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

What are the major crops grown in India?

Discuss with your teacher what you understand by the term ‘constitutive’. Provide one example of ‘constitutive rules’ from your everyday life.

What was the result of the second Anglo-Maratha war?OR
What has happened in second Anglo-Maratha war?

What happened to the Nawabs when the British established political power in India?

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

What do you think would happen if the government withdraws from the task of supplying water?

“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?

Why are human beings resources?

What were Tagore's ideas of education?

Define industries on the basis of ownership.