very important questions from B1 and B2 XII POl SC
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 2019-20
SUBJECT – POLITICAL SCIENCE (028)
CLASS -XII
Book-1: Contemporary World Politics
Chapter-1: Cold War Era
Q1. What do you mean by the Cold war? (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q2. Name any two founders of the Non-Aligned Movement along with the countries they belonged to. (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q3. What is the Non-Aligned Movement? (CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q4. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Describe its main events. (CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q5. Name the member countries of NATO, SEATO, WARSAW PACT.
Chapter-2: The End of Bipolarity
Q6. What is meant by Shock Therapy?(CBSE Delhi -2011,2013)
Q7. Describe any four drawbacks of the Soviet system. (CBSE Delhi – 2014)
Q8. Why is it said that the collapse of the Berlin Wall signified the collapse of the bi-polar world? (CBSE Delhi -2011)
Q9. Describe any four factors which forced Gorbachev to initiate the reforms in the USSR. (CBSE Delhi -2012
Q10. Assess any six causes responsible for the disintegration of the Soviet Union?(CBSE Delhi -2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015)
Q11. Difference between Bipolarity and Unipolar World.
Q12. Highlight any one feature of the multi-polar world as visualized by both Russia and India. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-3: US Hegemony in World Politics
Q13. What was ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’?(CBSE Delhi -2013,2017)
Q14. What is meant by US hegemony in world politics? (CBSE Delhi -2009)
Q15. What is known as “9/11”?(CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q16. Differentiate between the hegemony of the United States as the hard power and soft power.
Q17. What was “Operation Infinite Reach “?
Chapter-4: Alternative Centers of Power
Q18. What is the full form of ASEAN? (CBSE -2014)
Q19. What were the objectives of ASEAN? (CBSE -2014)
Q20. India and China are emerging as great economic powers. Do you agree? Justify your answer with any three arguments. CBSE -2011)
Q21. Which factors make the European Union a highly influential regional organization? (CBSE -
2008,2009,2014,2015)
Q22. Assess the role of ASEAN as an economic association. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-5: Contemporary South Asia
Q23. What is the full form of (a) SAFTA(b) SAARC? (CBSE -2012)
Q24. Mention any two objectives of the SAARC. (CBSE -2012)
Q25. List any two areas of conflict between India and Pakistan? (CBSE -2008)
Q26. Highlight any four issues of tension between India and Bangladesh. (CBSE -2012)
Q27. Explain any two causes of the partition of India in 1947. Analysis of any four major consequences.
Chapter-6: International Organizations
Q28. How many countries are members of the United Nations at present? (CBSE -2012)
Q29. State any two objectives of the ‘Human Rights Watch’. (CBSE -2010)
Q30. Mention any four criteria, proposed for the new members of the U.N Security Council. (CBSE -2009)
Q31. Assess any six steps suggested since 2005 to make the United Nations more relevant in the changing context. (CBSE -2010)
Q32. Mention the six principal organs of the United Nations and describe the functions of any two of them. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-7: Security in Contemporary World
Q33. What is Security? (CBSE Delhi 2013)
Q34. Suggest anyone effective step which would limit war or violence between countries...
(CBSE Delhi 2014)
Q35. Mention any four Components of traditional security. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q36. Mention any four threats, except war, to human security. (CBSE Delhi 2010)
Q37. Define security. Explain the traditional and non-traditional notions of security.
(CBSE Delhi 2009)
Q38. What is human security?
Q39. Write a note on global security.
Q40. What is co-operative security?
Q41. What are the reasons behind the rise of international terrorism?
Q42. The concept of co-operative security is more effective in dealing with various contemporary
threats to security. Justify the statement with any four suitable points.
Chapter-8: Environment and Natural Resources
Q43. What is meant by geopolitics? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q44. What is the significance of the Kyoto protocol? Is India a signatory to this protocol?
(CBSE Delhi 2009)
Q45. Why do indigenous people need special protection to protect their rights? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q46. Explain India’s stand on environmental issues.
Q47. What is meant by common, but different responsibilities about the environment?
(CBSE Delhi 2013, 2009)
Q48. What is the most obvious threat to the survival of indigenous people?
Q49. What is meant by the protection of ‘global commons’ in the world?
Q50. Write a note on the Earth Summit 1992.
Q51. What was the significance of the 1992 Earth Summit?
Q52. Mention any two outcomes of the Rio Summit? (CBSE Delhi 2010,2008)
Chapter-9: Globalization
Q53. Name the international agency relating to environmental programs. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q54. What is ‘cultural homogenization? Give an example to show that its consequences are not negative.
Q55. Explain any three cultural consequences of globalization. (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q56. Highlight any three negative aspects of globalization. (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q57. Define Globalization. Explain any four main characteristics of globalization? (CBSE Delhi
2012)
Q58. Do you agree with the argument that globalization leads to cultural heterogeneity?
Q59. Mention any two political consequences of globalization.
Q60. What is W.T.O.?
Q61. How far do you agree that the Cultural Consequences of globalization are only negative?
Explain?
Q62. Give a suitable example to show that globalization needs not always be positive? (CBSE Delhi -
2017)
Book-2: Politics in India since Independence
Chapter-10: Challenges of Nation Building
Q63. What is meant by the two-nation theory? (CBSE -2014)
Q64. Who insisted on the partition of British India? (CBSE -2014
Q65. Which four main challenges were faced by India at the time of its independence? Explain briefly. (CBSE -2012)
Q66. Write a note on the consequences of partition. (CBSE -2013) (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-11: Era of One-Party Dominance
Q67. What is meant by Non-Congress?
Q68. Which political party of India has leaders like A.K. Gopalan, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and S.A. Dange? (CBSE -2014)
Q69. Describe any four factors which were responsible for the dominance of the Congress Party in India till 1967.
Q70. When and why did a long phase of coalition politics begin in India?
Q71. Trace the significance of India‘s first general held in 1952.
Chapter-12: Politics of Planned Development Q72. What is the Green Revolution? (CBSE -2014)
Q73. List any two merits and two demerits of the Green Revolution.(CBSE -2011,2012,2014)
Q74. Differentiate between the main objectives of the first and the second five-year plans. (CBSE -2014)
Q75. What is meant by Planned Development?
Q76. List any two major objectives of Nehru’s foreign policy. (CBSE -2013)
Chapter-13: India’s External Relations
Q77. What was ‘Kargil Confrontation’?(CBSE -2012)
Q78. Explain briefly India’s nuclear policy? (CBSE -2013)
Q79. What was The Tibet issue? How did it cause tension between India and China? Explain. (CBSE -
2012)
Chapter-14: Challenges to the congress system
Q80. What is meant by the term “Congress Syndicate”?(CBSE -2014)
Q81. What is the meaning of ‘dangerous decade’ in the context of Indian Politics? (CBSE -2008)
Q82. What does ‘Aaya Ram-Gaya Ram ’stands for in Indian politics?(CBSE -2009, 2011)
Q83. Examine the major issues which led to the split of Congress Party in 1969. (CBSE -2014)
Q84. Analyze the issue ‘Indira vs the Syndicate’. What type of challenges did the issue pose before Indira Gandhi?
Chapter-15: Crisis of the Democratic Order
Q85. What is meant by Emergency? List any three lessons learned from the National Emergency of
1975. (CBSE -2013)
Q86. Who was CharuMajumdar?(CBSE -2010,2012)
Q87. Highlight the acts of dissent and resistance to the Emergency imposed in 1975. In your opinion, how did these acts affect public opinion? (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-16: Rise of Popular Movements
Q88. How did the Anti-arrack movement become a women’s movement against social injustice and gender inequalities? How did it bring social awareness among women of the country?(CBSE -2009,2015)
Q89. What was the Chipko Movement? What role did the women play in this movement? (CBSE -
2008,2011,2012)
Q90. What is Naxalitemovement? Evaluate its role in Indian Politics. (CBSE 2009)
Q91. What issues did the Dalit Panthers address?
Chapter-17: Regional Aspirations
Q92. What was ‘Operation Blue Star ‘?(CBSE Outside 2012)
Q93. Mention any two provisions which reflect Special Status to Jammu and Kashmir. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q94. Explain any four lessons that have been learned about national integration in India. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q95. ‘All the regional movements need not lead to the separatist demands’. Explain the statement by giving suitable examples. (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q96. The Assam movement was a combination of cultural pride and economic backwardness.
Explain.
Q97. What is meant by the ‘Punjab Accord’ of 1985?
Q98. What is meant by National integration? ( CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q99. Describe the problem of Punjab in the context of Operation Blue Star.
Q100. Write a short note on the Dravidian movement.
Q101. Explain the reasons for the student's movement of 1974 in Bihar and the role-played by Jaiprakash Narayan you in this movement.
Chapter-18: Recent Developments in Indian Politics
Q102. Why was Babri Masjid demolished? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q103. What was the Ayodhya dispute? (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q104. When and why did a long phase of coalition politics begin in India? (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q105. Describe any four major developments in Indian politics since 1989.. (CBSE Delhi 2015)
Q106. Analyze the two political developments of 1940sthat led to the decision for the creation of Pakistan. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Q107. Write a short essay on the Bhartiya Janta Party.
Q108. What is the meaning of a coalition? (2015, 2010)
Q109. ‘Coalition government is a bane or a boon for democracy in India ‘.Explain any three arguments in support of your answer. (2011)
Q110. What was the Shah Bano case? (2008)
Q111. What was the main reason for the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002?
Q112. What was the main recommendation of the Mandal Commission?
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 2019-20
SUBJECT – POLITICAL SCIENCE (028)
CLASS -XII
Book-1: Contemporary World Politics
Chapter-1: Cold War Era
Q1. What do you mean by the Cold war? (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q2. Name any two founders of the Non-Aligned Movement along with the countries they belonged to. (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q3. What is the Non-Aligned Movement? (CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q4. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Describe its main events. (CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q5. Name the member countries of NATO, SEATO, WARSAW PACT.
Chapter-2: The End of Bipolarity
Q6. What is meant by Shock Therapy?(CBSE Delhi -2011,2013)
Q7. Describe any four drawbacks of the Soviet system. (CBSE Delhi – 2014)
Q8. Why is it said that the collapse of the Berlin Wall signified the collapse of the bi-polar world? (CBSE Delhi -2011)
Q9. Describe any four factors which forced Gorbachev to initiate the reforms in the USSR. (CBSE Delhi -2012
Q10. Assess any six causes responsible for the disintegration of the Soviet Union?(CBSE Delhi -2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015)
Q11. Difference between Bipolarity and Unipolar World.
Q12. Highlight any one feature of the multi-polar world as visualized by both Russia and India. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-3: US Hegemony in World Politics
Q13. What was ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’?(CBSE Delhi -2013,2017)
Q14. What is meant by US hegemony in world politics? (CBSE Delhi -2009)
Q15. What is known as “9/11”?(CBSE Delhi -2014)
Q16. Differentiate between the hegemony of the United States as the hard power and soft power.
Q17. What was “Operation Infinite Reach “?
Chapter-4: Alternative Centers of Power
Q18. What is the full form of ASEAN? (CBSE -2014)
Q19. What were the objectives of ASEAN? (CBSE -2014)
Q20. India and China are emerging as great economic powers. Do you agree? Justify your answer with any three arguments. CBSE -2011)
Q21. Which factors make the European Union a highly influential regional organization? (CBSE -
2008,2009,2014,2015)
Q22. Assess the role of ASEAN as an economic association. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-5: Contemporary South Asia
Q23. What is the full form of (a) SAFTA(b) SAARC? (CBSE -2012)
Q24. Mention any two objectives of the SAARC. (CBSE -2012)
Q25. List any two areas of conflict between India and Pakistan? (CBSE -2008)
Q26. Highlight any four issues of tension between India and Bangladesh. (CBSE -2012)
Q27. Explain any two causes of the partition of India in 1947. Analysis of any four major consequences.
Chapter-6: International Organizations
Q28. How many countries are members of the United Nations at present? (CBSE -2012)
Q29. State any two objectives of the ‘Human Rights Watch’. (CBSE -2010)
Q30. Mention any four criteria, proposed for the new members of the U.N Security Council. (CBSE -2009)
Q31. Assess any six steps suggested since 2005 to make the United Nations more relevant in the changing context. (CBSE -2010)
Q32. Mention the six principal organs of the United Nations and describe the functions of any two of them. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-7: Security in Contemporary World
Q33. What is Security? (CBSE Delhi 2013)
Q34. Suggest anyone effective step which would limit war or violence between countries...
(CBSE Delhi 2014)
Q35. Mention any four Components of traditional security. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q36. Mention any four threats, except war, to human security. (CBSE Delhi 2010)
Q37. Define security. Explain the traditional and non-traditional notions of security.
(CBSE Delhi 2009)
Q38. What is human security?
Q39. Write a note on global security.
Q40. What is co-operative security?
Q41. What are the reasons behind the rise of international terrorism?
Q42. The concept of co-operative security is more effective in dealing with various contemporary
threats to security. Justify the statement with any four suitable points.
Chapter-8: Environment and Natural Resources
Q43. What is meant by geopolitics? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q44. What is the significance of the Kyoto protocol? Is India a signatory to this protocol?
(CBSE Delhi 2009)
Q45. Why do indigenous people need special protection to protect their rights? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q46. Explain India’s stand on environmental issues.
Q47. What is meant by common, but different responsibilities about the environment?
(CBSE Delhi 2013, 2009)
Q48. What is the most obvious threat to the survival of indigenous people?
Q49. What is meant by the protection of ‘global commons’ in the world?
Q50. Write a note on the Earth Summit 1992.
Q51. What was the significance of the 1992 Earth Summit?
Q52. Mention any two outcomes of the Rio Summit? (CBSE Delhi 2010,2008)
Chapter-9: Globalization
Q53. Name the international agency relating to environmental programs. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q54. What is ‘cultural homogenization? Give an example to show that its consequences are not negative.
Q55. Explain any three cultural consequences of globalization. (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q56. Highlight any three negative aspects of globalization. (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q57. Define Globalization. Explain any four main characteristics of globalization? (CBSE Delhi
2012)
Q58. Do you agree with the argument that globalization leads to cultural heterogeneity?
Q59. Mention any two political consequences of globalization.
Q60. What is W.T.O.?
Q61. How far do you agree that the Cultural Consequences of globalization are only negative?
Explain?
Q62. Give a suitable example to show that globalization needs not always be positive? (CBSE Delhi -
2017)
Book-2: Politics in India since Independence
Chapter-10: Challenges of Nation Building
Q63. What is meant by the two-nation theory? (CBSE -2014)
Q64. Who insisted on the partition of British India? (CBSE -2014
Q65. Which four main challenges were faced by India at the time of its independence? Explain briefly. (CBSE -2012)
Q66. Write a note on the consequences of partition. (CBSE -2013) (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-11: Era of One-Party Dominance
Q67. What is meant by Non-Congress?
Q68. Which political party of India has leaders like A.K. Gopalan, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and S.A. Dange? (CBSE -2014)
Q69. Describe any four factors which were responsible for the dominance of the Congress Party in India till 1967.
Q70. When and why did a long phase of coalition politics begin in India?
Q71. Trace the significance of India‘s first general held in 1952.
Chapter-12: Politics of Planned Development Q72. What is the Green Revolution? (CBSE -2014)
Q73. List any two merits and two demerits of the Green Revolution.(CBSE -2011,2012,2014)
Q74. Differentiate between the main objectives of the first and the second five-year plans. (CBSE -2014)
Q75. What is meant by Planned Development?
Q76. List any two major objectives of Nehru’s foreign policy. (CBSE -2013)
Chapter-13: India’s External Relations
Q77. What was ‘Kargil Confrontation’?(CBSE -2012)
Q78. Explain briefly India’s nuclear policy? (CBSE -2013)
Q79. What was The Tibet issue? How did it cause tension between India and China? Explain. (CBSE -
2012)
Chapter-14: Challenges to the congress system
Q80. What is meant by the term “Congress Syndicate”?(CBSE -2014)
Q81. What is the meaning of ‘dangerous decade’ in the context of Indian Politics? (CBSE -2008)
Q82. What does ‘Aaya Ram-Gaya Ram ’stands for in Indian politics?(CBSE -2009, 2011)
Q83. Examine the major issues which led to the split of Congress Party in 1969. (CBSE -2014)
Q84. Analyze the issue ‘Indira vs the Syndicate’. What type of challenges did the issue pose before Indira Gandhi?
Chapter-15: Crisis of the Democratic Order
Q85. What is meant by Emergency? List any three lessons learned from the National Emergency of
1975. (CBSE -2013)
Q86. Who was CharuMajumdar?(CBSE -2010,2012)
Q87. Highlight the acts of dissent and resistance to the Emergency imposed in 1975. In your opinion, how did these acts affect public opinion? (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Chapter-16: Rise of Popular Movements
Q88. How did the Anti-arrack movement become a women’s movement against social injustice and gender inequalities? How did it bring social awareness among women of the country?(CBSE -2009,2015)
Q89. What was the Chipko Movement? What role did the women play in this movement? (CBSE -
2008,2011,2012)
Q90. What is Naxalitemovement? Evaluate its role in Indian Politics. (CBSE 2009)
Q91. What issues did the Dalit Panthers address?
Chapter-17: Regional Aspirations
Q92. What was ‘Operation Blue Star ‘?(CBSE Outside 2012)
Q93. Mention any two provisions which reflect Special Status to Jammu and Kashmir. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q94. Explain any four lessons that have been learned about national integration in India. (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q95. ‘All the regional movements need not lead to the separatist demands’. Explain the statement by giving suitable examples. (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q96. The Assam movement was a combination of cultural pride and economic backwardness.
Explain.
Q97. What is meant by the ‘Punjab Accord’ of 1985?
Q98. What is meant by National integration? ( CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q99. Describe the problem of Punjab in the context of Operation Blue Star.
Q100. Write a short note on the Dravidian movement.
Q101. Explain the reasons for the student's movement of 1974 in Bihar and the role-played by Jaiprakash Narayan you in this movement.
Chapter-18: Recent Developments in Indian Politics
Q102. Why was Babri Masjid demolished? (CBSE Delhi 2011)
Q103. What was the Ayodhya dispute? (CBSE Delhi 2008)
Q104. When and why did a long phase of coalition politics begin in India? (CBSE Delhi 2012)
Q105. Describe any four major developments in Indian politics since 1989.. (CBSE Delhi 2015)
Q106. Analyze the two political developments of 1940sthat led to the decision for the creation of Pakistan. (CBSE Delhi -2017)
Q107. Write a short essay on the Bhartiya Janta Party.
Q108. What is the meaning of a coalition? (2015, 2010)
Q109. ‘Coalition government is a bane or a boon for democracy in India ‘.Explain any three arguments in support of your answer. (2011)
Q110. What was the Shah Bano case? (2008)
Q111. What was the main reason for the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002?
Q112. What was the main recommendation of the Mandal Commission?