India’s External Relations — Political Science STD 12 Humanities — Question

Analyse India’s stand on any three environmental issues.

The value of the ruble declined dramatically. The rate of inflation was so high that people lost all their savings. The collective farm system disintegrated leaving people without food security, and the government started to import food. The old trading structure broke down with no alternative in its place. The old system of social welfare was systematically destroyed. The withdrawal of government subsidies pushed large sections of the people into poverty.
Read the above passage carefully and answer the following questions:

1. What is meant by subsidy?
2. How did the disintegration of collective farm system lead to the loss of food security?
3. This passage is associated to which country? Why did the government start importing food?

‘India and China are emerging as great economic powers'. Do you agree? Justify your answer with any three arguments.

Why does ASEAN still remain principally an economic association?

Study the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The collapse of Communism was followed in most of these countries by a painful process of transition from an authoritarian socialist system to a democratic capitalist system. Privatisation of state assets and corporate ownership Patterns were to be immediately brought in.

1. Why was the process of transition been described as painful?
2. Which political system existed before the transition and which system replaced it, if any?
3. What does privatisation imply?

‘The emergency declared on June 25, 1975 is seen as a blur on Indian democracy.’ Assess its impact on the party system in India.

Why did the Super Powers have military alliances with the small countries? State any four reasons for it.

List any four demands of the Narmada Bachao Andolan.

Examine any six reasons for the imposition of emergency in India in 1975.

‘India and the USSR enjoyed a special relationship during the Cold War, which led critics to say that: India was a part of the Soviet Camp.’ Do you agree? Support your answer with any two arguments.