Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) कक्षा ८ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Social Science

What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?

Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?

What economic impact did the First World War have on India?

Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?

Subjects that were placed on the Union List were ______, ______ and ______.

State whether true or false:
The Constituent Assembly was made up of members of the Congress party.

What did Dr Ambedkar mean when he said that “In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality”?

Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.

State whether true or false:

In the first national election, only men were allowed to vote.

State whether true or false:

The British thought surveys were important for effective administration.

The demand for indigo increased in the late-eighteenth-century Britain because of ______ .

The international demand for indigo was affected by the discovery of ______.

The Champaran movement was against ______.

State whether true or false:

Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country.

State whether true or false:

The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in 1829.

Subjects on the Concurrent List were ______ and ______. 

Look up the annual calendar of holidays of your school. How many of them pertain to different religions? What does this indicate?

The Indian State both keeps away from religion as well as intervenes in religion. This idea can be quite confusing. Discuss this once again in class using examples from the chapter as well as those that you might have come up with.

Write in your own words what you understand by the following sentence on page 44−45: They also began fighting for greater equality and wanted to change the idea of law from a set of rules that they were forced to obey, to law as including ideas of justice.

In the Following illustration, fill in each tier with the judgments given by the various courts in the Sudha Goel case. Check your responses with others in class.