Political Science : Contemporary World Politics 2010 CBSE [ Delhi ] Set I

The full form of I.M.F. is International Monetary Fund.

The era of U.S. hegemony started in 1991.

At the hour of midnight on 14-15 August 1947, India attained independence. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of free India, addressed a special session of the Constituent Assembly that night. This was the famous ‘tryst with destiny’ speech that we are familiar with.

The results of 1967 elections in India called ‘political earthquake’ because of the following reasons:-
a. Half of the ministers of Indira Gandhi were defeated.  
b. Congress lost its seats in 9 states: Punjab, Haryana, U.P., M.P., Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Madras, Kerela.

The Right to Information Bill was tabled in 2004 and received the Presidential assent in June, 2005.

Party based movements did not participate in elections formally. Yet they retained connections with political parties, as many participants in these movements, as individuals and as organisations, were actively associated with parties. These links ensured a better representation of the demands of diverse social sections in party politics.

The two facts showing cordiality in the relationship between India and the United States relates to the technological dimension and the role of the Indian American diaspora.

Ban Ki Moon is the 8^th UN Secretary General. He is the citizen of South Korea.

Congress won 364 seats and CPI won 16 seats in the first general elections.

Charu Majumdar was the founder of Communist Party of India. He believed in the Marxist path of peasant rebellion and revolutionary violence.