Study the cartoon given below carefully and answer the questions that follow

a) The mighty soldier with a weapon represents which country?

b) What is the significance of the names of various countries written on his uniform?

c) What important message does the cartoon convey ?

Study the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow :

“The Emergency and the period around it can be described as a period of constitutional crisis because it had its origins in the constitutional battle. On the other hand, it was also a period of political crisis. The party in power had absolute majority and yet, its leadership decided to suspend the democratic process. The makers of India’s Constitution trusted that all political parties would abide by the democratic norm. Even during the Emergency, when the government would use extraordinary powers, its use would be within the norms of the rule of law.”

i. The constitutional battle was drawn between which two organs of the government?

ii. Explain any two reasons that led to the imposition of emergency in 1975.

iii. Highlight any two excesses that took place during emergency.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :

“India’s policy of non-alignment was neither negative nor passive. India was in favour of actively intervening in world affairs to soften Cold War rivalries. Nonalignment was not, as some suggest, a noble international cause, which had little to do with India’s real interests. In fact, a non-aligned posture served India’s interests in many ways. On the other hand, India’s policy of non-alignment was criticized also on a number of counts.”

i. Give any one example of a conflict between the Cold War rivals where India

Mediated to soften the warring factions.

ii. In which two ways did Non-alignment serve India’s interest?

iii. Highlight any two points of criticism against the India’s policy of nonalignment.

Note: The following questions are for the visually impaired candidates only in lieu of Q. No. 20:

(i) Define ‘hegemony’.

(ii) Differentiate between the hegemony of hard power and hegemony of soft power.

(iii) Explain any two constraints on the American hegemony.

In the given outline political map of India, five states have been marked as A , B ,

C , D and E . All these states were created after 1956. Identify them with the help

of the information given below and write their correct names in your answer book

along with the serial number of the information used and the concerned alphabet

shown in the map as per the following table :

(i) The state came into existence in the year 1966.

(ii) The state was created in the year 1987.

(iii) The state was created in the year 1960.

(iv) The state came into being in the year 2000.

(v) The state was created in the year 1972.