CLASS XII

MAP QUESTIONS

POLITICAL SCIENCE

• India after independence

1. The two Muslim majority provinces of India before partition- Punjab and Bengal
2. The place where Mahatma Gandhi was present on August 15, 1947- Kolkata
3. The princely state in present day Kerala which announced to be independent-
Travancore
4. The Nawab of this province was opposed to joining the Constituent Assembly-
Bhopal
5. The issue of this province was resolved after a plebiscite confirmed people’s
desire to join India- Junagarh
6. The princely state which entered into a standstill agreement with the
Government of India- Hyderabad
7. The princely state which merged into the Indian Union without taking into
consulting its Legislative Assembly- Manipur
8. The session of Congress held in this place recognised that the basis of formation
of states on linguistic basis- Nagpur
9. Potti Sriramulu went on an indefinite fast for the formation of this sate- Andhra
Pradesh.
10. The three states formed in 2000- Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand.
11. The last state formed in India- Telangana
12. Two states where the congress was not in power at some point during 1952-67.
13. Two states where the congress remained in power through the period 1952-67.
14. The countries where the constitution permits only a single party to rule the
country. China, Syria and Cuba.
15. The state where the white revolution /operation flood took place- Gujarat.
16. The states where the green revolution took place – western UP, Punjab and
Haryana.
17. The regions over which India and China had conflicts- Aksai Chin and NEFA(
Arunachal Pradesh).
18. The place where the agreement was signed between India and Pakistan after the
Indo-Pak war 1971- Shimla
19. The region that caused tension between India and China in 1950- Tibet.
20. Two states in which the SVD governments came to power in 1967- Bihar and
Punjab
21. The state in which DMK formed the government in 1967.- Tamil Nadu
22. The state to which Gaya Lal belonged to, who changed his party thrice in a
fortnight- Haryana
23. The state to which C Rajagopalachari the first Indian Governor General
belonged- madras
24. The state where the first non-Congress government was formed by EMS
Naboothiripad- Kerala
25. The state to which Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, the Union Minister for food and
Agriculture (1952-54) belonged- UP
26. The state which faced the most acute food crisis in 1965-67- Bihar
27. The state in which Jayaprakash Narayan launched the movement in 1975- Bihar
28. The state in which the Naxalite movement was launched by CharuMajumdar-
West Bengal
29. The state in which the Akalis demanded political autonomy- Punjab
30. The state in which the anti-foreigner movement was launched- Asssam
31. The state which was given special status by the Article 370- Jammu & Kashmir
32. The state in which LalDenga demanded secession from the Indian Union-
Mizoram
33. The state in which AngamiZhaphuPhizo demanded seccession- Nagaland
34. The place where the anti- sikhs riots took place in 1984- Delhi
35. The state where communal riots took place in 2002- Gujarat
36. The demand for merger of this state was led under the supervision of
Maharashtra Gomantak Party- Goa
37. The state in which the Babri Masjid demolition took place - UP
38. Name the 22nd state of the Indian Union- Sikkim
39. The state related to ‘Operation blue Star’- Punjab
40. The Jammu and Kashmir which was converted into two Union Territories in 2019
– Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh

• WORLD POLITICS

1. The country which absorbs 65% of India’s total exports in software sector- USA
2. Operation enduring freedom was launched in the country- Afghanistan
3. The coalition of the willing of 40 countries attacked- Iraq
4. Operation infinite reach targeted terrorist groups in the countries-Sudan and
Afghanistan.
5. Operation Desert Storm was launched in the country-Iraq.
6. The second largest contributor to the regular budget of UN- Japan
7. The country which ended its political and economic isolation in 1972- China.
8. The founding countries of ASEAN- Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
and Thailand.
9. Two countries which resisted the Maastricht Treaty- Denmark and Sweden
10. The country which pulled out of EU- Britain
11. The Himalayan Kingdom with which India is involved in big hydroelectric
projects- Bhutan
12. Country with which India signed the Indus Water treaty- Pakistan
13. IPKF was sent in 1987 but pulled out without attaining its objectives- Srilanka
14. The South Asian country in which a few section of people wants to retain their
link with the monarchy and wants nominal monarchy- Nepal
15. The country which had leaders like Sheikh MujiburRehman, Zia Ur Rehman and
Gen HM Ershad- Bangladesh.
16. The countries which demand a permanent seat in the UNSC along with India-
Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Africa.
17. The country with which India has troubled relations which acts as an obstacle for
a permanent seat in the UNSC- Pakistan
18. Countries to which the UN Secretary Generals belonged to-
a. Trgve Lie- Norway
b. Dag Hammarskjold- Sweden
c. U Thant- Myanmar
d. Kurt Waldheim- Austria
e. Javier Perez de Cuellar- Peru
f. Boutros BoutrosGhali- Egypt
g. Kofi Annan- Ghana
h. Ban Ki Moon- South Korea
i. Antonio Guettteres- Portugal
19. The five permanent members of the UNSC- USA, Russia, China, France and
Britain.
20. The 51st country amongst the original members of the UN- Poland.
21. The country which is threatened by global warming because a big part of its
territory may be submerged with the rising sea level- Maldives
22. The country where the Tutsi tribe faced a threat to its existence in 1994- Rwanda
23. The country which has one in three adults infected by HIV Aids- Botswana
24. The country in which Indonesia’s military carried out large scale killing in 1990s-
East Timor
25. Sea level rise of 1.5- 2 meters would flood 20% of this country- Bangladesh
26. The country which was supported by US against USSR but was later attacked by
US after 9/11.- Afghanistan
27. Countries in conflict over the construction of dams on the Euphrates River-
Turkey, Syria and Iraq
28. The country with a quarter of world’s total oil reserves- Saudi Arabia.
29. The country where a vast network of groups and organisation campaigned
against the Western Mining Corporation an Australia based MNC- Philippines
30. The UN conference on environment and Development was held in ______in 1992.
Rio de Janeiro- Brazil
31. The country in which Kyoto Protocol was signed- Japan
32. The five founding members of the NAM- Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Indonesia &
Ghana.
33. The three major republics of the USSR that declared that USSR was disbanded-
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
34. The Baltic Republics- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
35. The Central Asian countries where the presidents became authoritarian-
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
36. The Central Asian countries which are major oil and gas producers- Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
37. The Central Asian country which witnessed a Civil war till 2001- Tajikistan
38. The eastern European country which spilt peacefully- Czechoslovakia
39. The country in which Arab Spring started – Tunisia
40. The country in which Orange Revolution took place -Ukraine