Read the passage give below and answer the following questions: (3)
India belongs to the people of India – all the people irrespective of class, colour, caste, creed,
language, or gender. And the country, its resources and systems, were meant for all of them but
the British were exercising control over the resources of India and the lives of its people, and
until this control was ended India could not be for Indians. This consciousness began to be
clearly stated by the political associations formed after 1850.
(a) Name any two important political associations emerged in 1870s and 1880s. (1)
(b) What were their goals?(1)
(c) Elaborate the term sovereign.
Answers
Answer:
1.The Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 by the active help of A. O. Hume a retired British Officer. Prior to it there existed the East India Association established by Dadabhai Naoriji in 1867, the Indian Reform Association under Keshub Chunder Sen and Indian National Association founded by Surendranath Banerjee and Anand Mohan Bose in 1876. All of these political associations were mainly formed for demanding a higher share in the Indian Civil Services, a higher share in the British Governance of India all under the prospects of adhering to the sovereignty of the British crown. The INC was born with the prime motto of demanding an independent government under the British crown and had initially strong faith in the Brtitish Crown.
2.Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms.
Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
Goal 3: Health.
Goal 4: Education.
Goal 5: Gender equality and women's empowerment.
Goal 6: Water and Sanitation.
3.a supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
"the Emperor became the first Japanese sovereign to visit Britain"