entrenched it constitutionally?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution of India Bill of 1895 was the first non-official attempt at what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1928 report reaffirmed that every person of either sex aged twenty-one could vote?Read the answer and worked solution →Special provisions for the North-East under Article 371 anticipate which concept?Read the answer and worked solution →Article 371A gives special status to which North-Eastern State?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Constitution reject separate electorates based on religion?Read the answer and worked solution →Who said the main objective was to evolve one community in India, forgetting majority and minority?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is NOT one of the three main criticisms of the Indian Constitution described?Read the answer and worked solution →Who complained in the Constituent Assembly that they wanted the music of Veena or Sitar but got an English band?Read the answer and worked solution →As early as which year were Dalits in northern India noted using the new legal system to sue landlords?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is listed as a limitation of the Indian Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →Basic socio-economic rights were placed in which part of the Constitution rather than in fundamental rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Because its core features let it grow with society, the Constitution is described as a:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the core featuresRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the liberal thinkersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the criticismsRead the answer and worked solution →Western or Indian secularismRead the answer and worked solution →Achievement or limitationRead the answer and worked solution →

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Sort the countries

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Items
  1. Group
    Pakistan
    Item
    1999 coup
  2. Group
    Pakistan
    Item
    Chagai Hills
  3. Group
    Pakistan
    Item
    Zia-ul-Haq
  4. Group
    Sri Lanka
    Item
    LTTE
  5. Group
    Sri Lanka
    Item
    IPKF
  6. Group
    Sri Lanka
    Item
    First to open
  7. Group
    Maldives
    Item
    Sultanate
  8. Group
    Maldives
    Item
    1988 rescue
Groups
  1. Item
    Pakistan
  2. Item
    Sri Lanka
  3. Item
    Maldives
Instructions
Drop each fact onto the country it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 5, Contemporary South Asia._

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Type the year

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1960
    Question
    Indus Waters Treaty signed
  2. Answer
    1974
    Question
    India's first nuclear test
  3. Answer
    1985
    Question
    SAARC Charter signed at Dhaka
  4. Answer
    2008
    Question
    Nepal abolished its monarchy
  5. Answer
    2009
    Question
    LTTE defeated in Sri Lanka
  6. Answer
    2007
    Question
    Afghanistan joined SAARC
Instructions
Type the year only.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 5, Contemporary South Asia._

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South Asia bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    1960 water pact that survived every war.
    Item
    Indus Treaty
  2. Clue
    1972 pact after the Bangladesh war.
    Item
    Shimla
  3. Clue
    Regional body that began in 1985.
    Item
    SAARC
  4. Clue
    Free trade pact in force from 2006.
    Item
    SAFTA
  5. Clue
    Tamil militants defeated in 2009.
    Item
    LTTE
  6. Clue
    Pakistan's 1998 nuclear test site.
    Item
    Chagai
  7. Clue
    Disputed line in the Rann of Kutch.
    Item
    Sir Creek
  8. Clue
    General behind the 1999 coup.
    Item
    Musharraf
  9. Clue
    Led East Pakistan's autonomy struggle.
    Item
    Sheikh Mujib
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 5, Contemporary South Asia._

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