Thursday, May 25, 2017
Monday, April 18, 2016
Chapter- Work, Life and Leisure BY: - A.S.DHARSHIKA CLASS: - X-A ROLL NO: - 8 Q.1. Who wrote the novel Debganer Martye Aagaman and in which year? Answer: - Durgacharan Ray in 1880 Q.2. What were the things gods wanted to build in heaven? Answer: - Museum and High court Q.3. What were the cities that appeared along river valleys? Answer: - Ur, Nippur and Mohenjo-Daro Q.4. Leeds and Manchester attracted large number of migrants due to which industry? Answer: - Textile mills Q.5. What did London began manufacturing during the First World War? Answer: - motor cars and electrical goods Q.6. Which novel did Andrew Mearns write and in which year? Answer: - The Bitter Cry of Outcast London in 1880’s Q.7. When did Charles Booth conduct first social survey? Answer: - in 1887 Q.8. What was the average life expectancy of both rich and poor people? Answer: - Poor 29 years and rich 55 years Q.9. Who was Ebenezer Howard and what he did? Answer: - Architect and Planner and he developed garden City Q.10. When was underground railway started and between which stations? Answer: - 10th January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London Q.11. Who wrote Dombey and Son and in which year? Answer: - Charles Dickens and in the year 1848 Q.12. What were events organized for the elite group? Answer: - Opera, the Theatre and Classical Music Performances Q.13. Who was the king during Haussaminsation of Paris? Answer: - Louis Napoleon III Q.14. When did Bombay became the capital of the British Presidency? Answer: - In 1819 after the Anglo-Maratha war Q.15. When was the first cotton textile mill in Bombay was established? Answer: - In 1854 Q.16. What was the population density of Bombay and London? Answer: - Bombay 20 persons per sq. km London 9 persons per sq. km Q.17. Who was the Governor of Bombay in 1784? Answer: - William Hornby Q.18. In which year the Rent control Act was passed? Answer: - In 1918 Q.19. When was India’s first film made and in which city? Answer: - it was made in the year 1896 and in Bombay Q.20. Who developed the city of Singapore? Answer: - Lee Kaun Yew developed the city of Singapore
Chapter- Work, Life and
Leisure
BY: - A.S.DHARSHIKA
CLASS: - X-A
ROLL NO: - 8
Q.1. Who wrote the novel Debganer Martye
Aagaman and in which year?
Answer: - Durgacharan Ray in 1880
Q.2. What were the things gods wanted to
build in heaven?
Answer: - Museum and High court
Q.3. What were the cities that appeared
along river valleys?
Answer: - Ur, Nippur
and Mohenjo-Daro
Q.4. Leeds and Manchester attracted large
number of migrants due to which industry?
Answer: - Textile mills
Q.5. What did London began manufacturing
during the First World War?
Answer: - motor cars
and electrical goods
Q.6. Which novel did Andrew Mearns write
and in which year?
Answer: - The Bitter Cry of Outcast London in
1880’s
Q.7. When did Charles Booth conduct first
social survey?
Answer: - in 1887
Q.8. What was the average life expectancy
of both rich and poor people?
Answer: - Poor 29 years and rich 55 years
Q.9. Who was Ebenezer Howard and what he
did?
Answer: - Architect and Planner and he
developed garden City
Q.10. When was underground railway started
and between which stations?
Answer: - 10th January 1863 between
Paddington and Farrington Street in London
Q.11. Who wrote Dombey and Son and in
which year?
Answer: - Charles Dickens and in the year 1848
Q.12. What were events organized for the
elite group?
Answer: - Opera, the Theatre and Classical
Music Performances
Q.13. Who was the king during
Haussaminsation of Paris?
Answer: - Louis
Napoleon III
Q.14. When did Bombay became the capital
of the British Presidency?
Answer: - In 1819
after the Anglo-Maratha war
Q.15. When was the first cotton textile
mill in Bombay was established?
Answer: - In 1854
Q.16. What was the population density of
Bombay and London?
Answer: - Bombay 20 persons per sq. km
London 9 persons per sq. km
Q.17. Who was the Governor of Bombay in
1784?
Answer: - William Hornby
Q.18. In which year the Rent control Act
was passed?
Answer: - In 1918
Q.19. When was India’s first film made and
in which city?
Answer: - it was made
in the year 1896 and in Bombay
Q.20. Who developed the city of Singapore?
Answer: - Lee Kaun Yew developed the city of
Singapore
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
CIVICS CH-5(PRESSURE GROUPS AND MOVEMENTS)
Q1. Describes the movement for democracy in Nepal?
The problem Nepal
became a democracy in 1990 and King Birendra accepted constitution
monarchy, but after his death king Gyanendra
denied, dismissed the P.M and dissolved the parliament.
To regain democracy, movt. Started.
·
SPA(Seven Party Alliance) was formed
·
SPA called for a strike. People
supported
·
Demands-Restoration of parliament,
power to an all party govt., a new constituent assembly.
·
24 April 06,King was
forced to accept these three demands, SPA chose G P koirala as new P.M of the
interim govt. .
Q2. Describe about Bolivia’s
water war?
·
The problem – UN
forced Bolivia’s govt to give up control of municipal water supply of the city
of Cochabamba. Now under an MNC the price of water goes up(by 4
times).spontaneous protest.
·
Demands of Bolivians-to cancel the MNC’s right to water
·
Role of popular
struggles by different communities, FEDECOR, human right communities.
·
Success in the movt. –
Contract with MNC cancelled and water supply by the municipality at the same
old rates.2006 – FEDECOR came to power.
Q3. Role of Organisation and Mobilization in democratic
struggle.
Organization- a group of people in one platform struggling for a
common cause
·
People get one common platform
·
It unites the people
·
Gives rise to leadership and team work
·
It directly or indirectly influence the govt.
Mobilization-persuading and convincing people
·
Self motivation
·
Mobilization by leaders
Q4. How r pressure groups different from political
parties?
Pressure groups. Political parties
Don’t aim to directly control or Aim is to capture political power.
share
power. just want to
influence govt. policies.
It constitutes people from same they can have diverse objective.
Occupation, opinion have a
common objective.
It is not a loose organization. It is open for all and is a loose
org.
It can be public or sectional It
can be Regional or national parties
Q5. Differences
between the following organizations.
Movt I .G
Loose organization and mass not so loose.
Participation seen.
It is formal and we can join any time. It is not formal.
Eg
. Narmada Bachao Andolan Eg. Lawyer Union
Sectional interest group public
I .G
Their main aim is the better they aim for
general well being of
and well being of members,not the society.
Society in general.
Members from same type of people Members from different types.
Eg. Trade unions. Eg. BAMCEF
Long term movt. Short
term movt.
Seek to achieve a broad goal in a they are issue specific. For a short term.
Very long time.
They have unlimited time . they have limited time.
Have clear leadership and some there may be no org. to guide the movt.
organization to guide.
Eg. Environment protection movt. Eg. Narmada Bachao Andolan.
Q6. How do pressure
groups and movts. exert influence on politics?
Gain public support-through campaigning,
meetings and filling petitions
They try to influence the media to give more
attention to their issue
Protest activities like Strikes or disrupting
govt. programmes.to force it.
Employing
professional lobbyists to fight for them
Participating in official bodies and
committees of the government to suggest
Q7. Describe the
relationship between political party and pressure groups .
·
PG are extended hands of PP – most of the
trde unions or students unions are either established are affiliated to PPs
PP growing out of movement-DMK, AIADMK, Asom
Gana Parishad
Indirect relations through negotiation and
and dialogue.-They raised new issues
Q8. Is influence of
interest groups/ pressure groups healthy or unhealthy?
Healthy influence
They have deepened democracy, RTI act
compulsory edu. Act and many other acts
have been possible due to them only.
As long as everyone gets the opportunity,
putting pressure on rulers is not unhealthy. Activity
System of checks and balances
Where different groups function actively, no
one group can have dominance.
Unhealthy influence
It defeats democracy-A democracy should look
after the interests of all not one.
Pressure groups are not accountable to the
people as they don’t have to contest election.
Sometimes pressure groups with small public
support but huge amount of money can highjack public discussion in favour of
their narrow agenda.
Negative attitude of the people leads to
violence and loss of property
CH -3 NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Ques.1 Economic
and political scenario
in India after world
war 1–
Ø Defense
expenditure increased-led to tax
burden
Ø Custom duties ,
income tax were introduced
Ø Forced recruitment
from villages
Ø Extreme hardship –
high prices , crops
failed , influenza, famines
Ques.2 Rowlat
Act –
An act passed in 1919 which gave the power to government to
repress the political activities by allowing detention of political prisioners
without trial for 2 years.
Effects-
Ø Rallies , railway
workers on strikes , shops closed
Ø Gandhi barred entry
into Delhi
Ø 10 April – a peaceful
procession fired upon
Ø Widespread
attacks on govt.
Institutions
Ø Martial law imposed
by Gen. Dyer
Ø Jallianwalabagh massacre-1919
Ques.3 Jallianwala bagh-
Ø On 13 April 1919 on the day of Baisakhi
Ø Not awared about martial law
Ø Thousands were killed by Gen Dyer
Effects
Ø Strikes , clashes
with the police
Ø Attacks on govt.
Buildings
Ø Brutal repression by British govt.
Ø Villages bombed and
people flogged
Ques.4
Ideas of Satyagraha –
Ø Pure soul force
Ø Novel method of
mass agitation
Ø Emphasized the power
of truth and
need to search
for truth
Ø Suggested to use
non-violence against oppressors
Ø If the cause
is true and
the struggle is
against injustice , then no
violence is required
to fight the
oppressor
ques.5 Gandhiji’s 3
experiments –
Ø 1917 – went to champaran
in Bihar to
inspire peasants to struggle against
oppressive plantation system
Ø 1917 – organized
satyagrah for peasants
of Gujarat at Kheda
Ø 1918 – travelled
to Ahmadabad to organize satyagrah
among cotton mill
workers
Q6 Why
was NCM launched ?
Ø Realization of Gandhi
Ø To support khilafat
movement and swaraj
Ø Hindu Muslim unity
Why NCM slowed
down in cities ?
Ø Expensive khadi
Ø Boycott of British
institution posed a
problem-no substitutes for them
Stages
of NCM –
Ø Surrender of titles
Ø Boycott of foreign
goods and institutions
Ø To go for a full Civil Disobedience
Impacts-
Ø Financial lose to British Govt.-import to India went down
Ø Promotion of Indian goods
Ø Workers strikes led to down in British production
Ø Chauri-Chaura incident-1922
Q7. Participation of various groups in NCM
Ø Middle class in cities-Role of students, teachers, lawers-
boycott and swadeshi
Ø Peasants’ participation-Awadh-under Baba
Ramchandra-Nai-Dhobi Bandh
Ø Tribals’ Participation-at Gudem Hills of A.P under Alluri
Sita ram Raju
Ø Plantation Workers-different notion of swaraj-right to move
freely-Gandhi raj is coming
Q8. Peasants
movements in Awadh –
Ø Led mainly by
Baba Ramchandra ,an indentured labour from Fiji.
Mainly this movement was against the oppressive Talukdars and Zamindars.
Demands-
Ø Abolishing begar
Ø Social boycott of
oppressive landlords
Ø Reduction of revenue
Stages-
Ø Organizing
nai-dhobi bandhs
Ø Setting up of
oudh kisan sabha
Ø Attacks and loot
Ø Declaration of paying
no taxes and
redistribution of land
among poor people
Q9. Tribal
Movement in Gudem
hills of A.P
Alluri Sitaram Raju claimed having super power-as
incarnation of God.
Problems
of Tribals-
Ø Forbidden to enter forests
Ø Forbidden to collect
fuel woods , fruits
Ø Affected livelihood ,
denial of traditional
rights
Ø Begar for construction
Movement-
Ø Poplarisation of Gandhi by Raju
Ø He persuaded the people to wear Khadi and give up drinking
Ø Believe in Violence
Q10. Aim of Simon Commission-
Ø To look into
the functioning of Indian constitutional system
Ø Suggested
changes to it
Reaction
of Indians –
Ø Slogans of ‘go
back Simon’
Ø Demonstration by different
parties
Ø Dominion status
Q11. Why CDM started? Stages of CDM
–
Why-
Ø
Breaking of
salt law
Ø Failure of Simon Commission
Ø Declaration of Purna Swaraj in Lahor Congress in 1929
Stages of CDM
Ø Salt march-13 March
to 6 April-240 miles covered in 24 days
Ø Breaking of salt
law-6th April at Dandi
Ø Declaration of Full
civil disobedience of
laws
Ø Gandhi – Irwin pact
Ø Re-launch of CDM
in 1932
Effects of CDM
–
Ø Foreign cloth boycotted
Ø Liquour shops picketed
Ø Refusal to pay
revenue and chaukidari
taxes
Ø Village officials resigned
Ø Violation of forest
laws by forest
people
Q12.
Gandhi-Irwin pact
Ø Took place on
5 march 1931
Ø Gandhiji
consented to participate
in Round Table Conference in London
After returning from London Gandhiji found-
Ø Abdul Ghaffar khan and Nehru were
in jail
Ø The congress had
been declared illegal
Ø A series of
measures imposed to
prevent meetings ,
demonstration and boycotts
Q13.Different
Groups participated in CDM
Peasants communities
Rich
peasants –Patidars of Gujrat and Jats of UP
Ø Hard hit by
trade depression and
falling prices
Ø Cash income disappeared
Ø Refusal of govt.
To reduce revenue
demand
Ø Wanted revision of
revenue rates
Poor peasants
Ø Cash income dwindled
so small tenants
unable to pay
their rent
Ø They wanted the
unpaid rent to
landlords be remitted
Business classes
Ø Wanted
protection against govt.
Policies that restricted
business activities
Ø A rupee –
sterling foreign exchange
ratio to discourage
imports
Ø They provided financial
assistance
Industrial workers
Ø Movements
against low wages
and poor working
condition
Women participation
Ø Participated in protest
marches
Ø Manufactured salt
Ø Picketed foreign cloth
and liquour shops
Ø Service to nation – a duty
Q14. Limitation
of CDM
Ø Non-
participation of dalits
Ø Separate Electorates demanded by B.R.Ambedkar
Ø Non-
participation of Muslims-motivated under Muslim League
Ø Separate Representation
demanded by Jinnah
Q15. Sense
of Collective Belongingness(Various Cultural Processes
responsible)
Ø Identity of the
nation as Bharat mata
Ø Indian folklore ,slogans
and songs
Ø Indian Literature, Novels
Ø Tri -colour flag
Ø Reinterpretation
of history
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