Unit 1 Ch 4 : The Age of Industrialisation — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

What was black power movement?

Read the passage below:
Nannu is a daily wage earner. He lives in Welcome Mazdoor Colony, a slum habitation in East Delhi. He lost his ration card and applied for a duplicate one in January 2004. He made several rounds to the local Food & Civil Supplies office for the next three months. But the clerks and officials would not even look at him, leave alone do his job or bother to tell him the status of his application. Ultimately, he filed an application under the Right to Information Act asking for the daily progress made on his application, names of the officials, who were supposed to act on his application and what action would be taken against these officials for their inaction. Within a week of filing application under the Right to Information Act, he was visited by an inspector from the Food Department, who informed him that the card had been made and he could collect it from the office. When Nannu went to collect his card next day, he was given a very warm treatment by the Food & Supply Officer (FSO), who is the head of a Circle. The FSO offered him tea and requested him to withdraw his application under the Right to Information, since his work had already been done.
What does Nannu’s example show? What impact did Nannu’s action have on officials? Ask your parents their experiences when they approach government officials to attend to their problems.

How did the partition of the country in 1947 affect the jute industry?

Mention the major types of challenges which most of the democracies of the world are facing?

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.

“Democracies are not free from evils’’. Explain.

How are multinational corporations (MNCs) controlling and spreading their productions across the world? Explain.

Write a short note on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Consumers might be exploited by unscrupulous, exploitative and unfair trade practice. Give a few examples of such practices adopted by sellers.

Why was Congress reluctant to allow women to hold any position of authority within the organisation? How did women participate in Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain.