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Richard Henry.

September 5, 1774.

Under John Hancock’s chairmanship on May 10, 1775.

a) Third estate people only pay the taxes to the government.

b) In first estate clergy are there.

c) Given information is related to France.

d) The above picture represents the division of the society in France.

e) The third estate were the majority people.

The French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte made a new plan to subjugate England in the economic field. This was the Continental system. Napolean wanted to weaken England through this plan in the sphere of trade and commerce. He believed that if British trade was stopped, it would force them to make a treaty. In order to make the plan a success, he worked sternly in a planned way. He hoped that after the decline of British trade due to trade embargoes, the trade and commerce of France could become strong and dominant and France would become the centre of trade and commerce in Europe, in place of England. However, the continental system proved fatal for France.

It means the policy adopted by Bismarck according to which he aimed at unifying Germany through military power under the leadership of Prussia.

The principal was an honest man and he knew that Martha’ deserved the jacket. He also thought that by making a student pay, a scholarship jacket would not remain a scholarship jacket any more. It would be like a jacket bought in the market., Moreover he sympathized with Martha.

She wished to express her joy by yelling, jumping, running the mile or doing something.

a) There were three estates. First estate, second estate, and the third estate.

b) Business men, merchants, officials, artists, peasants and artisans, small peasants, landless labour, servants, etc. constitute the third estate.

c) Problems of third estate. 

1) There is no equality. 

2) Scarcity of food.

3) More taxes were imposed by church and govt. 

4) 90% of people are landless people.

d) The Clergy and the Nobility were privileged group in the French society.

e) Clergy is the superior group in the French society.

f) Big business men, merchants, court officials, Lawyers, etc. were the richest groups in third estate.

Gouthama Buddha was born at Lumbini near Kapilavastu in Nepal.

The costly rituals of the vedic period was beyond the reach of common people. The rituals were conducted by reciting Sanskrit shlokas and common people were unable to understand them. Thus people felt a need for a simple path to salvation which could be explained and understood in their own language. Moreover the varna system disintegrated the society and Kshatriyas grew powerful. The Kshatriyas were instrumental for new religions like Buddhism and Jainism to emerge. ‘

Buddha sought guidance from many sages on the ways of removing sorrow. But he was not satisfied with their answer. So he sat under a Peepal tree in Gaya and meditated for many days and became enlightened.

Buddha means ‘One who knows’.

The aim of Buddha’s teachings was to attain knowledge by practising purity in life and thought. This is Dharma.

Buddha’s teachings are collected in the books called ‘Pratakas’.

1. Ahimsa (non-evidence)| 

2. Satya (truth), 

3. Asteya (Non-stealing) 

4. Aparigraha (Non-possession beyond the need) 

5. Brahmacharya (Celibacy)

At present, there are 198 sovereign countries in the world.

Disarmament means eliminating all or specific arms and ammunitions gradually. As a peace-loving nation, India Champions the cause of qualitative and quantitative disarmament. Right from the time of PrimeMinister Nehru, India argued for disarmament to maintain peaceful cooperation. Of course, total disarmament cannot be achieved because every nation requires her own defense forces. As there is heavy competition in manufacturing and. stocking arms and ammunition, there is rear among many nations that the third World war may take place by such competitions. That is why India champions the cause of Disarmament as very important for the present day world.

The following are the five principles called Panchasheela principles: 

1. Respecting each other’s Sovereignty and regional interests. 

2. Non-invasion of each other. 

3. Non-interference in each other’s internal issues. 

4. Mutual cooperation and respect. 

5. Peaceful coexistence.

These are the basic fine building blocks of India’s foreign policy.

During the pre-independent period India was under the British imperial occupation:

The major aims of Indian Foreign Policy are: 

1. National Security 

2. Enriching national economy 

3. Spreading the cultural richness of our country in other countries. 

4. By increasing the number of friendly countries and check the power of enemy countries 

5. Achieving World Peace and coexistence.

At present, there is a need for every country to have its own policy. The foreign policy of every nation is very helpful to have a good friendship with other nations. It helps to gain national economic progress. It helps to get national security. It helps to achieve world peace and enable every nation to co-exist.

51 The Constitution of India’s article advocates for foreign policy.

Jawaharlal Nehru.

Major concern of India’s foreign policy in the past cold war period is disarmament and arms race in the world. As a leader of NAM, India established beyond doubt that arms race is at the expense of human development. Expenditure on arms and ammunitions depletes and distorts economic progress, programmes for removal of poverty, eradication of diseases, spread of education and easy availability of basic needs.

Though India is one among the major nuclear powers in the world, it is only for civil use and development, not for armed or nuclear race. The ultimate goal is comprehensive and complete disarmament of all forms of nuclear, chemical and conventional weapons. India established Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,Disarmament and Development to recognize the persons, who work for the promotion of disarmament and peace in the world.

non-alignment.

Jawaharlal Nehru.

Panchasheel is an agreement signed between Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou-Enlai on 29^th April 1954. 

The five principles may be explained as follows:

(a) Mutual respect for each others territorial integrity and sovereignty: No country should make an attempt to impose political or military control over other countries. 

(b) Non-aggression: No state should go to war against another. 

(c) Non-interference in internal affairs: No country should interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. 

(d) Mutual benefit and equality: Both countries must conduct their relations with one another on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. 

(e) Peaceful co-existence: The countries belonging to different social and political systems should live together in peace and understanding.

The prevalence of regional imbalances in states are on account of the status of economic development and political loyalty of bureaucracy, etc.

Over-exploitation of our economy by the foreign rulers and unbalanced development of regions were the main reasons as to why our country was not economically robust.

(c) President

(a) Prof. B. G. Khare

The first official language commission was constituted in 1955

SAARC’s second summit in 1986, Eighth summit in 1995 and fourteenth summit in 2007 were organised in India.

Hindi is declared as official language in our constitution.

(D) Both A & B

The ‘Theory of Plate Tectonics,’ the movement of the plates result in some geological activity is Glaciation. 

(A) Southern hemisphere

(A) A is correct

C) 1 – c, 2 – e, 3 – f, 4 – b, 5 – d, 6 – a

The correct option is (c) 

Convergent boundary

D) Both Northern and Eastern Hemisphere

D) Both A and B are wrong

Earth scientists have put forward the view that the Earth’s crust or the lithosphere is not a continuous block. It consists of several large and small, rigid, irregularly shaped plates (slabs) which include continents and the ocean floor. These slabs are moving or drifting in relation to each other by about 2.5 cm to 5 cm each year. These crustal slabs are called tectonic or lithospheric plates. According to the ‘Theory of Plate Tectonics’ put forward by the Earth scientists, the earth’s crust has been formed out of seven major and some minor tectonic plates or lithospheric plates.

C) Both A and B are correct

The longitudinal valleys lying between Lesser Himalaya and the Shivaliks are known as duns. Dehradun and Kotli Dun are two examples of duns.

The militants tried to impose an orthodox life code on all Sikhs and even non-Sikhs of Punjab.

Correct option is B) P correct Q wrong. 

Lengths and breadths of a rectangle can change for the same perimeter. But, the side of a square cannot change for the same perimeter.

The answer is (C) Tethys