History Ch - 3 Ruling the Countryside — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

Write a note on Iron and Steel Industry.

How can minerals be conserved?

Read the following extract and answer the question that follow:
"We must starve for food"
In 1823 the Company government in India received a petition from 12,000 weavers stating:
Our ancestors and we used to receive advances from the Company and maintain ourselves and our respective families by weaving Company’s superior assortments. Owing to our misfortune, the aurangs have been abolished ever since because of which we and our families are distressed for want of the means of livelihood. We are weavers and do not know any other business. We must starve for food, if the Board of Trade do not cast a look of kindness towards us and give orders for clothes.

1. Who wrote the above petition and to whom? What does it highlight?

What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?

Give four ways in which you can save energy at home.

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
"Not fit for human consumption"
Newspaper provide accounts of the movements in different parts of the country. Here is a report of a police strike in 1946. More than 2000 policemen in Delhi refused to take their food on Thursday morning as a protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the Police Lines kitchen. As the news spread to the other police stations, the men there also refused to take food… One of the strikers said: "The food supplied to us from the Police Lines kitchen is not fit for human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chappattis and dal which we have to eat".
Hindustan Times,
22 March, 1946

1. What is newspaper clipping all about?
2. Why did the policeman refuse to take their food on Thursday morning?
3. What was the remark of one of the strikers on the food supplied to them?
4. What was the reaction of policemen at other police stations?

What is the ‘appellate system’?

Take some of the public facilities in your area, such as water, electricity, etc. Is there scope to improve these? What in your opinion should be done? Complete the table.

	Is it available?	How can it be improved?
Water
Electricity
Roads
Public Transport

How are local communities and biodiversity affected by such activities? Do you also know some places around you that have seen water and land degradation over time? Discuss in the class.

Analyse the role of Rajya Sabha with respect to the Lok Sabha.