Unit 3 Ch 6 : Political Parties — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

What has the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 assured?

What does ‘Horticulture’ mean? Which crops are grown under horticulture in India?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:-‘Anyone who had seen me reading would have compared me to a man dying of thirst who was gulping down some fresh, pure water... Lighting my lamp with extraordinary caution, I threw myself hungrily into the reading. An easy eloquence, effortless and animated, carried me from one page to the next without my noticing’ it. A clock struck off the hours in the silence of the shadows, and I heard nothing. My lamp began to run out of oil and produced only a pale light, but still I read on. I could not even take out time to raise the wick for fear of interrupting my pleasure. How those new ideas rushed into my brain! How my intelligence adopted them,!’.

1. Name the writer of this paragraph.
2. How one finds the writer when he is reading?
3. Analyse the message given by the writer to the readers.

On what basis are social differences created?

Give a brief description of the petroleum occurrences in India. Suggest two ways to save petroleum.

‘‘There has been a big change in the three sectors of economic activities in India but similar shift has not taken place in the share of employment’’. Explain the above statement on the basis of facts.

How did the ‘First World War’ create a new economic and political situations in India? Explain with examples.

Briefly describe how IT helps in making globalisation successful.

Describe any five characteristics of democracy.

How did a new reading culture bloom in China?