CBSE Class 8 Social Science India After Independence Worksheet

INDIA AFTER INDEPENDENCE

Fill in the Blanks: 

Question. India became independent on ________________.
Answer: 15^th August 1947.

Question. Dr. B.R Ambedkar is respectfully referred to as _____
Answer: Babasahab 

Question. Indian constitution came into effect on ______________.
Answer: 26^th January 1950

Question. ____________ assassinated Gandhiji.
Answer: Nathuram Godse 

Question. Indian Govt. set up a _________________ in ______ for the economic development of the country.
Answer: Planning commission,1950 

Question. The _______________ steel plant was set up with the help of the former __________ in ______.
Answer: Bhilai, Soviet unio, 1959 

Question. ________________ was the foreign minister of newly independent India.
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru 

Question. ____________ in ________________ is one of the world’s largest slums.
Answer: Dharavi, Bombay

Question. ___________, the Gandhian leader who dies fasting for a separate state for Telugu speakers.
Answer: Potti Sriramulu 

Question. ______________________played an important role in framing the constitution.
Answer: Dr. B.R. Ambedhkar 

Question. The ___________________plan focused on the development of __________________
Answer: Second five year, industries 

Question. On _________________________ India celebrated sixty years of its existence as a free nation.
Answer: 15,August,2007 

Question. One of the main feature of the constitution was its adoption of _________________.
Answer: Universal adult franchise 

Question. Followers of Gandhiji ideas and actions are known as ____________
Answer: Gandhian 

Question. ____________means the _________________
Answer: Franchise, Right to vote 

Question. The _________________was formed in 1945
Answer: United nations,1945 

Question. The concept related to language is called _________________
Answer: Linguistic 

Question. __________was the first Prime Minister of Independent India.
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru 

Question. The ________focused on the development of _________
Answer: 1^st Five year plan, agriculture 

Question. On ________the entire nation mourned due to the assassination of Gandhiji
Answer: 30, January 1948

1. Nathuram Godse assassinated the Father of the Nation.

2. Gandhiji was cremated on the banks of the Yamuna at Rajghat (Delhi).

3. Sardar Patel succeeded in integrating the hundreds of princely states with the Indian Union.

4. It was during the Prime ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru

that the principle of „Panchsheel‟ was first unassociated in the Sino – India Treaty of April, 1954.

5. Indian foreign policy is commonly characterized as a policy of non – alignment.

6. The first conference of the NAM was held in Belgrade in 1961.

7. East Pakistan became an independent nation as Bangladesh.

8. Tata Iran and steel Co. Ltd (Tisco) was established at Jamshedpur.

9. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre was started in 1957 at Trombay.

10. During Indira Gandhi‟s rule, decision for nationalizing banks was taken.

I. Answer the following:

1. Why was it important for ‘unity and development’ to go hand in hand after independence?

2. List four important features included in the Constitution by the Constituent. Assembly to make it a visionary document.

3. Write a note on State Reorganization Commission.

4. What was the chief focus of the second Five- Year Plan?

5. What was the need for creating the Non- Aligned Movement?

6. List three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.

7. What was the role of the Planning Commission?

8. After independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?

9. How was the economic development of India visualized in the early decades after Independence?

II. Define the following:

1. Constituent Assembly

2. Universal Adult Franchise

3. Constitution

4. Planning Commission

5. Non-Alignment

6. Republic

III. Answer in a line:

(i) What did Dr. Ambedkar mean when he said “in politics, we will have equality, and in social and economic life, we will have inequality?”

(ii) Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.

(iii) What was described as a revolutionary step?

(iv) Name the three subjects with examples.

(v) What was the fundamental principle of Nehru’s foreign policy?