1. What articles and Part of the Constitution deal with the Union and its territory?
2. How does Article 1 describe India?
3. What two things does this provision of Article 1 deal with?
4. What was the Constituent Assembly’s decision regarding the name of the country?
6. What does the term ‘Union’ imply regarding the indestructibility of the federation?
7. How can the territory of India be classified according to Article 1?
8. Where are the names of states and union territories and their territorial extent mentioned?
9. How many states and union territories are there at present in India?
10. What is the difference between ‘Territory of India’ and ‘Union of India’?
11. How are union territories and acquired territories administered?
12. How can India, as a sovereign state, acquire foreign territories?
13. What does Article 2 empower the Parliament to do?
14. What two powers does Article 2 grant to the Parliament?
15. What is the difference between Article 2 and Article 3 regarding the formation of states?
16. What does Article 3 authorise the Parliament to do regarding states?
19. What does the power of Parliament to form new states include?
21. How does the territorial integrity of a state in USA compare to India?
23. How can laws made under Articles 2 and 3 be passed?
25. How can Indian territory be ceded to a foreign state?
27. What did the Supreme Court rule in 1969 regarding settlement of a boundary dispute?
29. What did this deal with Bangladesh involve?
30. What was the Radcliffe Award of 1947?
31. What was the Bagge Award of 1950?
32. What was the Nehru-Noon Agreement of 1958?
35. What were the two categories of political units in India at the time of independence?
36. What three options did the Indian Independence Act (1947) give to the princely states?
37. How many princely states joined India, and how many refused to join?
38. How were Hyderabad, Junagarh, and Kashmir integrated into India?
39. What was the four-fold classification of states and territories in the Constitution in 1950?
40. How many states and territories were there in total under this classification?
41. What did Part A states comprise?
42. What did Part B states consist of?
43. What did Part C states consist of, and how were they administered?
44. Which territory was kept as the solitary Part D territory?
45. When was the Linguistic Provinces Commission appointed, and who was its chairman?
46. What did the Dhar Commission recommend regarding the reorganisation of states?
47. What was the JVP Committee, and who were its members?
49. When was the first linguistic state created in India, and what was its name?
50. How was the Andhra state formed?
51. What event led to the creation of the Andhra state?
52. When was the States Reorganisation Commission appointed, and who was its chairman?
53. What were the other two members of the Fazl Ali Commission?
55. What theory did the Fazl Ali Commission reject?
56. What four major factors did the Fazl Ali Commission identify for state reorganisation?
59. What acts implemented the recommendations of the Fazl Ali Commission?
62. How was the Andhra Pradesh state created by the States Reorganisation Act (1956)?
63. What new union territory was created from the territory detached from the Madras state?
64. When was the bilingual state of Bombay divided, and into what two states?
65. What was the 15th state of the Indian Union?
67. When were Goa, Daman and Diu acquired from the Portuguese?
68. By which amendment were Goa, Daman and Diu constituted as a union territory?
69. When was Goa conferred statehood?
70. What happened to Daman and Diu after Goa was conferred statehood?
72. When were the French establishments in India handed over to India?
73. When was Puducherry made a union territory, and by which amendment?
74. When was the State of Nagaland formed, and what areas were taken out of Assam to form it?
75. What was the 16th state of the Indian Union?
76. When was the State of Punjab bifurcated, and into what new entities?
77. What was the 17th state of the Indian Union?
union territories came into being?
81. What was the 19th, 20th, and 21st state of the Indian Union?
82. What was the 22nd Constitutional Amendment Act (1969) about?
83. What was Sikkim’s status until 1947?
84. What was Sikkim’s status after 1947?
85. What did the 35th Constitutional Amendment Act (1974) introduce regarding Sikkim?
86. What new Article and Schedule were inserted for Sikkim’s associate state status?
88. What Constitutional Amendment Act (1975) made Sikkim a full-fledged state of the Indian Union?
89. What was the 22nd state of the Indian Union?
92. What was the 23rd, 24th, and 25th state of the Indian Union?
93. What led to Mizoram being conferred the status of a full state?
95. What was the 26th, 27th, and 28th state of the Indian Union?
96. When did Telangana come into existence as a new state, and what was its state number?
97. What was the first linguistic state of India, and when was it formed?
98. What was the capital of Andhra state and where was the state high court established in 1953?
100. What did the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act (2014) do?
101. What does the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir comprise?
102. What was the first state to have a new name, and what was it renamed to?
103. When was Madras renamed to Tamil Nadu?
104. When was Mysore renamed to Karnataka?
105. When were Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands renamed to Lakshadweep?
106. When was the Union Territory of Delhi redesignated as the National Capital Territory of Delhi?
107. When was Uttaranchal renamed to Uttarakhand?
108. When was Pondicherry renamed to Puducherry?
109. When was Orissa renamed to Odisha?
110. What did the Assam (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1951 provide for?
111. What did the Andhra State Act, 1953 provide for?
112. What did the Himachal Pradesh and Bilaspur (New State) Act, 1954 provide for?
113. What did the Chandernagore (Merger) Act, 1954 provide for?
114. What did the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 provide for?
115. What did the Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 provide for?
116. What did the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1959 provide for?
117. What did the Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1959 provide for?
118. What did the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 provide for?
119. What did the Acquired Territories (Merger) Act, 1960 provide for?
120. What did the State of Nagaland Act, 1962 provide for?
121. What did the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 provide for?
122. What did the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1968 provide for?
123. What did the Andhra Pradesh and Mysore (Transfer of Territory) Act, 1968 provide for?
124. What did the Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968 provide for?
125. What did the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 provide for?
126. What did the State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 provide for?
127. What did the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 provide for?
128. What did the Mysore State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1973 provide for?
130. What did the Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (Alteration of Boundaries) Act, 1979 provide for?
131. What did the State of Mizoram Act, 1986 provide for?
132. What did the State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986 provide for?
133. What did the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987 provide for?
134. What did the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 provide for?
135. What did the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 provide for?
136. What did the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 provide for?
137. What did the Uttaranchal (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 provide for?
138. What did the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 provide for?
139. What did the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act, 2011 provide for?
140. What did the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 provide for?
141. What did the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 provide for?
143. What does Article 1 deal with in the context of Union and its Territory?
144. What does Article 2 deal with in the context of Union and its Territory?
145. What does Article 2A deal with in the context of Union and its Territory?
146. What does Article 3 deal with in the context of Union and its Territory?
147. What does Article 4 deal with in the context of Union and its Territory?
148. What did the 18th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1966 add?
149. What case is Babulal vs. State of Bombay?
150. What did the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 do?
151. What did the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987 do?
152. What did the State of Nagaland Act, 1962 do?
153. What did the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 do?
154. What did the State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 do?
155. What did the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 do?
156. What did the State of Mizoram Act, 1986 do?
157. What did the State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986 do?
158. What did the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 do?
159. What did the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 do?
160. What did the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 do?
161. What did the Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968 do?
162. What did the Mysore State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1973 do?
163. What did the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands (Alteration of Name) Act, 1973 do?
164. What did the Uttaranchal (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 do?
165. What did the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 do?