Social Science : 2017 : CBSE : [All India] : Set I

Mahatma Gandhi was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’.

The Brahmaputra river is related to the National Waterways No. 2.

The major difference between a pressure group and a political party is that unlike political parties, pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power.

Democracy is a system of government that bases its legitimacy on the participation of the people. Due to reliance on elections, democracies have as their default principle the concept of majority rule.

Asom Gana Parishad is a political party which grew out of a movement.

Money by eliminating the need for double coincidences of wants makes it easier to exchange things. It is no longer required for a person to look for another person who will buy his goods and at the same time sells him what he wants. A person holding money can easily exchange it for any good or service that he might want.

An example of Violation of consumer’s right to choose-

Suppose you want to buy an electric torch and the shopkeeper says that he can sell the torch only if you buy cells to go in it. If you are not interested in buying the cells, your right to choice is denied.

The maximum retail price MRP printed of the cover of a product indicates the maximum price the shopkeeper can charge for the product. One can protest and complain if someone sells a good at more than the printed MRP. In fact consumers can bargain with the sellers to sell at a price less than MRP.

Great economic hardships were experienced in Europe. Some of them are given below:

    i.        The ratio of the rise of population was larger than that of employment generation.

   ii.        Migration of rural population to cities led to overcrowded slums.

 iii.        Small producers in towns were often ousted by the import of cheap machine-made goods from England.

iv.        Peasants still suffered under the burden of feudal dues and obligations in some regions of Europe.

There were numerous problems faced by the French in the sphere of education in Vietnam. Some of the major problems are given below:

Education was seen as one way to civilise the ‘native’. But in order to educate them, the French had to resolve a dilemma. How far were the Vietnamese to be educated? The French needed an educated local labour force but they feared that education might create problems. Once educated, the Vietnamese may begin to question colonial domination.

Moreover, French citizens living in Vietnam began fearing that they might lose their jobs – as teachers, shopkeepers, policemen – to the educated Vietnamese.