1. State the two factors which encourage regionalism. (CBSE 2016 and 2018)
2. What are the criteria for forming community identity (CBSE 2016)
3. What do you understand by ascriptive identities ? (CBSE 2019)
4. Explain the policies of assimilation and integration used to establish national identity. (CBSE 2017)
5. Is it easy to describe a State but hard to define? Why? (CBSE 2019)
6. Why communalism is an important issue in India?
1. The Indian people had a brief experience of authoritarian rule during emergency.’ Justify. (CBSE 2019)
2. What is secularism? What are the tensions associated with secularism in India?
3. What is a ‘minority’? Why do minorities need protection from the state?
4. What is communalism?
5. What is privileged minority?
6. How secularism creates tensions in India?