CLASS-12,CASE BASED QUESTION

 CASE BASED QUESTION

1.Read the source given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:

"We are not going just to copy'

This is what Jawahar Lal Nehru said in his famous speech of 13 December, 1946: We say that it is our firm and solemn resolve to have an independent sovereign republic. India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it is bound to be a republic... Now, some friends have raised the question:

"Why have you not put in the word 'democratic' here?" Well, I told them that it is conceivable, of course, that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously we are aiming at democracy and nothing less than a democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and elsewhere, have played a great part in the world's progress. Yet it may be doubtful if those democracies may not have to change their shape somewhat before long if they have to remain completely democratic. We are not going just to copy, I hope, a certain democratic procedure or an institution of a so called democratic country. We may 1 improve upon it. In any event whatever system of government we may establish here must fit in with the temper of our people and be acceptable to them. We stand for democracy. It will be for this House to determine what shape to give to that democracy, the fullest democracy.

(i) Define the term sovereignty.

(ii) Which constitutions of the countries were referred by the Constituent Assembly?

(iii) How is democracy explained in this source?

2.Read the given case carefully and answer the questions that follow:

"There cannot be any divided loyalty"

Gobind Ballabh Pant argued that in order to become loyal citizens people had to stop focusing only on the community and the self:

For the success of democracy one must train himself in the art of self discipline. In democracies one should care less for himself and more for others. There cannot be any divided loyalty. All loyalties must exclusively be centred round the State. If in a democracy, you create rival loyalties or you create a system in which any individual or group. instead of suppressing his extravagance, cares nought for larger or other interests, then democracy is doomed.

I. Examine the concern of Gobind Ballabh Pant for a Unified Nation.

II. Why was loyalty considered as an important attribute of social pyramid?

III. Analyse the aspects considered significant for the success of democracy.