indian constitutional development quiz set 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

M.K. Gandhi was not a member of the Drafting committee of the constitution of India.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

In general, the term "direct democracy" usually refers to citizens making policy and law decisions in person, without going through representatives and legislatures.

Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

The English word “caste” derives from the Spanish and Portuguese casta, which the Oxford English Dictionary quotes John Minsheu’s Spanish dictionary (1599) to mean, “race, lineage, or breed.” When the Spanish colonized the New World, they used the word to mean a “clan or lineage.”

However, it was the Portuguese who employed casta in the primary modern sense when they applied it to the many in marrying hereditary Hindu social groups they encountered upon their arrival in India in 1498.

The use of the spelling “caste,” with this latter meaning, is first attested to in English in 1613.

Answer: (c)

The Government of India Act 1858, known as the Act for the Good Government of India, provided for liquidation of East India Company and transferred the powers of government, territories and revenues to the British Crown.

The Company's territories in India were vested in the Queen, the Company ceasing to exercise its power and control over these territories. India was to be governed in the Queen's name.