Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) Class 8 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

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.

Keeping the Sudha Goel case in mind, tick the sentences that are true and correct the ones that are false.
The accused took the case to the High Court because they were unhappy with the decision of the Trial Court.

In a town called Peace Land, the supporters of the Fiesta football team learn that the supporters of the Jubilee football team in the nearby city about 40 km away have damaged the ground on which the Final between both teams is to be held the following day. A crowd of Fiesta fans armed with deadly weapons attacks the homes of the supporters of the Jubilee football team in the town. In the attack, 10 men are killed, 5 women are gravely hurt, many homes are destroyed and over 50 people injured.
Imagine that you and your classmates are now part of the criminal justice system. First divide the class into the following four groups of persons:
1. Public Prosecutor
The column on the right provides a list of functions. Match these with the roles that are listed on the left. Have each group pick the functions that it needs to perform to bring justice to those who were affected by the violence of the Fiesta fans. In what order, will these functions be performed?

Now take the same situation but ask one student who is a supporter of the Fiesta Club to perform all the functions listed above. Do you think the victims would get justice if only one person performed all of the functions of the criminal justice system? Why not?
State two reasons why you believe that different persons need to play different roles as part of the criminal justice system.

Imagine that you are watching the Republic Day parade on TV with a friend and she remarks, “Look at these tribals. They look so exotic. And they seem to be dancing all the time”. List three things that you would tell her about the lives of Adivasis in India.

List two Fundamental Rights in the Constitution that Dalits can draw upon to insist that they be treated with dignity and as equals. Re-read the Fundamental Rights listed on page 14 to help you answer this question.

The poems and the song in this Unit allow you to see the range of ways in which individuals and communities express their opinions, their anger and their sorrow. In class, do the following two exercises:
(a) Bring to class a poem that discusses a social issue. Share this with your classmates. Work in small groups with two or more poems to discuss their meaning as well as what the poem is trying to communicate.
(b) Identify a marginalised community in your locality. Write a poem, or song, or draw a poster etc to express your feelings as a member of this community.

Why do you think there are so few cases of private water supply in the world?

Why are most of the private hospitals and private schools located in major cities and not in towns or rural areas?

Do you think the distribution of public facilities in our country is adequate and fair? Give an example of your own to explain.

Take some of the public facilities in your area, such as water, electricity, etc. Is there scope to improve these? What in your opinion should be done? Complete the table.

Are the above public facilities shared equally by all the people in your area? Elaborate.

Do you think the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got justice? Discuss.

What do we mean when we speak of law enforcement? Who is responsible for enforcement? Why is enforcement so important?

How can laws ensure that markets work in a manner that is fair? Give two examples to support your answer.