Class X

 Question and Answers Q.What is the meaning of development? Explain the aspects of development?    Answer: Development refers to progress or improvement in lifestyle.  Important aspects of development are:  • Different persons can have different developmental goals.  • What may be development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for others. • For development, people look at a mix of goals.     Q.What may be development for one may not be development for the other.’ Explain by giving examples. Answer: •    Industrialists may want more dams to get more electricity. But this may submerge the land and disrupt the lives of people who are displaced – such as tribals. • A farmers wants to sell foodgrains at a higher price but a low earning person wants to purchase it at low prices. • More wages means development for a worker, but it affect negatively a businessman.   Q. For development people look at mix...

  CH-THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION 1.       Describe the techniques adopted by the Manchester industrialists to sell their goods in India. 2.       Why did Indian textiles face stiff competition in the early nineteenth century? Explain with three reasons. 3.       What was the impact of Industrialization on the workers? Explain 4.       “Series of changes affected the patterns of Industrialization in India by the early twentieth century.” Analyse the statement. 5.       What were the problems of Indian weavers at the early nineteenth century? 6.       What was the system of advances? How did it affect the life of weavers? 7.       Explain the impact of First World War on British economy? 8.       How were the Indian merchants industrialists discriminated by the Briti...