Civics Ch - 2 Understanding Secularism — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

Write the classification of natural resources.

Talk to some elderly person in your family or neighbourhood and collect information about changes in the land use over the years, in the place where you live. Display your findings on a bulletin board in your classroom.

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions
"Not fit for human consumption"
Newspapers 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, 
22nd March, 1946 
Look at Sources 1 and 2. Do you find any differences in the nature of reporting? Explain what you observe

What do you mean by Madrasa? Name one.

How did East India Company begin trade in Bengal? What caused huge loss of revenue in Bengal?

Re-read the story on Rathnam as well as the provisions of the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Now list one reason why you think he used this law to file a complaint.

Explain the Hindu succession Amendment Act, 2005.

Answer the following questions.
Name any two steps that government has taken to conserve plants and animals.

Describe the types of mining.

Explain the following terms: Qazi, Mufti and Impeachment.