1.States in India mostly ask for more autonomy or more power. Should they be given more power or not ? Support your answer with argument.
2.“Attempts at forced integration often sow the seeds of disintegration”. Explain.
3.How has power sharing been promoted in India?
4.ention the three provisions of the act passed in Sri Lanka in 1956.
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Answer:
1. Let us get some facts straight there, regardless of what some nationalist constructed propaganda. There was no country in history called India prior to 1947. India comes from the Greek word “Indios”, thus the word “India” itself is foreign. Originally it meant a continent or a “region” beyond Sindhu river/Indus river. It was a vague term used by Europeans. The Arabs and Persians called it Hindustan or lands beyond Indus river. It was purely a geographic term. There was no entity called India. There is no word called “India” written in any of the historical books of all the ethnic groups for thousands of years.
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Before Ashoka’s time, different nations or kingdoms existed. Each kingdom was largely based on the language of that region. Kingdom borders changed often due to wars and conquest, but the core kingdom was based on the regional language.
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Ashoka tried to forcibly unite them all through blood shed. Kalinga held out and millions of Oriyas died. Ashoka later repented.
2. If the rulers are willing to share power and accommodate the reasonable demands of minority community, social divisions become less threatening for the country. (ii) But if they suppress such a demand in the name of national unity, the end result is often quite the opposite.
3. power sharing is promoted in india after seeing the srilanka n belgium.
where the power sharing shows the two cases in belgium power sharing was done on the basis of equal rights n equal distribution of powers between the french speakers n dutch speakers.By this way power sharing was promoted in india where the horizontal n vertical form of power sharing is done.
4. The provisions are: (i) In 1956, an Act was passed to make Sinhala as the official language. (ii) The government followed preferential policies favouring Sinhala applicants for University positions and government jobs. (iii) The Constitution provided for State protection for Buddhism
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