indian constitutional development quiz set 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

Seats allocated to each British province were to be decided among the three principal communities Muslim, Sikhs and general (all except Muslims and Sikhs), in proportion to their population.

The chairman of the Union constitution committee was Jawaharlal Nehru.

The total strength of constituent Assembly was to be 389. Drafting Committee was consisted of seven members.

Answer: (a)

the Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. The Constituent Assembly was set up while India was still under British rule, following negotiations between Indian leaders and members of the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India from the United Kingdom.

The Assembly members were elected to it indirectly by the members of the individual provincial legislative assemblies, and initially included representatives for those provinces which came to form part of Pakistan, some of which are now within Bangladesh.

Answer: (b)

Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group. It focuses on people or society at a local level rather than at the centre of major political activity.

Devolution and decentralization of power and Panchayati raj system are essential elements of such a system.

Answer: (d)

The state has four essential elements. These are:

1. Population,
2. Territory (land),
3. Government,
4. Sovereignty (or independence).

The first two elements constitute the physical or material basis of the state while the last two form its political and spiritual basis. In modern times relations among nations have grown and many international organizations and institutions have come into being.

Therefore some scholars have argued that international recognition is an essential element of the state.

Answer: (a)