CTET 2 Social and Science Sep 2015 Paper

India is a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic.
Sovereign means an independent nation. Democracy is defined as (a:) "government by the people; especially: rule of the majority (b:) " a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."