Challenges of Nation Building
NCERT Class 12 Political Science, Politics in India Since Independence, Chapter 1 takes up Partition's legacy of displacement and violence, the integration of princely states led by Patel, and the redrawing of boundaries through the States Reorganisation Commission. It explains how the leadership chose democracy, secularism and development amid refugee resettlement and early conflicts. The chapter closes with the lesson that nation building meant persuading diverse regions and communities into one constitutional home.
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