In the presentations of the members of the Constituent Assembly, we can discern many conflicting ideas of India such as:
(a) Which language Indians should speak
(b) Which political and economic systems should the nation follow
(c) What moral values its citizens should uphold or disavow
(d) What should be the family system of the Indians
(e) What should be the food of the Indians
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (a), (b), (c) only
(a) Which language Indians should speak Correct. The members disagreed on what language Indians should speak.
(b) Which political and economic systems should the nation follow Correct. They held conflicting ideas of what political and economic systems the nation should follow.
(c) What moral values its citizens should uphold or disavow Correct. They also differed on what moral values its citizens should uphold or disavow.
(d) What should be the family system of the Indians Incorrect. The conflicting ideas of India that came up in the members’ presentations were about language, the political and economic system and moral values; the family system of Indians is not one of them.
(e) What should be the food of the Indians Incorrect. Likewise, the food of Indians was not a subject of these conflicting ideas; they concerned language, political and economic systems and moral values.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.1 The making of the Constituent Assembly … The members of the Constituent Assembly were eloquent in expressing their sometimes very divergent points of view. In their presentations we can discern many conflicting ideas of India – of what language Indians should speak, of what political and economic systems the nation should follow, of what moral values its citizens should uphold or disavow.” |