Social Science: 2019: CBSE [All India] : Set I

Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, presented utopian vision in his prints as he was influenced by the democratic and social Republics of Europe and America.

The Tonkin Free School was started in 1907 AD to provide a Western style education. This education included classes in science, hygiene and French.

During 19^th century, many people got worried about the effects of the novel on readers who were taken away from their real surroundings into an imaginary world where anything could happen that was why women and children were seen as easily corruptible.

After the revolt of 1857, the attitude to freedom of the press changed. Enraged Englishmen demanded a clamp down on the vernacular press. As it became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures of stringent control.

Red and Laterite soils in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala are more suitable for crops like cashew nut.

Alluvial soil is the most widely spread and important soil. In fact, the entire northern plains, a narrow corridor of Rajasthan and Gujarat, and the eastern coastal plains particularly in the deltas of the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri rivers, etc., are made of alluvial soil. The soil is suitable for the growth of sugarcane, wheat and rice.

In 1956, the Sri Lankan government recognized Sinhala as the official language, while Buddhism was declared the state religion. Since then, the country experienced ethnic violence between Sinhala and Tamil groups, who were mostly non-Buddhists.

Currency is a generally accepted form of money in an economy, which includes coins and paper notes. It is without any use of its own, but still it is accepted as a medium of exchange because it is authorized by the government of the country.

The reasons for the necessity of supervision by the Reserve Bank of India of formal sources of loans are:

• The RBI monitors that the banks are actually maintaining cash balances.
• It monitors that the banks give loans not just to profit-making businesses and traders but also to small cultivators, small scale industries, to small borrowers, etc.

During the 19^th century, important inventions like railways, steamships, the telegraph, etc. greatly facilitated globalization. During the 20^th century, new communication technologies increased the pace of globalization.