How Patriotic Are You? Part I

1. Current Politicians in India are

Working hard but against all the odds.

Corrupt but have still achieved a lot for India.

Part of a clique which only looks after its own interests.

Correctly collaborating with the developed nations turning India into a super power.

Hampered by a stubborn bureaucracy

2. Indian economic policies largely

Favour the poor but corrupt politicians eat into the system and wreck it.

Favour the rich by making them richer

Are biased against the rich

Fail because there are too many people

3. What was the main reason for the defeat of the Indian Revolt of 1857?

We were disorganised and could not create a centralised command.

The support of the feudal princely estates for the British.

We were communally divided.

Superior army of the British.

4. The British rule in India

Was extremely helpful for transfer of technology

Brought in modern ideas of modernity

Ravaged and destroyed India

Had some good point and some negative, but over all it was positive

Has set off India on a correct path of development

Unified India

5. The real intentions of the British coming to India were

To civilize the rough and rude Indians

To trade with India

To extract as much as possible, keep as much as possible and send the rest back to England

To recover the losses from the Opium War with China.

They had heard of the fabulous wealth of the Mughal court

6. During the anti-colonial struggle the Congress party of Nehru and Gandhi was

Dead against the British

Ok with the British so long as the government followed the rule of law

Great friends with the British

Wrong to have opposed the British, since things are far worse now after 1947

7. The British left India because

Gandhi led a mass movement against them

There were too many armed revolts all over the country and there was a danger that India would be taken over by Communists.

There was too much communal violence

The Indians were such an unruly and indiscplined lot, the British could not stand being with them anymore.

They had left their friends in place through the Congress Party who would work to continue the work of modernising India from within

8. Bhagat Singh was

A good patriot but he should not have taken to arms

Simply a misguided youth

Was correct in his path but very young and inexperienced

If he had problems, he should have chosen to fight the British through the legal system

Wrong to oppose the British because they were modernising and unifying India

9. Gandhi's politics largely helped the

Poor and those in the villages

The rich and influential

He was neutral towards all

The British to find an easy way out of the country

10. The rich in India should help by

Building more temples and organising langars (free food for distribution to the poor)

Give money to NGOs and give for more Social Corporate Responsibility projects

Redistribute their excess land among the poor and share their profits equally with their workers

Introduce more foreign capital through collaboration with developed nations

Introduce more mechanization in all spheres of production

11. People are poor in India because

Of bad karma

Of the unequal laws and social structures

The rich are not doing enough for them

Of bad governance and over population

The better organized British left before they could completely change India for the better

12. The Indian bureaucracy is

Corrupt but still does do a lot of good work

Well organised and runs this country

Is well meaning but there is too much political interference

Soley created to make the rich richer and to protect the rich from the poor

13. If India is attacked by a more developed and stronger nation you will

Choose the path of non violence resistance

Run away to the hills or somewhere you cannot be found easily

Try and work with them and learn new technologies and methods from them

Take up arms against them

14. Indian trade and business with the more developed nations is

Of mutual benefit to both

Against the interests of India

Favours only India

Eventually it will favour us because we are smarter than them

15. The caste system in India is

Only prevelant in the villages

A horrific living daily reality for the lower castes in cities and villages

A fake, actually there is no real caste system existing anymore in India

Is good. People need to be categorised into economic and social categories for better management of the country

16. India needs more

Shopping Malls and Multiplexis- these will lead to a more modern India

More foreign direct investment to create better infrastructure

More better managed government schools and hospitals

17. A modern India is

Better imported technology at all levels

Elimination of casteism, gender equality and economic equity

Better airports and better roads with good cars

Less population