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Q. 7. State the importance of ‘Right to Information’? 1

Ans. The RTI (Right to Information) Act was passed in 2005 by the Government. This Act ensures to the citizens all the information about the Government departments and empowers people to find out what is happening in the government.

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 ‘Gross Domestic Product’. 1

Ans. Gross Domestic Product or GDP of a country is the value of all the final goods and services produced in each sector within a country during a particular year. The GDP indicates how big the country’s economy is.

Q. 11. Explain the response of business class in India to the Civil Disobedience Movement. 3

Ans. During the First World War, Indian merchants and industrialists had made huge profits and became powerful. They were keen to expand their business and so reacted against colonial policies that restricted business activities. They wanted protection against import of foreign goods and a rupee-sterling foreign exchange ratio that would discourage imports. To organize business interests, they formed the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress (1920) and the Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) (1927). Led by industrialists like Purshottamdas Thakurdas and G.D.Birla, the industrialists attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement when it was first launched. They gave financial assistance and refused to buy or sell imported goods. Most businessmen came to see Swaraj as a time when colonial restrictions on business would no longer exist and trade and industry would flourish without constraints. But, after the failure of the Round Table Conference, business groups were no longer uniformly enthusiastic.

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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