Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Resources — Social Science STD 8 — Question

Explain the basic idea behind the representative democracy?

What did Governor-General Canning decide for Bahadur Shah Zafar?

List two reasons why you believe an independent judiciary is essential to democracy.###What is the need of an independent judiciary in a democracy?###You read that one of the main functions of the judiciary is ‘upholding the law and Enforcing Fundamental Rights’. Why do you think an independent judiciary is necessary to carry out this important function?

Who was Raja Rammohun Roy?

Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?

Why most of the private hospitals & private schools are located in major cities and not in towns or rural areas?

Mention the economic issues raised by the early Congress.

“Literacy in itself is not education”
Mahatma Gandhi wrote:
By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. It is only one of the means whereby man and woman can be educated. Literacy in itself is not education. I would therefore begin the child’s education by teaching it a useful handicraft and enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its training … I hold that the highest development of the mind and the soul is possible under such a system of education. Only every handicraft has to be taught not merely mechanically as is done today but scientifically, i.e. the child should know the why and the wherefore of every process.
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 72, p. 79’
Questions:

1. How does Mahatma Gandhi view literacy?
2. Why does he give so much emphasis on learning a useful handicraft?

Name any two steps that government has taken to conserve plants and animals.

Why did the need to improve the agriculture in Bengal arise?