Class 9 Social Science - India and the Contemporary World I - Chapter Pastoralists in the Modern World NCERT Solutions | There are many similarities in the way i

Discuss why the colonial government in India brought in the following laws. In each case, explain how the law changed the lives of pastoralists:
! Waste Land rules
! Forest Acts
! Criminal Tribes Act
! Grazing Tax
 

Explain why nomadic tribes need to move from one place to another. What are the advantages to the environment of this continuous movement?
 

Give reasons to explain why the Maasai community lost their grazing lands.
 

Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in France.
 

What were the social, economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905?
 

 Describe the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.
 

Discuss how the changes in forest management in the colonial period affected the following groups of people:
! Shifting cultivators
! Nomadic and pastoralist communities
! Firms trading in timber/forest produce
! Plantation owners
! Kings/British officials engaged in shikar
 

Which groups of French society benefited from the revolution? Which groups were forced to relinquish power? Which sections of society would have been disappointed with the outcome of the revolution?
 

In what ways was the working population in Russia different from other countries in Europe, before 1917?

Discuss why Nazism became popular in Germany by 1930.
 

What are the similarities between colonial management of the forests in Bastar and in Java?
 

Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the peoples of the world 4during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
 

Why did the Tsarist autocracy collapse in 1917?
 

Draw up a list of democratic rights we enjoy today whose origins could be traced to the French Revolution.
 

Would you agree with the view that the message of universal rights was beset with contradictions? Explain.
 

Discuss how the changes in forest management in the colonial period affected the following groups of people:
! Shifting cultivators
! Nomadic and pastoralist communities
! Firms trading in timber/forest produce
! Plantation owners
! Kings/British officials engaged in shikar
 

Write a few lines to show what you know about:
! kulaks
! the Duma
! women workers between 1900 and 1930
! the Liberals
! Stalinís collectivisation programme.

Why did the Tsarist autocracy collapse in 1917?
 

What are the similarities between colonial management of the forests in Bastar and in Java?
 

Which groups of French society benefited from the revolution? Which groups were forced to relinquish power? Which sections of society would have been disappointed with the outcome of the revolution?
 

Explain why Nazi propaganda was effective in creating a hatred for Jews.
 

Between 1880 and 1920, forest cover in the Indian subcontinent declined by 9.7 million hectares, from 108.6 million hectares to 98.9 million hectares. Discuss the role of the following factors in this decline:
! Railways
! Shipbuilding
! Agricultural expansion
! Commercial farming
! Tea/Coffee plantations
! Adivasis and other peasant users
 

Make two lists: one with the main events and the effects of the February Revolution and the other with the main events and effects of the October Revolution. Write a paragraph on who was involved in each, who were the leaders and what was the impact of each on Soviet history.