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The city of Dehli covers a wide area and has a large population ...
The rampart round the city is without parallel. The breadth of its
wall is eleven cubits; and inside it are houses for the night sentry
and gatekeepers. Inside the ramparts, there are store-houses fbr
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machines. The grains that are stored (in these ramparts) can last for
a long time, without rotting ... In the interior of the rampart ,
horseman as well as infantrymen move from one end of the city to
another. The rampart is pierced through by windows which open on
the side of the city, and it is through these windows that light enters
inside. The lower part of the rampart is built of stone; the upper part
of bricks. It has many towers close to one airother. There are twenty
eight gates in this city which are called darwaza, and of these, the
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King and Traders
Krishnadeva Raya (ruled 1509-29), the most famous ruler of Vij ayariagaru, composed
a work on statecraft in Telugu known as the Amuhamalyada. About traders he wrote :
A king should improve the harbours of his country and so encourage its commerce that
horses, elephantS, precious gems, sandalwood, pearls and other articles are freely
imported ... He should arrange that the foreign sailors who land in his country on
account of storms, illness and exhaustion are looked after in a suitable manner. ...
Make the merchants of distant foreign countries who import elephants and good horses
be attached to yourself by providing them with daily audience, presents and allowing
decent profits. Then those articles will never go to your enemies.
(14.1) 'Explain the responsibilities of king mentioned by Krishnadeva Raya.
(14.2) In what ways had Krishnadeva Raya protected articles from going to his
enemies ?
(14.3) Explain the measures taken by the king to improve the conditions of
his
country.
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of
Bombay:
They (the ryots) first place spies on the boundaries of their villages
to see if any
Govemment officers come, and to grv.a timely intimation of their arrival
to the
offenders. They then assemble in a body and go to the houses of
their creditors, and
demand from them a surrender of their b-onds uid oth", documents,
*a inr""ie, them
in case of refusal with- assault and plunder. If any Government officer happens to
ap^groach the villages where the above is taking place, the spies give
intimation to the
offenders and the latter disperse in time.
(11 l) Describe how ryots took control over the moneyrenders.
(15-2)
Explain the measures taken by the ryots to ,urr" th.*.elves.
(15.3) Explain why ryots resorted torobbing
the moneylenders.
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republic' India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it
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of-course,
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that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact
that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously we are aiming at democracy and
nothing less than a democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is
another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and
elsewhere, have played a great part in the world's progress. Yet it may be doubtful
if they
those democracies may not have to change their shape somewhat before long
just to copy, I hope, a certain
have to remain completely democratic. We are not going
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democratic procedure or an institution of a so-called democratic country. We
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improve upon it. In any'event whatever system of government we may establish
must fit in with the temper of our people and be acceptable to them. We stand for
democracy. It will be for this House to determine what shape to gtve to that democracy,
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the fullest democracy, I hope. The House will notice that in this Resolution, although
word
have not used the word "democratic" because we thought it is obvious that the
'tepublic" contains that word and we did not want to use unnectissary words and
if
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redundant words, but we have done qomething much more than using the word.
glver the content of democracy in this Resolution and not only the content of democracy
might
but the conten! if I may say so, of economic democracy in this Resolution Others
be a
take objection to this Resolution on the Sound that we have not said thtit it should
Well, I stand for Socialism and, I hope, India will stand for Socialism and
Socialist State.
that the
that India will go towards the Constitution ofla Socialist State and I do believe
whole world will have to go that way.
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(15.1) Explain why Nehru did not mention the wor{ demgcratic in the resolution.
given in the above
if S.Zi Mention the three basic features of the Constitution
passage.
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In praise of Samudragupta
This is an excerpt from the Prayaga Prashasti:
He was without an antagonist on earth; he, by the overflowing of the multitude of
(his) many good qualities adorned by hundreds of good actions, has wiped off the
fame of other kings with the soles of (his) feet; (he is) Purusha (the Supreme Being),
being the cause of the prosperity of the good and the destruction of the bad (he is)
incomprehensible; (he is) one whose tender heart can be captured only by devotion
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of compassion; fte is) the grver'of many hundredthousands of cows; (his) mind has received ceremonial initiation for the uplift of the
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kindness to mankind; (he is) equal to (the gods) Kubera (the god of wealth), Varuna
(the god of the ocean), Indra (the god of rains) and Yama (the god of death)...
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Why kinfolk quarreled
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Mahabharata, describing why conflicts arose amongst the Kauravas and Pandavas :
The Kauravas were the ... sons of Dhritarashtra, and the Pandavas ... were their
cousins. Since Dhritarashtra was blind, his younger brother Pandu ascended the throne
of Hastinapura ... However, after the premature death of Pandu, Dhritarashtra became
king, as the royal princes were still very young. As the princes grew up together, the
citizens of Hastinapura began to express their preference for the Pandavas, for they
were more capable and virtuous than the Kauravas. This made Duryodhana, the eldest
of the Kauravas, jealous. He approached his father and said; "You yourself did not
receive the throne, although it fell to you, because of your defect. If the Pandava
receives the patrimony from Pandu, his son will surely inherit it in turn, and so will his
son, and his. We ourselves with our sons shall be excluded from the royal succession
and become of slight regard in the eyes of the world, lord of the earth !"
(16.1) Explain about the worries of Duryodhana that he expressed to his father.
(16.2) Mention the criteria for becoming king as suggested in the excerpt.
(16.3) Why did the citizens of Hastinapur express their preference for the Pandavas ?
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