Unit 3 Ch 5 : Popular Struggles and Movements — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

Name the country from which Britain borrowed large sums of money during the First World War.

In what ways were jute producers of Bengal affected by the economic crisis?

How do dams help us in conserving and managing water?

"India has a large cultural, regional and religious diversity but there is unity among people". What factors are responsible for this? Elaborate.

Why do lenders ask for ‘collateral’ while lending? Analyse the reasons.

Suggest some broad guidelines that can be kept in mind while devising ways and means for political reforms in India.

Explain any three causes which led to the decline of Indian cotton textiles in the early nineteenth century.

Explain by giving examples that Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are spreading their productions in different ways.

Ravi did not expect that he would have to face a crisis in such a short period of his life as industrialist. Ravi took a loan from the bank to start his own company producing capacitors in 1992 in Hosur, an industrial town in Tamil Nadu. Capacitors are used in many electronic home appliances including tube lights, television etc. Within three years, he was able to expand production and had 20 workers working under him.
His struggle to run his company started when the government removed restrictions on imports of capacitors as per its agreement at WTO in 2001. His main clients, the television companies, used to buy different components including capacitors in bulk for the manufacture of television sets. However, competition from the MNC brands forced the Indian television companies to move into assembling activities for MNCs. Even when some of them bought capacitors, they would prefer to import as the price of the imported item was half the price charged by people like Ravi.
Ravi now produces less than half the capacitors that he produced in the year 2000 and has only seven workers working for him. Many of Ravi’s friends in the same business in Hyderabad and Chennai have closed their units.
What are the ways in which Ravi’s small production unit was affected by rising competition?

Explain the dominance of landed aristocracy in Europe.