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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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Dr. B.N. Rau
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Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha was the first president (temporary chairman) of the Constituent Assembly when it met on December 9, 1946. Dr. Rajendra Prasad then became the President of the Constituent Assembly, and would later become the first President of India.
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Absolute Monarchy
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Constitutional Government
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Unwritten Constitution
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Republic
Constitutional government is defined by the existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity—that effectively controls the exercise of political power. Persons do not call the shots or frame rules in such governments. Everything that is to be governed is dictated by set of rules enshrined in the constitution.
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Simon Commission proposals
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Cripps proposals
C
Mountbatten plan
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Cabinet Mission plan
The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. The Constituent Assembly was set up while India was still under British rule, following negotiations between Indian leaders and members of the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India from the United Kingdom.
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Universal Adult Franchise and the Right to Property
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Representative Democracy and Workers Rights
C
Popular Sovereignty and constitutional government
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Women suffrage and popular sovereignty
John Locke`s "Two Treatises on Government" of 1689 established two fundamental liberal ideas: economic liberty (meaning the right to have and use property) and intellectual liberty (including freedom of conscience). According to Locke, the individual was naturally free and only became a political subject out of free choice. Without the consent of the people there could not be formed a civil society/ community. Secondly, Locke emphasized that all men were equal. There was a perfect state of equality with all the power being reciprocal and no one having more than the other. This is a fundamental principle of present day democracy. From it, flows the democratic principle of universal participation. That no man shall be excluded from the political process.
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Ireland
B
United States
C
India
D
Britain
Cabinet system and its collective responsibility is constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all govern-mental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them. This support includes voting for the government in the legislature. In the United Kingdom, the doctrine applies to all members of the government, from members of the cabinet down to Parliamentary Private Secretaries.
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People does not choose the Civil Servants
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People directly elect their representatives
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People take part directly in the policy making and administration of the country.
D
Government officials consult people on various appointments
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.
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the President
B
the Judiciary
C
the Cabinet
D
the Constitution
Legal sovereignty represents the lawyer`s conception of sovereignty. It is associated with the supreme law-making authority in the state. The body which has the power to issue final commands in the form of laws is the legal sovereign in a state. This power may be vested in one person or a body of persons. It may be a king or dictator or parliament. Legal sovereignty is organized and re-organized by constitutional law.
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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C. Rajagopalchari
C
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
D
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected president of the Constituent Assembly while B.R. Ambedkar was appointed the Chairman of the Drafting Committee.
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it was considered to be an auspicious day
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on that day the Quit India Movement was started in 1942
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the Congress had observed it as the Independence Day in 1930
D
none of these
The Indian constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on the 26th November, 1949 and it came into force after two months on 26th January, 1950. The day January 26 was chosen because it was this very day when the Poorna Swaraj resolution was made in Lahore in 1930 and the first tricolor of India unfurled.
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Greater adaptability
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Strong State
C
Greater participation by the people
D
Lesser Chances of authoritarianism
A unitary system of government, or unitary state, is a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate. Lower-level governments, if they exist at all, do nothing but implement the policies of the national government.
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Popluation
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Land
C
Army
D
Government
The state has four essential elements. These are: (1) population, (2) territory (land), (3) government, (4) sovereignty (or independence). The first two elements constitute the physical or material basis of the state while the last two form its political and spiritual basis. In modern times relations among nations have grown and many international organizations and institutions have come into being. Therefore some scholars have argued that international recognition be an essential element of state.
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Union Terrotries
B
Defection and disqualification
C
Extending reservation
D
Abolition of privy purses
The 52nd Constitutional Amendment of 1985 amended articles 101, 102, 190 and 191; and inserted Schedule 10 to the Constitution of India. It dealt with the Anti Defection Law and provided disqualification of members from parliament and assembly in case of defection from one party to other.
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73rd and 74th Amendments
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83rd and 84th Amendments
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72nd and 73rd Amendments
D
74th and 75th Amendments and Oridinary Law (SSC Combined Matric Level
The constitution`s 73rd & 74th amendments were passed by parliament in December 1992. The 73rd amendment added Part IX (The Panchayats) and the 74th amendment added part IXA (The Municipalities) in the constitution. It provides the statutory reservations of 1/3rd seats in the Municipal boars & Village Panchayats for Women, which provides the opportunity of formal involvement of women in development through political processes.
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The Fiftieth amendment of 1984
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The Fifty-third amendment of 1986
C
The Fifty-fourth amendment of 1986
D
The Fifty-second amendment of 1985
The 10th Schedule to the Indian Constitution, that is popularly referred to as the Anti-Defection Law was inserted by the 52nd Amendment to the Constitution. It has provisions for Members of Parliament and Members of the State Legislatures.
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Palghat
B
Wayanad
C
Kovallam
D
Idukki
Kovalam is a beach town by the Arabian Sea in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala. Kovalam has three beaches separated by rocky outcroppings in its 17 km coastline; the three together form the famous crescent of the Kovalam beach.
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Chhota Nagpur plateau
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Malawa plateau
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Deccan plateau
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Vindhyan Range
The Deccan is delineated by the Western Ghats on the west, the Nilgiri Hills on the south, the Eastern Ghats on the east, and the Aravalli and Chhota Nagpur hills on the north. The Chhota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, to the northeast of the Deccan plateau which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
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Latur
B
Jabalpur
C
Chamoli
D
Uttar Kashi
An earthquake occurred on 29 March, 1999 in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). The earthquake was the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than ninety years. Approximately 103 people died in the earthquake.
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Kolkata
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Cohin
C
Paradeep
D
Mumbai
Apart from four main fishing harbours--Manga- lore (Karnataka), Kochi (Kerala), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), and Roychowk in Kolkata (West Bengal)--twenty-three minor fishing harbors and ninety five fish landing centers are designated to provide landing and berthing facilities to fishing craft.
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Western part is rainy
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Western Ghats act as major water-divide
C
Rivers follow rift valleys
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Eastern Ghats are lower than the Western Ghats
The main water divide in peninsular rivers is formed by the Western Ghats, which run from north to south close to the western coast. Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri flow eastwards because of the issue of elevation and drain into the Bay of Bengal. These rivers flow through open and graded shallow valleys with low gradients and little erosion.
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Nepal
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India
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Tibet
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Bhutan
Lake Manasarovar is a freshwater lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China 940 kilometres from Lhasa. To the west of Lake Manasarovar is Lake Rakshastal; toward the north is Mount Kailash.
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Sahyadri
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Purvanchal
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Anamalai
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Aravallis
Gurushikhar holds the honor of being not only the highest peak of Mount Abu but the whole of Aravali mountain range. This peak is the home to the temple of Dattatreya, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
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Satpura
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Vindhya
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Nilgiri
D
Aravalli
The southern part of the Western Ghats mountain ranges harbour the Nilgiri hills, which serve as the meeting point of the Western and Eastern Ghats. The hills are separated from the Karnataka plateau to the north by the Moyar River and from the Anaimalai Hills and Palni Hills to the south by the Palghat Gap.
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Mumbai
B
Aurangabad
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Amarnath (Kashmir)
D
Jalalabad
Tora Bora is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, west of the Khyber Pass and 10 km (north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan. It is close to Jalalabad. It was known to be an important area for the Taliban and insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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Watershed
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Water divide
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Doab
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Terai
Doab is a term used in India and Pakistan for a "tongue" or tract of land lying between two confluent rivers. Unqualified by the names of any rivers, it designates the flat alluvial tract between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in western and southwestern Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand state in India, extending from the Sivalik Hills to the two rivers confluence at Allahabad.
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Gomati
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Chambal
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Damodar
D
Kosi
Immediately after independence, policy planners sought a solution to the recurring flood menace faced by people of North Bihar from the Kosi and other rivers flowing from Nepal to India. The Kosi project was thus conceptualized (based on investigations between 1946 to 1955), in three continuous interlinked stages. The third part envisaged a high multipurpose dam within Nepal at Barakshetra to provide substantial flood cushion along with large irrigation and power benefits to both countries.
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On river Sutlej
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On river Chambal
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On river Narmada
D
On river Gandak
The Rana Pratap Sagar Dam is a gravity masonry dam of 53.8 metres height built on the Chambal River at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan in India. It was officially declared open on 9 February 1970 by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.
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Nizam Sagar
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Shivasamudram
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Ramagundam
D
Mettur
Shivasamudram holds the distinction of being the site of India`s first hydro-electric power station built in 1902. It was set up mainly to supply power to the Kolar goldmines 147 km away, making the 78 kv transmission line the longest in the world at the time. In fact, when the Mettur dam in Tamil Nadu was being constructed in the 1930`s, the power was supplied from Shivasamudram.
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Bhakra-Nangal
B
Damodar
C
Hirakud
D
Nagarjunasagar
Damodar Valley Corporation came into existence on 7 July, 1948 as the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India. It emerged as a culmination of attempts made over a whole century to control the wild and erratic Damodar River. The river spans over an area of 25,000 km2 covering the states of Bihar (now Jharkhand) & West Bengal.
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Krishna
B
Narmada
C
Koyna
D
Tapti
Narmada River flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, then along the border between Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and the border between Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat and in Gujarat. These states have been at loggerhead over the sharing of waters of the river
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Vyas river
B
Jhelum river
C
Sutlej river
D
Ghaghara river
Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River, and is near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It is India`s second tallest dam at 225.55 m high next to the 261m Tehri Dam. In terms of storage of water, it withholds the second largest reservoir in India, the first being Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh.
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Telengana
B
Marwar
C
Vidarbha
D
Marathwada
Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert which is the driest region of India. It includes the present-day districts of Barmer, Jalore, Lakshman Nagar, Jodhpur, Nagaur, and Pali. This desert tract, nicknamed Marwar or Marusthali – the Land of Death, lives up to its name with its scorching heat, thorny cactus and scrub, and scanty water.
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Karnataka and Kerala
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Punjab and Haryana
C
Bihar and Assam
D
Andhra Pradesh and Orissa
The retreat of the Monsoon which generally oc- curs between September and November brings with it another peak in cyclone origination, noted for its predilection toward violent cyclone strikes. The cy- clones develop in the Bay of Bengal and move from the northeast to the southwest, causing heavy rain- fall and loss of life and property in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Tamil Nadu receives heavy rainfall from these winds as the retreating monsoon winds are moisture laden.
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