Geography Ch - 1 Resources — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came from castes that were regarded as 'low'?

What is First-Past-The-Post electoral system?

Differentiate between tropical evergreen forests and deciduous forests.

Give one function of Lok Sabha.

Which countries in the world are facing water shortage?

What do you mean by Permanent Settlement?

“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?

What was the iqta system used by the Delhi Sultanate?

What are the stages of making notebook from pulp?

Write a note on petrochemical industry.