Industries — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

(a) Let’s do a small experiment. Make a list of 10 working adults in your family and neighbourhood. Ask them to describe the culture at their workplace. Share notes with your classmates. What did you discover? What are some adjectives that occur more frequently?
(b) In the Tapestry chapters, you have seen examples of the art and architecture in India across several centuries. What do you think are the factors that enabled their creators to achieve such high levels of excellence? Discuss in groups and share in class.

Explain the role of the judge in the Indian criminal system.

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
"Not fit for human consumption"
Newspaper 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,
22 March, 1946

1. What is newspaper clipping all about?
2. Why did the policeman refuse to take their food on Thursday morning?
3. What was the remark of one of the strikers on the food supplied to them?
4. What was the reaction of policemen at other police stations?

'The supply of water per person in an urban area in India should be about 135 litres per day (about seven buckets)- a standard set by the urban water commission. Whereas people in slums have to make do with less than 20 litres a day per person (one bucket), people living in luxury hotels may consume as much as 1,600 litres (80 buckets) of water per day.'
(i) What does the above paragraph represent about the access of water by different classes?
(ii) What in your view should be the action taken by the government to solve this problem?

Explain the population pyramid of Japan.

What are the uses of minerals?

What is the ‘appellate system’?

Steel is often called the backbone of modern industry. Almost everything we used is either made of iron or steel or has been made with tools and machinery of these metals
(i) What was the ideal location for iron and steel industry? 
(II) What are the uses of steel that are essential part of the world today?

What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?

What accounts for the anger of the tribals against the dikus?