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Q. 7. Give one example to show that political reforms can be counterproductive. 1

Ans. Sometimes political reforms can be counter-productive. Many States, for example, have banned people who have more than two children from contesting Panchayat elections. This has resulted in denial of democratic opportunity to many poor men and women which was not intended.

Q. 8. How can a developmental goal for one be destructive for the other? Mention one suitable example. 1

Ans. Developmental goals are different for different categories of people because of their different aspirations and life situations.
Example: Industrialists may want construction of more dams for more electricity generation, but this may lead to displacement of tribals who live in those areas and thereby disrupt and ruin their lives.

Q. 9. Amongst the States of Punjab, Kerala and Bihar, which one has the lowest literacy rate? 1

Ans. Bihar.

Q. 10. Define the term ‘Infant Mortality Rate’. 1

Ans. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR): It indicates the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of 1000 live children born in that particular year.

Q. 11. Explain the circumstances which made Dalits give limited response to the Civil Disobedience Movement. 3

Ans. The nation’s ‘untouchables’ had begun to call themselves ‘dalit’ or oppressed. The Congress had ignored this group for fear of offending the higher castes. But Mahatma Gandhi fought for these people and called them ‘Harijans’. He lived and dined with these groups of Harijans but his efforts did not satisfy the dalit leaders.
Many dalit leaders were keen on a different political solution to the progblems of the community. They began to demand reserved seats in educational institutions and a separate electorate that would choose dalit members for Legislative Councils. Political empowerment, they thought, would resolve the problems of their social disabilities. Dalit participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement was therefore limited, particularly in the Maharashtra and Nagpur regions where their organizations were quite strong.

Q. 12. Describe the Peasant Rebellion in Awadh during the Non-Cooperation Movement. 3

Ans. The Peasant Rebellion in Awadh was led by Baba Ramchandra, a ‘Sanyasi’, who was earlier a labourer in Fiji. Here, the movement was against ‘talukdars’ and landlords who demanded high rents from peasants. The peasants were forced to do ‘begar’ and work at farms of landlords with no wages. As tenants, they had no security of tenure and could be evicted without any notice as they had no right over the leased land. The Peasant Movement thus demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of ‘begar’ and the boycott of oppressive landlords. In 1920, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru toured Awadh villages to understand peasant grievances. This led to the formation of the Oudh Kisan Sabha headed by Shri Nehru and Baba Ramchandra. So, when the Non-Cooperation Movement began, the effort of the Congress was to integrate the Awadh peasants into the wider struggle

Note : Below are given three groups—A, B and C for questions number 13 and 14. Select any one group for answering these two questions.

Group A

Q. 13. Analyse any three conditions that made economic recovery difficult for Britain after First World War. 3×1=3

Ans. (i) Post-World War I economic recovery proved difficult. Britain, the world’s leading economy in the pre-war period, faced a prolonged crisis. While Britain was preoccupied with war, industries developed in India and Japan. After the war, Britain could not recapture its earlier position of dominance in the Indian market and to compete internationally with Japan.
(ii) To finance war expenses, Britain had borrowed liberally from USA, which led to huge external debts for USA.
(iii) The war also led to an economic boom, with a large increase in demand, production and employment. After the war ended, unemployment increased and production contracted. There were thus huge job losses and, in 1921, one in every five British workers was out of work.

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