Social Studies VSQ (2 Marks)

The constitution clearly distributes Legislative Powers between State and Union Government.
i. Subjects of National Importance like Foreign affairs, banking, defence, currency come under union list of Central Government.
ii. Subjects of Local importance like Police, Trade come under state government under State list.
iii. Subject of common interest like education/marriage come under Concurrent list of both Centre and State government.

It is known by different names in India like Jhumming, Bewar, Podu, Pamlou, Dipa etc.
a. Jhumming in north-eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and the Himalayan state of Sikkim.
b. It is also practised in Chattishgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Andaman and the
Nicobar Islands.
c. Two crops grown in this type of farming are rice and millet.

i. There were a number of revolts during 1848 in Europe, like revolts of the unemployed workers, poor and starving peasants. The educated middle class of France also started a revolution for the renunciation of the kingship and the proclamation of a republic based on universal male suffrage was made.
ii. Men and women of the liberal middle classes in other parts of Europe put their demands together for freedom of constitution with national unification.
iii. They took advantage of the growing popular unrest to put forth their demands for creating a nation-state on parliamentary principles of a constitution, freedom of association and freedom of the press.
iv. One of the most controversial subject matters within the liberal movement in which a large number of women had participated actively, was the issue of extending political rights to women.

The vast territory lying between the Adriatic sea and the Black sea comprising the modern states of Greece, Romania, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia was known as the Balkans.
All these states were inhabited by people broadly known as Slavs as they were once the part of the Ottoman Empire,
The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the spread of the ideas of Romantic nationalism made the Balkan region very explosive. The Balkan states were fiercely jealous of one another and each hoped to gain more territory at the expense of the others.

While the Sri Lankan Tamils are concentrated in the north and east edge of the country, the Indian Tamils are mostly located almost in the centre of the country within the Sinhalese area.