Social Science Section IV Flashcards
When the British left Indian in 1947, the partition plan created which contemporary nation states?
India and Pakistan
Today, India and Pakistan still do not agree on the international border dividing the countries where which area is concerned?
Kashmir
What is the language of governance in India?
English
Where special protections for Muslims written into India’s constitution?
No
True or false: Operation Blue Star involved the storming of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar by army tanks sent by PM India Gandhi to apprehend Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale after his politics became aggressively radical
True
When putting together the Indian constitution, the newly independent Indian government led by PM Nehru used which political structure?
A British model of parliamentary democracy
How many Sikhs were killed in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination prompted widespread communal violence in India?
3,000
True or false: After colonialism, an independent India struggled for decades to successfully create an Indian democratic system of governance, which the government functioning as a dictatorship for most of the nation’s first ten years of independence
True
Plebiscite is a term that refers to what?
The process of deciding a political matter by vote
What was the Green Revolution?
An overhaul of farming practices and technologies in Indian in the 1970s making Punjab the breadbasket of India
“Gharibi hatao”, a major populist political motto meaning “eradicate poverty” was used by which Indian politician?
Indira Gandhi
How did Nehru reorganize India?
Along linguistic lines
Which nation was East Pakistan from the time of Partition until the conclusion of the War of Independence?
Bengal
What did the Indian Constitution ban?
Untouchability
The Emergency was a policy enacted in 1975 by Pm Gandhi that did what?
Suspended democratic governance
