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Read the passage carefully given below and answer the questions that follow:

The Assam movement from 1979 to 1985 is the best example of such movements against Outsiders. The Assamese suspected that there were huge numbers of illegal Bengali Muslim settlers from Bangladesh. They felt that unless these foreign national are detected and deported, they would reduce the indigenous Assamese into a minority. There were other economic issues too. There was widespread poverty and unemployment in Assam despite the existence of natural resources like oil, tea and coal. It was felt that these were drained out of the State without any commensurate benefit to the people.

(i) Name the group that lead the movement against outsiders in 1979.

(ii) Why did the Assamese seek the detection and deportation of the outsiders?

(iii) What were the economic issues taken up as part of the movement?

Or

This new challenge came to the force in the 1980s, as the Janata experiment came to an end and there was some political stability at the centre. This decade will be remembered for some major conflicts and accords in the various regions of the country especially in the Assam, the Punjab, Mijoram and the development in Jammu and Kashmir.

(i) Explain the meaning of the phrase ?Janata experiment came to an end?.

(ii) 'There was some stability at the centre' what does it imply?

(iii) Highlight any two developments in Punjab in 1980s.

 

Answer:

(i) All Assam Student Union.

(ii) The Assamese suspected that there are huge number of illegal Bengali Muslim settlers from Bangladesh. They felt that unless these foreign nationalists are detected and deported, they would reduce the indigenous Assamese into a minority.

(iii) There was widespread poverty and unemployment in Assam.

Or

(i) It refers to the janata party government rule ?before 1980s elections.

(ii) India was witnessing major conflicts in its states and political instability during this period. These came to an end.

(iii) Agricultural and technical development.