Food Security in India — Social Science STD 9 — Question

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? Why was he called a ‘liberator’?

State one idea different from each other for liberals, radicals and conservatives.

Describe the history of the Socialist Movement in Russia.

State the main features of democracy.

Explain five causes leading to the outbreak of Russian Revolution.

Read the following answer the questions that follow:
Rubber extraction in the Putumayo: 'Everywhere in the world, conditions of work in plantations were horrific. The extraction of rubber in the Putumayo region of the Amazon, by the Peruvian Rubber Company (with British and Peruvian interests) was dependent on the forced labour of the local Indians, called Huitotos. From 1900-1912, the Putumayo output of 4,000 tons of rubber was associated with a decrease of some 30,000 among the Indian population due to torture, disease and flight. A letter by an employee of a rubber company describes how the rubber was collected. The manager summoned hundreds of Indians to the station:
He grasped his carbine and machete and began the slaughter of these defenceless Indians, leaving the ground covered with 150 corpses, among them, men, women and children. Bathed in blood and appealing for mercy, the survivors were heaped with the dead and burned to death, while the manager shouted, "I want to exterminate all the Indians who do not obey my orders about the rubber that I require them to bring in."
Michael Taussig, 'Culture of Terror-Space of Death', in Nicholas Dirks, ed., Colonialism and Culture, 1992.

1. What was the condition of the plantation workers throughout the world?
2. What was called Huitotos?
3. What did the manager do with the Indian labourers?

Read the following answer the questions that follow:
Rabindranath Tagore wrote from Russia in 1930
Moscow appears much less clean than the other European capitals. None of those hurrying along the streets look smart. The whole place belongs to the workers... Here the masses have not in the least been put in the shade by the gentlemen... those who lived in the background for ages have come forward in the open today... I thought of the peasants and workers in my own country. It all seemed like the work of the Genii in the Arabian Nights. [here] only a decade ago they were as illiterate, helpless and hungry as our own masses... Who could be more astonished than an unfortunate Indian like myself to see how they had removed the mountain of ignorance and helplessness in these few years.

1. How does the author of the above passage portray Moscow?
2. What is the condition of the mass there?
3. Why does the author call himself unfortunate?

Who were entitled to vote in France as per constitution of 1791, formed by the National Assembly? State any three rights given to the people by this Constitution.

State any five events that led to the February Revolution in Petrograd.

Give a brief description of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).