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 INDEX

CHAPTER NAME LINK

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1 Chemical Reactions and Equations
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2 Acids, Bases, and Salts
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3 Metals and Non-metals Click here
4 Carbon and its Compounds Click here
5 Life Processes Click here
6 Control and Coordination Click here
7 How do Organisms Reproduce?
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8 Heredity and Evolution
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9 Light Reflection and Refraction
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10 The Human Eye and The Colourful
World
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11 Electricity
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12 Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
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13 Our Environment
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CHEMICAL REACTION AND EQUATIONS

POINTS TO REMEMBER
 Chemical reactions- The transformation of one chemical substance into another
chemical substance with new properties is called a chemical reaction. eg. Burning of Mg
ribbon.

 Characteristics of chemical reactions- (i) evolution of any gas (ii) change in colour
(iii) change in state of substances (iv) change in temp. etc.

 Chemical Equation- Symbolic representation of a chemical reaction is called a chemical

equation. eg.
Hydrogen + Oxygen Water
2H2 + O2 2H2O
 Balanced chemical equation- A balanced chemical equation is that equation which
has same type of atoms in equal number on reactant side and product side both.

 Need to balance a chemical equation- Because, only a balanced chemical equation

obeys the law of conservation of mass.

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 Types of chemical reactions-
There are four main types of chemical reaction-

(a) Combination reaction- When two or more reactants combine to form only one product it
is called combination reaction.
2Mg + O2 2MgO
(b) Decomposition reaction- When a single reactant breaks down to form two or more
products, it is called decomposition reaction.
Note-all decomposition reactions are endothermic because energy is supplied in the form
of heat, sunlight or electricity

1. Thermolysis- when energy is supplied in the form of heat, it is called thermal

decomposition or thermolysis.
heat
CaCO3 CaO + CO2

2. Electrolysis- when energy is supplied in the form of electricity, it is called

electrolysis.

2H2O 2H2 + O2
 3. Photolysis-when energy is supplied in the form of sunlight, it is called photolysis.
2AgCl 2Ag + Cl2

(c) Displacement reaction- When a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from
its salt solution, it is called displacement reaction.
Fe + CuSO4 FeSO4 + Cu

(d) Double displacement reaction- when in a reaction, ions exchange takes place, it is called
double displacement reaction.
Na2SO4 + BaCl2 BaSO4 + 2NaCl

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 Oxidation-Addition of oxygen or loss of hydrogen or Increase in oxidation number.
2Cu + O2 2CuO (Oxidation of Cu)

 Reduction- Removal of oxygen or addition of hydrogen or Decrease in oxidation

number.
CuO + H2 Cu + H2O (Reduction of CuO)

The reaction in which oxidation and reduction both take place simultaneously is called
Redox reaction.

When copper oxide is heated with hydrogen, then copper metal and hydrogen are formed.
CuO + H2 Cu + H2O
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 Rancidity-when oil and fat are oxidized, their smell and taste become foul and the food
is said to be rancid. This process is called rancidity. To slow down the process of rancidity,
antioxidants are added to food.For eg N2 , Butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA)
 Corrosion- when a metal is attacked by substances around it like acid base or moisture,
it is said to be corroded and this process is called corrosion.eg. Rusting of iron.

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ACIDS BASES AND SALTS

Topics in the Chapter

• Introduction
• Properties of Acids
• Properties of Bases
• Types of Indicators and its properties
• Reaction of Acids and Bases with Metals
• Reaction of Acids with Metal Carbonates
• Reaction of Acids and Bases with each other
• Reaction of Metallic Oxides with Acids
• Reaction of a Non-metallic Oxide with Base
• Similarities between all Acids and all Bases
• Acid or Base in Water Solution
• Strength of Acids and Base solutions
 POINTS TO REMEMBER

 Acid-base indicators are dyes or mixtures of dyes which are used to indicate the presence
of acids and bases.
● Acidic nature of a substance is due to the formation of H+ (aq) ions in solution.
● Formation of OH– (aq) ions in solution are responsible for the basic nature of a substance.
● When an acid reacts with a metal, hydrogen gas is evolved and a corresponding salt is formed.
● When a base reacts with a metal, along with the evolution of hydrogen gas a salt is formed
which has a negative ion composed of the metal and oxygen.
● When an acid reacts with a metal carbonate or metal hydrogen carbonate, it gives the
corresponding salt, carbon dioxide gas and water.
● Acidic and basic solutions in water conduct electricity because the produce hydrogen and
hydroxide ions respectively.
● The strength of an acid or an alkali can be tested by using a scale called the pH scale (0-14)
which gives the measure of hydrogen ion concentration in a solution.
● A neutral solution has a pH of exactly 7, while an acidic solution has a pH less than 7 and a
basic solution a pH more than 7.
● Living beings carry out their metabolic activities within an optimal pH range.
● Mixing concentrated acids or bases with water is a highly exothermic process.
● Acids and bases neutralise each other to form corresponding salts and water.
● Water of crystallisation is the fixed number of water molecules present in one formula unit
of a salt.
● Salts have various uses in everyday life and in industries.

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METALS AND NON-METALS

• At present there are 118 known elements.

• There are similarities as well as differences in the properties of these
elements.
• On the basis of their properties, elements can be divided into metals and
non-metals.

Physical Properties of Metals

Physical State
• All metals are solids at room temperature.
• Exceptions: Mercury and gallium are liquids at room temperature.

Lustre
• All metals in their pure state have a shine and can be polished to give a highly
reflective surface.

Malleability
• Metals have the ability to withstand high tensile strength and can be made into thin
sheets. This property of metals is called malleability.
Ductility
• Metals can also be drawn into thin wires. The ability of metals to be drawn into wires
is called ductility.
Example: Gold and silver are the most ductile metals.

Conduction of Heat
• Metals are good conductors of heat and have high melting points. Example: Silver and
copper are very good conductors of electricity.
• Exceptions: Lead and mercury are poor conductors of heat.
Conduction of Electricity
• Metals are good conductors of electricity.
• All electric wires are made of copper.

Hardness
• Metals are generally hard, and their hardness varies from metal to metal.
• Alkali metals such as sodium and potassium are soft metals and can be easily cut with
a knife.

Melting & Boiling Points

• Metals usually have high melting and boiling points.
• Tungsten has the highest melting point whereas sodium and potassium have low
melting points.
Sonorous

• Metals which produce a sound on striking a hard surface are said to be sonorous.

Physical Properties of Non-Metals

• Non-metals are either in the solid or gaseous state.

Exception: Bromine is an exception which exists in the liquid state.
• Non-metals do not have lustre.
Exception: Iodine crystals are lustrous.
• They do not possess the property of hardness.
Exception: Carbon in the form of diamond is the hardest substance, which has a high melting
and boiling point.
• Non-metals are poor conductors of heat and electricity.
Exception: Graphite, an allotrope of carbon conducts electricity.

Chemical Properties of Metals

Reaction of Metals with Oxygen

Almost all metals react with oxygen to form metal oxides.

i. Sodium and Potassium are the most reactive and react with oxygen present in the air at
room temperature to form the oxides.
4Na + O2 → 2Na2O
4K + O2 → 2K2O
ii. Magnesium does not react with oxygen at room temperature, but on heating, it burns in the
air with intense light and heat to form magnesium oxide.
2Mg + O2 → 2MgO

Reaction of Metals with Water

Metals react with water to produce metal oxides with the release of hydrogen gas. But all
metals do not react with water.
i. Metals such as sodium and potassium react vigorously with cold water to lead to
evolution of hydrogen, which immediately catches fire producing a large quantity of heat.
2K + 2H2O → 2KOH + H2 + Heat
2Na + 2H2O → 2NaOH + H2 + Heat

ii. Metals such as aluminium, zinc and iron do not react with cold or hot water, but they
react with steam to form metal oxides and hydrogen.
2Al + 3H2O → Al2O3 + 3H2
3Fe+ 4H2O → Fe3O4+ 4H2

Reactions of Metals with Acids

Metals react with acids to form salt and hydrogen gas.

i. Metals react with dilute hydrochloric acid to give metal chloride and hydrogen
gas. Mg + 2HCl → MgCl2+ H2
Zn + 2HCl → ZnCl2 + H2

ii. Metals react with sulphuric acid to form metal sulphate and hydrogen gas.
Fe + H2SO4 → FeSO4 + H2
Zn + H2SO4 → ZnSO4+ H2

iii. Metals react with nitric acid, but hydrogen gas is not evolved since nitric acid
is a strong oxidising agent. So, it oxidises the hydrogen to water and itself gets reduced to a
nitrogen oxide.

But magnesium and manganese react with dilute nitric acid to evolve hydrogen gas.

Mg + 2HNO3 → Mg (NO3)2 + H2
Mn + 6HNO3 → Mn (NO3)2 + H2

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Reactivity Series
The arrangement of metals in the order of decreasing reactivities is called the reactivity series
of metals.

Reactions of Metals with Solutions of Other Metal Salts

A more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from its salt solution.
For example:
When an iron nail is placed in a copper sulphate solution, the blue colour of CuSO4 fades
away slowly and a reddish brown copper metal is formed.
CuSO4(aq) + Fe(s) → FeSO4(aq) + Cu(s)

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WAY OF LEARNING THE PROPERTIES OF METALS AND NON
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Reaction of Metals with Chlorine
Metals react with chlorine to form metal chlorides. For example:
i. Sodium readily reacts with chlorine to form ionic chloride called sodium
chloride. 2Na(s) + Cl2(g) → 2NaCl(s)
ii. Calcium reacts vigorously with chlorine to form calcium chloride.
Ca(s) + Cl2(g) → 2CaCl2(s)

Properties of Ionic Compounds

• Ionic compounds are hard solids, due to the strong force of attraction between the
positive and negative ions.
• They are generally brittle and break into pieces when pressure is applied.
• Ionic compounds have high melting and boiling points, since a large amount of
energy is required to break the strong intermolecular attractions.
• They are soluble in water, but insoluble in solvents such as kerosene, petrol, etc.
• They do not conduct electricity in a solid state, because electrostatic forces of
attraction between ions in the solid state are very strong but conduct electricity in the fused
(or in the aqueous state) because these forces weaken in the fused (or in solution) state so that
their ions become mobile.

Metallurgy

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Minerals: The naturally occurring compounds of metals, along with other impurities are
known as minerals.
Ores: The minerals from which metals are extracted profitably and conveniently are called
ores.
Gangue: Earthly impurities including silica, mud, etc. associated with the ore are called
gangue.
Metallurgy: The process used for the extraction of metals in their pure form from their ores is
referred to as metallurgy.

Extraction of Metals
• The reactivity of elements differs for different metals.

• Three major steps involved in the extraction of metals from their ores are:
Enrichment of Ores
• The ores of metals are usually contaminated with a large amount of impurities such as
sand, soil, etc. called gangue.
• Before extracting the metal from an ore, it is necessary to remove these impurities.
• The method used for removing gangue from the ore depends on the differences
between the physical and chemical properties of the gangue and the ore.

Conversion of Concentrated Ore into Metal

• The extraction of a metal from its concentrated ore is essentially a process of
reduction of the metal compound present in the ore.
• The method of reduction to be used depends on the reactivity of the metal to be
extracted.

• Extraction of Less Reactive Metals

Metals at the bottom of the reactivity series are not very reactive and the oxides of these
metals can be reduced by heating the ore itself.
Extraction of Mercury
Cinnabar, an ore of mercury is first heated in the air and is converted into mercuric oxide.

2HgS(s) + 3O2(g) + Heat 2HgO(s) + 2SO2(g)

Mercuric oxide is then reduced to mercury on further heating.

2HgO(s) + Heat 2Hg(s) + O2(g)

Fig : Cinnabar

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• Extraction of Moderately Reactive Metals
o The moderately reactive metals in the middle of the reactivity series are extracted by
the reduction of their oxides with carbon, aluminium, sodium or calcium.
o It is easier to obtain metals from their oxides (by reduction) than from carbonates or
sulphides. So, before reduction can be done, the ore is converted into a metal oxide.
o The concentrated ores can be converted into metal oxides by the process of
calcination or roasting.

Calcination is the process in which a carbonate ore is heated strongly in the absence of air to
convert it into a metal oxide.
For example:
When zinc carbonate is heated strongly in the absence of air, it decomposes to form zinc
oxide and carbon dioxide.

ZnCO3(s) Calcination ZnO(s) + CO2(g)

Roasting is the process in which a sulphide ore is strongly heated in the presence of air to
convert it into a metal oxide.

2ZnS(s) + 3O2(g) Roasting 2ZnO(s) + 2SO2(g)

The metal oxides are converted to free metal by using reducing agents such as carbon,
aluminium, sodium or calcium.
For example:
o The metal zinc is extracted by the reduction of zinc oxide with carbon. Thus, when
zinc oxide is heated with carbon, zinc is produced.
ZnO(s) + C(s) → Zn(s) + CO (g)
o Aluminium reduces iron oxide to produce the metal iron with the evolution of heat.
Due to this heat, the iron is produced in the molten state.
Fe2O3(s) + 2Al(s) → 2Fe (l) + Al2O3(s) + Heat
The reaction of iron (III) oxide with aluminium is used to join railway tracks or cracked
machine parts. This reaction is known as the thermite reaction.
Extraction of Highly Reactive Metals
Metals high up in the reactivity series are very reactive.
These metals have a strong affinity for oxygen. So, oxides of sodium, magnesium, calcium
and aluminium cannot be reduced by carbon.
These metals are obtained by electrolytic reduction.
Sodium, magnesium and calcium are obtained by the electrolysis of their molten chlorides.
For example:
Sodium metal is extracted by the electrolytic reduction of molten sodium chloride. 2NaCl(l)
Electrolysis2Na(s) + Cl2(g)
At Cathode: Na+ + e- → Na
At Anode: 2Cl- → Cl2 + 2e-

Refining of Metals
• The most widely used method for refining impure metals is electrolytic refining.
• Electrolytic refining means refining by electrolysis. Metals such as copper, zinc, tin,
lead, chromium, nickel, silver and gold are refined electrolytically.
• For refining an impure metal by electrolysis:
o A thick block of impure metal is made the anode.
o A thin strip of pure metal is taken as the cathode.
o A water soluble salt is taken as the electrolyte.
o On passing current through the electrolyte, the impure metal from the anode dissolves
into the electrolyte.
o An equivalent amount of pure metal from the electrolyte is deposited on the cathode.
o The soluble impurities go into the solution, whereas the insoluble impurities settle
down at the bottom of the anode and are known as the ‘anode mud’.
Corrosion

• When the surface of a metal is attacked by air, moisture or any other substance around
it, the metal is said to corrode and the phenomenon is known as corrosion.
• Copper forms a green deposit on its surface when exposed to moist air. This green
substance is nothing but copper carbonate.
• Iron reacts with moist air to acquire a coating of brown flaky substance called rust
which is hydrated iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3.xH2O).
• Conditions necessary for rusting of iron
i. Presence of air (or oxygen)
ii. Presence of water (or moisture)

Prevention of Corrosion

Corrosion of metals can be prevented if the contact between the metal and air is cut off. This
can be done by the following methods:
i. Galvanising: It is the process of giving coating a thin layer of zinc on iron or steel to
protect them from corrosion. Example: shiny nails, pins. etc.
ii. Tinning: It is a process of coating tin over other metals.
iii. Electroplating: In this method, a metal is coated with another metal using electrolysis.
Example: silver plated spoons, gold plated jewellery etc.
iv. Alloying: An alloy is a homogeneous mixture of two or more metals or a metal and a
non-metal in a definite proportion. The resultant metals, called alloys do not corrode easily.
For example:
o Brass (copper and zinc)
o Bronze (copper and tin)
o Stainless steel (iron, nickel, chromium and carbon)

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CARBON AND ITS COMPOUNDS
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Functional Group: Single atom or group of atoms, that have similar chemical properties are
called functional group. For example: Halogen group, Carboxyl group, Aldehyde group, etc.

Alkyl group: −R is known as alkyl group.

Examples: −CH3 (Methyl) −C2H5 (Ethyl), −C3H7 (Propyl)

Halogen group: Halogen group is also known as halo group. −Cl

(Chloro),−Br(Bromo),−I(Iodo) are halogen or halo group.

Alcohol: −OH is known as alcohol group.

Aldehyde: −CHO is known as aldehyde group. Its structural formula is as follows:

Ketone Group: −CO− is known as ketone group. This is also known as carbonic group. Its
structural formula is as follows:

Carboxylic Acid Group: −COOH is known as carboxylic acid group; or simply as acid group.
Its structural formula is as follows:
Nomenclature of Alkane:
Example: In this structure, there are four carbon atoms but no functional group is attached.
Hence, its name is butane
IUPAC Name:

There are three carbon atoms in longest chain.

Two methyl groups are present at second (2) carbon atom. (Di is used as prefix for two).
Therefore, IUPAC Name: Di-methyl propane.

Ethanol and Ethanoic Acid

The two important carbon compounds are Ethanol and Ethanoic acid

Alcohol:

Molecules in which hydroxyl group attached to alkyl groups are the alcohols.

The formula of alcohols can be written by replacing hydrogen (“H”) from alkanes
with hydroxy group (“OH”).

R – H + OH → R – OH

Alcohols can be named by replacing “e” from alkanes with “ol”.

Alkane + ol → Alkanol
Some of the important alcohols are:

Name of the alcohol Chemical formula of alcohol

Methanol CH3-OH
Ethanol CH3-CH2-OH

Preparation of Ethanol:

Ethanol can be manufactured through fermentation of molasses.

The process involves slow decomposition of a complex organic compound like

molasses into simpler compounds including ethanol, by means of
microorganisms like yeast.

Physical Properties of ethyl alcohol:

 It is a colourless inflammable and sweet smelling liquid

 Is miscible with water
 It is a good solvent that dissolves most known substances.
 Ethanol can cause drunkenness on consumption, even in small quantities
of dilute ethanol.
 Extremely poisonous when consumed in pure form (absolute alcohol)

Chemical properties of Ethanol:

It involves in different chemical reactions due to the presence of hydroxy group

(–OH).

Reaction of ethanol with sodium:

Ethanol readily reacts with sodium to form sodium ethoxide and hydrogen gas.

2Na + 2CH3CH2OH → 2CH3CH2O–Na+ + H2

Reaction with concentrated sulphuric acid:

Ethanol on heating to a temperature of 443 K with excess concentrated

sulphuric acid, gives ethene.

CH3–CH2–OH + Hot Conc. H₂ SO₄ → CH2=CH2 + H2O

Oxidation:

Ethanol undergoes oxidation in presence of Potassium dichromate to form

initially ethanal and finally forms further oxidised ethanoic acid.

CH3–CH2–OH + K2Cr2O7 → CH3–CHO → CH3–COOH

Esterification:

Reaction of ethanol with carboxylic acids is called esterification reaction. The

product formed in this reaction is an ester along with water.

Esters are sweet smelling substances which are used in making perfumes and as
flavoring agents.

Example:

CH3–CH2–OH + CH3–COOH → CH3–COOC2H5 + H2O

Uses of Ethanol:

 Ethanol is used in pharmaceutical preparations like tincture of iodine,

cough syrups, and tonics.
 Ethanol is used in the manufacture of organic compounds like
acetaldehyde, acetic acid and chloroform.
 Ethanol is used as a preservative for biological specimen.
Acetic acid / Ethanoic Acid :

The molecular formula of acetic acid is CH3COOH.

5-8% solution of acetic acid in water is called vinegar.

Preparation of Ethanoic acid:

Ethanoic acid is prepared by the oxidation of ethanol in the presence of oxidising

agents like Alkaline KMnO4 or acidified K2Cr2O7.

Physical Properties of Ethanoic acid:

 Ethanoic acid is a colourless corrosive liquid with a pungent odour.

 The melting point of pure ethanoic acid is 17 0
 Ethanoic acid freezes during the winter and is known as glacial acetic acid.
 Miscible with water, ether and ethyl alcohol.

Chemical Properties of Ethanoic acid:

Reaction with sodium carbonate:

Ethanoic acid reacts with sodium carbonate to give sodium acetate ,carbon dioxide
and water

2CH3–COOH + Na2CO3 → 2CH3COO–Na+ + CO2 + H2O

Reaction with sodium hydrogen carbonate:

Ethanoic acid reacts with sodium hydrogen carbonate to give sodium acetate ,carbon
dioxide and water.

CH3–COOH + NaHCO3 → CH3COO–Na+ + CO2 + H2O

Reaction with base:

Ethanoic acid reacts with bases to give salt and water.

Example:

Reaction of ethanoic acid with sodium hydroxide to form sodium acetate and water.

CH3–COOH + NaOH → CH3COONa + H2O

Reaction with sodium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate and with
bases are the acidic properties of ethanoic acid.

Saponification:

Esters react in the presence of an acid or a base to give back the alcohol and
carboxylic acid. This is called saponification reaction. This is reverse reaction of
esterification reaction.

CH3COOC2H5 + Sodium Hydroxide → CH3–COONa + CH3–CH2–OH

Reaction with active metals:

Ethanoic acid reacts with active metals to form metal ethanoate and hydrogen gas.

Example:

2CH3COOH + 2Na → 2CH3COONa + H2

2CH3COOH + Ca → (CH3COO)2Ca + H2
Reduction:

Ethanoic acid is reduced to ethanol in presence of reducing reagents like

LiAlH4 (Lithium aluminum hydrate), NaBH4 (Sodium borohydrate).

CH3COOH + LiAlH4 → CH3–OH

Uses of Ethanoic acid:

 Preserve food items

 Manufacture of artificial fibres
 Ethanoic acid is used for coagulating latex to prepare rubber from it.
 It is used as a reagent in the laboratory.
 It is used in the preparation of perfumes.

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 LIFE PROCESSES
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There are certain basic vital processes essential for an organism to survive and
maintain proper functioning of the body. These basic essential activities performed
by an organism are called life Processes.

LifeProcesses

Reproduction Nutrition

Control and coordination LIFE PROCESSES Respiration

Excretion Transportation

Nutrition
 Nutrition: The process, by which an organism takes food and utilizes it, is called
nutrition.
 Need for Nutrition: To provide energy for performing various activities.
 Nutrients: Materials which provide nutrition to organisms are called nutrients.
Carbohydrates, proteins and fats are the main nutrients and are called macronutrients.
Minerals and vitamins are required in small amounts and hence are called micronutrients.

Modes of Nutrition
i) Autotrophic Nutrition.
ii) Heterotrophic Nutrition.
The mode of nutrition in which an organism synthesises its own food is called
autotrophicnutrition. Green plants and blue-green algae follow the autotrophic mode of
nutrition.

Nutrition in Plants: Green plants prepare their own food. They make food in the presence of
sunlight. Sunlight provides energy, carbon dioxide and water are the raw materials and
chloroplast is the site where food is synthesised.

Photosynthesis: The process by which green plants synthesise food is called photosynthesis.

Sunlight, Chlorophyll
6CO2 + 12 H2O ------------------------------> C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
Main Events of Photosynthesis:

 Absorption of light energy by chlorophyll.

 Conversion of light energy into chemical energy and splitting of water into hydrogen and
oxygen.
 Reduction of CO2 to carbohydrates.
 Sunlight activates chlorophyll, which leads to splitting of the water molecule.
 The hydrogen, released by the splitting of a water molecule is utilized for the reduction of
carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates.
 Oxygen is the by-product of photosynthesis.
 Carbohydrate is subsequently converted into starch and is stored in leaves and other
storage parts.

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Opening and closing of stomatal pores:

 The opening and closing of stomatal pores are controlled by the turgidity of guard cells.
 When guard cells uptake water from surrounding cells, they swell to become a turgid
body, which enlarges the pore in between (Stomatal Opening).
 While, when water is released, they become flaccid shrinking to close the pore (Stomatal
Closing).

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 Heterotrophic Nutrition
 The mode of nutrition in which an organism takes food from another organism is called
heterotrophic
 Saprophytic Nutrition: In saprophytic nutrition, the organism secretes the digestive
juices on the food. The food is digested while it is still to be ingested. The digested food
is then ingested by the organism. All the decomposers follow saprophytic nutrition. Some
insects, like houseflies, also follow this mode of nutrition.
 Holozoic Nutrition: In holozoic nutrition, the digestion happens inside the body of the
organism. i.e., after the food is ingested. Most of the animals follow this mode of
nutrition.
 Parasitic Nutrition: The organism which lives inside or outside another organism (host)
and derives nutrition from it is known as parasites and this type of mode of nutrition is
called parasitic nutrition. For example Cuscuta,
Nutrition in Amoeba
 Amoeba is a unicellular animal which follows the holozoic mode of nutrition.
 In holozoic nutrition, the digestion of food follows after the ingestion of food. Thus,
digestion takes place inside the body of the organism.
 Holozoic nutrition happens in five steps, viz. ingestion, digestion, absorption,
assimilation and egestion.

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Nutrition in Human Beings

 Humans are heterotrophs and they cannot synthesise their own food.
 Food is crushed with teeth and acted on by saliva secreted by salivary amylase. The
enzyme salivary amylase in saliva breaks down starch into sugar.
 Food is transferred to stomach through esophagus by rhythmic contractions called
peristalsis.
 Gastric glands in stomach releases pepsin, hydrochloric acid and mucus. Pepsin
digests protein, HCl provides acidic medium and removes the germs that might have
entered along with food, mucus protects the inner lining of stomach from the effects
of HCl.
 Liver releases bile juice that helps in fat digestion.
 Pancreas releases pancreatic juice that containing trypsin (protein digesting enzyme)
and intestine releases intestinal juice.
 Food is completely digested in small intestine. Villi in intestine increases the surface
area and for digestion and absorption.
 Large intestine reabsorbs water from the unabsorbed food.
 Waste materials removed from through the anus.

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 Respiration
The process, by which a living being utilises the food to get energy, is called respiration.
Respiration is an oxidation reaction in which carbohydrate is oxidized to produce energy.
Mitochondria is the site of respiration and the energy released is stored in the form of ATP
(Adenosine triphosphate).
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MECHANISM OF BREATHING

Inhalation Exhalation

Transportation:
 Blood: Blood is a connective tissue which plays the role of the carrier for various
substances in the body. Blood is composed of 1. Plasma 2. Blood cells 3. Platelets.
 Bloods cells: There are two types of blood cells, viz. Red Blood Cells (RBCs) and White
Blood Cells (WBCs).
 Platelets: Platelets are responsible for blood clotting. Blood clotting is a defence
mechanism which prevents excess loss of blood, in case of an injury.
 Lymph: Lymph is similar to blood but RBCs are absent in lymph. Lymph is formed
from the fluid which leaks from blood capillaries and goes to the intercellular space in the
 tissues. This fluid is collected through lymph vessels and finally return to the blood
capillaries. Lymph also plays an important role in the immune system.
 DOUBLE CIRCULATION - In the human heart, blood passes through the heart twice
in one cardiac cycle. This type of circulation is called double circulation. Double
circulation ensures complete segregation of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood which is
necessary for optimum energy production in warm-blooded animals.

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 Excretion:
Excretion is a biological process by which an organism gets rid of excess or toxic waste
products of metabolism. Excretion removes unwanted by-products of metabolism, toxic
chemical substances, regulate the ionic concentration of body fluids, regulates water content
of body and regulate pH of body fluids.

Excretion in human being:

Skin
Skin acts as a minor excretory organ in humans. The waste product excreted by the skin is sweat.
Sweat is produced by the sweat glands. It is composed of salts and urea. When the sweat comes
out from the human body it helps in keeping the body cool in hot climates.

Lungs
Lungs help in removing excess carbon dioxide and some water vapour from our bodies that
occurs when we breathe out.

Human Excretory System

The human excretory system is responsible for the elimination of waste in human beings.
Humans have two kidneys, two ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra as part of their excretory
system.
 Kidneys
 Kidneys are the major excretory organs that remove waste from the human body.
 Kidneys are bean-shaped and are located on either side of the backbone below the rib cage.
 Our kidney has a number of subunits known as nephrons.
 Nephrons are referred to as the functional unit of kidneys.
 One human kidney can have 1 million nephrons.
 Nephrons carry out the process of secretion and the process of excretion.
 Nephrons consists of renal corpuscle (glomerulus with Bowman’s capsule) and renal tubules.
 The product of the kidney is urine.

Ureter
 The kidney is connected to the urinary bladder by a thin and muscular tube which is known as
the
ureter
 The ureter functions between the kidneys and the urinary bladder

Urinary Bladder
 It is a muscular sac-like structure that stores urine
 It is responsible for controlling the passage of urine
 It has the capacity to store urine of about 400 to 600 ml

Urethra
 It helps to expel urine from the body
 It is also responsible for carrying sperm in males

Mechanism of excretion
 Kidneys are positioned one on each side of the backbone, below the rib cage.
 Urine is transported from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, where it is retained until it
is expelled through the urethra.

 Kidneys eliminate nitrogenous waste from the blood, such as urea or uric acid.

 The filtration units known as nephrons are found in enormous numbers in each kidney.
 The nephron is the minute or microscopic structural and functional unit of the kidney. It
is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a tuft of
capillaries called a glomerulus and a cup-shaped structure called Bowman's capsule. The renal
tubule extends from the capsule.
 The fundamental filtration unit in the nephrons of kidneys is a cluster of blood capillaries
called glomerulus with very thin walls.
 Each kidney’s urine eventually reaches the ureter, a lengthy tube that connects the kidneys to
the urinary bladder.

 Urine is stored in the urinary bladder until it is pushed out via the urethra by the pressure of the
inflated bladder.
 The bladder is a muscular organ that is controlled by the neurological system.

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STRUCTURE OF NEPHRON:

EXCRETION IN PLANTS

 Waste substances may be stored in leaves,

bark etc. which fall off from the plant.
 Plants excrete some waste into the soil
around them.
 Gums, resin → In old xylem
 Some metabolic wastes in the form of
crystals of calcium oxalates in the leaves
of colocasia and stem of Zamikand.
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Control and Coordination in Animals:

It is brought about in all animals with the help of two main systems:

i) Nervous System

ii) Endocrine System

Nervous System : Consists of Brain, Spinal cord and a huge network of nerves.
Functions:

• To receive the information from environment

• To receive the information from various body parts.
• To act accordingly through muscles and glands.

Stimulus : Any change in environment to which the organisms respond is called stimulus. E.g.,
touching a hot plate.

Response : The reaction of our body to a stimulus. E.g. withdrawal of our hand on touching hot
plate.

Coordination: The working together of various organs of the body of an organism in a proper
manner to produce appropriate reaction to a stimulus is called coordination.

Receptors : Are specialized tips of some nerve cells that detect the information from the
environment.
 Neuron: It is the structural and functional unit of nervous system.
 Neurons are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that
functions to process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals,
neurons are the core components of the brain, spinal cord and
peripheral nerves.
 The primary components of the neuron are the soma (cell body), the axon
(along slender projection that conducts electrical impulses away from the cell
body), dendrites (projections from the cell body, that receive messages from
other neurons), and synapses (specialized junctions between neurons).

 The axon (nerve fibre) transmits electrical signals from the cell body. The
dendrites are branching fibres that receive electrical signals from other
neurons. The shape of a neuron is determined by the job it does.

 Synapse: The point of contact between the terminal branches of axon of one
neuron with the dendrite of another neuron is called synapse.

REFLEX ACTION
 Reflex action is an automatic response of the body to a stimulus at spinal
cord level. e.g. withdrawal of hand on touching a hot plate, knee jerk etc.

 Reflex arc: The pathway taken by nerve impulses in a reflex action is called
reflex arc.
 Voluntary action takes place under the control of a person (e.g. writing)
whereas Involuntary action is not under the control of a person. (e.g.
heartbeat)

 Mechanism of Reflex action: A reflex mechanism involves a receptor organ, an

effector organ, and some type of communication network. When a sensory
receptor is stimulated, signals pass from it along a sensory neuron to the spinal
cord. The message travels out of the spinal cord along a motor neuron to the
effector organ (e.g., a muscle or a gland), which shows the response. Such a
pathway is called a reflex arc.
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HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM:

The nervous system of vertebrates (including humans) is divided into the

central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).The
(CNS) is the major division, and consists of the brain and the spinal cord. The
spinal canal contains the spinal cord, while the cranial cavity contains the
brain. The peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves that branch out
from the brain and the spinal cord. These nerves form the communication
network between the CNS and the body parts.
NERVOUS SYSTEM:

Human Brain : It is enclosed in cranium (brain box) and is protected by

cerebrospinal fluid which acts as a shock absorber. Human brain has
three major parts or regions : (a) Fore-brain (b) Mid Brain (c) Hind Brain.
Spinal Cord: Spinal Cord is enclosed in Vertebral column.

Fore-brain (CEREBRUM):

 Most complex specialized part of the brain is Cerebrum or the forebrain.

Functions
 Thinking part of the brain
 Control the voluntary actions.
 Store information (Memory)
 Centre associated with HUNGER
 Receives sensory impulses from various body parts and integrates it.
 Mid Brain:
 It connects the fore-brain with the hind-brain. It is the portion of the
central nervous system associated with vision, hearing, motor
control,sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation.

Hind-Brain:

 Hind brain consists of three parts-

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COORDINATION IN PLANTS:
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HORMONES

 These are chemical compounds which help to coordinate growth,

development and responses to the environment.

Plant Hormones: Main plant hormones are:

 Auxin: Auxin is a plant hormone produced in the stem tip a n d r o o t t i p
that promotes cellelongation.

 Gibberellin: Gibberellins (GAs) are plant hormones that regulate growth

and influence various developmental processes, including stem elongation,
germination, flowering and leaf and fruit senescence (falling).
 Cytokinins: Cytokinins (CK) are a class of plant growth substances
(phytohormones) that promote cell division, or cytokinesis, in plant roots and
shoots. They are involved in cell growth and differentiation.
 Abscisic acid: Inhibits growth, cause wilting of leaves. (Stress hormone). It
promotes the closing of stomata (during adverse rough condition) there by
reducing the water loss.
PLANT HORMONES

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 Tropic Movements

• Directional plant growth movement in response to an external stimulus.

• Growth of a plant may be towards the stimulus (positive tropism) or away from
it (negative tropism).
• Phototropism – movement in response to light.
• Chemotropism – in response to chemicals.
• Hydrotropism – in response to water.
• Geotropism – in response to gravity.

Nastic Movements
•• Non-directional movement
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plant part
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response toto an
an external
external stimulus.
stimulus.
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may not
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growth movement.
movement.
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All parts of the organ of a plant are are affected
affected equally
equally irrespective
irrespective of
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the direction
direction
of the
of the stimulus.
stimulus.
•• Thigmonasty –– Nastic
Thigmonasty Nastic movement
movement in in response
response to
to touch
touch of
of an
an object.
object.
•• Photonasty –– Nastic
Photonasty Nastic movement
movement in in response
response toto light.
light.

HORMONES IN ANIMALS

o Hormones : Hormones are the chemical substances secreted by the

endocrine glands and transmitted by the blood to the tissues on which
it has a specific effect.
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Goitre

Iodised salt is necessary because thyroid gland needs iodine to make thyroxine
which helps in regulating the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
Deficiency of iodine causes a disease called goitre.

Diabetes

 Cause: It is due to deficiency of Insulin hormone secreted by Pancreas that

is responsible to lower/control the blood sugar levels.
 Treatment: Common diabetes can be controlled by medicine but in severe
cases injections of insulin hormone are given to the patients.

Feedback Mechanism:

 The excess or deficiency of hormones has a harmful effect on our body.

Feedback mechanism makes sure that hormones are secreted in precise
quantities and at right time.

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 HOW DO ORGANISM REPRODUCE
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 Reproduction is the process by which living organisms produce new
individuals similar to themselves. It basically involves the making copies
of the blueprints of the body design.

 Reproduction ensures continuity of life on earth.

 Chromosomes in the cell contain the information for inheritance of

features which are passed from generation to generation in the form of
DNA molecules.
 So reproduction involves copying of DNA and other cell apparatuses.
Thecopies will be similar to original and not identical.
 Variation is the basis and necessary for evolution of living beings.
 Variations help the species to withstand drastic environmental changes, thus
save the species from becoming extinct and promotes its survival for a longer
time.
Sexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
1. Usually two Parents are involved
1. A single parent is involved
2. Gametes are formed
2. Gametes not formed
3. Fertilisation occurs
3. No fertilization occurs
4. Progeny is not genetically similar
4. Progeny is genetically similar to parent.
to the parent. Genetic variations can
be seen in the progeny.

Asexual Reproduction is useful as a means of rapid multiplication. It is

common in lower plants and animals.

MODES OF ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION:

1. FISSION: The parent cell divides/splits into two daughter cell-Binary

Fission; splits into many cells-multiple Fission.
 FISSION
Binary Fission
The parents cell divides into two equal halves
Multiple Fission
Equal halves (daughter cells)
The parent cell divides into many
E.g. Amoeba follows transverse binary fission,
daughter cell simultaneously.
i.e.fission in any plane.
Eg. Plasmodium
->Leishmania has a whip-like structure at one
end and binary fission occurs in a definite
orientation.

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2. BUDDING: A bud develops as an outgrowth on parent body due to repeated cell

division at a specific site. These buds detach from the parent body when they
mature.

E.g. Hydra, yeast.

3. SPORE FORMATION: Spores which are present in sporangia are small, bulb like
structure which are covered by thick walls that protect them until they come in contact
with suitable condition. Under favourable conditions, they germinate and produce new
Rhizopus.

4. FRAGMENTATION: It takes place in multicellular organism with simple body

organisation.

It is the process when the broken pieces of an organism (fragments) grow into a
complete organism.
Fragmentation in Spirogyra:

5. REGENERATION: When the simple animals like Hydra, Planaria develop

a new individual from their broken part, it is known as regeneration. It is carried
out by specialised cells which divide and differentiate to form the complete
individual. These cells multiply and from this mass of cells other parts are
generated.

Regeneration in Planeria:
Vegetative Propagation:
A mode of reproduction in which reproduction takes place from the vegetative parts
like the stem, root and leaves.
Methods of Vegetative Propagation (Natural)
1. By Roots : E.g. adventitious roots of Dahlias
2. By Stems : E.g. Potato (tuber), ginger (rhizome)
3. By Leaves :E.g. leaves of Bryophyllum. Buds are formed in the notches of leaf
margin which develop into new plants.
Artificial
1. Grafting : E.g. Mango.
2. Cutting : E.g. Rose
3. Layering : E.g. Jasmine
4. Tissue culture: E.g. Orchids, Ornamental Plants.

Benefits of Vegetative Propagation

1. Plants can bear flowers, fruits earlier than those produced from seeds.
2. Growing plants like Banana, orange, rose, jasmine that have lost the capacity
to produce seeds.
3. Genetically similarity is maintained in the plants.
4. Helps in growing seedless fruits.
5. Cheaper and easier method of growing plants.

Sexual Reproduction:
When reproduction takes place as a result of fusion of two gametes, one from each
parent, it is called sexual reproduction.

 The process of fusion of male and female gametes is called

fertilization.

 The formation of gametes involves exchange of chromosomal

(genetic) materials between homologous chromosomes causing
genetic recombination which leads to variation.

Sexual Reproduction in Plants

It occurs mostly in flowering plants. Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants.

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 A typical flower consists of four main whorls namely calyx (sepals), Corolla
(Petals), Androecium (Stamens) and Gynoecium (Carpels).

o Pollen grains of a flower, transfer to the stigma of the carpel of the same
flower (Self- Pollination) or to the stigma of carpel of the another flower
(Cross-Pollination).

o This transfer of pollen grains achieved by agents like wind, water or animals.
o After Pollination, a pollen tube grows out of pollen grains, through
which male germ cell reaches the ovary and fuses with the female germ
cell.
 Fertilization:
 The fusion of male and female gamete is called fertilization. It occurs
inside the ovary. Zygote is produced in this process.
 Zygote divides several times to form an embryo within the ovule. The
ovule develops a tough coat and is converted into a seed.
 Ovary grows rapidly and ripens to forms a fruit, while the seed
contains the future plant or embryo which develops into a seedling
under suitable condition. This process is known as Germination.
 Flowers can also be unisexual (contain either stamen or carpel) or
bisexual (contains both stamen and carpel).
Unisexual flowers: Papaya, Water melon
Bisexual flowers: Hibiscus, Mustard.

Reproduction in Human Beings

In humans sexual mode of reproduction takes place.

It needs sexual maturation which includes formation of the germ cells ie, egg
(ova) in the female and sperm in the male partner & this period of sexual
maturation is called Puberty.

Male Reproductive System:

 The formation of male germ cells (sperms) takes place in the testes
(male reproductive organ)
 A pair of testes is located inside scrotum which is present outside the
abdominal cavity. Scrotum has a relatively low temperature needed for
the production of sperms by testes.

Testes release male sex hormone called testosterone and its function is to:

 Regulate the production of sperm

 Bring about changes in appearance seen in boys at the time of puberty.

 The sperms along with the secretion of prostate gland and seminal
vesicle together constitute semen, which is released and made to
enter into the female genital tract during Copulation.
 Female Reproductive System:
 The female germ cells or eggs are produced in the ovaries. (located in both
sides of abdomen).
 When a girl is born, the ovaries already contain thousands of immature eggs.
 At puberty, some of these eggs start maturing. One egg is produced every month
by one of the ovaries alternately.

 The Egg is carried from the ovary to the womb through fallopian tube. These
two fallopian tubes unite into an elastic bag like structure known as uterus.
 The Uterus opens into the vagina through the cervix. Fertilization occurs in the
fallopian tube of female genital tract.
 The fertilized egg called zygote (2n) gets implanted in the lining of the uterus, and
start dividing. Uterus is richly supplied with blood to nourish the growing
embryo. If zygote is not formed, the inner wall of uterus breaks which causes
bleeding through vagina. This process is called Menstruation. It occurs at a
regular interval of 28 days.
 The Embryo gets nutrition from the mother's blood with the help of a special
tissue called PLACENTA. Similarly the wastes from developing embryo are
removed to mother's blood through placenta.
 The time period from fertilization up to the birth of the baby is called
GestationPeriod. In humans, it is about nine months (36 weeks).
 The sexual cycle (Menstruation) in a woman continues up to the age of 45-50
years. After that the ovaries do not release egg. This stage is called Menopause.
 Female sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone which are produced by
ovary.
Reproductive Health:
Reproductive Health means a total well-being in all aspects of reproductive phase, i.e.,
physical, emotional, social and behavioural.

Contraception: It is the avoidance of pregnancy.

Healthy society needs a balanced sex ratio that can be achieved by educating people to
avoid malpractices like female foeticide & prenatal sex determination.
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Heredity:

Heredity is the mechanism by which characteristics are passed on from one generation to the
next. Gene is the unit of heredity. Genetics is the study of heredity in biology. Gregor Mendel
proposed the laws of inheritance.

Variations:

Variation can be defined as any difference between the individuals in a species or groups of
organisms of any species. The mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation, but
mechanisms such as sexual reproduction and gene flow contribute to it as well.

Importance of variations
 Variation enables organisms to adjust and adapt better according to the
changing conditions of the environment (survival advantage)
 Different kinds of variations in organisms lead to the development of new species.

MENDEL’S LAW OF INHERITANCE

Key Words

Chromosomes Long thread-like structures present in the nucleus of a cell which contain
hereditary information of the cell.
DNA Deoxyribo nucleic acid - the genetic material.
Gene Part of DNA, controls a specific biological function.
Contrasting A pair of visible characters such as tall and dwarf, white and violet flowers,
characters round and wrinkled seeds, green and yellow seeds etc.
Dominant trait The trait which is expressed when both the alleles of a gene are dominant or
one of the alleles is dominant and the other is recessive.
Recessive trait Can‘t express itself in presence of dominant trait.
Homozygous When alleles of similar types are present. E.g.- TT, tt.
Heterozygous Two different alleles present together. E.g.- Tt
Genotype It is genetic makeup of an individual. E.g.- TT, tt, Tt
Phenotype It is observable feature. E.g.- tall, dwarf
Monohybrid cross Cross to observe single character. E.g.- height of plant
Dihybrid cross Cross to observe two characters at the same time. E.g. colour and shape
ofseed

MENDEL’S LAWS OF INHERITANCE

• The Law of Dominance

• The Law of Segregation

• The Law of Independent Assortment.

Law of Dominance: When parents having pure contrasting characters are crossed then only one
character expresses itself in the F1 generation. This character is the dominant character and the
character/factor which cannot express itself is called the recessive character.

Law of segregation: The phenomenon of separation of the two alternating factors of one
character during gamete formation so that one gamete receives only one factor of a character i s
called as Law of Segregation.

Law of Independent Assortment:

When two pairs of traits are combined in a hybrid, segregation of one pair of characters is
independent of the other pair of characters. This phenomenon is called Law of Independent
Assortment.

Dihybrid cross.

Gregor Mendel crossed pea plants bearing round green seeds (RRyy) with plants bearing
wrinkled yellow seeds (rrYY) in his experiment.

In the F1 generation he obtained all round and yellow seeds. It means round and yellow traits
ofseeds are dominant features while wrinkled and green are recessive.

On selfing the plants of F1 Mendel found that in F2 generation four different types of seeds
round yellow, round green, wrinkled yellow and wrinkled green in the ratio of 9 : 3 : 3 : 1
are present.
 HOW DO TRAITS GET EXPRESSED?

 DNA is regulating authority to make proteins in the cell.

 Gene provides information for one particular protein.
 E.g. the height of a plant depends upon the growth hormone which is in turn
controlled by the gene.
 Both the parents contribute equally to the DNA of next generation during
sexual reproduction.

SEX DETERMINATION IN HUMAN

The process of determining the sex of an individual, based on the composition of the genetic
makeup is called sex determination.

• Human has 23 pair of chromosomes.

• Autosome: 22 pairs (44)
• Sex chromosomes: 01 pair (02). They may be either- i) Homogametic – XX for female
(44 +XX)
 iii) Heterogametic XY for male (44 +XY)
In some organisms environment also plays crucial role in determination of sex-

• In some Reptiles: Temperature at which a fertilized egg is incubated governs the gender.

• Snails: A particular animal can change the gender within one’s life time.

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LIGHT:- When light falls on an object it is bounced back into the same medium. This is called
reflection of light.

LAWS OF REFLECTION OF LIGHT:-

i) The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
ii) The incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal to the
mirror at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.

IMAGE FORMATION BY A PLANE MIRROR :- (i) virtual (ii) same size as the object.
(iii) at the same distance from the mirror as the object. (iv) The image is laterally inverted.

SPHERICAL MIRRORS: Spherical mirror is the mirror which is a part of a hollow sphere.
There are two types of spherical mirrors (a)concave mirror (b) convex mirror.
a) Concave mirror (converging mirror):- Concave mirror is a spherical mirror whose reflecting
surface is curved inwards. • Rays of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection from a
concave mirror meet at a point (converge) on the principal axis.
b) Convex mirror (diverging mirror) :- It is a spherical mirror whose reflecting surface is
curved outwards. • Rays of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection from a convex
mirror get diverged and appear to come from a point behind the mirror.
IMP. TERMS RELATED TO SPHERICAL MIRRORS:

I) Centre of curvature(C): -It is the centre of the sphere of which the mirror is a part.

ii) Radius of curvature(R): - It is the radius of the sphere of which the mirror is a part (CP).
iii) Pole: -It is the centre of the spherical mirror (P).
iv)Principal axis: - It is the straight line passing through the centre of curvature and the pole.
v) Principal focus:- In a concave mirror, principal focus is the point on PA where the reflected
light rays parallel to the principal axis converge and actually meet after reflection.
In a convex mirror, rays of light parallel to the principal axis get diverged after reflection and
appear to come from a point on the principal axis behind the mirror called principal focus (F). vi)
vi)Focal length: -focal length is the distance between the pole and principal focus (f) In a
spherical mirror the radius of curvature is twice the focal length. R = 2f

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Human eye is the natural optical instrument used which enables us to see.

We will study various natural optical phenomenon like Rainbow formation, twinkling of
star, blue and red colour of sky etc.

HUMAN EYE:

It acts like a camera, enable us to capture the colourful picture of the surroundings.
An inverted, real image on light sensitive is formed on the Retina

The Various Parts of Eye and their Functions

1. Cornea: It is a thin membrane through which light enters. It forms the transparent
bulge on the front of eyeball. Most of the refraction occurs at the outer surface of the
cornea.
2. Eyeball: it is a convex lens, approximately spherical in shape, with a diameter of
about 2.3cm. It can alter its curvature with help of ciliary muscles.
3. Iris: It is a dark muscular diaphragm that controls the size of pupil. It is
behind the cornea. It helps in accommodation of light by changing the size of the
pupil.
4. Pupil: It regulates and control the amount of light entering the eye. It is the
blackopening between aqueous humour & lens. Black in colour. Light entering cannot
exit.
5. Crystalline eye lens: Provides the focused real & inverted image of the
objecton the retina. It is composed of a fibrous, jelly like material.
This is convex lens that converges light at retina.

6. Ciliary muscles: It helps to change the curvature of eye lens and hence changes
itsfocal length so that we can see the object clearly placed at different positions.
7. Retina: Thin membrane with large no. of light sensitive cells.
There are two types of photoreceptors in the human retina, rods and cones.
Rods are responsible for vision at low light levels. They do not mediate colour vision.
Cones are active at higher light levels, are capable of colour vision.
When image is formed at retina, light sensitive cells get activated and generate electrical
signal. These signals are sent to brain via optic nerve. Brain analyse these signals after
which we perceive object as they are.

8. The vitreous body is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina
of the eye ball of humans and other vertebrate
9. The aqueous humour is a transparent, watery fluid similar to plasma, but containing
low protein concentrations.

VISUAL EXPLANATION (parts of human eye)

How Pupil Works?

Example: You would have observed that when you come out of the cinema hall after
watching movie, in the bright sun light, your eyes get closed. And when you enter the hall
from the bright light, you will not be able to see but after some time you would be able to see.
Here the pupil of an eye provides a variable aperture, whose size is controlled by iris.

(a) When the light is bright: Iris contracts the pupil, so that less light enters the eye.

(b) When the light is dim: Iris expands the pupil, so that more light enters
the eye. Pupil opens completely, when iris is relaxed.

Persistence of Vision: It is the time for which the sensation of an object continues in the
eye. It is about 1/16th of a second.
 Power of Accommodation
The ability of eye lens to adjust its focal length with the help of ciliary muscles is called
accommodation.

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(Accommodation and near point)

1. Eye lens becomes thin 1. Eye lens becomes thick

2. Increases the focal length 2. Decreases the focal length
3. Enable us to see distant object clearly 3. Enable us to see nearby object clearly

Defects of Vision and their Correction

1. Cataract: The image cannot be seen distinctly because eye lens become milky and
cloudy. This condition is known as cataract, it can cause complete or partial loss of
vision.This can be corrected by surgical removal of extra growth (cataract surgery).
 2. Myopia: (Near Sightedness)
A person can see nearby object clearly, but cannot see distant object distinctly.

Image formed in front of the retina.

The Reason of defect

1. Excessive curvature of eye lens means Eye lens becomes thick and its focal
length decreases.
2. Elongation of the eye ball.

Correction
Corrected by using a Concave Lens of appropriate power.

Hypermetropia (Far - Sightedness)

A person cannot see nearby object clearly, but can see distant object distinctly.
 Image formed at a point behind the retina

The Reason of defect

1. Increase in focal length of the eye lens (Thin eye lens)
2. Eye ball has become too small.

Correction
Corrected by using a Convex Lens of appropriate power.

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(myopia and hypermetropia )
4. Presbyopia

As we become old, the power of accommodation of the eye usually decreases; the near
point gradually recedes away. This defect is called Presbyopia, a special kind of
Hypermetropia.
Person may suffer from both myopia and hypermetropia.

Reason of defect: Gradual weakening of ciliary muscles and decreasing the flexibility of
the eye lens.
Correction : Using Bifocal lens with appropriate power. Bifocal lens consist of both
concaveand convex lens, upper position consist of concave lens and lower portion consist of
convex lens action of Light through a Prism

VISUAL EXPLANATION

( presbyopia)
Prism : It has two triangular bases and three rectangular lateral surfaces.
These surfaces are inclined to each other. The angle between its two lateral faces is called

Angle of Prism.

Angle of Deviation (D) The angle between the incident ray and emergentray.
Dispersion of white light by a Glass Prism

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(Prism and Dispersion of light)
Inclined refracting surfaces of glass prism show exciting phenomenon.

Splitting of White Light into Band of Colours

The band of the coloured components of light beam is called Spectrum i.e. VIBGYOR
The splitting of light into its component colours is called Dispersion.
The different component colour of light bends at different angle with respect to incident
angle, the red light bends the least while the violet bends most.

ISSAC NEWTON

He was the first, who obtained spectrum of sunlight by using glass prism. He tried to split
the spectrum of white light more by using another similar prism, but he could not get any
more colours.
He repeated the experiment using second prism in an inverted position with respect to the
first prism.
Allowed all the colours of spectrum to pass through second prism. He found white light
emerges on the other side of second prism.

He concluded that sun is made up of seven visible colours ‘VIBGYOR’

RAINBOW
It is the spectrum of sunlight in nature It is formed due to the dispersion of sunlight by
the tiny water droplet, present in atmosphere.
Water Droplet Act like Prism

It refracts and disperses the incident sunlight, then reflects it internally (internal reflection)
and finally refracts it again, when it emerges out of the water droplet.
A rainbow is always formed in a direction opposite to that of sun.
Due to dispersion and internal reflection of light, different colours reach he observer’seye.
Red colour appears on top & violet at the bottom of rainbow

Atmospheric Refraction

1. Apparent Star Position: It is due to atmospheric refraction of starlight.

The temperature and density of different layers of atmosphere keeps varying. Hence,we
have different medium.
Distant star act as point source of light. When the starlight enters the earth’s atmosphere it
undergoes refraction continuously, due to changing refractive index i.e. from rarer to
denser, it bends towards the normal.
Due to this the apparent position of the star is different from actual position.
The star appears higher than its actual position.
1. Twinkling of Star: It is also due to atmospheric refraction.

Distant star act like a point source of light. As the beam of starlight keeps deviating from
its path, the apparent position of star keeps on changing because physical condition of
earth’s atmosphere is not stationary
Hence the amount of light enters our eyes fluctuate some time bright and sometime faint.
This is the “Twinkling effect of star”.

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(Why do stars twinkle?)

Blue Sky
The blue colour of the sky is caused by the scattering of sunlight on the molecules of the
atmosphere. This scattering, called Rayleigh scattering, is more effective at short
wavelengths (the blue end of the visible spectrum). Therefore, the light scattered down to
the earth at a large angle with respect to the direction of the sun's light is predominantly in
the blue end of the spectrum.

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(Advanced sunrise and delayed sunset)

VISUAL EXPLANATION
(why is the sky blue?)
 BACK TO INDEX

ELECTRICITY

 Electric Current :-
 Electric current is the flow of electrons through a conductor.
 The device which causes the flow of electrons through a conductor is
called a cell.
 Electrons flow from the negative terminal to the positive terminal.
 Electric current flows from the positive terminal to the negative
terminal.
 This is called conventional current.
 Electric current is expressed as: - The rate of flow of
charges through a conductor or the quantity of
charges flowing through a conductor in unit time.

 Electric Charge:-
 The SI unit of electric charge is coulomb (C). It is the
charge contained in 6x10 18 electrons.
 The SI unit of current is called ampere (A).
 One ampere is the current flowing through a conductor
if I coulomb of charge flow through it in 1 second.

 1 Ampere= 1Coulomb/1Second
 Electric Current is measured by an ammeter. It is always connected
in series in a circuit.
1. Charge: It is an inherent property of the body due to which the
body feels attractive and repulsive forces. There are two types of
electric charges:
(i) Positive and (ii) Negative
(ii) Like charges are repelling each other.
(iii) Unlike charges attract each other.

2. Conductors and insulators: Those substances through which

electricity can flow are called conductors. All the metals like silver,
copper, aluminium etc. are conductors.
Those substances through which electricity cannot flow are called
insulators. Glass, ebonite, rubber, most plastics, paper, dry wood
etc. are insulators.
3. Electrostatic potential: The electrostatic potential at any point is
defined as the work done in bringing a unit positive charge from
infinity to that point. Potential is denoted by the symbol V and its
unit is volt. A potential of one volt at a point means that 1 joule of
work is done in bringing 1 unit positive charge from infinity to that
point.
4. Potential Difference: The amount of work done in moving unit
positive charge from one point to another in an electric field is
known as potential difference. Potential difference = Work
done/Quantity of charge transferred
If a W joule of work has to be done to transfer Q coulombs of
charge from one point to another point, then the potential
difference V between the two points is given by the formula:
Potential difference, V = W/Q
The SI unit of potential difference is volt (V).

5. Voltmeter: The potential difference is measured by means of an

instrument called voltmeter. The voltmeter is connected in parallel
across the points where the potential difference is measured. A
voltmeter has high resistance.
6. Electric Current: The electric current is the rate of flow of electric
charges (called electrons) in a conductor.
If a charge of Q coulombs flows through a conductor in time t
seconds, then the magnitude I of the electric current flowing
through it is given by
Current, I = Q/t ,The SI unit of electric current is ampere and it is denoted by
the letter A. Electric current is a scalar quantity.
7. Ammeter: Current is measured by an instrument called ammeter. The
ammeter is connected in series with the circuit in which the current
is to be measured. An ammeter should have very low internal
resistance.
8. Voltaic Cell: It is one of the earliest devices which are capable of
providing a continuous flow of electric current. It is used for
converting chemical energy into electrical energy. It was invented
by Volta in the year 1800.

9. Ohm's Law: At constant temperature, the current flowing through a

conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across
its ends. If 1 is the current flowing through a conductor and V is the
potential difference across its ends. Then according to Ohm’s law
I𝖺V
This can also-be written as:
V𝖺 I
V = IR
 Where R is a constant called 'resistance' of the conductor. The
value of this constant depends on the nature, length, area of cross-
section and temperature of the conductor.

10. Resistance of a Conductor: The property of a conductor due to which

it opposes the flow of current through it is called resistance. The
resistance of a conductor is numerically equal to ratio of potential
difference across its ends to the current flowing through it. i.e.
Resistance=Potential difference/Current
R = V/I
The SI unit of resistance is ohm, which is denoted
by symbol Ω. 1 ohm: If V = 1 volt, I = I ampere,
then
R = 1 volt/1 ampere= 1 ohm
Thus, the resistance of a conductor is said to be 1 ohm if 1 ampere
current flows through the conductor when a potential difference of 1
volt is applied across it.
11. Factors affecting the Resistance of a Conductor: The resistance
of the conductor depends:
(i) on its length,
(ii) on its area of cross-section
(iii) on the nature of its material.
12. Resistivity: It has been found by the experiments that:
(i) The resistance of a given conductor is directly proportional
to its length.
(ii) The resistance of a given conductor is inversely
proportional to its area of cross-section.

Thus, the resistivity of a conductor is the resistance of unit

length and unit area of cross-section of the conductor. The
SI unit of resistivity is ohm metre (Ωm).

13. Combination of Resistance: The resistance can be combined in two

ways:
(i) In series
(ii) In parallel
(i) Resistance in series:
 In series, the total Potential difference,
V = V1 + V2 + V3 …….(i)
Applying Ohm’s law to the
entire circuit V = IR……(ii)
Applying Ohm’s law to each resistance
separately, we have V1 = IR1; V2 = IR2;
V3 =IR3 ….(iii)
From equations (i), (ii) and (iii), we have
IR = IR1 + IR2+ IR3
R = R1 + R2 + R3

(ii) Resistance in parallel:

In parallel, the total

current: I =I1 + I2 + I3
…….(i)
Applying Ohm’s law to
the entire circuit I = V/R
……(ii)
Applying Ohm’s law to each resistance
separately, we have I1 = V/R1; I2 = V/R2;
I3 =V/R3 ….(iii)
From equations (i), (ii) and
(iii), we have
V/R = V/R1 +V/R2 + V/R3
1/R = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3
14. Electric Power: The rate at which work is done by an electric
currentis known as electric power.
Power = Work done/Time P
= W/t = (V xQ)/t …..(i)
The work done by current I when it flows for time t under a potential
difference V is given by:
W = V x I x t joules
[Because W = VQ and Q = It]
Putting the value of Win equation (i),
we have
P = (V x I x t)/t = VI
P = I2R [Because V = IR]
P = V2/R
[Because I= V/R] The
unit of electric power is
watt. Power = V x I
1 watt = 1 volt x 1 ampere
Thus, if a potential difference of 1 volt causes a current of 1
ampere to flow through a wire, the electrical power consumed is
one watt.
15. Electrical Energy:
Electrical energy = Power x Time
E = Px t
The electrical energy consumed by an electrical appliance depends
upon
(i) Power rating of the appliance
(ii) Time for which it
(appliance) is used. The SI unit
of electrical energy is joule.
1joule is the amount of electrical energy consumed when an
appliance of 1 watt is used for 1 second.

16. Commercial Unit of Electrical Energy: Kilowatt hour is the

commercial unit of electrical energy. One kilowatt hour is the
electrical energy consumed when an electrical appliance having
1kW power rating is used for 1 hour.
Energy used =
Power x Time 1
kWh = 1 kW x lh
= 1000 w x 60 x 60s
= 1000 J s-l X 3600 s
= 3600000 J= 3.6 x 106 J
17. Heating Effect of Current: When an electric current is passed
through a high resistance wire, it becomes very hot and produces
heat. This effect is called the heating effect of current.
When an electric charge Q moves against a potential difference V,
the amount of work done is given by,
W=Q x V ……(i)
But,
current,
I = Q/t Q
= Ix t
From Ohm's law: V=IxR
Now, putting all these values in equation (i),
we have Work done, W = 12 x R x t
This work done is converted into heat energy for maintaining the
flow of current I through the conductor for t second.
Heat produced, H = 12 x R x t joules.
 18. Applications of Heating Effect of Current:
(i) In electrical heating appliances: All electrical heating
appliances are based on heating effect of current. For
example, appliances such as electric iron, water heaters
and geysers, room heaters, toaster, hot plates are fitted
with heating coils made of high resistance wire such as
nichrome wire.
(ii) Electric filament bulb: The use of electric filament bulbs
(ordinary electric bulbs) is also based on the heating effect
of current. Inside the glass shell of electric bulb there is a
filament. This filament is made from a very thin high bulb
resistance tungsten wire. When current flows through this
filament, it gets heated up. Soon, it becomes white hot
and starts emitting light.

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 Magnetic Effects of Electric Current BACK TO INDEX

Magnet: Magnetic field and magnetic field lines, Magnetic field due to a current carrying
conductor, Right hand thumb rule, Magnetic field due to current through a circular loop.
Magnetic field due to current in a solenoid.
Magnet is an object that attracts objects made of iron, cobalt and nickel. Magnet comes to rest
in North – South direction, when suspended freely.
Use of Magnets: Magnets are used

 in refrigerators.
 in radio and stereo speakers.
 in audio and video cassette players.
 in children’s toys and;
 on hard discs and floppies of computers.

Properties of Magnet

 A free suspended magnet always points towards the north and south direction.
 The pole of a magnet which points toward north direction is called north pole or
north-seeking.
 The pole of a magnet which points toward south direction is called south pole
or south seeking.
 Like poles of magnets repel each other while unlike poles of magnets attract
each other.

Magnetic field: The area around a magnet where a magnetic force is experienced is called
the magnetic field. It is a quantity that has both direction and magnitude, (i.e., Vector
quantity).
Magnetic field and field lines: The influence of force surrounding a magnet is called
magnetic field. In the magnetic field, the force exerted by a magnet can be detected using a
compass or any other magnet.
The magnetic field is represented by magnetic field lines.
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Direction of field line: Outside the magnet, the direction of magnetic field line is taken
from North pole to South Pole. Inside the magnet, the direction of magnetic field line is taken
from South pole to North pole

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Strength of magnetic field: The closeness of field lines shows the relative strength of
magnetic field, i.e. closer lines show stronger magnetic field and vice – versa. Crowded field
lines near the poles of magnet show more strength.
Properties of magnetic field lines
(i) They do not intersect each other.
(ii) It is taken by convention that magnetic field lines emerge from North pole and merge at
the South pole. Inside the magnet, their direction is from South pole to North pole. Therefore
magnetic field lines are closed curves.

Magnetic field lines due to current a current carrying straight conductor

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A current carrying straight conductor has magnetic field in the form of concentric circles,
around it. Magnetic field of current carrying straight conductor can be shown by magnetic
field lines.
The direction of magnetic field through a current carrying conductor depends upon the
direction of flow electric current.

Right-Hand Thumb Rule: If a current carrying conductor is held by right hand, keeping
the thumb straight and if the direction of electric current is in the direction of thumb, then the
direction of wrapping of other fingers will show the direction of magnetic field.

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Maxwell’s Corkscrew rule: As per Maxwell’s Corkscrew Rule, if the direction of
forward movement of screw shows the direction of the current, then the direction of rotation
of screw shows the direction of magnetic field.

Properties of magnetic field

 The magnitude of magnetic field increases with increase in electric current and
decreases with decrease in electric current.
 The magnitude of magnetic field produced by electric current decreases with
increase in distance and vice – versa. The size of concentric circles of magnetic
field lines increases with distance from the conductor, which shows that
magnetic field decreases with distance.
 Magnetic field lines are always parallel to each other.
 No two field lines cross each other.

Magnetic field lines due to a current through a circular loop

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In case of a circular current carrying conductor, the magnetic field is produced in the same
manner as it is in case of a straight current carrying conductor.

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Clock Face Rule: A current carrying loop works like a disc magnet. The polarity of this
magnet can be easily understood with the help of Clock Face Rule. If the current is flowing in
anti – clockwise direction, then the face of the loop shows north pole. On the other hand, if
the current is flowing in clockwise direction, then the face of the loop shows south pole.
Magnetic field and number of turns of coil: Magnitude of magnetic field gets
summed up with increase in the number of turns of coil. If there are ‘n’ turns of coil,
magnitude of magnetic field will be ‘n’ times of magnetic field in case of a single turn of coil.
The strength of the magnetic field at the centre of the loop(coil) depends on
:

(i) The radius of the coil: The strength of the magnetic field is inversely proportional to the
radius of the coil. If the radius increases, the magnetic strength at the centre decreases
(ii) The number of turns in the coil : As the number of turns in the coil increase, the
magnetic strength at the centre increases, because the current in each circular turn is having
the same direction, thus, the field due to each turn adds up.
(iii) The strength of the current flowing in the coil: As the strength of the current
increases, the strength of three magnetic fields also increases.
Magnetic field due to a current in a Solenoid: Solenoid is the coil with many
circular turns of insulated copper wire wrapped closely in the shape of a cylinder. A current
carrying solenoid produces similar pattern of magnetic field as a bar magnet. One end of
solenoid behaves as the north pole and another end behaves as the south pole.
A solenoid is a device comprised of a coil of wire, the housing and a
moveable plunger (armature). When an electrical current is introduced, a magnetic
field forms around the coil which draws the plunger in. More simply, a solenoid
converts electrical energy into mechanical work.

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Electromagnet: An electromagnet consists of a long coil of insulated copper wire
wrapped on a soft iron.Magnet formed by producing magnetic field inside a solenoid is called
electromagnet.

Force on a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field: A current carrying

conductor exerts a force when a magnet is placed in its vicinity. Similarly, a magnet also
exerts equal and opposite force on the current carrying conductor. This was suggested by
Marie Ampere, a French Physicist and considered as founder of science of electromagnetism.

Fleming’s Left-Hand Rule:

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If the direction of electric current is perpendicular to the magnetic field, the direction of force
is also perpendicular to both of them. The Fleming’s Left Hand Rule states that if the left
hand is stretched in a way that the index finger, the middle finger and the thumb are in
mutually perpendicular directions, then the index finger and middle finger of a stretched left
hand show the direction of magnetic field and direction of electric current respectively and
the thumb shows the direction of motion or force acting on the conductor. The directions of
electric current, magnetic field and force are similar to three mutually perpendicular axes, i.e.
x, y, and z-axis.

Many devices, such as electric motor, electric generator, loudspeaker, etc. work on Fleming’s
Left Hand Rule.

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A.C and D.C Current
A.C – Alternate Current: Current in which direction is changed periodically is called
Alternate Current. In India, most of the power stations generate alternate current. The
direction of current changes after every 1/100 second in India, i.e. the frequency of A.C in

India is 50 Hz. A.C is transmitted upto a long distance without much loss of energy is
advantage of A.C over D.C.
D.C – Direct Current: Current that flows in one direction only is called Direct current.
Electrochemical cells produce direct current.
Advantages of A.C over D.C

 Cost of generatior of A.C is much less than that of D.C.

 A.C can be easily converted to D.C.
 A.C can be controlled by the use of choke which involves less loss of power
whereas, D.C can be controlled using resistances which involves high energy
loss.
 AC can be transmitted over long distances without much loss of energy.
 AC machines are stout and durable and do not need much maintenance.

Disadvantages of AC

 AC cannot be used for the electrolysis process or showing electromagnetism as

it reverses its polarity.
 AC is more dangerous than DC.

Domestic Electric Circuits: We receive electric supply through mains supported

through the poles or cables. In our houses, we receive AC electric power of 220 V with a
frequency of 50 Hz.
The 3 wires are as follows

 Live wire – (Red insulated, Positive)

 Neutral wire – (Black insulated, Negative)
 Earth wire – (Green insulated) for safety measure to ensure that any leakage of
current to a metallic body does not give any serious shock to a user.

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Short Circuit: Short-circuiting is caused by the touching of live wires and neutral wire
and sudden a large current flows.
It happens due to

 damage pf insulation in power lines.

 a fault in an electrical appliance.

Overloading of an Electric Circuit: The overheating of electrical wire in any circuit

due to the flow of a large current through it is called overloading of the electrical circuit.
A sudden large amount of current flows through the wire, which causes overheating of wire
and may cause fire also.

Electric Fuse: It is a protective device used for protecting the circuit from short-circuiting
and overloading. It is a piece of thin wire of material having a low melting point and high
resistance.

 Fuse is always connected to live wire.

 Fuse is always connected in series to the electric circuit.
 Fuse is always connected to the beginning of an electric circuit.
 Fuse works on the heating effect.

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 Our Environment
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Environment refers to the surrounding of an organism where it thrives. It constitutes both living
(biotic) and non-living (abiotic) factors.

Ecosystem
The ecosystem comprises all the biotic and abiotic factors interacting with one another in a given
area. Biotic components include all living organisms such as plants, animals, microorganisms
and humans, etc. and abiotic components include sunlight, temperature, air, wind, rainfall, soil
and minerals, etc. E.g. pond ecosystem, grassland ecosystem, etc.

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Types of Ecosystem
1. Natural Ecosystem (Forest , River , Ocean, Desert etc.)
2. Artificial Ecosystem (Aquarium , Zoo , Garden etc.)

Trophic levels
It refers to the various levels in a food web as per the flow of energy. The different trophic levels
are –

 Producers (T1)
 Primary consumers (herbivores-T2)
 Secondary consumers (primary carnivores -T2)
 Tertiary consumers(Sec carnivores -T3)
 Quaternary consumers (Ter. carnivores T4)
 Decomposers

Pyramid of trophic levels

 Is a graphical representation.
 Can be the pyramid of numbers, the pyramid of biomass or the pyramid of energy.
 All the pyramids start with producers.
a) Pyramid of numbers: gives the number of organisms present at each trophic level.
It can be upright or inverted.
b) Pyramid of biomass: gives the biomass of each trophic level and could be upright or
inverted.
c) Pyramid of energy: is always upright as it shows the flow of energy from one trophic level to
the next trophic level.

Energy flow

 Transfer of energy from one trophic level to another depicting its direction and amount.
 Can be represented by the pyramid of energy.
 In any food chain, only 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to
another.

Food chain:
A food chain refers to the order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats
another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism. The flow of
nutrients and energy from one organism to another at different trophic levels forms a food chain.
In a food chain a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

Trophic Levels:
Food web:

A food web is a network of food chains which are interconnected to each other. In a food
chain, each member is eaten by the other in a particular sequence. The producers, consumers and
the decomposers of the various food chains are considered as the part of the food web.

Food Web consisting of many food chains

Energy Flow and 10% Law (Click here for video)

Ten per cent law is an enunciation given by Lindeman (1942) which states that only 10% of energy
contained in a lower trophic level is trapped by next higher tropic level, the remaining 90% being lost in
transfer and respiration of the latter.
 Flow chart showing flow of energy in an Ecosystem

Biomagnification:
Biomagnification is the process by which a compound (such as a pollutant or pesticide) increases
its concentration in the tissues of organisms in the higher levels of food chain. The increased
concentration of insecticide DDT in fishes in the following diagrammatic representation is one
instance of biomagnification.

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Ozone layer depletion:

Ozone layer depletion is the thinning of the ozone layer present in the upper atmosphere. This
happens when the chlorine and bromine atoms in the atmosphere come in contact with ozone
and destroy the ozone molecules. It is destroyed more quickly than it is created.

Causes of Ozone Layer Depletion

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Ozone-Depleting Substances Sources
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Refrigerators, air-conditioners, solvents, dry-
cleaning agents, etc.
Halons Fire-extinguishers
Carbon tetrachloride Fire extinguishers, solvents
Methyl chloroform Adhesives, aerosols
Solutions to Ozone Layer Depletion:
Avoid Using Ozone-Depleting Substances.
Minimise the Use of Vehicles
Use Eco-friendly Cleaning Products
Use of Nitrous Oxide should be prohibited.

Managing the Garbage we Produce

Improvements in our life-style have resulted in greater amounts of waste material generation.
Types of materials in garbage:

Biodegradable wastes:
Substances which can be decomposed by the action of microorganisms are called biodegradable
waste.
Example: Fruit and vegetable peels, cotton, jute, dung, paper, etc.

Non-biodegradable wastes:
Substances which cannot be decomposed by the action of microorganisms are called non-
biodegradable wastes.
Example: Plastic, polythenes, metals, synthetic fibres, radioactive wastes, pesticides etc.
Microorganisms release enzymes that decompose the materials. Enzymes cannot decompose all
the materials because they are specific in their action.
Waste management strategies:
Recycling
 Recycling is the process of treating and converting waste into new products that can be
used as raw materials by manufacturers. Plastics, glass, and paper are some examples of
recyclable waste.
 Along with dumping and segregating waste, we must go a step further in reducing the
amount of garbage we produce by applying the 3R’s principle – reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Composting
Composting is the decomposition of organic waste into manure. Plant wastes are among the
wastes that can be decomposed.
Incineration
 Incineration is the process of burning a substance at a high temperature. Incineration takes
place in an incinerator.
Landfills
 The most common waste disposal strategy today is to dump waste in landfills. This
strategy entails collecting biodegradable waste and burying it beneath the ground.
Sewage treatment
 The organic matter in sewage is digested in sewage treatment plant digesters to generate
clean water and produce sewage gas (a type of biogas) and manure.

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2 राम-लक्ष्मण परशुराम संवाद पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
4 आत्मकथ्य पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
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पाठ का सार 2 पी.पी.टी. 2 वीडियो पाठ 2 डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न 2 बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न 2
6 यह दन्तुररत मुस्कान / पाठ का सार 1 पी.पी.टी. 1 वीडियो पाठ 1 डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
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9 संगतकार पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
10 नेता जी का चश्मा पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
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12 लखनवी अंदाज़ पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
14 एक कहानी यह भी पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
16 नौबतखाने में इबादत पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
17 संस्कृडत पाठ का सार पी.पी.टी. वीडियो पाठ डवस्तृत उत्तरीय प्रश्न बहुडवकल्पीय प्रश्न
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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN,

ZIET GWALIOR

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CLASS - X (2022-23)

SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Zonal Institute of Education and Training,

Near Vivekananda Needam, P.B.No. 08
Gwalior- 474002
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 DIRECTOR

Dr. Anurag Yadav

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, and,
DIRECTOR, KVS-ZIET, GWALIOR

Co-ordinated and Compiled by:

1. Dr. N. Ambikapathy
Training Associate (Geography),
KVS- ZIET, Gwalior

2. Shri. Joseph K.A.

Training Associate (Economics),
KVS- ZIET, Gwalior.

3. Shri. Savindra Kumar Pandey

PGT-History,
(KV No.2, Gaya, Patna Region)

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 CONTENTS
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NO. DETAILS/UNITS PAGE NUMBER
1 Rise of Nationalism in Europe 4 to 8

2 Nationalism in India 9 to 13

3 Making of a Global World 14 to 17

4 Age of Industrialisation 18 to 21

5 Print Culture and Modern World 22 to 25

6 Resources and Development 26 to 33
7 Forest and Wild Life 34 to 35

8 Water Resources 36 to 38
9 Agriculture 39 to 43

10 Minerals and Energy Resources 44 to 46

11 Manufacturing Industries 47 to 50

12 Lifelines of National Economy 51 to 56

13 Power Sharing 57 to 58

14 Federalism 59 to 61

15 Gender, Religion and Caste 62 to 63

16 Political Parties 64 to 66

17 Outcomes of Democracy 67

18 Development 68 to 73

19 Sectors of Indian Economy 74 to 80

20 Money and Credit 81 to 84

21 Globalisation and Indian Economy 85 to 89

22 Consumer Rights 90 to 92

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Section A- INDIA AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD-II (HISTORY)

Chapter 1- RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation

French Revolution of 1789 was the first clear expression of nationalism.

• Steps taken by French Revolutionaries to create a sense of collective identity amongst the
French people:

→ Ideas of La patrie and Le citoyen

→ New French Flag

→ Estates General was elected and renamed National Assembly

→ New hymns composed and oaths taken

→ Centralized administration system

→ Internal customs duties and dues were abolished

→ Uniform system of weights and measures were introduced

→ French became the common language

Napolean

• Ruled France from 1799 to 1815.

• Gained absolute powers in 1799 by becoming the First Consul.

Civil Code of 1804 / Napoleonic Code

• Equality before the law was established

• Secured the right to property

• Simplified administrative measures

• Abolished feudal system

• Freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues

• Guild restrictions were removed

• Transport and communication systems were improved.

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Napoleon took away political freedom, increased taxes, imposed censorship and forced
people to join French army.

The Making of Nationalism in Europe

No Nation states were in Europe because of not common identity or culture.

• People residing in different areas spoke different languages.

→ Example: Hungary half of the population spoke Magyar other half spoke variety of
dialects and in Galicia people spoke Polish.

The Aristocracy and the New Middle Class

• Aristocracy

→ The land owning class.

→ Spoke French connected by ties of marriages.

→ Numerically a small group.

• Peasantry

→ Majority of population

• Middle class

→ New Social class emerged with the growth of towns and emergence of commercial
classes.

→ Educated class where ideas of nationality gained popularity.

What did Liberal Nationalism Stand for?

• Liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and equality for all before the law

→ The end of autocracy and clerical privileges

→ A constitution and representative government through parliament.

• In the economic sphere liberalism stood for the freedom of markets and the abolition of
state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.

• Zollverein abolished tariff barriers, reduced the number of currencies to two, and
promoted a network of railways to stimulate mobility.

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A New Conservatism after 1815

• Believed that established institutions of state and society should be preserved, with the
changes initiated by Napoleon.

Treaty of Vienna (1815)

• Bourbon dynasty was restored to power in France

• A series of states created on the French boundary for preventing French expansion in
future.

• German confederation was left untouched.

• Main intentions was to restore the monarchies that had been overthrown by Napoleon.

The Revolutionaries

A commitment to oppose monarchical forms that had been established after the Vienna
Congress, and to fight for liberty and freedom.

Giuseppe Mazzini

• Born in Genoa in 1807

• A member of the secret society of Carbonari

• Founded Young Italy in Marseellies, Young Europe in Berne.

• Believed in the unification of Italy into a republic.

The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848

• In July 1830, Bourbon kings of France were overthrown and a constitutional monarchy
was established.

• Belgium broke away from the United kingdoms of the Netherlands.

• Greece which had been a part of the Ottomon Empire since the fifteenth century,
struggled for independence.
→ Treaty of Constantinople of 1832 recognised Greece as an independent nation.
The Romantic Imagination and National Feeling

• A cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment,

criticized the glorification of reason and science and focused instead on emotions, intuition
and mystical feelings.

• German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder tried to discovered culture among common
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people, through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances.

Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt

• In most countries there were more seekers of jobs than employment.

• Population from rural areas migrated to the cities to live in overcrowded slums.

• The rise of food prices or a year of bad harvest led to widespread pauperism in town and
country.

• In 1848, the Population of Paris came out on the roads and Louis Philippe was forced to
flee and National Assembly proclaimed a Republic.

• In 1845, weavers in Silesia led a revolt against contractors.

1848: The Revolution of the Liberals

• The revolution was led by educated middle classes who combined their demands for
constitutionalism with national unification.

Frankfurt Parliament

• On 18 May 1848, members of political association‘s elected 831 representatives who took
their places in the Frankfurt Parliament convened in the Church of St. Paul and drafted a
Constitution for the German nation.

• It was opposed by King of Prussia and also lost its social basis as no rights were given to
workers and women.

• It forced the autocratic monarchs to introduce some changes – serfdom and bonded labour
was abolished

• Hungarians were granted more autonomy.

The Making of Germany and Italy

Germany

• Otto Van Bismarck with the help of Prussian army and bureaucracy took on the
leadership of the movement for national unification.

• Three war over seven years ended in Prussian victory and completed the process of
unification.

• Kaiser William I of Prussia headed the new German Empire.

Italy
• Italy was divided into seven states of which only Sardinia Piedmont was ruled by an
Italian Princely state.
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• Initially a unification programme was initiated by Giuseppe Mazzini, but it failed.

• Chief Miniser Cavour led the movement, with the help of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

• In 1861, Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy.

The Strange Case of Britain

• In 1688, England established as a nation state.

• English parliament seized power from the monarchy.

• The Act of Union 1707 resulted in the formation of the ‗United Kingdom of Great
Britain‘.

• In 1801, Ireland was forcibly taken by the British after the failed revolution.

• A new ‗British Nation‘ was founded through the propagation of a dominant English
culture.

Visualising the Nation

• Nations were portrayed as female figure (Allegory).

• The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular
woman in real life, rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form.

• In France the allegory was christened as Marianne, in Germany – Germania became the
allegory.

Nationalism and Imperialism

• The Balkans comprised modern-day Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Macedonia,

Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro.

• Balkans was a region of geographical and ethnic variation was under the control of the
Ottomon Empire.

• The idea of Romantic nationalism made this region very explosive.

• The Balkan states were fiercely jealous of each other and each hoped to gain more
territory at the expense of each other.

• European powers were also looking for the extend their control over the area.

• This led to a series of wars in the region and finally resulted in the First World War.
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Chapter 2- NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Introduction
Nationalism is an internal feeling to betterment of our country in every aspect.
• Modern nationalism was associated with the formation of nation-states.
• In India like many other colonies, the growth of modern nationalism is connected to the
anti-colonial movement.
The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation

• The First World War (1914-1918) created a new political and economic situation.

• India faced various problems during war period:

→ Increase in defence expenditure.
→ Prices increased through the war years.
→ Forced recruitment in rural areas.

• During 1918-19 and 1920-21, crops failure in many parts of India.

• Hardships did not end after the war was over.

The Idea of Satyagraha

• Satyagraha is a novel way of fighting the colonial rule in India.

→ It is a non-aggressive, peaceful mass agitation against oppression and injustice.

• Satyagraha means insistence on truth.

• It is a moral force, not passive resistance.

• In January 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned to India.

• Gandhiji organised Satyagraha Movements in Champaran, Bihar (1917), amongst cotton

mill workers in Ahmedabad (1918)and Kheda district of Gujarat (1918) .

The Rowlatt Act (1919)

• This act gave the government enormous powers to repress political activities and allowed
detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

• On 13th April 1919, a huge crowd gathered in the enclosed ground of Jallianwalla Bagh.

• Dyer entered the area, blocked the exit points, and opened fire on the crowd, killing
hundreds.

• As the news spread, strikes, clashes with the police and attacks on government buildings
started.

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• The government responded with brutal repression.

• Gandhi called off the Rowlatt satyagraha as the violence spread.

Khilafat Movement

• Khilafat Movement was led by two brothers Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali.

• Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919 to defend the Khalifa‘s
temporal powers.

• Gandhiji convinced the Congress to join hands with the Khilafat Movement and start a
Non-Cooperation Campaign for Swaraj.

• At the Congress session at Nagpur in December 1920, the Non-Cooperation programme

was adopted.

Differing strands within the movement

• The Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement began in January 1921.

The Movement in the Towns

• It started with middle class participation in cities.

• Students, teachers, lawyers gave up studies, jobs, legal practices and joined movements.

• Council elections were boycotted.

• Foreign goods were boycotted.

• Liquor shops were picketed.

Movement in the countryside

• Peasants and tribals took over the struggle which turned violent gradually.

Peasant Movement in Awadh

• The peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra in Awadh against landlords and talukdars.

• In 1920, the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba
Ramchandra and a few others.

Movement of Tribals in Andhra Pradesh

• Alluri Sitaram Raju led the guerrilla warfare in the Gudem Hills of Andhra Pradesh.

• The rebels attacked police stations.

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• Raju was captured and executed in 1924.

Swaraj in the Plantations

• For the plantation workers, Swaraj means moving freely.

• They protested against the Inland Emigration Act (1859) which prevented them from
leaving the plantation without permission.

• Each group interpreted the term swaraj in their own ways.

Towards Civil Disobedience

• In February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation

Movement.

• Many leaders such as C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party within the
Congress to argue for a return to council politics.

• Younger leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose pressed for more
radical mass agitation and for full independence.

Factors that shaped Indian politics towards the late 1920s

• The Worldwide Economic Depression

→ Agricultural prices collapsed after 1930 as the demand for agricultural goods fell and
exports declined.

• Simon Commission
→ It was constituted by the Tory government of Britain to look into the demands of the
nationalists and suggest changes in the constitutional structure of India.
→ The Commission arrived in India in 1928.
→ The Congress protested against this commission.

• In December, 1929, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Lahore session of
Congress formalized the demand of ―Purna Swaraj‖.

The Salt March and the Civil Disobedience Movement

• Gandhiji chose salt as the medium that could unite the nation as it is consumed by all the
sections of the society.

Salt March

• Salt or Dandi March began on March 12, 1930.

→ On 6th April 1930, Gandhiji reached Dandi, a village in Gujarat and broke the Salt Law
by boiling water and manufacturing salt.
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→ Thus, it began the Civil Disobedience Movement.

• It was different from Non-Cooperation Movement as people were now asked not only to
refuse cooperation but also to break colonial laws.

• Boycott of foreign goods, non-payment of taxes, breaking forest laws were its main
features.

• The British Government followed a policy of brutal repression.

• British government arrested all the leaders including Gandhiji and Nehru.

• Mahatma Gandhi called off the movement.

Gandhi-Irwin Pact (Delhi Pact)

• On 5 March, 1931, Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, signed a pact with Gandhi.

• • In December, 1931, Gandhiji went to London for the Second Round Table Conference
but returned disappointed.

• Gandhi relaunched the Civil Disobedience Movement but by 1934 it lost its momentum.

How Participants saw the Movement

Rich peasants

• Rich peasant communities expected the revenue tax to be reduced, when the British
refused to do so, they did join the movement.
→ They did not rejoin the movement as the movement was called without revising the
revenue rates.

Poor Peasants

• The poor peasants wanted rents of lands to be remitted.

→ The Congress was unwilling to support the ―no rent‖ campaigns due to the fear of
upsetting the rich peasants and landlords.

Business Classes

• After the war, their huge profits were reduced, wanted protection against import of
foreign goods.
→ The spread of militant activities, worries of prolonged business disruptions, growing
influences of socialism amongst the young Congress forced them not to join the movement.

Women

• Women also participated in protest marches, manufactured salt, and picketed foreign
cloth and liquor shops.
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→ Congress was reluctant to allow women to hold any position of authority within the
organisation.

Limits of Civil Disobedience

• The Dalits or the Untouchables did not actively participate in the movement, they
demanded reservation of seats, separate electorates.

• Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of the Dalits, formed an association in 1930, called the
Depressed Classes Association.

• He clashed with Gandhiji.

• Poona Pact between the Gandhiji and B.R. Ambedkar (1932) gave reserved seats in
Provincial and Central Councils but were voted by general electorate.

• The leader of the Muslim League M.A. Jinnah wanted reserved seats for Muslims in
Central Assembly.
→ Large sections of Muslims did not participate in the Civil disobedience movement.

The Sense of Collective Belonging

• The sense of collective belonging came partly through the experience of united struggles.

• History and fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols, all played a part in
the making of nationalism.
. Nation came to been seen in image of BHARAT MATA. Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay created the first image of Bharat Mata.
.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee hymns to mother land .Vande Mataram to be sung widely in
Nationalist movements.

• By 1921, Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag. It was again a tricolour (red, green and
white) and had a spinning wheel in the centre.

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Chapter 3- THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD
Introduction
• Globalisation is an economic system associated with the free movement of goods,
technology, ideas and people across the globe.

Section I: Pre Modern World

Silk Routes

• There are several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia,
and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
→ Famous Chinese silk cargoes used to travel through these routes.

Food Travels: Spaghetti and Potato

• Noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti.

• Common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet
potatoes were only introduced in Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus discovered
Americas.

Conquest, Disease and Trade

• Precious metals from mines of Peru and Mexico enhanced European trade with Asia.

• The Spanish conquerors used the germs of smallpox in the conquest of America.

• Until well into the eighteenth century, China and India were among the world‘s richest
countries.

• Until the nineteenth century, poverty and hunger were common in Europe.

Section II: The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)

• In the late eighteenth century, growth in the population increased the demand for food
grains in Britain.

• The imported food into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced within the
country.

• Industrial growth took place in Britain which led to higher incomes meaning more food
imports.

• It was transported by railway and by ships.

• Food is only an example. Products such as cotton, rubber, coal also had same fate.

Role of Technology
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• The railways, steamships, the telegraph were important inventions that transformed
nineteenth-century world.

• After the introduction of new technology, namely, refrigerated ships animals were
slaughtered for food at the starting point and then transported to Europe as frozen meat.

Late nineteenth-century Colonialism

• European conquests of Asia and Africa as colonies.

• Belgium and Germany became new colonial powers.

• The US became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier
held by Spain.

Rinderpest, or the Cattle Plague

• Rinderpest is a fast spreading cattle plague which hit Africa in the late 1880s.

• It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia and destroyed 90 percent of
the livestock.

• The colonial governments now strengthen their power and to force Africans into the
labour market.

Indentured Labour Migration from India

• Indentured Labour was a bonded labourer under contract to work for an employer.

• In the nineteenth century, thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on
plantations, in mines, and in road and railway construction projects around the world.

• Recruitment was done by agents by providing false information about the work and
location.

• On arrival at the plantations, labourers found living and working conditions harsh.

• It was abolished in 1921.

Indian Entrepreneurs Abroad

• Indian entrepreneurs, some bankers like Nattukottai and Chettiars financed export of
agriculture to Central and South-East Asia.
→ They even followed the Europeans to Africa.
• Industrial Revolution in England changed the balance of trade between England and
India.

• Indian handicraft and agriculture were destroyed and Britain enjoyed a trade surplus with
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India.
→ Their exports increased and imports decreased.

Section III: The Inter-war Economy

• The First World war was the first modern industrial war.

• During the war, industries were restructured to produce war-related goods.

• The war transformed the US from being an international debtor to an international

creditor.
Post-war Recovery

• After the war was over, the production reduced and unemployment increased.

Rise of Mass Production and Consumption

• In the US, war recovery was quicker.

• ‗Assembly line‘ method introduced by Henry Ford soon spread to the US and were also
widely copied in Europe in the 1920s.

• Mass production lowered the costs and prices of engineered goods.

• There was a housing and consumer boom in the 1920s, which ultimately led to the Great
Depression of 1929.

• Markets crashed in 1929 and led to the failure of banks and the crisis affected other
countries.
→ By 1933, over 4000 banks closed and between 1929-32 about 110,000 companies
collapsed.

India and the Great Depression

• India was also affected by the Great Depression.

• Indian exports and imports declined extensively, prices fell.

• Bengal jute growers suffered the most.

• Large scale migration took place from villages to towns and cities.

Section IV: Rebuilding a World Economy: The Post-war Era

• The Second World War broke out a mere two decades after the end of the First World
War and once again, it led to destruction.

• After the USA and the USSR emerged as superpowers.

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Post-war Settlement and the Bretton Woods Institutions

• To ensure a stable economy a framework was agreed upon at the United Nations
Monetary and Financial Conference held at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA.

• It established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) to deal with external surpluses and deficits of its
member nations.

• The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (popularly known as the
World Bank) was set up to finance post-war reconstruction.

• The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in 1947.

• Bretton Woods System was based on a fixed exchange rate.

• National currencies were pegged to the American dollar at a fixed rate.

• Decision-making in these institutions is controlled by the Western industrial powers

largely by the US.

Decolonisation and Independence

• Many countries in Asia and Africa became independent nations, supported by UNO and
NAM.(Non –Aligned –Movement)
• Group of 77 or G-77 was organised by developing countries to demand a new
international economic order (NIEO) which would give these countries real control over
their national resources, raw materials, manufactured goods in their markets.
• MNCs or multinational companies were established in the 1950s and 1960s and operated
in several countries.

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Chapter 4- THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION

Before the Industrial Revolution

• Proto-industrialisation was a phase when there was large-scale industrial production for
an international market which was not based on factories.

• Proto-industrial system was part of a network of commercial exchanges.

The Coming Up of the Factory

• By the 1730s, the earliest factories in England came up.

• The first symbol of the new era was cotton.

→ A series of inventions in the eighteenth century increased the efficacy of each step of the
production process.

• Richard Arkwright created the cotton mill.

The Pace of Industrial Change

How rapid was the process of industrialisation?

• The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.

• The new industries could not easily displace traditional industries.

• Technological changes occurred slowly because:

→ The New technology was expensive.
→ The machines often broke down and repair was costly.
→ They were not as effective as their inventors and manufacturers claimed.

Hand Labour and Steam Power

• In Victorian Britain, there was no shortage of human labour.

• Therefore, industrialists did not want to introduce machines which required large capital
investment.

• Many seasonal industries were also there who usually preferred hand labour.

• Handmade goods came to symbolize refinement and class

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Life of the Workers

• Labours were available in abundance in the market which affected the lives of workers.

• After the busy season was over, workers became jobless.

• In the early nineteenth century, wages increased but the prices of goods also increased.

Industrialisation in the Colonies

The Age of Indian Textiles

• Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from India dominated the
international market in textiles.

• A vibrant sea trade operated through the main pre-colonial ports.

What Happened to Weavers?

• After the East India Company established political power, they tried to eliminate the
existing traders and brokers and establish a more direct control over the weaver.

• It appointed a paid servant called the gomastha to supervise weavers, collect supplies, and
examine the quality of cloth.
→ Loans were provided for purchasing raw material for production.
→ The produced cloth was to be handed over to the gomastha.

• In many weaving villages there were reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas
because:
→ The new gomasthas were outsiders, with no long-term social link with the village.
→ The price weavers received from the Company was miserably low.

Manchester Comes to India

• As cotton industries developed in England, industrial groups pressurised the government

to impose import duties on cotton textiles so that Manchester goods could sell in Britain
without competition.

• Also, they persuaded the East India Company to sell British manufactures in Indian
markets as well.

• Thus, cotton weavers in India faced two problems at the same time:
→ Their export market collapsed as market overloaded with Manchester imports.
→ Availability of lower cost cotton goods produced by machines.

• By the end of the nineteenth century, factories in India began production, flooding the
market with machine-made goods which created a problem of weavers.
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Factories Come Up

• In 1854, the first cotton mill in Bombay came up.

• In 1855, first jute mill in Bengal came up.

• By 1862, four cotton mills came up.

• In 1862, another jute mill came up.

• In the 1860s, the Elgin mill was started in Kanpur

• In 1861, the first cotton mill of Ahmadabad was set up.

• In 1874, the first spinning and weaving mill of Madras began production.

The Early Entrepreneurs

• In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune in the China trade.

• In Bombay, Parsis like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata who built huge
industrial empires in India.

• After colonial power came in power, Indian businessmen were barred from trading with
Europe in manufactured goods.

Where Did the Workers Come From?

• In most industrial regions workers came from the districts around.

• Industrialists usually employed a jobber to get new recruits.

→ He got people from his village, ensured them jobs, helped them settle in the city.

The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth

• European Managing Agencies established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at
cheap rates from the colonial government.

• By the first decade of the twentieth century, the swadeshi movement promoted Indian
industries.

• From 1906, moreover, the export of Indian yarn to China declined since produce from
Chinese and Japanese mills flooded the Chinese market.

• During the First World War, British mills busy with war production to meet the needs of
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the army, Manchester imports into India declined.

• After the war, Manchester could never recapture its old position in the Indian market.

Small-scale Industries Predominate

• Large industries formed only a small segment of the economy and most of them were
located in Bengal and Bombay.

• In the twentieth century, handicrafts production and handloom actually expanded.

• By the second decade of the 20th century, weavers used looms with a fly shuttle.

Market for Goods

• New consumers are created is through advertisements.

• Advertisements appear in newspapers, magazines, hoardings, street walls, television

screens.

• Advertisements became a vehicle of the nationalist message of Swadeshi.

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Chapter 5- PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD
The First Printed Books

Print in China
• The earliest print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea.
• By the seventeenth century, as urban culture bloomed in China, the uses of print
diversified.
• In the late nineteenth century, western printing techniques and mechanical presses were
imported as Western powers established their outposts in China.
• Shanghai became the hub of the new print culture.
Print in Japan
• Around AD 768-770, Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing
technology into Japan.

• The Buddhist Diamond Sutra was the oldest Japanese book which was printed in AD 868.

Print Comes to Europe

• In the 11th century, Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route.

• In 1295, Marco Polo, a great explorer, returned to Italy from China and brought printing
knowledge back with him.

• Italians began producing books with woodblocks, and soon the technology spread to other
parts of Europe.
→ As the demand for books increased, booksellers all over Europe began exporting books
to many different countries.

• But the production of handwritten manuscripts could not satisfy the ever-increasing
demand for books because:
→ Copying was an expensive, laborious and time-consuming business.
→ Manuscripts were fragile, awkward to handle.

• In the 1430s, Johann Gutenberg invented new printing technology by developing first-
known printing press at Strasbourg, Germany.

Gutenberg and the Printing Press

• Gutenberg learned the art of polishing stones, became a master goldsmith, and also
acquired the expertise to create lead moulds used for making trinkets.

• Based on this knowledge, Gutenberg adapted existing technology to design his

innovation.

• By 1448, Gutenberg perfected the system.

→ The first book he printed was the Bible.

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• Between 1450 and 1550, printing presses were set up in most countries of Europe.

The Print Revolution and Its Impact

A New Reading Public

• Access to books created a new culture of reading.

• However, the rates of literacy in most European countries were very low till the twentieth
century which was a major hurdle in spreading of this culture.

• So printers began publishing popular ballads and folk tales, and such books would be
profusely illustrated with pictures.

Religious Debates and the Fear of Print

• People believed can lead to the fear of the spread of rebellious and irreligious thoughts.

• In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote ‗Ninety Five Theses‘ criticising many
of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.
→ This led to a division within the Church and to the beginning of the Protestant
Reformation.

The Reading Mania

• By the end of the eighteenth century, in some parts of Europe literacy rates were as high
as 60 to 80 percent.

• In England, Penny chapbooks were carried by petty pedlars known as chapmen and sold
for a penny.

• In France were the ‗Biliotheque Bleue‘ - low priced small books printed on poor quality
paper and bound in cheap blue covers.

• Newspapers and journals carried information about wars and trade, as well as news of
developments in other places.
Print Culture and the French Revolution

• Print culture created the conditions within which French Revolution occurred.

• Print popularized the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers.

• Print created a new culture of dialogue and debate.

• By the 1780s, literature mocked the royalty and criticized their morality were large in
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The Nineteenth Century

Children, Women and Workers

• In 1857, in France, a children‘s press, devoted to literature for children alone was set up.
• Women became important as readers as well as writers.

• Penny Magazines were especially meant for women, manuals teaching proper behaviors
and housekeeping.

• In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in England became a medium for educating
white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle-class people.

Further Innovations

• By mid-19th Century, Richard M. Hoe perfected the power driven cylindrical press.

• In the late 19th century, offset press was developed that can print up to six colours at a
time.

• By the 20th century, electrically operated presses accelerated printing operations.

India and the World of Print

Manuscripts Before the Age of Print

• In India, manuscripts were copied on palm leaves or on handmade paper.

Print Comes to India

• In the mid-sixteenth century, the printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese
missionaries.

• By 1674: About 50 books had been printed in Konkani and in Karana languages.

• Cochin, 1579, Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book

• In 1713, Catholic priests printed the first Malayalam book

• By 1710, Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts

• From 1780: James Augustus Hickey began editing the Bengal Gazette, a weekly
magazine.

Religious Reform and Public Debates

• From the early nineteenth century, there were intense debates around religious issues.

• Different groups offered a variety of new interpretations of the beliefs of different

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religions.

• In 1821, Rammohun Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi.

• In 1810, the first printed edition of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, a 16th century text
published in Calcutta.

New Forms of Publication

• The novel, a literary firm which had developed in Europe soon acquired distinctively
Indian forms and styles.

• Other new literary forms such as lyrics, short stories, essays about social and political
matters also entered the world of reading.

• Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced visual images for mass circulation.

Women and Print

• Liberal husbands and fathers began educating their womenfolk at home.

• Conservative Hindus believed that a literate girl would be widowed.

• Muslims feared that educated women would be corrupted by reading Urdu romances.

Print and the Poor People

• In the 19th century, very cheap and small books were brought to markets.
• From the late nineteenth century, issues of caste discrimination began to be written about
in many printed tracts and essays.
Print and Censorship
• Before 1798, the colonial state under the East India Company was not much concerned
about censorship.
• By 1820s, the Calcutta Supreme Court passed certain regulations to control press
freedom.
• After the revolt of 1857, the attitude to freedom of the press changed.
In 1878, the Vernacular Press Act was passed which provided the government with
extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press. Despite repressive
measures, nationalist newspapers grew in numbers in all parts of India.

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Section B- CONTEMPORARY INDIA-II ( GEOGRAPHY)

Chapter 1- RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

Resources
Everything in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs and is
technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable is termed as
‗Resource‘. Human beings themselves are essential components of resources. They
transform material available in the environment into resources and use them.

Classification of Resources
Resources can be classified in the following ways:
(a) On the basis of origin – biotic and abiotic
(b) On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable and non-renewable
(c) On the basis of ownership – individual, community, national and international
(d) On the basis of the status of development – potential, developed stock and reserves

On the Basis of Origin – Biotic and Abiotic

Biotic Resources are obtained from the biosphere and have life.
Eg: Human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock etc.

Abiotic Resources: All those things which are composed of non-living things are called
abiotic resources. Eg: rocks and metals.

(b) On the Basis of Exhaustibility – Renewable and Non-Renewable

The resources which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical
processes are known as Renewable or Replenishable Resources.
The renewable resource may further be divided into continuous or flow.
Eg: Solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife, etc.

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Non-Renewable Resources occur over a very long geological time. These resources take
millions of years in their formation. Some of the resources like metals are recyclable and
some like fossil fuels cannot be recycled and get exhausted with their use.
Eg: Minerals and fossil fuels.( Coal, petroleum etc)
(c) On the Basis of Ownership – Individual, Community, National and International
Individual Resources are owned privately by individuals. In villages people own lands
whereas in urban areas people own plots, houses and other properties.
Eg: Plantation, pasture lands, ponds, water in wells etc.

Community Owned Resources are accessible to all the members of the

community.Eg: Grazing grounds, burial grounds, public parks, picnic spots,
playgrounds etc.

National Resources are owned by a nation or country. All the minerals, water resources,
forests, wildlife, land within the political boundaries and oceanic area up to 12 nautical
miles (22.2 km) from the coast termed as territorial water and resources therein belong to
the nation.
Eg: Roads, canals, railways etc.
International Resources are regulated by international institutions. The oceanic
resources beyond 200 nautical miles of the Exclusive Economic Zone belong to open
ocean and no individual country can utilise these without the concurrence of
international institutions.
(d) On the Basis of the Status of Development – Potential, Developed Stock and Reserves.

Potential Resources are the resources which are found in a region but have not been
utilised.
Eg: Rajasthan and Gujarat have enormous potential for the development of wind and solar
energy, but so far these have not been developed properly.

Developed Resources- Resources, which are surveyed and their quality and quantity
have been determined for utilisation. The development of resources depends on
technology andlevel of their feasibility.
Stock.Materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs but
human beings do not have the appropriate technology to access these, are called Stock.
Eg: Hydrogen can be used as a rich source of energy. But we do not have advanced
technology to use it.
Reserves are the subset of the stock, which can be put into use with the help of existing
technical ‗know-how‘ but their use has not been started. These can be used for meeting
future requirements.
Eg: Water in the dams, forests etc. is a reserve which can be used in the future.

Development of Resources
Resources have been used by human beings indiscriminately and this has led to the
following major problems.
Depletion of resources for satisfying the greed of a few individuals.
Accumulation of resources in a few hands, which, in turn, divided the society into two
segments i.e rich and poor.
It has led to global ecological crises such as global warming, ozone layer depletion,
environmental pollution and land degradation.
Resource planning is essential for the sustainable existence of all forms of life.
Sustainable Economic Development means ―development should take place without
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damaging the environment, and development in the present should not compromise with
the needs of future generations.‖
Resource Planning
In India, there are some regions which can be considered self-sufficient in terms of the
availability of resources and there are some regions which have acute shortage of some
vital resources. This calls for balanced resource planning at the national, state, regional and
local levels.
Resource Planning in India
Resource planning is a complex process which involves:
(i) Identification and inventory of resources across the regions of the country. This involves
surveying, mapping and qualitative and quantitative estimation and measurement of the
resources.
(ii) Evolving a planning structure endowed with appropriate technology, skill and
institutional set up for implementing resource development plans.
(iii) Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans.
Resources can contribute to development only when they are accompanied by appropriate
technological development and institutional changes. India has made concerted efforts
towards achieving the goals of resource planning, right from the First Five Year Plan
launched after Independence.
To overcome irrational consumption and over-utilisation of resources, resource
conservation at various levels is important.
Land Resources
Land is a natural resource of utmost importance. It supports natural vegetation, wildlife,
human life, economic activities, transport and communication systems. India has land
under a variety of relief features, namely; mountains, plateaus, plains and islands as shown
below:

Land Utilisation
Land resources are used for the following purposes:
Forests
Land not available for cultivation
a) Barren and wasteland
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b) Land put to non-agricultural uses
4. Fallow lands
5. Other uncultivated lands (excluding fallow land)
6. Net sown area
Land Use Pattern in India
The use of land is determined
Physical factors: such as topography, climate, soil types
Human factors: such as population density, technological capability and culture and
traditions etc.

The data below represents the land use pattern in India.

Waste land is the land put to other non-agricultural uses which include rocky, arid and
desert areas, roads, railways, industry etc. Continuous use of land over a long period of
time without taking appropriate measures to conserve and manage it, has resulted in land
degradation.
Land Degradation and Conservation Measures
Human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, mining and quarrying have
contributed significantly to land degradation. Mining sites leave deep scars and traces of
over-burdening the land. In recent years, industrial effluents as waste have become a major
source of land and water pollution in many parts of the country.
Some of the ways through which we can solve the problems of land degradation are:
Afforestation and proper management of grazing.
Planting of shelter belts of plants.
Stabilisation of sand dunes by growing thorny bushes.
Proper management of waste lands.
Control of mining activities.
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Proper discharge and disposal of industrial effluents and wastes after treatment.
Soil as a Resource
Soil is the most important renewable natural resource. It is the medium of plant growth and
supports different types of living organisms on the earth.
It takes millions of years to form soil upto a few cms in depth. Various forces of nature
such as change in temperature, actions of running water, wind and glaciers, activities of
decomposers etc contribute to the formation of soil.
Parent rock or bedrock, climate, vegetation and other forms of life and time are important
factors in the formation of soil.
Chemical and organic changes which take place in the soil play an important role.
Soil also consists of organic (humus) and inorganic materials.
Classification of Soils
On the basis of the factors responsible for soil formation, colour, thickness, texture, age,
chemical and physical properties, the soils of India are classified in different types as
mentioned below.
Alluvial Soils
The entire northern plains are made of alluvial soil.
The Alluvial Soil is deposited by 3 important Himalayan river systems – the Indus, the
Ganga and the Brahmaputra.
It is also found in Rajasthan, Gujarat and eastern coastal plains particularly in the deltas of
the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri rivers.
The alluvial soil consists of various proportions of sand, silt and clay. As we move inlands
towards the river valleys, soil particles appear to be bigger in size whereas in the upper side
of the river valley, the soils are coarse.
Based on age, Alluvial soils can be classified as:
Old Alluvial (Bangar): The Bangar soil has a higher concentration of kanker nodules
thanthe Khadar.
New Alluvial (Khadar): It has more fine particles and is more fertile than the Bangar.
Alluvial soils are very fertile. These soils contain an adequate proportion of potash,
phosphoric acid and lime, which are ideal for the growth of sugarcane, paddy, wheat and
other cereal and pulse crops.

Black Soil
This soil is black in colour and is also known as regur soil. Climatic conditions along with
the parent rock material are the important factors for the formation of black soil.
The soil is ideal for growing cotton and is also known as black cotton soil.
This type of soil is typical of the Deccan trap (Basalt) region spread over northwest Deccan
plateau and is made up of lava flows.
The soil covers the plateaus of Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh and extends in the south-east direction along the Godavari and the Krishna
valleys.
The black soils are made up of extremely fine i.e. clayey material and well-known for their
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capacity to hold moisture.
Black soil is nutrients rich and contains calcium carbonate, magnesium, potash and lime.
The soil is sticky when wet and difficult to work on unless tilled immediately after the first
shower or during the pre-monsoon period.

Red and Yellow Soils

This type of soil develops on crystalline igneous rocks in areas of low rainfall in the eastern
and southern parts of the Deccan plateau.
These soils develop a reddish colour due to diffusion of iron in crystalline and
metamorphic rocks. It looks yellow when it occurs in a hydrated form.
Found in parts of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, southern parts of the middle Ganga plain and along
the piedmont zone of the Western Ghats.

Laterite Soil
The laterite soil develops under tropical and subtropical climate with the alternate wet and
dry season.
This soil is the result of intense leaching due to heavy rain.
Lateritic soils are acidic (pH<6.0) in nature and generally deficient in plant nutrients. This
type of soil is found mostly in Southern states, Western Ghats region of Maharashtra,
Odisha, some parts of West Bengal and North-east regions.
The soil supports deciduous and evergreen forests but humus poor.
This soil is very useful for growing tea and coffee.

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Arid Soils
Arid soils range from red to brown in colour.
This soil is generally sandy in texture and saline in nature. In some areas, the salt content is
very high and common salt is obtained by evaporating the water.
Arid soil lacks humus and moisture.
The lower horizons of the soil are occupied by Kankar because of the increasing calcium
content downwards. The Kankar layer formations in the bottom horizons restrict the
infiltration of water.

Forest Soils
These soils are found in the hilly and mountainous areas.
The soil texture is loamy and silty in valley sides and coarse grained in the upper slopes.
In the snow covered areas of Himalayas, these soils experience denudation and are acidic
with low humus content. The soil is fertile on the river terraces and alluvial fans.
The map below shows the different types of soils found in India.

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Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation
The denudation of the soil cover and subsequent washing down is described as soil erosion.
The soil erosion is caused due to human activities like deforestation, over-grazing,
construction and mining etc. Also, there are some natural forces like wind, glacier and
water which lead to soil erosion. Soil erosion is also caused due to defective methods of
farming.
The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels as gullies. The
land becomes unfit for cultivation and is known as bad land. When water flows as a sheet
over large areas down a slope and the topsoil is washed away, it is known as sheet erosion.
Wind blows loose soil off flat or sloping land known as wind erosion.
Different Ways for Soil Conservation.
Ploughing along the contour lines decelerate the flow of water down the slopes. This is
called Contour Ploughing.
Terrace cultivation restricts erosion. This type of agriculture practice is done in Western
and Central Himalayas.
When a large field is divided into strips and strips of grass are left to grow between the
crops. Then, this breaks up the force of the wind. This method is known as Strip Cropping.
Planting lines of trees to create shelter helps in the stabilisation of sand dunes and in
stabilising the desert in western India. Rows of such trees are called Shelter Belts.

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Chapter 2- FOREST AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES

GIST OF THE LESSON / MIND MAP

Biodiversity is extremely diverse on earth and works interdependently. It is a system of
closely knit networks that sustains the ecosystem. India has world's largest biodiversity
thriving on its land and 10 per cent of the recorded wild flora and 20 per cent of its
mammals are on the threatened list.
As the list generated by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources (1UCN), the species can classified as following
Normal species: They have population levels normal for survival. Example: pine, rodents,
etc.
Endangered Species: They are in danger of extinction and would eventually decline if the
present conditions continue. Example: crocodile, rhino, lion tale macaque etc.
Vulnerable species: These species are vulnerable to fall into the endangered category in
near future. Example: Asiatic elephant, dolphin, blue sheep etc
Rare species: They have a small population which can move to endangered or vulnerable
category in near future if the present conditions for their survival sustain itself. Example:
Asiatic buffalo, hornbill etc
Endemic species: These species are only found in limited geographical area. Example:
Andaman teal. Nicobar pigeon, Andaman wild pig. mithun in Arunachal Pradesh.
Extinct species: These species are not found in the areas they were likely to be found.
Example: Asiatic cheetah, pink head duck.

CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

Between 1951 and 1980, according to the Forest Survey of India, over 26,200 sq. km. of
forest area was converted into agricultural land all over India and substantial parts of the
tribal belts, especially in the northeastern and central India were deforested to practice
shifting cultivation Gum), a type of "slash and burn agriculture Around 5,000 sq km of
forest lands have been cleared to progress river valley projects since 1951. For example
About 40,000 hectares of forests were cleared for the Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya
Pradesh.

KEY WORDS OF THE LESSON

Natural Resources: These are the gifts produced by nature such as air, water, soil etc.
Ecology: The science which deals with the inter relation between various organisms and
physical environment.
Endangered species: Plants and animals which are extinct or in the danger of getting
extinct. 4. Wild life sanctuary: A reserved area for preserving natural beauty. e.g.
Ranthambhor wild life sanctuary.
4.Biosphere: Part of the earth which is covered by living organisms both plants and
animals.
Soil: The upper layer of the ground containing weathered rock and humus.
Coniferous forest: Evergreen trees that bear needle like leaves. 8. Deciduous forest: Type
of trees that lose their leaves every year.
7. Ecosystem: An integrated unit consisting of the community of living organisms and the
physical environment.
8. Flora: Plants of a particular region or period are referred to as flora.

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Chapter 3- WATER RESOURCES
Three-fourth of the earth‘s surface is covered with water but only a small proportion of it
accounts for freshwater, that can be put to use. Water is a renewable resource.
Water Scarcity and the Need for Water Conservation and Management
The availability of water resources varies over space and time.
Water scarcity is caused by over-exploitation, excessive use and unequal access to water
among different social groups.
Water resources are being over-exploited to expand irrigated areas for dry-season
agriculture.
In some areas, water is sufficiently available to meet the needs of the people. But, those
areas still suffer from water scarcity due to bad quality of water.
The need of the hour is to conserve and manage our water resources:
To safeguard ourselves from health hazards.
To ensure food security, continuation of our livelihoods and productive activities.
To prevent degradation of our natural ecosystems.

Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resources Management

In ancient times, we used to conserve water by constructing sophisticated hydraulic
structures like dams built of stone rubble, reservoirs or lakes, embankments and canals for
irrigation. We have continued this tradition in modern India by building dams in most of
our river basins.
Dams
A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow, often
creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. ―Dam‖ refers to the reservoir rather than the
structure.
Uses of Dam:
Dams are built:
To impound rivers and rainwater that can be used later to irrigate agricultural fields.
For electricity generation.
Water supply for domestic and industrial uses.
Flood control.
Recreation, inland navigation and fish breeding.
Side effects of Creating Dams
Regulating and damming of rivers affect their natural flow.
Poorer the habitats for the rivers‘ aquatic life.
Fragment rivers make it difficult for aquatic fauna to migrate.
Dams created on the floodplains submerge the existing vegetation and soil leading to its
decomposition over a period of time.
Creating of large dams has been the cause of many new environmental movements like the
‗Narmada Bachao Andolan‘ and the ‗Tehri Dam Andolan‘ etc.
Many times local people had to give up their land, livelihood and their control over
resources for the construction of the dam.
Most of the objections to the projects arose due to their failure to achieve the purposes for
which they were built. Most of the dams were constructed to control floods but, these dams
have triggered floods. Dams have also caused extensive soil erosion. Excessive use of
water has resulted in earthquakes, caused water-borne diseases and pests and pollution.
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Rain Water Harvesting

Rainwater harvesting is a simple method by which rainfall is collected for future usage.
The collected rainwater may be stored, utilised in different ways or directly used for
recharge purposes.
Different methods have been adopted in different areas for Rain Water Harvesting.
In hill and mountainous regions, people have built diversion channels like the ‗guls‘ or
‗kuls‘ of the Western Himalayas for agriculture.
―Rooftop rainwater harvesting‖ is commonly practised to store drinking water,
particularly in Rajasthan.
In the flood plains of Bengal, people developed inundation channels to irrigate their fields.
In arid and semi-arid regions, agricultural fields were converted into rain-fed storage
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structures that allowed the water to stand and moisten the soil such as ‗khadins‘ in
Jaisalmer and ‗Johads‘ in other parts of Rajasthan.
The tankas are part of the well-developed rooftop rainwater harvesting system and are
built inside the main house or the courtyard. This is mainly practised in Rajasthan,
particularly in Bikaner, Phalodi and Barmer areas for saving the rainwater. Many houses
have constructed underground rooms adjoining the ‗tanka‘ to beat the summer heat as it
would keep the room cool.
Tamil Nadu is the first state in India which has made rooftop rainwater harvesting structure
compulsory to all the houses across the state. There are legal provisions to punish the
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Chapter 4- AGRICULTURE
Types of Farming
The cultivation methods depend upon the characteristics of the physical environment,
technological know-how and socio-cultural practices. Farming varies from subsistence to
commercial type. In different parts of India, the following farming systems are practised.
Primitive Subsistence Farming
It is a ‗slash and burn‘ agriculture. Farmers clear a patch of land and produce cereals and
other food crops. When the soil fertility decreases, the farmers shift and clear a fresh patch
of land for cultivation. It is known by different names in different parts of the country. It is
known as jhumming in north-eastern states.
Land productivity is low in this type of agriculture.
This type of farming depends on monsoon.
This farming is practised in a few parts of India.
Intensive Subsistence Farming
This type of farming is practised in areas of high population pressure on land.
It is labour-intensive farming, where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are
used for higher production.
Commercial Farming
This type of farming uses higher doses of modern inputs such as high yielding variety
(HYV) seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides to obtain higher productivity.
Plantation is a type of commercial farming in which a single crop is grown on a large area.
Plantations cover large tracts of land, using capital intensive inputs, with the help of
migrant labourers. All the produce is used as a raw material in industries.
Eg: Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Sugarcane, Banana.
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Cropping Pattern
India has three cropping seasons:
Rabi
Kharif
Zaid

Rabi Kharif Zaid

Sowing Winter from Beginning of the In between the Rabi and the Kharif
Season October to rainy season seasons, there is a short season
December between April and during the summer months known
May as the Zaid season (in the months of
March to July)

Harvesting Summer from September-

Season April to June October

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Important Wheat, Barley, Paddy, Maize, Watermelon, Muskmelon,
Crops Peas, Gram Jowar, Bajra, Tur Cucumber,
and Mustard. (Arhar), Vegetables and Fodder crops
Moong, Urad,
Cotton, Jute,
Groundnut and
Soyabean.

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Major Crops in India
A variety of food and non-food crops are grown in different parts of India, depending upon
the variations in soil, climate and cultivation practices. Major crops grown in India are:
Rice
Wheat
Millets
Pulses
Tea
Coffee
Sugarcane
oil seeds
Cotton
Jute
We will discuss all of these one by one, in detail.
Rice
It is a kharif crop.
It requires high temperature and high humidity with annual rainfall above 100 cm.
India is the second largest producer of rice in the world after China.
It is grown in the plains of north and north-eastern India, coastal areas and the deltaic
regions.
Wheat
This is a rabi crop.
It requires a cool growing season and bright sunshine at the time of ripening.
It requires 50 to 75 cm of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season.
The Ganga-Satluj plains in the north-west and black soil region of the Deccan are two main
wheat-growing zones in India.
It is the second most important cereal crop and main food crop, in the north and north-
western part of India.
Millets
Jowar, Bajra and Ragi are the important millets grown in India.
These are known as coarse grains and have very high nutritional value.
Jowar Bajra Ragi

3rd most important food Grows well on sandy soils It is a crop of dry regions.
crop with respect to area and shallow black soil.
and production.

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It is a rain-fed crop Grows well on red, black, sandy,
mostly grown in the loamy and shallow black soils.
moist areas.

Mainly produced in Major producing states Major producing states are

Maharashtra, Karnataka, are Rajasthan, Uttar Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh and Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Madhya Pradesh. Gujarat and Haryana. Sikkim, Jharkhand and
Arunachal Pradesh.
Maize
It is a Kharif crop.
It requires temperature between 21°C to 27°C and grows well in old alluvial soil.
It is used both as food and fodder.
Major maize-producing states are Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Pulses
India is the largest producer and consumer of pulses in the world.
Pulses are the major source of protein in a vegetarian diet.
Major pulses grown in India are Tur (Arhar), Urad, Moong, Masur, Peas and Gram.
Pulses are mostly grown in rotation with other crops so that the soil restores fertility.
Major pulse producing states are Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh
and Karnataka.
Food Crops other than Grains
Sugarcane
It is a tropical as well as a subtropical crop.
It grows well in hot and humid climates with a temperature of 21°C to 27°C and annual
rainfall between 75cm to 100cm.
It can be grown on a variety of soils.
Needs manual labour from sowing to harvesting.
India is the second largest producer of sugarcane only after Brazil.
Sugarcane is the main source of Sugar, Gur (Jaggery), Khansari and molasses.
The major sugarcane-producing states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana.
Oil Seeds
Different oil seeds are grown covering approximately 12% of the total cropped area of
India. Main oil-seeds produced in India are:
Groundnut: is a Kharif crop and accounts for half of the major oilseeds produced in India.
Gujarat is the largest producer of groundnuts.
Mustard: is a rabi crop.
Sesamum (til): is a Kharif crop in the north and rabi crop in south India.
Castor seeds: It is grown as both Rabi and Kharif crop.
Linseed: is a rabi crop.
Coconut
Soyabean
Cotton seeds
Sunflower
Tea
It is also an important beverage crop introduced by the British in India.
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The tea plant grows well in tropical and sub-tropical climates with deep and fertile well-
drained soil, rich in humus and organic matter.
Tea bushes require warm and moist frost-free climate all through the year.
Tea is a labour-intensive industry.
Major tea producing states are Assam, hills of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts, West
Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Rubber Fibre Cotton Jute

It is an equatorial Cotton, Jute, It is a Kharif crop. It is known as the

crop. Hemp and golden fibre.
Natural Silk are
the four major
fibre crops.

It requires a moist Cotton, Jute and It requires high It grows well on

and humid climate Hemp are grown temperature, light well-drained fertile
with rainfall of more in the soil. rainfall, 210 frost- soils in the flood
than 200cm and free days and bright plains. High
temperature above sunshine for its temperature is
25°C. growth. required for its
growth.

It is an important Natural Silk is Cotton grows It is used in making

industrial raw obtained from well in black cotton gunny bags, mats,
material cocoons of the soil of the Deccan ropes, yarn, carpets
silkworms fed on plateau. and other artefacts.
green leaves

Mainly grown in Rearing of Major cotton- Major jute

Kerala, Tamil Nadu, silkworms for the producing states are producing states are
Karnataka and production of silk Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar,
Andaman and fibre is known as Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Odisha and
Nicobar islands and Sericulture. Karnataka, Andhra Meghalaya.
Garo hills of Pradesh,
Meghalaya. Telangana, Tamil
Nadu, Punjab,
Haryana and
Uttar Pradesh.

Coffee
Yemen coffee is produced in India and this variety of coffee is in great demand all over the
world. Its cultivation was introduced on the Baba Budan Hills and is confined to the Nilgiri
in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Horticulture Crops
India is a producer of tropical as well as temperate fruits. Major crops produced are pea,
cauliflower, onion, cabbage, tomato, brinjal and potato. Some of the famous horticulture
crops grown in India are:
Mangoes of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West
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Bengal Oranges of Nagpur and Cherrapunjee (Meghalaya), bananas of Kerala, Mizoram,
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Lichi and Guava of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Pineapples of Meghalaya
Grapes of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra
Apples, pears, apricots and walnuts of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Non-Food Crops: The 3 important Non-food crops of India are Rubber, Jute, and Cotton.

Technological and Institutional Reforms

Agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 60% of its population, so this sector needs
some serious technical and institutional reforms. The Green Revolution and the White
Revolution were some of the reforms initiated by people to improve agriculture.
Some Initiatives taken by the Government are:
Schemes introduced by Government such as Kissan Credit Card (KCC), Personal Accident
Insurance Scheme (PAIS).
Special weather bulletins and agricultural programmes for farmers on the radio and
television were introduced.
The government also announces minimum support price, remunerative and procurement
prices for important crops to check the exploitation of farmers by speculators and
middlemen.
Contribution of Agriculture to the National Economy, Employment and Output
In 2010-11 about 52% of the total workforce was employed by the farm sector.
The share of agriculture in the GDP is declining.
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), agricultural universities, veterinary
services and animal breeding centres, horticulture development, research and development
in the field of meteorology and weather forecast, etc. are a few of the initiatives introduced
by the government to improve Indian agriculture.

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Chapter 5- MINERALS AND ENERGY RESOURCES
KEY WORDS
What is Mineral
Mineral is defined as a ―homogenous, naturally occurring substance with a definable
internal structure.‖ Minerals are found in varied forms in nature, ranging from the hardest
diamond to the softest talc. Rocks are combinations of homogeneous substances called
minerals.
Mode of Occurrence of Minerals
Minerals are usually found in ―ores‖. The term ore is used to describe an accumulation of
any mineral mixed with other elements. Minerals generally occur in the following forms:
In igneous and metamorphic rocks, minerals may occur in the cracks, crevices, faults or
joints.
In sedimentary rocks, a number of minerals occur in beds or layers.
The decomposition of surface rocks and the removal of soluble constituents also forms the
minerals.
Minerals also occur as alluvial deposits in sands of valley floors and the base of hills.
The ocean waters contain vast quantities of minerals.
Classification of Minerals

Ferrous Minerals
Ferrous minerals account for about three-fourths of the total value of the production of
metallic minerals.
Iron Ore
India is endowed with fairly abundant resources of iron ore.
Magnetite is the finest iron ore with a very high content of iron, up to 70%. It has excellent
magnetic qualities.
Hematite ore is the most important industrial iron ore. It contains 50 to 60% iron.
The major iron ore belts in India are:
Odisha-Jharkhand belt
Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur belt
Ballari-Chitradurga-Chikkamagaluru-Tumakuru belt
Maharashtra-Goa belt
Manganese
It is mainly used in the manufacturing of steel and ferro-manganese alloy.
Nearly 10 kg of manganese is required to manufacture 1 tonne of steel.
It is also used in manufacturing bleaching powder, insecticides and paints.
Non-Ferrous Minerals
Non-ferrous minerals include copper, bauxite, lead, zinc and gold. These minerals play a
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Copper
Malleable, ductile and good conductor of heat and electricity.
Mainly used in electrical cables, electronics and chemical industries.
The Balaghat mines in Madhya Pradesh, Khetri mines in Rajasthan and Singhbhum district
of Jharkhand are leading producers of copper.
Bauxite
Bauxite deposits are formed by the decomposition of a wide variety of rocks rich in
aluminium silicates.
Aluminium is obtained from bauxite. Aluminium has good conductivity and great
malleability.
Deposits are mainly found in the Amarkantak plateau, Maikal hills and the plateau region
of Bilaspur-Katni.
Non-Metallic Minerals
Mica is a mineral made up of a series of plates or leaves. It can be clear, black, green, red,
yellow or brown.
Mica is the most indispensable minerals used in electric and electronic industries.
It has excellent di-electric strength, low power loss factor, insulating properties and
resistance to high voltage.
Mica deposits are found in the northern edge of the Chota Nagpur plateau.
Rock Minerals
Limestone is found in rocks composed of calcium carbonates or calcium and magnesium
carbonates.
It is the basic raw material for the cement industry and essential for smelting iron ore in the
blast furnace.
Conservation of Minerals
Minerals are a non-renewable resource. It takes thousands of years for the formation and
concentration of minerals. Continued extraction of ores leads to the depletion of minerals.
So, it‘s important to take the necessary steps so that mineral resources can be used in a
planned and sustainable manner.
Energy Resources
Energy resources can be classified as
Conventional Sources: It includes firewood, cattle dung cake, coal, petroleum, natural gas
and electricity.
Non-Conventional Sources: It includes solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, biogas and atomic
energy
Let us discuss each of them in detail.
Conventional Sources of Energy
Coal:
It is the most abundantly available fossil fuel.It is used for power generation, to supply
energy to the industry as well as for domestic needs.
Lignite is a low grade brown coal, which is soft with high moisture content.
Coal that has been buried deep and subjected to increased temperatures is bituminous coal.
Anthracite is the highest quality of hard coal.
Jharia, Raniganj, Bokaro are important coalfields.
Petroleum
It provides fuel for heat and lighting, lubricants for machinery and raw materials for a
number of manufacturing industries.
Petroleum refineries act as a ―nodal industry‖ for synthetic textile, fertiliser and numerous
chemical industries.
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Mumbai High, Gujarat and Assam are major petroleum production areas in India.
Natural Gas
Natural gas is an important clean energy resource. It is considered an environment-friendly
fuel.The power and fertilizer industries are the key users of natural gas.
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG ) is used in vehicles to replace liquid fuels.
Large reserves of natural gas have been discovered in the Krishna-Godavari basin
Electricity
Electricity is generated mainly in 2 ways:
By running water which drives hydro turbines to generate Hydro Electricity. It is a
renewable resource of energy. India has a number of multi-purpose projects like the Bhakra
Nangal, Damodar Valley Corporation, the Kopili Hydel Project.
By burning other fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas to drive turbines to
produce Thermal Power. It uses non-renewable fossil fuels for generating electricity.
Non-Conventional Sources of Energy
The renewable energy sources like solar energy, wind, tide, biomass and energy from waste
material are called Non-Conventional Energy Sources. Let‘s discuss them one by one.
Nuclear or Atomic Energy
Nuclear Energy is obtained by altering the structure of atoms. Uranium and Thorium are
used for generating atomic or nuclear power.
Solar Energy
Solar energy is produced by the Sun‘s light. Photovoltaic technology converts sunlight
directly into electricity.
Wind Power
Wind Energy or Power is the use of wind to generate electricity. Wind turbines are used for
this purpose. The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagarcoil to
Madurai.
Biogas
Biogas is a type of biofuel that is naturally produced from the decomposition of organic
waste. Biogas is the most efficient use of cattle dung. It improves the quality of manure.
Tidal Energy
Tidal energy is the form of hydropower that converts the energy obtained from tides into
useful forms of power, mainly electricity. In India, the Gulf of Khambhat, the Gulf of
Kachchh in Gujarat on the western coast and Gangetic delta in Sunderban regions of West
Bengal provide ideal conditions for utilising tidal energy.
Geo-Thermal Energy
When heat and electricity are produced by using the heat from the interior of the earth, it is
known as Geo-Thermal Energy. In India, geothermal energy is harnessed from Parvati
valley near Manikarn in Himachal Pradesh and from Puga Valley, Ladakh.
Conservation of Energy Resources
Every sector of the national economy – agriculture, industry, transport, commercial and
domestic – needs inputs of energy. There is an urgent need to develop a sustainable path for
energy development. Here are some ways that each one of us can contribute to save energy
resources:
Using public transport systems instead of individual vehicles.Switching off electricity when
not in use.Using power-saving devices.
Using non-conventional sources of energy.

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Chapter 6- MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Production of goods in large quantities after processing from raw materials is
called manufacturing. Workers employed in steel factories, car, breweries, textile
industries, bakeries etc. fall into secondary activities.
Importance of Manufacturing.

The manufacturing sector is considered the backbone of development due to the following
reasons:
Manufacturing industries help in modernising agriculture as it provides jobs in secondary
and tertiary sectors.
It helps in the eradication of unemployment and poverty.
Export of manufactured goods expands trade and commerce, and brings in much needed
foreign exchange.

It helps in prospering the country by giving a boost to the economy.

Contribution of Industry to National Economy
The trend of growth rate in manufacturing over the last decade has been around 7 per cent
per annum.

Industrial Location
Industrial locations are influenced by the availability of:
Raw material
Labour
Capital
Power
Transport
Market
Government policies

Manufacturing activity tends to locate at the most appropriate place where all the factors of
industrial location are either available or can be arranged at a lower cost. The figure below
shows the industry market linkage.

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Agro-based Industries
Cotton, jute, silk, woollen textiles, sugar and edible oil, etc. industries are based on
agricultural raw materials. Let‘s know about each of them, one by one.

Textile Industry
It is the only industry in India, which is self-reliant and complete in the value chain i.e.,
from raw material to the highest value added products. It contributes to industrial
production, employment generation and foreign exchange earnings.
Cotton Textiles
This industry has close links with agriculture and provides a living to farmers, cotton boll
pluckers and workers engaged in ginning, spinning, weaving, dyeing, designing,
packaging, tailoring and sewing. It supports many other industries, such as, chemicals and
dyes, packaging materials and engineering works.
Jute Textiles
India is the largest producer of raw jute and jute goods. Most of the mills are located in
West Bengal, mainly along the banks of the Hugli river.
Sugar Industry
India stands second as a world producer of sugar but occupies the first place in the
production of Gur and Khandsari. This industry is seasonal in nature.
Mineral-based Industries
Industries that use minerals and metals as raw materials are called mineral-based
industries. Let‘s discuss some industries that fall under this category.
Iron and Steel Industry
Iron and steel is the basic industry as all the other industries – heavy, medium and light,
depend on it for their machinery. lt is considered as a heavy industry because all the raw
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materials, as well as finished goods, are heavy and bulky entailing heavy transportation
costs.
India is an important iron and steel producing country in the world yet, we are not able to
perform to our full potential largely due to:
High costs and limited availability of coking coal
Lower productivity of labour
Irregular supply of energy
Poor infrastructure.

Aluminium Smelting
Aluminium Smelting is the second most important metallurgical industry in India. It is used
to manufacture aircraft, utensils and wires. Bauxite is the raw material used in the smelters.
Aluminium Smelting has gained popularity as a substitute for steel, copper, zinc and lead in
a number of industries. It exhibits the following properties:
Light in weight
Resistant to corrosion
A good conductor of heat
Malleable
Becomes strong when it is mixed with other metals

Chemical Industries
The Chemical industry comprises both large and small scale manufacturing units. Rapid
growth has been recorded in both inorganic and organic sectors.

Inorganic chemicals include sulphuric acid nitric acid, alkalies, soda ash and caustic soda.

Organic chemicals include petrochemicals, which are used for manufacturing synthetic
fibers, synthetic rubber, plastics, dye-stuffs, drugs and pharmaceuticals.
Fertilizer Industry
The fertilizer industries are centred around the production of nitrogenous fertilizers (mainly
urea), phosphatic fertilizers and ammonium phosphate (DAP) and complex fertilizers
which have a combination of nitrogen (N), phosphate (P), and potash (K). Gujarat, Tamil
Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Kerala contribute towards half of the fertilizer production.
Cement Industry
Cement is essential for construction activity such as building houses, factories, bridges,
roads, airports, dams and for other commercial establishments. This industry requires bulky
and heavy raw materials like limestone, silica and gypsum.
Automobile Industry
This industry deals with the manufacturing of trucks, buses, cars, motorcycles, scooters,
three-wheelers and multi-utility vehicles. These industries are located around Delhi,
Gurugram, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur
and Bengaluru.
Information Technology and Electronics Industry
The electronics industry covers a wide range of products from transistor sets to television,
telephones, cellular telecom, telephone exchange, radars, computers and many other
equipment required by the telecommunication industry. This industry has generated
employment in India. Bengaluru is known as the electronic capital of India.

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Industrial Pollution and Environmental Degradation
Industries are responsible for 4 types of pollution:
Air
Water
Land
Noise

Air pollution is caused by the presence of a high proportion of undesirable gases, such as
sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Smoke is emitted by chemical and paper factories,
brick kilns, refineries and smelting plants, and burning of fossil fuels leads to air pollution.
It adversely affects human health, animals, plants, buildings and the atmosphere as a whole.
Water pollution is caused by organic and inorganic industrial wastes and effluents
discharged into rivers. The industries which are mainly responsible for water pollution are
paper, pulp, chemical, textile and dyeing, petroleum refineries, tanneries and electroplating
industries.
Thermal pollution of water occurs when hot water from factories and thermal plants is
drained into rivers and ponds before cooling.
Noise pollution is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human
or animal life. It results in irritation, anger, cause hearing impairment, increased heart rate
and blood pressure.
Control of Environmental Degradation
Here are some ways through which industrial pollution can be reduced:
Minimising the use of water by reusing and recycling it.
Harvesting rainwater to meet water requirements.
Treating hot water and effluents before releasing them in rivers and ponds.
Particulate matter in the air can be reduced by fitting smoke stacks to factories with
electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, scrubbers and inertial separators.
Smoke can be reduced by using oil or gas instead of coal in factories.
Machinery can be redesigned to increase energy efficiency and reduce noise.

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Chapter 7- LIFE LINES OF NATIONAL ECONOMY
Transport
Movement of goods and services can be over three important domains of our earth i.e.

land, water and air. Based on these, transport can also be classified into the land, water and

air transport. Let‘s discuss them in detail:

Roadways

India has one of the largest road networks in the world, aggregating to about 54.7 lakh km.

The growing importance of road transport over rail transport is mentioned below:

1. The construction cost of roads is much lower than that of railway lines.

2. Roads can cover more geographically harder locations that cannot be done by the

railways.

3. Roads can negotiate higher gradients of slopes and can be easily built-in traverse

mountains such as the Himalayas.

4. Road transport is economical.

5. It also provides door-to-door service

6. Road transport provides links between railway stations, air and seaports.

In India, roads are classified in the following six classes according to their capacity.

Golden Quadrilateral Super Highways

Golden Quadrilateral is a network of Highways connecting India‘s four top metropolitan

cities, namely Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai. These highway projects are being

implemented by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).

National Highways

The National highways are a network of trunk roads that are laid and maintained by the

Central Public Works Department (CPWD). The historical Sher-Shah Suri Marg is called

National Highway No.1, between Delhi and Amritsar.

State Highways

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Roads linking a state capital with different district headquarters are known as State

Highways. These roads are constructed and maintained by the State Public Works

Department (PWD).

District Roads

These roads connect the district headquarters with other places of the district. These roads

are maintained by the Zila Parishad.

Other Roads

Rural roads, which link rural areas and villages with towns, are classified under this
category.

These roads received special impetus under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana.

Border Roads

Border Roads Organisation constructs and maintains roads in the bordering areas of the

country. This organisation was established in 1960 for the development of the roads of

strategic importance in the northern and north-eastern border areas.

Roads can also be classified on the basis of the type of material used for their construction

such as:

are all-weather roads.

o out of use in the rainy season.

Railways

Railways are the principal mode of transportation for carrying huge loads and bulky goods

for long and short distances in India. Railways have become more important in India‘s

economy.

There are three types of railway gauges are there,

They are :-

1. Broad gauge,

2. Meter gauge and

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However, rail transport suffers from certain problems as well, which are mentioned below:

1. Construction of bridges is required across rivers‘ wide beds for lying down the

railway lines.

2. In the hilly terrains of the peninsular region, railway tracks are laid through low hills,

gaps or tunnels.

3. The Himalayan mountainous regions are also un-favourable for the construction of

railway lines due to the highest elevation points in the surface, sparse population

and lack of economic opportunities.

4. It is difficult to lay railway lines on sandy plains.

Pipelines

Pipeline network uses pipes, usually underground, to transport and distribute fluids. These

are used to transport water, crude oil, petroleum products and natural gas, fertilizer

factories and big thermal power plants. Solids can also be transported through a pipeline

when converted into slurry.

There are 3 important networks of pipeline transportation in the country.

1. From oil field in upper Assam to Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)

2. From Salaya in Gujarat to Jalandhar in Punjab

3. From Hazira in Gujarat to Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh

Waterways

Waterways are the cheapest means of transport. They are most suitable for carrying heavy

and bulky goods. It is a fuel-efficient and environment-friendly mode of transport.

The National Waterways in India are:

– The Ganga river between Allahabad and Haldia (1620 km).

– The Brahmaputra river between Sadiya and Dhubri (891 km).

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and Champakkara canals-205 km).

W. No.4 – Specified stretches of Godavari and Krishna rivers along with Kakinada

Puducherry stretch of canals (1078 km).

– Specified stretches of river Brahmani along with Matai river, delta

channels of Mahanadi and Brahmani rivers and East Coast Canal (588 km).

Inland waterways in India are Mandavi, Zuari and Cumberjua, Sunderbans, Barak and

backwaters of Kerala through which transportation takes place.

Major Sea Ports

India‘s trade with foreign countries is carried from the ports. There are 2 major and 200

notified non-majors (minor/intermediate) ports in India.

Here is the list of major ports in India:

1. Kandla in Kachchh was the first port to be developed after independence. It is also

known as the Deendayal Port.

2. Mumbai is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well-sheltered harbour.

3. Marmagao port (Goa) is the premier iron ore exporting port of India.

4. Mangalore port, located in Karnataka caters to the export of iron ore.

5. Kochchi is the extreme south-western port, located at the entrance of a lagoon.

6. Tuticorin port is situated at the extreme south-east.

7. Chennai is one of the oldest artificial ports of India.

8. Visakhapatnam is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port

9. Paradeep port located in Odisha, specialises in the export of iron ore.

10. Kolkata is an inland riverine port.

11. Haldia port was developed as a subsidiary port, in order to relieve growing pressure

on the Kolkata port.

12. Ennore port recently commissioned in order to reduce the pressure of Chennai port.

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Airways

The airway is the fastest, most comfortable and prestigious mode of transport. Air travel
has

made access easier to the terrain areas like high mountains, dreary deserts, dense forests

and long oceans. The air transport was nationalised in 1953. Air India provides domestic
and international air services.

Pawanhans Helicopters Ltd. provides helicopter services to Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation

in its off-shore operations, to inaccessible areas and difficult terrains. But, air travel is not

within the reach of the common people.

Communication

The major means of communication in India are television, radio, press, films, etc.

The Indian postal network is the largest in the world. It handles parcels as well as personal

written communications.

-class mail is airlifted between stations covering both land and air.

-class mail includes book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals.

They are carried by surface mail, covering land and water transport.

India has one of the largest telecom networks in Asia. The Subscriber Trunk Dialling
(STD)

facilities all over India have been made possible by integrating the development in space

technology with communication technology.

awareness among people

about various national programmes and policies. It includes radio, television,

newspapers, magazines, books and films.

regional and local languages.

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 Doordarshan, the national television channel is one of the largest terrestrial

networks in the world.

International Trade

The exchange of goods among people, states and countries is referred to as trade. Trade

between two countries is called international trade. It is considered as the economic

barometer for a country. Export and import are the components of trade. The balance of

trade of a country is the difference between its export and import.

balance of trade.

balance of trade.

The commodities exported from India to other countries include gems and jewellery,

chemicals and related products, agriculture and allied products, etc.

The commodities imported to India include petroleum crude and products, gems and

jewellery, chemicals and related products, base metals, electronic items, machinery,

agriculture and allied products.

Tourism as a Trade

More than 15 million people are directly engaged in the tourism industry. Tourism in India:

heritage. Foreign tourists visit India for heritage tourism, eco- tourism, adventure

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 Section C- DEMOCRATIC POLITICS- II (CIVICS)

Chapter 1- POWER SHARING

• NEED TO READ:
.Story of Belgium
• Story of Sri Lanka
• Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka
• Accommodation in Belgium
• Why power sharing is desirable?
• Forms of power-sharing
STORY OF BELGIUM
• Belgium is a small country in Europe which has a population of a little over one crore.
• The ethnic composition of this small country is very complex.
• Out of the total population of the country, 59 percent lives in the Flemish region and
speaks Dutch Language. Another 40 percent people live in the Wallonia region and speak
French.Remaining one percent of the Belgians speak German.
• In Belgium's capital, Brussels, 80 percent people speak French while 20 percent are Dutch
speaking.
• The minority French-speaking community was relatively rich and powerful.
→ This made Dutch-speaking community angry as they the benefit of economic
development and education much later.
• During the 1950s and 1960s, tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking
communities created due to these differences.
STORY OF SRI LANKA
• Sri Lanka is an island nation, south of India having diverse population of about two crore
people.
• The major social groups are the Sinhala-speakers (74 percent) and the Tamil-speakers (18
percent).
• Tamils are divided into two groups:
→ Sri Lankan Tamils (13 percent) - Tamil natives of the country
→ Indian Tamils (5 percent) - came from India during colonial period as plantation
workers.
• Most of the Sinhala-speaking people are Buddhists, while most of the Tamils are Hindus
or Muslims.
• There are about 7 percent Christians, who are both Tamil and Sinhala.
MAJORITARIANISM IN SRI LANKA
• The democratically elected government adopted a series of Majoritarian policy measures
to establish Sinhala supremacy. These are:
→ Sinhala as the only official language.
→ The governments followed preferential policies that favoured Sinhala applicants for
university positions and government jobs.

• These decisions gradually increased the feeling of alienation among the Sri Lankan
Tamils.

• The Sri Lankan Tamils launched parties and struggles for the recognition of Tamil as an

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official language, for regional autonomy and equality of opportunity in securing education
and jobs.
• By 1980s several political organisations were formed demanding an independent Tamil
Eelam (state) in northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.

• It soon turned into Civil War.

Accommodation in Belgium

• Between 1970 and 1993, Belgian's constitution amended four times to work out an
arrangement that would make everyone to live together.

• The Elements of the Belgian model:

→ Constitution prescribes that the number of Dutch and French-speaking ministers shall be
equal in the central government.
→ Many powers of the central government have been given to state governments of the
two regions of the country.
→ Brussels has a separate government in which both the communities have equal
representation.
→ There is also provision of 'community government‘ elected by people belonging to one
language
community which has the power regarding cultural, educational and language-related
issues.
Why power sharing is desirable?
• Power sharing is good because it helps to reduce the possibility of conflict between social
groups.
• Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy.
→ A democratic rule involves sharing power with those affected by its exercise, and who
have to live with its effects.

Forms of power-sharing
• In modern democracies, power sharing arrangements can take many forms.
→ Horizontal distribution of power: Power is shared among different organs of
government, such as the legislature, executive and judiciary. Example: India.
→ Federal Government (Vertical distribution of power): Power can be shared among
governments at different levels – a general government for the entire country and
governments at the provincial or regional level. Example: USA.
→ Power may also be shared among different social groups such as the religious and
linguistic groups. Example: ‗Community government‘ in Belgium.
→ Power sharing arrangements can also be seen in the way political parties, pressure
groups and movements control or influence those in power.

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Chapter 2- FEDERALISM

What is Federalism?

Federalism is a system of government in which the power is divided between a central

authority and various constituent units of the country.

Features of Federalism

• There are two or more levels of government.

• Different tiers of government govern the same citizens, but each government have power
independent of the other.

• The fundamental provisions of the constitution cannot be changed by one level of

government.

• The judiciary prevents conflict between centre and regional government in the exercise of
their powers.

• Sources of revenue for each level of government are clearly specified to ensure its
financial autonomy.

Kinds of Federations

• ‗Coming together‘ Federations: The independent States coming together on their own to
form a bigger unit.

• ‗Holding together‘ Federations: A large country decides to divide its power between the
constituent States and the national government.

What makes India a federal country?

• The Constitution originally provided for a two-tier system of government - Central

Government, representing the Union of India and the State governments.

• Later, the third tier of federalism was added in the form of Panchayats and Municipalities.

The Constitution divides powers between the Union Government and the State
Governments within three lists:

• Union List includes subjects of national importance.

• State List contains subjects of State and local importance.

• Concurrent List includes subjects of common interest to both the Union Government as
well as the State Governments, such as education, forest, trade unions, marriage, adoption

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and succession.

• Residuary subjects: Those subjects which are not mentioned in any of the three lists or
any other matter that arise with passage of time.

Features of Indian Federation

• All states of India do not have equal powers.

• The Parliament cannot on its own change power sharing. These changes need the
approval of both the Houses of Parliament with at least two-thirds majority.

• The judiciary oversee the implementation of constitutional provisions and procedures.

How is federalism practised?

Linguistic states

In 1947, the boundaries of several old States of India were changed in order to create new
States:
• On the basis of language.
• On the basis of culture.

Language policy

• Our Constitution has not made any language the national language of India.

• Hindi was identified as the official language.

• Besides Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognised as Scheduled Languages by the
Constitution.

• States too have their own official languages.

• English along with Hindi used for official purposes.

Centre-State relations

• The sharing of powers between Centre and States by the constitution has also
strengthened federalism in India.

• After 1990, many regional political parties rise in many States of the country
which started an era of ‗coalition governments‘ at the Centre which make it difficult
for theCentral Government to dismiss state governments in non-democratic manner.

Decentralisation in India

• When power is taken away from Central and State governments and given to local
government, it is called decentralisation.
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• Before 1992, the local bodies were directly under the state governments.
→ Regular elections were not held.
→ The local bodies did not have any resources or powers of their own.

• After 1992, the Constitution was amended to make the third-tier of democracy more
powerful and effective. The steps taken are:
→ Mandatory to hold regular elections to local government bodies.
→ Seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward
Classes.
→ At least one-third of all positions are reserved for women.
→ An independent institution called the State Election Commission has been created in
each State.
→ The State governments are required to share some powers and revenue with local
government bodies.

Rural Local Government

• Popularly known by the name panchayati raj.

→ Gram Panchayat: It is the decision-making body for the entire village.
→ Panchayat Samiti: A few gram panchayats are grouped together to form what is usually
called a panchayat samiti or block or mandal.
→ Zilla Parishad: All the panchayat samitis or mandals in a district together form the zilla
parishad.

Urban Local Government

• In larger urban areas, there are corporations and in smaller urban areas, there are
municipal corporations
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Chapter 3- GENDER, RELIGION AND CASTE
Gender Division
• Sexual Division of Labour: A system in which all work inside the home is either done by
the women of the family while men are expected to work outside to earn money.
• This belief is not based on biology but on social and expectations and stereotypes.
Feminist movements
• Social movements that aim at establishing equality between men and women are called
feminist movements.
Women‘s Oppression in various ways
→ Literacy Rate: The literacy rate among women is only 65.46% compared with 82.14%
among men.
→ Jobs: There is very low percentage of women in the high paid and high value jobs as
just a few girls are encouraged to take up higher education.
→ Wages: Despite the Equal Wages Act, women in all areas are paid lesser than men, be it
sports, cinema, agriculture or construction works.
→ Sex Ratio: Most parents prefer boy children to girl children. Female infanticide and
feticide are common in our country. This has resulted in unfavourable sex ratio.
→ Social Evil: Society in general and urban centres in particular, is not safe for women.
Dowry harassment, physical abuse, sexual harassment are routine tales.
Women‘s political representation
• Political representation of women in India is very low. It has never crossed 5% in any of
the Vidhana Sabhas and never crossed 12% in Loka Sabha.
Religion, Communalism and Politics
Religion Differences in Politics
• Human rights activists allege that people from minority religious community suffer a lot
whenever there is communal violence.
Communalism
• Extreme and partisan attachment to one‘s own religion is called Communalism.

What is Communal Politics?

• Problem in the society begins when one religion is pitted against the others.
• The problem becomes serious when demands of one religious groups is formed in
opposition to other religions.
• The problem becomes very acute when the Government uses its power to fulfil the
demands of only one religious group.
• This kind of using religion is politics is called Communal Politics.
The Theory of Communal Politics
• Religion is the main basis of formation of the society.
• The followers of a religion must form one community.
• Their fundamental interests are the same.
Why is theory of Communal Politics wrong?
• People of the same religion do not have same interest and aspirations in every context.
• Everyone has different identities in different contexts.
Steps taken to combat communalism
• India is a secular state. There is no official religion or state religion in India.
• Everyone is free to practice, profess and property any religion.

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• The constitution prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion.
Caste and Politics
Caste Inequalities
• Members of the same caste group formed the social community that practiced the same or
similar occupation, married within the caste group, and did not eat with members from
other caste groups.
Why does caste system still persist?
• Most people prefer to marry within their own caste or tribe.
• Untouchability has not ended a completely.
• The caste groups that had access to education have continue to do well.
How Caste Influences Politics

• When parties choose candidates in elections, they keep in mind the caste the composition
of the constituency.
• Political parties and candidates appealing to the caste sentiment of the people.
Caste alone cannot determine Indian Elections
• No parliamentary constituency in the country has a clear majority of one single caste.
• No party wins the votes of all the voters of a caste our community.
• If that caste group has many to choose from, the other caste groups have none, if they
were to vote only on the basis of caste.
• The voter‘s attachment to his party and the party ideology can be stronger than his
attachment to his caste group.
The Outcome of Political Expression of Caste
• It has provided space and opportunity for the disadvantaged groups to demand their share
in power.
• It also has helped them to fight for social justice.
• Caste based politics is certainly not healthy in democracy.
• It can divert attention from other important issues like poverty, development and
corruption.
• It can also lead to tensions, conflicts and violence.

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Chapter 4- POLITICAL PARTIES
Why do we need Political Parties?

Meaning of Political Party

• A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold
power in the government.
Functions of a Political Party
• Parties contest elections.
• Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from them.
A party reduces a vast number of opinions into a few basic positions which it supports.
• Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.
• Parties form and run governments.
• Those parties that lose in the elections play the role of opposition to the parties in power.
How many Parties should we have?
• There are three types of party system a country can have.
One Party System
• Only one party is allowed to control and run the government.
Two Party System
• Power usually changes between two main parties.
Multi-Party System
• Several parties compete for power, and more than two parties have a reasonable chance of
coming to power either on their own strength or in alliance with others.
Election Commission
• Every party in India has to register with the Election Commission.
• The Commission treats every party as equal to the others, but it offers special facilities to
large and established parties.
• They are given a unique symbol and are called, ―recognised political parties.
State Parties

• A party that secures at least six percent of the total votes in an election to the Legislative
Assembly of a State and wins at least two seats is recognised as a State party.

National Parties

• A party that secures at least six percent of the total votes in Lok Sabha elections or
Assembly elections in four States and wins at least four seats in the Lok Sabha is
recognised as a national party.

Indian National Congress (INC)

• Popularly known as the Congress Party.

• Founded in 1885.

• Played a dominated role in Indian politics, at the national and state level for several
decades after India‘s Independence.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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• Founded in 1980 by reviving the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

• Cultural nationalism (or ‗Hindutva‘) is an important element in its origination of Indian

nationhood and politics.

• Wants full territorial and political integration of Jammu and Kashmir with India.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)

• Formed in 1984 under the leadership of Kanshi Ram.

• Seeks to represent and secure power for the bahujan samaj which includes the dalits,
adivasis, OBCs and religious minorities.
Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M)

• Founded in 1964.

• Believes in Marxism- Leninism.

• Supports socialism, secularism and democracy and opposes imperialism and

communalism.

Communist Party of India (CPI)

• Formed in 1925.

• Believes in Marxism-Leninism, secularism and democracy.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)

• Formed in 1999 following a split in the Congress party.

• Accepted democracy, Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice and federalism.

State Parties

• Other than these six parties, most of the major parties of the country are classified by the
Election Commission as ‗State parties‘.

Challenges to Political Parties

• Lack of Internal Democracy

• Challenge of Dynastic Succession

• Growing Role of Money and Muscle Power

• Meaningful choice
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How can Parties be reformed?

Recent efforts and suggestions in India

• The Constitution was amended to prevent elected MLAs and MPs from changing parties.

• New law states that if any MLA or MP changes parties, he or she will lose the seat in the
legislature.

• The Supreme Court passed an order to reduce the influence of money and criminals.

• The Election Commission passed an order making it necessary for political parties to hold
their organisational elections and file their income tax returns.

Some suggestions to reform political parties

• A law should be made to regulate the internal affairs of political parties.

• To give a minimum number of tickets, about one-third, to women candidates

• There should be state funding of elections.

• There are two other ways in which political parties can be reformed.

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 Chapter 5- OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRACY
How do we assess democracy‘s outcomes?
• Democracy is a better form of government because:
→ It promotes equality among citizens.
→ It enhances the dignity of the individual.
→ It improves the quality of decision-making.
→ It provides a method to resolve conflicts.
→ It allows room to correct mistakes.
Is the democratic government efficient?
• Non-democratic rulers do not have to bother about deliberation in assemblies or worry
about majorities and public opinion.
• A democratic government will take more time to follow procedures before arriving at a
decision.
→ Because it has followed procedures, its decisions may be both more acceptable to the
people and more effective.
Accountable
• A citizen who wants to know if a decision was taken through the correct procedures can
find this out. This is known as transparency.
Legitimate Government
• In democracy, governments are elected through a regular, free and fair elections.
• Laws are made following proper procedures, after much discussion with the
representatives of the people.
• If people feel that government has done something which goes against the Constitution,
people can challenge it in the Judiciary.
Economic growth and development
• Between 1950 and 2000, dictatorships have slightly higher rate of economic growth.
• Economic growth depends on various factors:
→ Size of the population of a country
→ Global situation
→ Co-operation from other countries
→ Economic policies adopted by the country
• However, the difference in the rates of economic development between less developed
countries with dictatorships and democracies is negligible.
Reduction of inequality and poverty
• Democracies are based on political equality, but we find growing economic inequalities.
Accommodation of social diversity
• Democracy helps its citizens to lead a peaceful and harmonious life by accommodating
various social divisions.
Dignity and freedom of the citizens
• Democracy promotes dignity and freedom of the individual.
Democracy - its examination never gets over
• A democracy is always striving towards a better goal.
• People constantly demand more benefits in a democracy.

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Section D- UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ECONOMICS)

Chapter 1- DEVELOPMENT

Economic development, in general, means a long term increase in the real per capita
income or per capita GDP of a country. Along with per capita income, there are certain
other criteria also like the education, health, social security, self-confidence, gender
equality, dignity of the individual etc.
Economic development means long-term and sustainable improvement in Real Per
Capita GDP and standard of living of the people. Economic development is concerned
with the improvement of quality of life of the people and their capabilities,
nourishment, literacy, education, gender equality, health care facilities, housing
facilities etc.

Development or progress has many aspects. Different people have different goals to
achieve.There may be some common goals for all of us. Development for one may not be
development for others. People desire more income.
Only income is not sufficient to make life happy.
Security, respect, equal treatment and freedom are equally important.
People do not have a single goal. There are many goals in life.
National development is the concern of all citizens.
Different persons could have different as well as conflicting notions of a country‘s
development.
Per capita income is the main criterion for comparison of development of nations.
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Total income cannot be considered a useful measure for comparison between
countries.
We use average income/per capita income or per capita GDP for comparison.
Average income (per capita income) of a nation can be obtained by dividing the total
income of the nation by its population.

National Income
PCI=
Population

Per capita GDP means Gross Domestic Product divided by population.

DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT GOALS

SL. NO. CATEGORY OF PERSONS DEVELOPMENTAL

GOALS

1 Landless Rural Labourers More days of work, better

wages , quality education,
social equality etc.

2 Prosperous farmers from Punjab High support price for their

crops, Cheap labourers,
enough water for crops,
sending children abroad.

3 Farmers who depend on rain Sufficient and timely

rainfall, artificial irrigation.

4 A rural woman from a land owning family Better opportunities of

education and employment.

5 Urban unemployed youth Government job and highly

paid employment
opportunities.
6 A boy from a rich urban family Opportunities to study and
work abroad.

7 A girl from a rich urban family Equal freedom as brother,

and decision making power.
Study abroad.

8 An adivasi from Narmada valley Survival at native places,

rights to forest-products.

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 Development means not only high income and more consumption but other
goals or factors also. These are:
(i) Equal treatment in society,
(i) Freedom
(ii) Social Security
(iii) Respect of others
(iv) Working atmosphere
(v) Opportunity to learn
Different persons could have different as well as conflicting notions of a country‘s
development.

How to Compare Different Countries or States?

While ―averages‖ are useful for comparison, they also hide disparities.It does not tell how
the income is distributed among the people.Rise in average income may be due to rise in
prices. There may not be real growth in output.

Average income hides disparities in the distribution of income.

As per the World Development Report (WB) 2017, countries with PCI of US$ 12,056 and
above are called ―rich countries‖, and those with PCI of US$955 or less are called low
income countries.
India‘s PCI was US$ 1820 in 2017. (Low middle income countries).
Other Goals:
Besides average income, we can use other goals such as security, respect for others, equal
treatment, freedom etc, to compare different regions or nations.

TABLE 1.3- STATE P.C.I. OF SELECTED STATES

State PCI for 2015-16 (in Rs.)

Haryana 1,62,034

Kerala 1,40,190

Bihar 31,454

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 TABLE 1.4 DEMOGRAPHIC COMPARATIVE DATA ON HARYANA, KERALA AND
BIHAR

State Infant Mortality Literacy Rate in % , NAR (Per 100 persons- age 14
Rate, per Live Births age 7 years and and 15), 2013-14
(2016) above (2011)

Haryana 33 82 61

Kerala 10 94 83

Bihar 38 62 43

As per Table 1.3, since PCI of Haryana is more than that of Kerala, Haryana is more
developed than Kerala.
However, as per Table 1.4, Kerala has lower IMR. Higher literacy rate and higher Net
Attendance Ratio compared to Haryana. Therefore, Kerala is more developed than
Haryana.
Infant mortality rate is the number of children that die before the age of one year as a
proportion of 1,000 live children born in that particular year.
Literacy rate means literate population of a country in the 7 and above age group.
Net attendance ratio is the total number of children of age group 6-10 attending school as a
percentage of total number of children in the same age group.

Public Facilities:
Income is not a completely adequate indicator of goods and services that citizens are able
to use. People require pollution-free environment, unadulterated medicines, protection from
infectious diseases, security, public education etc. All these can be provided by the
Government for collective use in the form of public facilities.
Kerala has low IMR because it has adequate provision of basic health and educational
facilities.
Health and nutritional status of the people of those states will be high where PDS is
functioning well.

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 (i𝑛 𝐾𝑔.)
Body Mass Index= W𝑒i𝑔ℎ
(𝐻𝑒i𝑔ℎ𝑡 i𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟)²

COMPARISON OF COUNTRIES BASED ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

Human Development Report, published by UNDP, compares countries based on:-

(i) The educational levels of the people (Gross Enrolment Ratio and Mean Years
Schooling),
(ii) Their health status (Life Expectancy, counted at birth- LE) and,
(iii) Per capita income (PCI).

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DATA OF INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS (Out of 189

Countries)

Country PC GNI (in LE at MYS(Peopl HDI Rank HDI Value

PPP of Birth e aged 25 (2018)
US $)- 2011 (in and above)-
years)- 2017
2017

Norway 68,012 82.3 12.6 01 0.953

US 54,941 79.5 13.4 12 0.924

Sri 11,326 75.5 10.9 76 0.77

Lanka
China 15,270 76.4 7.8 86 0.752

India 6,353 68.3 6.4 130 0.64

SUSTAINABILITY OF DEVELOPMENT
“Sustainable development means the development strategy that meets the needs of the
present generation without compromising the needs of the future generations.”
Development must be sustainable. Even though groundwater is renewable, still nearly
one-third of the country is overusing it.
Non-renewable resources are those which will get exhausted after years of use.
Its alternative and new resources are to be discovered and used.
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Consequences of environmental degradation do not respect national or state boundaries.
Scientists, economists, philosophers and other social scientists are working together on
sustainable development.
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Chapter 2- SECTORS OF INDIAN ECONOMY

Classification of Sectors based on Economic Activities :

1. Primary Sector : Primary activities are those activities which are producing goods
by exploiting the natural resources.. It is also known as agriculture and related sector.
There are many activities that are undertaken by directly using natural resources. For example,
the cultivation of rice. It takes place within a crop season.
When we produce a good by exploiting the natural resources, it is an activity of primary sector.
This is because it forms the base for all other products that we subsequently make.
Since most of the natural products we get are from agriculture, dairy, fishing, forestry, mining and
quarrying.

2. Secondary Sector : Primary sector’s products are changed into others forms
through ways of manufacturing. Also known as Industrial sector.
The secondary sector covers activities in which natural products are changed into other forms
through ways of manufacturing that we associate with industrial activity. For example, natural
rubber is the product of the primary sector, and it is converted into tyre, slippers, door mats etc.
by the industrial sector.
Secondary sector gradually becomes associated with the different kinds of industries that came
up, it is called as industrial sector.
3. Tertiary Sector : The tertiary sector produces services. Also known as service
sector. Eg. Banking, trade and commerce, transport and communication, education,
health services, civil administration and defence etc.

After primary and secondary, there is a third category of activities that fall under tertiary
sector and is different from the above two. These are activities that help in the development
of the primary and the secondary sector.

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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT(GDP) :
GDP is the sum total of the money value of all final goods and services produced in
the primary , secondary and tertiary sectors of an economy during a financial year.

COMPARING THE THREE SECTORS:

Importance of Sectoral Classification in GDP and Employment

1. Employment is an important factor because it supports a person financially.

2. GDP depicts the contribution of different sectors in National Income

3. High economic growth is not possible with the prevailing unemployment, low per capita
income and low GDP.

Therefore, the importance of Sectoral classification is high in GDP and Employment.

In 2019-20, the sectoral contribution to GDP is as follows:

Primary sector- 13%

Secondary Sector- 30%

Tertiary Sector- 57%

The sum of production in the three sectors gives what is called Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) of the country.
It is the value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a particular
year.

Rising importance of the Tertiary Sector :

(i) First, in any country several services such as hospitals, educational institutions, post and
telegraph services etc. are required. These can be considered as basic services. In a
developing country, the government has to take responsibility for the provision of these
services.

(ii) Second, the development of agriculture and industry leads to the development of
services such as transport, trade, storage and the like, as we have already seen.

(iii) Third, as income levels rise, certain sections of people start demanding many more
services like eating out, tourism, shopping, private hospital, private school.

(iv) Fourth, over the past decade or so, certain new services such as those based on
information and communication technology have become important and essential.

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CONTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SECTORS IN
PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA:

A remarkable fact about India is that while there has been a change in the share of the three
sectors in GDP, a similar shift has not taken place in employment.

. The primary sector continues to be the largest employer even now.

More than half of the workers in the country are working in the country are working in the
primary sector, mainly in agriculture, producing only a quarter of the GDP.

The secondary and tertiary sectors produce three-fourth of the produce whereas they
employ less than half the people.

It means that there are more people in agriculture than is necessary. So, even if you move a
few people out, production will not be affected. In other words, workers in the agricultural
sector are under-employed.

. The underemployment is hidden in contrast to someone who does not have a job and is
clearly visible as unemployed. Hence, it is also called disguised unemployment.

. We see other people of the service sector on the street pushing a cart or selling something
where they may spend the whole day but earn very little.

They are doing this work because they do not have better opportunities.

Employment- A situation in which all those who are able and willing to work at the
existing wage rate, get work.
• Unemployment- A situation in which people are able and willing to work at the
existing wage rate, but do not get work.
• Disguised Unemployment- A situation in which more people than the required
number are employed. The contribution of the redundant labourers to output is
almost zero.

How to Create More Employment?

Away by which we can tackle this problem is to identify, promote and locate industries and
a large number of people may be employed.
A study conducted by the Planning Commission estimates that nearly 20 lakh jobs can be
created in the education sector alone.
Every state or region has the potential for increasing the income and employment for
people in that area. The same study by the Planning Commission says that if tourism as a
sector is improved, every year we can give additional employment to more than 5 lakh
people.
We must realize that some of the suggestions discussed above would take a long time to
implement.
Recognizing this, the central government in India made a law implementing the Right to
Work.
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA
2005).
Under MGNERGA 2005, all those who are able to, and are in need of, work are guaranteed
100 days of employment in a year by the government.
If the government fails in its duty to provide employment, it will give unemployment
allowances to the people.

Sectoral Share in Employment (2019-20):

Primary Sector- 49%

Secondary Sector- 24%
Tertiary Sector- 27%

Comparative Study of Contribution to GDP and Employment Share by Three Sectors

(2019-20)

Sectors↓ Contribution to Share in

GDP (in %) Employment (%)

Primary 13 49

Secondary 30 24

Tertiary 57 27

TOTAL 100 100

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DIVISION OF SECTORS AS ORGANISED AND UNORGANISED:

SL.NO. ORGANISED UNORGANISED SECTOR

SECTOR

1 Regular Employment Irregular employment

2 High wages Low wages

3 Good working Poor working conditions

conditions

4 Job security No job security

5 Fixed working hours Long working hours

6 Different Leave facility No leave facility

7 Medical and No reimbursement

Educational
reimbursement

8. PF, Paid leave, LTC, No such facilities available

safe working hours etc
are available

The organized sector covers those enterprises or places of work where the terms of
employment are regular and therefore, people have assured work.
It is called organized because it has some formal processes and procedures.
The unorganized sector is characterized by small and scattered units which are largely
outside the control of the government.
Jobs here are low-paid and often not regular. Employment is not secure.
This sector includes a large number of people who are employed on their own doing small
jobs such as selling on the street or doing repair work.

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Organised Sector :
- Terms of employment are regular
- Registered by government
- Follows various rules and regulations
- It has some formal processes and procedures.
Unorganised Sector :
- Small and scattered units which are largely outside the control of the government.
- There are rules and regulations but these are not followed.
- Employment is not secure.

How to Protect Workers in the Unorganized Sector?

The organized sector offers jobs that are the most sought-after.
It is also common to find many organized sector enterprises in the unorganized sector.
Since the 1990s, it is also common to see a large number of workers losing their jobs in the
organized sector.
In the rural areas, the unorganized sector mostly comprises of landless agriculture
labourers, small and marginal farmers, sharecroppers and artisans.
Nearly 80% of rural households in India are in small and marginal farmer category.
In the urban areas, unorganized sector comprises mainly of workers in the small-scale
industry, casual workers in the construction, trade and transport etc., and those who work
as street vendors, head load workers, garment makers, rag pickers etc.

SECTORS IN TERMS OF OWNERSHIP: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS:

• In the public sector, the Govt. owns most of the assets and provides all the
services. Eg. Indian Railways. The objective here is social welfare.
• In the private sector, ownership of assets and delivery of services is in the
hands of private individuals or companies. Activities in the private sector are
guided by the motive to earn profits.

The purpose of the public sector is not just to earn profits.

Governments raise money through taxes and other ways to meet expenses on the services
rendered by it.There are several things needed by the society as a whole but which the
private sector will not provide at a reasonable cost.
Collecting the money from thousands of people who use these facilities is not easy.
Even if they provide these things they would charge a high rate for their.
Thus, governments have to undertake such heavy spending and ensure that these facilities
are available for everyone.
There are some of the activities, which the government has to support.
The private sector may not continue their production or business unless government
ensures it.
The government has to bear part of the cost.There are a large number of activities which
are the primary responsibility of the government. The government must spend on these.
Providing health and education facilities for all is one example.
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duty of the government to take care of the poorest and most ignored regions of the country
through increased spending in such areas.

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Chapter 3- MONEY AND CREDIT
“Money is anything which is generally accepted as medium of exchange and at the
same time acts as a measure and store of value”.
Barter system is the direct exchange of goods or services, without using money.
Barter is a system of mutual exchange, where goods are exchanged for goods directly,
without the use of money as a medium. There is the absence of Double coincidence of
wants. There is the lack of a common method to store value, lack of standard for deferred
payments, lack of a common unit of value and lack of transfer of value.

Functions of Money:

1. Medium of Exchange
2. Measure of value.
3. Store of value.
4. Standard of deferred payments.
5. Transfer of value

A person holding money can exchange it for any commodity or service that he or
she might want.Thus everyone prefers to receive payments in money and then
exchange the money for things that they want.Both parties have to agree to sell and
buy each other commodities. This is known as a Double coincidence of wants.

MODERN FORMS OF MONEY:

Currency:

Modern forms of money include currency – paper notes and coins, and demand deposits
with the banks..
Money is accepted as a medium of exchange because the currency is authorized by the
government of the country.
In India, the Reserve Bank of India (which is India‘s central bank) issues currency notes
(Rs.2 and above) on behalf of the central government. One Rupee note and coins are issued
by the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.

Deposits with Bank:

The other form in which people hold money is as deposits with the bank. People deposit
money with the banks by the opening a bank account in their name. Banks accept the
deposits and also pay an amount as interest on the deposits.People also have the provision
to withdraw the money as and when they require. Since the deposits in the accounts can be
withdrawn on demand, these deposits are called demand deposits.
It is this facility which lends it the essential characteristics of money.

For payment by cheque, the buyer who has an account with the bank, make out a cheque
for a specific amount. A cheque is a document instructing the bank to pay a specific
amount from the person’s account to the person in whose name the cheque has been
issued.

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The facility of cheque against demand deposits makes it possible to directly settle payments
without the use of cash. Since demand deposits are accepted widely as a means of payment,
along with currency, they constitute money in the modern economy.
But for the banks, there would be no demand and no payments by cheques against these
deposits. The modern forms of money – currency and deposits – are closely linked to the
working of the modern banking system.

LOAN ACTIVITIES OF BANKS:

A bank is an institution which accepts deposits from the public and lends loans to
borrowers. Loan interest will be more than the deposit interest.

Banks keep only a small proportion of their deposits as cash with themselves.
This is kept as a provision to pay the depositors who might come to withdraw money from
the bank on any given day.Since, on any particular day, only some of its many depositors
come to withdraw cash, the bank is able to manage with this cash.Banks use the major
portion of the deposits to extend loans.
There is a huge demand for loans for various economic activities.Banks make use of the
deposits to meet the loan requirements of the people.
In this way, banks mediate between those who have surplus funds and those who are in
need of these funds.Banks charge a higher interest rate on loans than what they offer on
deposits. The difference between what is charged from borrowers and what is paid to
depositors is their main source of income.

Bank credit means the amount of money a person or business can borrow from
a banking institution in the form of a loan.

Credit or Loan refers to an agreement in which the lender supplies the

borrower with money, in return for the promise of future payment.

TERMS OF CREDIT:

1. Collateral (Security or Guarantee)

2. Documentation

3. Tenure

4. Mode of Repayment

5. Rate of Interest

Every loan agreement specifies an interest rate which the borrower must pay to the lender
along with the repayment of the principal addition, lenders may demand collateral against
the loan. Collateral is an asset that the borrower owns and uses this as a guarantee to a
lender until the loan is repaid. The interest rate, collateral and documentation requirement,
and the mode of repayment together comprise what is called the terms of credit.

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FORMAL SECTOR CREDIT IN INDIA:
Banks and cooperative banks constitute the formal sector sources of credit in India.

The informal lenders include moneylenders, traders, employers, relatives and

friends, etc.
The Reserve Bank of India supervises the functioning of formal sources of loans.
For instance, we have seen that the banks maintain a minimum cash balance out of the
deposits they receive. The RBI monitors the banks in actually maintaining a cash balance.
Periodically, banks have to submit information to the RBI on how much they are lending,
to whom, at what interest rate, etc.
There is no organization that supervises the credit activities of lenders in the informal
sector. They can lend at whatever interest rate they choose. Compared to the formal
lenders, most of the informal lenders charge a much higher interest on loans.Thus, the cost
to the borrower of informal loans is much higher.The Higher cost of borrowing means a
large part of the earnings of the borrowers is used to repay the loans.Cheap and affordable
credit is crucial for the country‘s development.

Formal and Informal Credit: Who gets what?

Banks and cooperative banks constitute the formal sector sources of credit in India.

The informal lenders include moneylenders, traders, employers, relatives and friends, etc.
85% of the loans taken by poor households in the urban areas are from informal sources.
Urban households take only 10% of their loans are from informal sources, while 90% are
from formal sources.The rich households are availing cheap credit from informal lender
whereas the poor households have to pay a large amount of borrowing.The formal sector
still meets only about half of the total credit needs of the rural people.
The remaining credit needs are met from informal sources.Thus, it is necessary that banks
and cooperatives increase their lending particularly in the rural areas so that the dependence
on informal sources of credit reduces. While formal sector loans need to expand, it is also
necessary that everyone receives these loans. It is important that the formal credit is
distributed more equality so that the poor can benefit from the cheaper loans.

SELF-HELP GROUPS(SHGs)

SHG is a holistic programme , covering all aspects of self-employment of the

rural poor, and their capacity building, planning of activity clusters based on
resource availability , infrastructure build up, technology, credit, and
marketing. Eg. Kudumbashree in Kerala.

Features:

• 1. 15 to 20 members
• 2. Grants small loans to members
• 3. Does not require collateral
• 4. closely monitored by all members

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 Objectives of Self Help Groups:

• 1. To inculcate saving habits in the community.

• 2. To create sensitive forum for addressing needs of people.
• 3. To enhance capabilities of women
• 4. To access resources
• 5. To generate sense of collective action.

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Chapter 4- GLOBALISATION AND INDIAN ECONOMY
WHAT IS GLOBALISATION?

Globalisation means integration of our economy with the world economy.

It is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and

governments at international level.

The process of Globalisation started in India in 1991, as part of economic reforms or LPG
(Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation).International movement of goods, capital,
and people, are the three aspects of globalisation.

Multi National Corporations (MNCs):

An MNC is a company that owns or controls production in more than one nation. Eg.
Microsoft Corporatio-(USA), IBM(International Business Machines)-(USA), Sony-(Japan),
Samsung-(South Korea) , Siemens-(Germany). Designing the product, production,and sale
will be in different countries.

MNCs set up offices and factories for production in regions where they can get cheap
labour and other resources.MNCs are not only selling its finished products globally but
more important, the goods and services are produced globally.As a result, production is
organized in increasingly complex ways.

INTERLINKING PRODUCTION ACROSS COUNTRIES:

Different Considerations for Setting up production Units by MNCs:

1. Availability of labour at low cost,

2. Availability of other factors of production,

3. Market availability,

4. Favorable Government Policies (eg. SEZs)

In general, MNCs set up production where it is close to the markets; where there is skilled
and unskilled labour available at low costs; and where the availability of other factories of
production is assured.The money that is spent to buy assets such as land, building,
machines and other equipment is called investment. The investment made by the MNCs is
called foreign investment.The benefit to the local company of such joint production is two-
fold.
(i) MNCs can provide money for additional investments, like buying new machines for
faster production.
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(ii) MNCs might bring with them the latest technology for production.
But the most common route for MNC investments is to buy up local companies and then to
expand production.
Many of the top MNCs have wealth exceeding the entire budget of the developing country
government.
We see that there are a variety of ways in which the MNCs are spreading their production
and interacting with local producers in various countries across the globe.
MNCs are exerting a strong influence on production at these distant locations.
As a result, production in these widely dispersed locations is getting interlinked.

Ways by which MNCs Set up Production in other Countries:

• 1. By Foreign Investment.
• 2. By setting up production units in collaboration with local companies.
• 3. By buying up local companies.
• 4. By placing orders for production with small producers.

FOREIGN TRADE AND INTEGRATION OF MARKETS:

Foreign trade creates an opportunity for the producers to reach beyond the domestic
markets i.e., markets of their own countries.. For the buyers, import of goods produced in
another country is one way of expanding the choice of goods beyond what is domestically
produced.
In general, with the opening of trade, goods travel from one market to another.
Foreign trade thus results in connecting the markets or integration of markets in different
countries.

Foreign investment (FDI) is the investment in one country by a company, based in

another country. It is different from Foreign Portfolio Investment(FPI).

FACTORIS THAT HAVE ENABLED GLOBALISATION:

Rapid improvement in technology has been on a major factor that has stimulated the
globalization process. For instances, the past 50 years have seen several improvements in
transportation technology. Even more remarkable have been the development of
information and communication technology.
Technologies in the areas of telecommunications, computers, and internet have been
changing rapidly.

Ways in which Countries can be Integrated:

• 1. International movement of goods and services.

• 2. International movement of investment and technology.
• 3. International movement of people for jobs and education.

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Liberalization of foreign trade and foreign investment policy:
1. Tax on imports is an example of trade barrier. It is called a barrier because some
restriction has been set up.
2. The government can use trade barriers to increase or decrease foreign trade and to decide
what kind of goods and how much of each, should come into the country.
3. The Indian government, after Independence, had put barriers to foreign investment.
4. This was considered necessary to protect the producers within the country from foreign
competition.
5. Barriers to foreign trade and foreign investment were removed to a large extent.
6. This meant that goods could be imported and exported easily and also foreign companies
could set up factories and offices here.
7. Removing barriers or restriction set by the government is what is known as
liberalization.
8. The government imposes much less restriction than before and is therefore said to be
more liberal.

WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION:

World Trade Organisation (1995), sets the rules of trade between member
countries (164).

• To liberalise international trade.

• To reduce tariffs.
• To monitor the implementation of rules.
• HQ- Geneva

We have seen that the liberalization of foreign trade and investment in India was supported
by some very powerful international organization.
These organizations say that all barriers to foreign trade and investment that are harmful.
There should be no barriers.
World Trade Organization (WTO) is one such organization whose aim is to liberalize
international trade.
Though WTO is supposed to allow a free trade for all, in practice, it is seen that the
developed countries have unfairly retained trade barriers. On the other hand, WTO rules
have forced the developing countries to remove the trade barriers.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs):

SEZs are industrial areas with world class facilities of electricity, transport,
storage and educational facilities. Companies in SEZs have no need to pay
taxes for five years.

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IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION IN INDIA:

POSITIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION

• 1. Greater choice of products before consumers.

• 2. Investment by MNCs increased in India, which resulted in growth of
employment and market for raw materials .
• 3. Several of top Indian companies got benefitted, by improving their technology
and production standards.

In the last twenty years, globalization of the Indian economy has come a long way.
Globalization and greater competition among producers – both local and foreign producers
– has been of advantage to consumers, particularly the well-off sections in the urban areas.
As a result, these people today, enjoy much higher standards of living than was possible
earlier. MNCs have increased their investments in India over the past 20 years, which
means investing in India has been beneficial for them..
Moreover, globalization has enabled some large Indian companies to emerge as
multinationals themselves!
Globalization has also created new opportunities for companies providing services,
particularly those involving IT.

NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION

1. Small producers have been hit hard due to international competition. Eg., toys,
tyres, dairy products etc.

2. Unemployment increased among unskilled and semi-skilled labourers.

3. Job-insecurity among the employees, and long working hours, due to ―flexible‖
employment.

4. Economic disparities among nations and people widened.

5. Due to globalisation, the service sector got benefitted, whereas the agriculture
and industrial sectors have been adversely affected.

How to Ensure a Fair Globalisation?

• A fair globalisation creates opportunities for all and ensures that the benefits of
globalisation are shared among all.

Role of Government :

• 1. The government has to ensure that the labour laws are properly implemented and
the workers are getting their rights.
• 2. The Government can support small producers to improve their performance.

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 • 3. The government can use trade barriers and investment barriers to protect
domestic producers.
• 4. The government, by aligning with other developing countries, can negotiate at
the WTO for ―fairer rules‖.
• The people also can play an important role in the struggle for fair globalisation, by
massive campaigns and representations.

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Chapter 5- CONSUMER RIGHTS (Only for Project Work)

The Consumer in the Marketplace:

 Rules and regulations are required for the protection of the consumers in the
marketplace.
 Exploitation in the marketplace happens often.
 Markets do not work in a fair manner when producers are few and powerful
whereas consumers purchase in small amounts and are scattered. This happens
especially when large companies are producing these goods. These companies with
huge wealth, power and reach can manipulate the market. At times, false
information is passed on through the media, and other sources to attract consumers.

Consumer Movement:

 In India, the consumer movement as a ‗social force‘ originated with the necessity of
protecting and promoting the interests of consumers against unethical and unfair
trade practices.
 Rampant food shortages, hoarding, black marketing, adulteration of food and edible
oil gave birth to the consumer movement in an organised form in the 1960s.
 Till the 1970s, consumer organisations were largely engaged in writing articles and
holding exhibitions. They formed consumer groups to look into the malpractices in
ration shops and overcrowding in the road passenger transport.
 More recently, India witnessed an upsurge in the number of consumer groups.

Rights of Consumers :

Rights which are provided by law : -

 Right to safety: Consumers have the right to be protected against the marketing of
goods and delivery of services that are hazardous to life and property. Producers
need to strictly follow the required safety rules and regulations. There are many
goods and services that we purchase that require special attention to safety.
 Right to be informed: Consumers have the right to be informed about the
particulars of goods and services that they purchase. Consumers can then complain
and ask for compensation or replacement if the product proves to be defective in
any manner. Similarly, one can protest and complain if someone sells a good at
more than the printed price on the packet. This is indicated by ‗MRP‘ — maximum
retail price.
 Right to choose: Any consumer who receives a service in whatever capacity,
regardless of age, gender and nature of service, has the right to choose whether to
continue to receive the service.
 Right to be heard: Consumers have the right to be heard in case of a grievance.

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  Right to seek redressal: Consumers have the right to seek redressal against unfair
trade practices and exploitation. If any damage is done to a consumer, he or she has
the right to get compensation depending on the degree of damage.
 Right to represent in consumer courts: The consumer movement in India has led
to the formation of various organisations locally known as consumer forums or
consumer protection councils. They guide consumers on how to file cases in the
consumer court. On many occasions, they also represent individual consumers in
the consumer courts. These voluntary organisations also receive financial support
from the government for creating awareness among people.

Factors causing exploitation of Consumers :

 Limited information
 Limited supplies
 Limited competition
 Low literacy

Duties of Consumers :

 To purchase quality marked products such as ISI, AGMARK etc.

 To ask for cash memo for the items purchased whenever possible.
 To complain for genuine grievances, consumers must know their rights and must
exercise them.

Demerits of Consumer Redressal Process :

 The Consumer Redressal Process is becoming cumbersome, expensive and time

consuming.
 Many a time, consumers are required to engage lawyers. These cases require time
for filling and attending the court proceedings etc.
 In most purchases, cash memos are not issued hence evidence is absent.
 Most purchases in the market are small retail sales.
 The enforcement of laws that protect workers, especially in the unorganised sectors
is weak.
 Rules and regulations for working of markets are often not followed.

Consumer Protection Act - 1986 (COPRA)

 To protect and promote the interest of consumers.

 Under COPRA, a three-tier quasi-judicial machinery at the district, state and
national levels is set up for redressal of consumer disputes.
 The district level court deals with the cases involving claims upto Rs. 20 lakhs; The
State level courts between Rs. 20 lakhs and Rs. 1 crore and the national level court
deals with cases involving claims exceeding Rs. 1 crore.
 If a case is dismissed in district level court, the consumer can also appeal in state
and then in national level courts. Thus, the Act has enabled us as consumers to have
the right to represent in the consumer courts.

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India has been observing 24 December as the National Consumers‘ Day. It was on this day
that the Indian Parliament enacted the Consumer Protection Act in 1986. India is one of the
countries that have exclusive courts for consumer redresal.

There are today more than 700 consumer groups in the country of which only about 20-25
are well organised and recognized for their work.

Disclaimer: This study material is to be used for free educational purpose

only. Use for commercial purpose, if any, is prohibited as per applicable
laws.

© Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan-

Zonal institute of Education and Training,

Gwalior
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 के न्द्रीय विद्यालय संगठन
आंचवलक विक्षा एिं प्रविक्षण संस्थान ग्िावलयर (म.प्र.)

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

Zonal Institute of Education & Training, Gwalior (M.P.)

Interactive Resource Material for Class X English

टी. उमा महेश्वरी / T. Uma Maheswari

प्रविक्षण सहायक (अंग्रज
े ी) / Training Associate (English)
 CONTENTS

Click
S.No. Prose (First Flight)
Here

1 A Letter to God 14

1.1. About the Author 14

1.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 15

1.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 15

1.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 15

1.5. Mind Map 16

1.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 17

2 Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 18

2.1. About the Author 18

2.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 19

2.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 19

2.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 19

2.5. Mind Map 20

2.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 22

3 Two Stories About Flying 23

(i) His First Flight 23

 3.1.1. About the Author 23

3.1.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 24

3.1.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 24

3.1.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 24

3.1.5. Mind Map 25

3.1.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 26

(ii) Black Aeroplane 27

3.2.1. About the Author 27

3.2.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 28

3.2.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 28

3.2.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 28

3.2.5. Mind Map 29

3.2.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 30

4 From the Diary of Anne Frank 31

4.1. About the Author 31

4.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 32

4.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 32

4.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 32

4.5. Mind Map 33

 4.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 34

5 Glimpses of India 35

(i) A Baker From Goa 35

5.1.1. About the Author 35

5.1.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 36

5.1.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 36

5.1.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 36

5.1.5. Mind Map 37

5.1.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 38

(ii) Coorg 39

5.2.1. About the Author 39

5.2.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 40

5.2.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 40

5.2.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 40

5.2.5. Mind Map 41

5.2.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 42

(iii) Tea from Assam 43

5.3.1. About the Author 43

5.3.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 44

 5.3.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 44

5.3.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 44

5.3.5. Mind Map 45

5.3.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 46

6 Mijbil the Otter 47

6.1. About the Author 47

6.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 48

6.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 48

6.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 48

6.5. Mind Map 49

6.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 50

7 Madam Rides the Bus 52

7.1. About the Author 52

7.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 53

7.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 53

7.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 53

7.5. Mind Map 54

7.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 55

8 The Sermon at Benares 56

 8.1. About the Author 56

8.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 57

8.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 57

8.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 57

8.5. Mind Map 58

8.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 59

9 The Proposal 60

9.1. About the Author 60

9.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 61

9.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 61

9.4. External Link for Support (Animated Video) 61

9.5. Mind Map 62

9.6. Synopsis of the Lesson 63

Poetry (First Flight) 64

1 Dust of Snow 65

1.1. About the Poet 65

1.2. Link for the Text 65

1.3. Link for the Audio 65

1.4. Critical Appreciation 66

2 Fire and Ice 67

2.1. About the Poet 67

2.2. Link for the Text 67

2.3. Link for the Audio 67

2.4. Critical Appreciation 68

3 A Tiger in the Zoo 69

3.1. About the Poet 69

3.2. Link for the Text 69

3.3. Link for the Audio 69

3.4. Critical Appreciation 70

4 How to Tell Wild Animals 71

4.1. About the Poet 71

4.2. Link for the Text 71

4.3. Link for the Audio 71

4.4. Critical Appreciation 72

5 The Ball Poem 73

5.1. About the Poet 73

5.2. Link for the Text 73

 5.3. Link for the Audio 73

5.4. Critical Appreciation 74

6 Amanda 75

6.1. About the Poet 75

6.2. Link for the Text 75

6.3. Link for the Audio 75

6.4. Critical Appreciation 76

7 The Trees 77

7.1. About the Poet 77

7.2. Link for the Text 77

7.3. Link for the Audio 77

7.4. Critical Appreciation 78

8 Fog 79

8.1. About the Poet 79

8.2. Link for the Text 79

8.3. Link for the Audio 79

8.4. Critical Appreciation 80

9 The Tale of Custard the Dragon 81

9.1. About the Poet 81

 9.2. Link for the Text 81

9.3. Link for the Audio 81

9.4. Critical Appreciation 82

10 For Anne Gregory 83

10.1. About the Poet 83

10.2. Link for the Text 83

10.3. Link for the Audio 83

10.4. Critical Appreciation 84

Supple. Reader (Footprints Without Feet) 85

1 A Triumph of Surgery 86

1.1. About the Author 86

1.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 86

1.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 86

1.4. Gist of the Lesson 87

2 The Thief’s Story 88

2.1. About the Author 88

2.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 88

2.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 88

2.4. Gist of the Lesson 89

3 The Midnight Visitor 90

3.1. About the Author 90

3.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 90

3.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 90

3.4. Gist of the Lesson 91

4 A Question of Trust 92

4.1. About the Author 92

4.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 92

4.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 92

4.4. Gist of the Lesson 93

5 Footprints Without Feet 94

5.1. About the Author 94

5.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 94

5.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 94

5.4. Gist of the Lesson 95

6 The Making of a Scientist 96

6.1. About the Author 96

6.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson 96

6.3. Link for the Audio Lesson 96

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7 The Necklace

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7.1. About the Author

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7.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson

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7.3. Link for the Audio Lesson

7.4. Gist of the Lesson 99

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8 Bholi

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8.1. About the Author

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8.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson

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8.3. Link for the Audio Lesson

8.4. Gist of the Lesson 101

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9 The Book That Saved The Earth

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9.1. About the Author

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9.2. Link for the Text Book Lesson

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9.3. Link for the Audio Lesson

9.4. Gist of the Lesson 103

Listening Activities
Link for Audio Activity Book on Listening and Speaking for Classes 6 to 10
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References 105
 1. A Letter To God
- G L Fuentes

Gregorio Lopez Fuentes (1897-2002)

Gregorio Lopez Fuentes was born on July 11, 1897, was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist.
He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution. He came in contact with the
Indians, farmers, and labourers of the region, whose lives he later described in his works. His
stories were seen as exciting, humorous and symbolic of Mexico. He was awarded the National
Prize of Arts and Sciences in 1935.

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Lencho was a farmer

His home was situated on the crest of the low hill in the valley

Lencho believed in God

His field needed rain for better harvest

Big storm and hailstones began and destroyed the crops

There was a single hope: help from God

He wrote a letter to God – demanded 100 pesos – put it into mailbox

Postman laughed- informed Postmaster-–laughed but became serious–wanted to help

He gave part of his salary and collected from his employees 70 pesos

He put 70 pesos in an envelope and addressed to Lencho

Lencho collected the envelop-counted-30 pesos were less-wrote back to God

Asked the missing amount to God in the letter and not to send through post office as he
called them ‘bunch of crooks’ who took away 30 pesos

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

A Letter to God is a story written by G L Fuentes talks about the poor farmer, Lencho’s unshakable
faith in God. He was a hardworking farmer who was expecting a good harvest. But unfortunately,
his entire crop yield has been destroyed by a devastating hailstorm. He was sad, heartbroken and
depressed but had a very strong faith in God. He was certain that God would help him. Though he
spent his time in the farm, he knows how to write. He writes a letter to God seeking help from the
Almighty. He requested God to send him one hundred pesos to harvest his field again and save his
family from starvation. At the post office, he placed a stamp on the letter and dropped it into the
mailbox.

One of the employees, a postman took the letter from mailbox, went to the postmaster laughing
heartily and showed him the letter to God. The postmaster, a fat, amiable fellow also broke out
laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and commented, what faith! I wish I had the
faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God! The postmaster
moved by the faith and decided to help. He requested the employees to donate for charity and he
also gave part of his salary. The money collected was little less than what Lencho asked. The entire
amount was placed in an envelope and addressed to the poor farmer, as the postmaster thought the
faith should not be broken.

Lencho returned to the post office the following Sunday, to check if there was a letter for him. The
letter was taken out by the postmaster and handed to him politely. Lencho was not surprised at all
to see the letter with money inside the envelope. He opened the envelope and counted the money.
He became angry when he found only seventy pesos. He was sure that God could never make such
a blunder. He immediately went to the window to ask for the paper and ink and wrote to God and
dropped it into the mailbox.

The postmaster and the employees read the letter after Lencho had left. Lencho had complained to
God to send him the remaining money as he had requested for but he also asked him not to send it
through mail. He had mentioned that the post office employees were a bunch of crooks. Although
Lencho’s wishes get fulfilled partially, he remains ungrateful in the end.

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 2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918- 2013)

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first President of
South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected
in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy
of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. He was born into the Thembu royal family in
Mvezo, Union of South Africa, fondly refers him by his Thembu clan name, Madiba and described
as the Father of the Nation.

Mandela was given over 250 awards, accolades, prizes, honorary degrees and citizenships in
recognition of his political achievements. Among his awards were, the Nobel Peace Prize, India’s
the Bharat Ratna, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom etc.

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• 5. About Love • 6. About a Man's

and Hate Twin Obligations

1. Inauguration as 2. His Speech

President

4. About Other South 3. About

African Patriots and
their Courage Apartheid

•8. Two Major Theme - • 7. His Idea of

i) Freedom Vs
Oppression ii) Courage Freedom
Vs Hate

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 Points in Detail (1 to 7)

o It took place on 10th May, 1994 in the Union Building in Pretoria

o It was attended by dignitaries from around the world.
o Mandela was accompanied by his daughter.

o It marked the triumph of humanity, liberty and peace over oppression.

o He brought out the irony - who was regarded as a criminal, now hosting
dignitaries from all over the world.
o He pledged to fight against poverty and discrimination.
o He pledged never to let his nation be ruled by tyranny again.

o Inauguration marked the end of oppressive systems in human history – apartheid

o It is a system of racial discrimination – white-sinned dominated over the dark-
skinned people of their land.
o Apartheid had caused immeasurable suffering for his people.

o Apartheid also produced courageous men and women – risked their lives to
fight oppression.
o It is through their sacrifice; Mandela understood the idea of courage.
o “…courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
o He paid tribute to those who paved way for Africa’s freedom by calling himself
the ‘sum of all African Patriots.’

o Mandela believed that no one is born hating other human beings rather they are
taught to hate.
o He believed in mankind’s boundless capacity for goodness and love.

o Two obligations – one to family and one to country

o In an unequal society, a man cannot fulfill both. Every man must be free to be
able to do so.
o Mandela had to put his people’s needs above those of his family’s.

o He realised that his freedom was an illusion only on reaching adulthood.

o He further realised that other members of his community too were not free.
o One cannot enjoy true freedom if one’s fellow beings are in chains.
o This realization led him to give up his own and fight for his people’s freedom.
o His idea of freedom is all inclusive.
o He believed everyone must be free, not just the oppressed, but also the
oppressor who is imprisoned by hate.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

Nelson Mandela, a South African freedom fighter, unfortunately a political prisoner for thirty years for
the sake of eradicating the apartheid system from the country. The African National Congress struggled
and finally democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994 and Mandela became the first black
president of a new nation. A Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela speaks about a historic occasion, the
inauguration.
Mandela took his oath as the president in the Union Buildings Amphitheatre in Pretoria in the presence
of several prominent political personalities and world leaders across the globe. He commenced his
speech by addressing all the dignitaries and assured the citizens, never, never again will this beautiful
land experience the oppression of one by another and the government would treat people with due
respect and equality.
The people of South Africa, on this historic inauguration, sang two National Anthems. The White people
sang Nkosi Sikelet –iAfrika and the blacks, Die Stem, the old anthem of the Republic, which was a stark
reminder of the exploitation of the blacks in South Africa. Deeply pained by the racist history, Mandela
said that the structure the created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane, societies the
world has ever known. He emphasized that people are not born hating another person because of the
colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to
hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
In life, every man has twin obligations – one to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children; and
the other to his people, his community, and his country. In a civil and humane society, as per their own
interests and inclinations, each man is able to fulfil these obligations. But in a country like South Africa,
it was almost impossible because if they attempted to live as a human being, they were punished and
isolated. When Mandela became an adult then he understood that his freedom was only an illusion. In fact,
he was the slave of exploitation. He also understood that not only he was a slave but his other family
members were also.

Mandela further believed that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who
takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and
narrow-mindedness. The profound idea is that the oppressor must be liberated just like the oppressed.
According to him, Freedom is also mandatory for them who were suppressing others in the past. They also
have the right to have it because snatcher of other’s freedom is a prisoner of the same. Thus, the oppressor
is as much a prisoner as the oppressed. The oppressor too is not free. The brave man is not the one who does
not feel afraid, but he is the one who conquers that fear.

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 3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING

(I) His First Flight

- Liam O’ Flaherty

Liam O’ Flaherty (1896-1984)

Liam O’ Flaherty was an Irish novelist and short-story writer whose works combine brutal
naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire with an abiding respect for the courage
and persistence of the Irish people. He was considered to be a leading figure of the Irish
Renaissance.

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Mind Map

It is an
interesting
story of a
young
Seagull
who was

He was left
four hours
and he ate

alone for
nothing.
afraid of

twenty
flying

Seagull
did not
have
confidence
and was
very
pessimisti
c

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

This story is about the young Seagull who is afraid to fly for the first time as it did not have trust
on its wings. The siblings, two brothers and sister had already learned to fly. But this young seagull
did not have courage and fearful about the depth of the long stretch of the sea. The parents
persuaded, scolded and even threatened him that if he did not fly, he would die of hunger but the
seagull remained stable at one place and did not move.

One day, it was getting hot as the sun was rising up in the sky and he was feeling too hungry. His
mother tried to tempt him with pieces of fish realizing his madness for food. She flew across to
get nearer to him but the food was within the reach of his beak but could not get it. He was so
hungry that he dived at the fish and felt that his wings had spread outwards and the wind rushed
against his breast feather. He felt that his wings were cutting through the air. Beneath him he saw
a vast green sea. He tried to stand on the sea on which his parents and siblings had already landed.
Just his feet sank into the green sea but he did not sink any further. His family praised him for his
first flight.

The writer gives a beautiful narration about how the bird overcomes his fear. This story tells us
that the inner strength of the person is always helpful in overcoming difficult situations, through
Seagull who overcame his fear.

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 TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING
(II) Black Aeroplane
- Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth (1938)

Frederick Forsyth is a British author of best-selling thriller novels noted for their journalistic
style and their fast-paced plots based on international political affairs and personalities. The
realism of his works raised speculation that he had worked for the British Intelligence agency M16.
In 2015, shortly before the release of his autobiography, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue, Forsyth
confirmed the rumours. He claimed his association with M16 began during the Biafran war and
continued for more than two decades. In 1997 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the
British Empire (CBE).

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

It is an interesting account of the narrator’s encounter with the pilot of a black aeroplane who
comes to his rescue in distress, written by Fredrick Forsyth. It is a mystery built around the black
aeroplane and its pilot. The pilot was flying an old Dakota aeroplane desires to be with his family
in London next morning’s breakfast, for a long vacation. The pilot was extremely happy.

The stars were shining and the sky was clear. The plane was flying over France and going back to
England. Around 1:30 a.m. he called Paris Control Room. The Control Room instructed him to
turn twelve degrees west. The pilot checked the map and the compass, switched over to his second
and last fuel tank and turned the plane twelve degrees west towards England.

When Paris was 150 km behind, he saw the black storm clouds approaching the plane. He could
not fly over them and he did not have enough fuel to fly around them south or north. First he
thought of going back to Paris but his strong urge to meet his family members led him straight into
the storm. It was absolutely dark inside the clouds. The plane was jumping and twisting in the air.
All the instruments had stopped working. The pilot lost his contact with the ground staff.

Suddenly he saw another aeroplane quite near him. That strange black aeroplane had no lights on
its wings. The pilot of the black aeroplane asked him to follow him. The pilot flew in the clouds
for half an hour. He had only fuel left to fly another fifteen minutes. The pilot was frightened.
Suddenly the black aeroplane descended and the pilot followed him. Finally, the black aeroplane
guided him to an airport for landing. The pilot was thrilled to see the runway but when he turned
his head to thank the pilot of the black aeroplane he couldn’t see him anywhere.

After landing, the pilot immediately rushed to the Control Centre and enquired about the black
aeroplane which guided him all the way to the airport. The woman on duty at the Control Centre
told him that no other plane was seen flying that night. She had seen only his plane on the radar.
The pilot was surprised to hear all this and kept on wondering who had helped him to arrive and
land safely without a compass or a radio and without any more fuel left in his tank. He kept thinking
about that strange black aeroplane and its mysterious pilot.

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 4. From The Diary Of Anne Frank
- Anne Frank

Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl. The twelve-year-old Jewish girl wrote ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
while in hiding with her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands during the Nazis’ occupation of the
Netherlands in World War II. After two years in hiding, the group was arrested by the Gestapo on
4th August 1944 and transported to a concentration camp in Bergen where Anne and her elder sister
Margot died of typhus in 1945. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the group found her diary
and got it published in English under the name The Diary of a Young Girl.

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1
Anne Frank

2
Her parents

3
She was
lived in left her and gifted a diary
Holland after her sister with on her
Hitler Grandma. thirteenth
invaded. birthday.

Anne named 5 She wrote She was very

4

6
the diary every problem close to her
‘Kitty’ and and Grandma,
made it her happenings in after her death
best friend in her diary. she felt very
her loneliness. much alone.
7

They lived in She was Mr Keesing

8

9
hiding for lovable of got annoyed
many years to every teacher with her
survive. except Mr talkative
Keesing who nature.
taught Maths.
He punished Her essay in verse He allowed her to
10

11

12

her by giving form on topic talk and relieved

her extra ‘Quack’ Quack, her from any
Quack, said extra home work.
homework Mistress
many a time. Chatterbox'
humiliated Mr
Keesing.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

The author, Anneliese Marie ‘Anne’ Frank was a German born Jewish girl who wrote while hiding
with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands
in World War II. The author feels that it is strange and unusual for her to write a diary. She also
thought that in the future no one will read about a young girl’s past experiences. But then she
decides, ‘it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of
things off my chest’. Paper has more patience than people, she thought.

She was feeling little depressed and lonely and felt strongly that paper does have more patience
and started the diary. She wanted the diary to be her friend, so named it Kitty, her friend. She had
good time with friends but cannot share everything with them as they are not true friends. So Kitty
became her very close friend. She refers to her father as the most lovable person who presents her
the Diary on her 13th birthday. She missed her Grandma who she loved dearly.

The entire class was nervous about their results but she and her friend was unsure only about
mathematics. She was doing fairly well in all the other subjects. According to Anne about the
quarter of the class should not pass as they do not participate in any activities. Anne recalls Mr
Keesing who teaches maths, was annoyed with her for her talkativeness. He punished her by giving
extra home work on the topic A Chatterbox and next time An Incorrigible Chatterbox and the last
one was Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox.

She decides to present her argument in writing in support of talking. Mr Keesing enjoyed it but the
last one made her feel that he was trying to play joke on her with this ridiculous subject. So, she
made sure that the joke was on him. His purpose was to make her quite in the class but he failed
even after giving extra home work. But her third homework, satire in a poetic form made him to
stop giving punishment and allowed her to talk uninterruptedly. Thus, Anne needs to talk to give
vent to her emotions and to remain mentally fit.

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 5. Glimpses of India

(i) A Baker From Goa

- Lucio Rodrigues

Lucio Rodrigues (1916-1973)

Lucio Rodrigues (1916-73) was a great Konkani essayist. He wrote several articles in English and
Konkani to various periodicals and magazines. He served as the visiting professor of Folklore at
many universities and also as a professor of English in Mumbai and Goa. His essays were
posthumously published under the title Of Soil and Soul and Konkani Folk Tales. Subtle humour
and informal narration are the essential features of his writings.

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• The Portuguese in Goa were lovers of bread.

1

• Those eaters of bread have now gone but its makers still exist.
2

• During the childhood days of the narrator, a baker used to be their friend,
3 companion and guide.

• The baker came twice a day- once in the morning and again while returning
4 home after finishing his selling.

• The jingling thud of the baker’s bamboo woke up the sleeping children.
5

• The loaves were delivered to the servants of the house.

6

• The children would peep into the baker’s basket for the bread-bangles.
7

• The children would eat bread with hot tea.

8

• The marriages were incomplete without the popular bol bread.

9

• Bolinhas was a must during Christmas and all other festivals.

10

• The bakers wore a particular knee length frock known as kabai.

11

• Baking was a profitable profession. Bakers had a plump physique testifying to

12 this.

• The bakers collected their bills at the end of the month.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

A Baker from Goa is a historical story linked to the time when Portuguese ruled Goa. It focuses on
the relevance and the importance of a baker in Goa. Even though Portuguese have left the country,
the importance of bakers is still upheld. They are referred to Pader who make a jingle sound with
the bamboo when they come to sell loaves of bread in the streets. This jingling sound would wake
the author and his friends during their early days. They used to run towards him without even
washing their mouths. The loaves were bought by some Paskine or Bastine, the maid-servant of
the house. The children chose bread-bangles and sometimes sweet bread of special make, named
Bol.

The narrator talked about baker’s dress style kabai, an exceptional frock of knee-length. The sweet
bread named Bol was a part of marriages, and the lady prepares sandwiches on the engagement of
her daughter in earlier years. Cakes, sandwiches, and several other items were made with the
loaves of bread during that time. Since that time, the bakery has continued to be a money-making
profession and the baker and his family never go hungry.

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 (ii) Coorg
- Lokesh Abrols

Lokesh Abrol
Lokesh Abrol or Dr. Lokesh Abrol is a doctor, traveller and social entrepreneur who loves India
and likes writing about different places he visited in India. He is an optimist for whom a challenge
brings in a new possibility. A doctor by profession, an India travel and Heritage author by hobby,
having published for NCERT, Discover India, Incredible India, Outlook Traveler, Swagat, Srishti,
Tashi Delek and he even did an honorary stint as a weekly heritage talk show host for Hindi Khabar
TV.

‘This has been so true so often that I look forward to what’s going to pop up next’, says Lokesh
Abrol. He likes to humbly describe himself as a doctor, educationist and social worker, by destiny
rather than design. ‘I was and am an incorrigible outdoors person, a wannabe soldier, forester,
farmer, traveler, photographer, in other words a dreamer lucky to have lived all my dreams’ says
he.

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Coorg is a story about the Coorg or Kodagu district of

Karnataka.

The author describes Coorg as a heavenly place located

between Mangalore and Mysore.

It is undeniably God's abode, with evergreen forests,

spices, and coffee plantations.

The weather is pleasant here from September to March,

so many tourists visit. The coffee aroma pervades the
air here.

Coorg people may be seen wearing Kuppia, a long black

coat similar to the kuffia worn by Arabs.

Coorg people are well-known for their bravery.

One of the most important regiments in the

Indian Army is the Coorg Regiment.

General Cariappa, our first army chief, is also from

Coorg.

The Coorg forests and hills are a major source of

water for the Cauvery River.

Buddhist monks also live in Bylakuppe on the

Nisargadhama Island near Coorg.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

The smallest district of Karnataka, midway between Mysore and the coastal town of Mangalore,
sits a piece of heaven that must have drifted from the kingdom of god is Coorg or Kodagu, is home
to evergreen rainforests, spices and coffee plantations. The weather is pleasant from September to
March. Many tourists visit this place during this time. The air in the whole area carries the aroma
of coffee. The people of Coorg, Kodavus wear the long, black coat with an embroidered waist-belt
known as kuppia. It resembles the kuffia worn by the Arabs and the Kurds.

This Coorg land of rolling hills is inhabited by a proud race of martial men, beautiful women and
wild creatures. They are independent, brave and known for hospitality. One of the most decorated
regiment in the Indian Army is the Coorg Regiment. The first Chief of the Indian Army, General
Cariappa, was a Coorgi. The Kodavus are the only people in India permitted to carry firearms
without a licence. The origin of river Kaveri is in Coorg. Mahaseer, a large freshwater fish, abound
in these waters. The place abounds in diversity of flora and fauna. People who seek for high-energy
adventure enjoy river rafting, canoeing, rappelling, mountain hiking and rock climbing here.

Birds, bees, butterflies, Macaques, Malabar squirrels, langurs, slender loris etc. draws everyone’s
attention. The climb to the Brahmagiri hills brings a panoramic view of the entire landscape of
Coorg. A walk across the rope bridge will take you to the sixty four acre island of Nisargadhama
and to the largest Tibetan settlement at nearby Bylakuppe. The visitors searching for the heart and
soul of India, find right here in Coorg.

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 (iii) Tea From Assam
- Arup Kumar Dutta

Arup Kumar Dutta (1946 - )

Arup Kumar Dutta was born on 2 July 1946 to Girish and Indira Dutta. He is an Indian writer and
Journalist from Guwahati, Assam. He has written 18 books for adults and 17 adventure novels for
young people. In 2014 he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Honour by Association of
Writers and Illustrators for Children, New Delhi, and the Indian chapter of the International Board
of Books for Young People. He has also won numerous awards including the Shankar’s Award in
1979, conferred to mark The International Year of the Child. He has been awarded the civilian
award Padma Shri by Government of India in 2018.

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The story of While sipping his tea, Rajvir informs Pranjol that over
Assam Tea 800,000,000 cups of tea are consumed worldwide each day.
begins with
two friends,
Rajvir and
Pranjol, While Rajvir is looking at the beautiful and serene scenery,
traveling to Pranjol is busy reading detective books.
Assam. They
stop to buy
tea from a
There were tea bushes all over as far as one could see. They
roadside also saw a building which was a tea garden.
vendor on
their way.

Assam has The Emperor enjoyed the delectable flavour. This is how it
the greatest came about. According to legend, Buddhist Monk
tea Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids to avoid falling asleep during
plantation. meditation.
According
to legend, a They both disembarked at Mariani Junction and proceeded to
few tea Dhekiabari Tea Estate. They saw women picking tea leaves
there.
branches
fell into the
boiling hot
Pranjol's father had come to meet them there, claiming to be
water by an expert on tea plantations. Rajvir expresses a desire to
accident. learn from him.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

This lesson talks about Assam, a North-Eastern State in India, famous for tea plantation. Pranjol,
Rajvir’s classmate at school in Delhi had invited Rajvir, to visit his home during summer vacation.
They both were travelling to Assam by train. Pranjol’s father is a manager of a tea-garden in Upper
Assam. Rajvir says everyday throughout the world eighty crore cups of tea are drunk.

The train passes through green hills; Rajvir was excited and enjoying the beautiful, magnificent
greenery, paddy fields, tea bushes stretched as far as eye could see but Pranjol who was brought
up at plantation had no excitement and was reading detective book. Rajvir then tells him about the
various legends, Indian and Chinese, behind tea. He tells how a Chinese emperor accidentally
discovered tea back in 2700 B.C. He also tells another story about how ten tea plants grew out of
eyelids of Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic. The words, chai and chini are from Chinese.
Tea came to Europe only in the sixteenth century and was drunk more as medicine than as
beverage.

The train reached Mariani junction, Pranjol’s parents were waiting for them and they all drove
towards Dhekiabari, the tea-garden managed by Pranjol’s father. The tea bushes, all neatly pruned
to the same height on both sides of the road, they walked. The tea-pluckers with bamboo baskets,
wearing plastic aprons, were plucking the newly sprouted leaves. Pranjol’s father told Rajvir that
he would tell them many more interesting things about tea plantation.

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 6. Mijbil The Otter
- Gawin Maxwell

Gavin Maxwell (1914 - 1969)

Gavin Maxwell was a British naturalist and author, best known for his non-fiction writing and his
work with otters. He wrote the book, Ring of Bright Water (1960) about how he brought an otter
back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. The otter was of a previously unknown sub-species which
was subsequently named after Maxwell. Ring of Bright Water sold more than a million copies and
was made into a film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969.

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 Mind Map

After his dog died, Maxwell decided to keep an Otter as his pet.

On the suggestion of a friend, he got an offer from the

Tigris Marsh.

Maxwell felt that the arrival of the Otter opened a new stage in
his life.

The Otter first appeared as a little dragon. He was

covered with mud. Maxwell spent a lot of time and
energy removing the dust.
Otters like to play in the water and cannot stand in front of the
water.

He also likes to play with rubber balls. Marble toys are

his favourite.

A few days later, Maxwell had to return to London.

Transport to Mijbil to London became a problem because

British Airways did not allow animals on its flights.

Another airline agreed to pack the animal in a box.

Maxwell made a small box for the Otter. On the plane, the
Otter escaped, passengers yelled & stood on their seats.

Finally, the Otter came back, lying on Maxwell's knees.

On reaching London, the Otter was unfamiliar animals,

people made random assumptions. Mijbil learned to play
ping-pong & developed certain habits.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

The author, Gavin Maxwell, tells us how his life altered after he decided to keep an Otter. He is
taking us through his journey and its experiences with Mijbil, the Otter. The journey begins from
Iraq to London by flight.

Gavin Maxwell was travelling to Southern Iraq when he decided to get an otter for a pet. He felt
that his native Camusfearna would be an ideal location to raise an otter as it was close to water.
His friend advised him to get an otter from the Tigris Marshes as they were abundant and they had
been tamed by the Arabs. They were travelling to the Consulate-General in Basra to collect their
mail but his mail had not arrived.

After a few days, he found two Arabs at the Consulate having an otter and also a note from his
friend. The otter looked like a small dragon and was covered with pointed scales, velvet fur and
mud. It belonged to a previously unknown species and later named by the zoologists Lutrogale
perspicillata maxwelli or Maxwell’s otter. This was the beginning for Maxwell for a lifelong
affection for otter.

Mijbil was aloof and indifferent in the beginning but one night it crawled into bed and slept on
Maxwell’s knees. Maxwell fondly remembered Mijbil’s enjoyment in water splashing happily.
Two days later he found Mijbil in the bathroom turning on the water tap by himself. It became his
favourite pastime. He would spend hours playing with a rubber ball or rolling marbles down his
belly while lying flat on his back.

Though they both spent their time peacefully in Basra, Maxwell was worried about transporting
Mijbil back to England. As per aeroplane guidelines, Mijbil has to be carried in an eighteen inch
square box. Maxwell put Mijbil in the box to get accustomed to the small space and left for meal.
When he returned, there was an appalling scene, Mij was exhausted, and blood had trickled and
dried. It had tried to escape and got hurt on the lining of the box. Maxwell almost missed his flight
as he had to remove all the sharp edges from the box and rushed to the airport.

Maxwell boarded the flight and had a word with the airhostess about Mijbil. She was kind enough
to allow Maxwell to keep Mij along with him. He was grateful for her kindness and opened the
box. In a flash, Mij jumped out of the box and sped down the aircraft creating havoc. All started
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screaming and at last the airhostess asked the narrator to take his seat and Mij came on its own to
him.

They stayed in London for a month. There Mij invented its own game with ping-pong ball. The
narrator also took him for a walk. During this walk Mij developed a compulsive habit of tugging
the narrator to a wall and jumping on it. Some Londoners guessed Mij to be a baby seal or a
squirrel, or a walrus or a hippo, a beaver or a bear cub. Maxwell went to the labourer but he too
could not guess what Mij was and demanded what it was supposed to be.

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 7. Madam Rides The Bus
- Vallikannan

Vallikannan (1920 - 2006)

Vallikannan is the pseudonym of R S Krishnasamy. He was born in Rajavallipuram near

Tirunelveli. He started writing at a very young age and had published twenty five books by the
time he was thirty. He wrote a total of 75 books in his life – novels, novellas, poetry collections,
plays and essay anthologies. In 1978, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for
his critical work on modern Tamil poetry.

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Valli was an eight year old girl. The most facinating thing for her was the bus that travelled
between her village and the nearest town.
She made elaborate planning & saved 60
She wanted to ride the bus. paise both ways fare of the bus.

The bus conductor stretched out his hand to help her up but Valli could get on by
herself.
The conductor was fond of joking and called The bus started with a roar & Valli was
her 'madam'. constantly looking outside.

The conductor asked her to sit down as she paid for her seat. She took her seat & an
elderly woman sat beside her.
The old woman was very repulsive & the smell of The old woman asked why Valli was travelling
the betel she was chewing offended alone. Valli asked her not to bother

Suddenly, a young cow came running very fast in the middle of the road.

The driver sounded his horn loudly but the more he Valli laughed at the scene until tears came in her
honked, it became more frightened eyes

Her destination had come and the driver asked Valli to get off the bus.

Valli handed thirty paise coins to the driver & told The conductor was surprised, offered free drink but
him that she was going back on the same bus. Valli firmly refused.

On her return journey, she saw the same cow lying dead by the side of the road. The
memory haunted her and she no longer was looking outside.
She reached back at 3.40 pm & hoped to see the Valli interfered in their talk & agreed that many
driver again. Her mother woke up & talking with things were happeneing outside without their
her aunt knowledge

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

This is a sensitive story of an eight year old girl’s first bus journey into the world outside her
village. She witnesses an incident during her journey, makes her understand the mystery of life
and death.

The girl named Valliammai who was called Valli in short, curious to know the outside world. Her
favourite pastime was standing in the front doorway of her house, watching what was happening
in the street outside. She had no friends to play with.

The most fascinating thing of all was the bus that travelled between her village and the nearest
town. She collected information about the bus timings, how far the other village and how much
fare for one side journey. She planned to travel without the knowledge of her mother and decided
to go and come back in the afternoon while she was having her nap.

The bus came on the day Valli had decided to go. She stopped the bus, when the conductor
extended his help for climbing, she refused. The conductor was jovial and treated her as madam
showing her the seat. The bus was new; seats were luxurious, comfortable, and painted in green
and white colour stripes.

She took ticket paying thirty paise and enjoyed the journey watching green fields, mountains, palm
trees, grassland from the window. She also saw a young cow that came in front of the bus while
crossing the road. The driver blew the whistle and the cow crossed the road safely. All this was
fascinating and it was like a dream come true for her.

In the same bus without getting down she took ticket for her return journey and travelled back to
her village. Though the conductor asked her to get down to visit the town, she replied that she
came for bus ride. In her return journey she saw the same cow dead by the roadside. This made
her heart cry and she was sad and upset. This incident made her understand the meaning of life
and death in her own terms. She reached home but did not utter a single word about the bus ride.

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 8. The Sermon At Benares
- Betty Renshaw

Betty Renshaw (1927 - 2013)

Betty Louise Renshaw Barber was born in Shannon, Mississippi on September 3, 1927. She was
herself an active missionary worker and was always there to visit and support them in every
possible way. Betty was dedicated to “serving God and loving others and often prayed that God
would use her gifts for His glory”. She constantly reminded people around her about the
Almighty’s infinite grace and kindness. Betty was just as active in showing God’s love as she was
in talking about it. An embodiment of encouragement, support and kindness, her conversations
and letters ended with the oft quoted line, “God loves you, and so do I.” Betty married Joseph
Henry Barber, Jr. on December 23, 1950 and together they went on several missionary trips around
the world. Married for 61 years, this pious and beautiful soul left for the Divine Abode on her
eighty – sixth birthday, i.e. a year and after her husband’s demise.

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 Mind Map
This lesson tells us about the life of Gautama Buddha, who was
born in a royal family as Siddhartha.
• Once he saw a funeral procession, and monk begging for the
alms.

These sights moved him a lot and he decided to become a

monk and started moving in search of enlightenment.
• He started meditation under a peepal tree .

After seven days he got enlightenment and became known

as the Buddha (the Awakened or the Enlightened).
• He preached his first sermon at Benares.

Once a woman came to him requesting to bring her dead son

to life.
• He asked the lady to bring handful of mustard seeds from the
house where there had been no death.

The lady moved from one house to another.

• But she could not find a single house where no one has lost a
child, husband, parents or friend.

Sorrow and grief increases our pain, when we are unable to

accept the truth.
• Then she came to know that death is common to all, it is
inevitable and is the ultimate truth.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson
The Sermon at Benares is written by Betty Renshaw. This lesson is a part of her book
named, Values and Voices. Here she depicts how a royal prince left his family back in the palace
to find the truth behind all the sufferings in the world. It describes Lord Buddha’s revelations
during his journey. He met people who helped him understand the real truth and achieve
enlightenment, the spiritual awakening, finally under the peepal tree at Bodhgaya.

Gautama Buddha (563 B.C. – 483 B.C.) was a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in northern
India. At the age of twelve he was sent for schooling in the sacred Hindu scriptures. He returned
after four years and married a princess. He lived for ten years in the palace as befitted royalty and
had a son. He was shielded from the sufferings of the world till the age of twenty five.

One day when he went out for hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral
procession and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights moved him and at once he went out
into the world to seek enlightenment concerning sorrows. He wandered for seven years and finally
sat under a peepal tree. He was enlightened after seven days. He renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree,
the Tree of Wisdom and began to teach his new understandings. At this point he came to be known
as Buddha.

He preached his first sermon at the city of Benares. This sermon reflects his wisdom about
inscrutable kind of suffering. It is conveyed in the form of a story about Kisa Gotami whose only
son had died and went to people asking medicine for him. At last she reaches Buddha, the
Sakyamuni. Buddha told her that he would cure her son if she brought handful of mustard seeds
from a house where no death had taken place. Kisa went from house to house but was unable to
find one where no death had been seen.

She finally realized that death was common to all and no one could escape it. People weep over
their dead ones. It is only the wise who do not grieve as they have accepted the truth. If a person
weeps, his sufferings only become greater. Those who do not grieve have peace of mind and will
overcome sorrow and be blessed.

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 9. The Proposal
- Anton Chekov

Anton Chekov (1860-1904)

Anton Chekhov, in full, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian playwright and master of the modern
short story, was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying
bare the secret motives of his characters. Chekhov’s best plays and short stories lack complex plots
and neat solutions. Concentrating on apparent trivialities, they create a special kind of atmosphere,
sometimes termed haunting or lyrical. Chekhov described the Russian life of his time using a
deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the
outstanding representative of the late 19th century Russian realist school.

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 Mind Map

Lomov goes to Chubukov’s Lomov begins to speak of his

house to ask for Chubukov’s land, which Natalya believes she
daughter’s hand. Chubukov owns. As the argument
permits him to marry his continues, Chubukov comes and
daughter. takes Natalya’s side.

Lomov’s visit to Natalya was

for a reason, according to
Chubukov. Natalya asks him
to dial Lomov. When Lomov
comes, argument starts once
again on whose pet dog is best.

Lomov loses consciousness. Chubukov gives Lomov his daughter’s hand.

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 Synopsis of the Lesson

The Proposal, originally titled A Marriage Proposal, is a one-act play, a farce, by the Russian short
story writer and dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1888-89. The play is about the tendency of
wealthy families, to increase their estates by encouraging marriages that make good economic
sense. Ivan Lomov, a long time wealthy neighbour of Stepan Chubukov, also wealthy, comes to
seek the hand of Chubukov’s twenty-five-year-old daughter, Natalya. All three are quarrelsome
people, and they quarrel over petty issues. The proposal is in danger of being forgotten amidst all
this quarrelling. But economic good sense ensures that the proposal is made, after all – although
the quarrelling perhaps continues.

The curtain rises with Lomov entering his neighbour Chubukov’s house to ask his daughter’s hand.
Chubukov seeing Lomov dressed up well assumes that he must have come to ask for money which
he does not want to return. After knowing the real purpose, Chubukov leaves to call Natalya.
Lomov is a thirty five years old gentleman who suffers from palpitations and gets upset very easily.
He thinks it is the right age for him to marry and is happy that he is choosing Natalya. He believes
Natalya is average looking and an honest caretaker.

Natalya arrives and Lomov initiates the conversation. During the conversation, he mentions Oxen
Meadows which earlier was a disputed property but is now his. Both enter into a heated argument
on this issue and later Chubukov also joins. Chubukov accidentally reveals that Lomov had come
for wedding proposal. Natalya was surprised and regrets for sending him out. She asks her father
to bring him back and Chubukov blames himself for being the father of a young daughter.

When Lomov comes they both enter into debating on dogs. They continue arguing and Chubukov
enters the scene only to worsen it. Everyone gets hyper and Lomov finally falls due to palpitation.
Still the argument continues and suddenly Natalya notices that he is unconscious. As he did not
drink water they declare him dead but later he moves a bit and drinks water. Chubukov forcefully
hands over Natalya’s hands to Lomov, gives his blessings and asks them to kiss. Lomov expresses
his excitement and kisses Natalya’s hands. Natalya again keeps convincing about her point on dog
but Lomov being adamant refuses to accept this and the quarrelling continues.

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 1. Dust Of Snow
- Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Robert Frost is a highly acclaimed American poet of the twentieth century. He wrote about
characters, people and landscapes. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his
reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens. Stopping by the
Woods on a Snowy Evening, Birches, Mending Wall are a few of his well-known poems. He was
honoured frequently during his lifetime. He is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prize for
poetry. He became one of America’s rare public literary figures, almost an artistic institution. He
was later styled as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.

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 Critical Appreciation

The poem, Dust of Snow by Robert Frost, is written in a simple and lucid style. The poem is set in
a snowy landscape with a tree and a bird perched on it. It conveys message using the indirect
imagery that the little things in life can make a great change in future. It also expresses that if one
can take the hard times of life lightly, eventually something will happen to change the situation
into a joyous one.

The poem is about the human experience with the nature - snow, crow and a hemlock tree - where
one has no control over. But always nature enlightens or elevates or rejuvenates one’s mood and
energizes to a positive outlook or into a happier state of mind.

The poem is written in abab rhyme scheme. The ‘snow’ and ‘crow’ interacting with the poet has
given ‘heart a change of mood’. Further it ‘saved some part of a day’ that had apparently been
lacking beforehand. The simple occurrence could shake and liberate the poet from rueing. The tree
symbolizes the firm rootedness and the snow for purity and the crow contrasts the snow indicates
the natural elements of earth lifts his low mood with its beauty and simplicity.

Robert Frost uses simple imagery like crow scattering snow from hemlock tree and dust of snow
falling on him expresses the positive effect of nature. The use of alliteration in Has given my heart
and And saved some part adds beauty to the poem. The poet makes a covert comparison in the
third line of the first stanza, the mass of snowflakes atop the hemlock tree with dust. The poem is
written without the use of any punctuation, expresses a string of thought.

The poem presents a moment that seems simple, but has a larger significance.

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 2. Fire And Ice
- Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Robert Frost is a highly acclaimed American poet of the twentieth century. He wrote about
characters, people and landscapes. His poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his
reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens. Stopping by the
Woods on a Snowy Evening, Birches, Mending Wall are a few of his well-known poems. He was
honoured frequently during his lifetime. He is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prize for
poetry. He became one of America’s rare public literary figures, almost an artistic institution. He
was later styled as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.

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 Critical Appreciation

The poem, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost, is symbolic of emotions of desire and hatred. The poet
says there are two possible ways how the world could end either by fire or by ice. It may happen
that the core of the earth will get so heated up and wipe out civilisation with fire or the temperatures
would go so low to the freezing point that life will not be possible to live on the planet.
The poet compares fire and ice with one’s desire and hatred respectively. The poet says that human
beings let their emotions rule them and he would support the ones who are in favour of fire because of
what he knows about “fiery desires”. Then he says that if the world had to end twice, ice would be
equally competent. He brings out a contrast between ice and hatred. Humans' insensitivity and hatred
has the capacity of inner destruction. Though slow and steady it has the same effect that desire has on
us.

If given to choose between fire and ice, ice would be as competent as fire to destroy the world. If fire
would lead to rapid destruction, ice would be silent damage. The poem tells us that our emotions control
us and if we don't stop it, it will lead to utter chaos.
The poet has used many poetic devices to convey his ideas very clearly and beautifully. The poet
compares fire with desire and ice with hatred as well as contrasts fire and ice. He symbolises and
personifies fire and ice, and brings out visual imagery like some say and tasted desire. The rhyme
scheme of the poem is abaa in the first stanza and ababa in the second stanza.

The poem presents the alternative human passions, desire and hatred. The poet gives the balanced
position of both elements to give his final decision. The main idea of the poem is about the end of the
world and the importance of emotions in this connection.

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 3. A Tiger in the Zoo
- Leslie Norris

Leslie Norris (1921 - 2006)

George Leslie Norris was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic
institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is
considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary
publications have won many prizes.

His works have won numerous awards, including the Cholmondeley Poetry Prize, the David
Higham Memorial Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award, the AML Award for Poetry
(1996), and the Welsh Arts Council Senior Fiction Award. He is also an honourary Doctor of the
University of Glamorgan, and honourary Doctor of Humane Letters of BYU. Leslie is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and of the Welsh Academy.

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 Critical Appreciation

The poem, A Tiger in the Zoo is written by Leslie Norris, contrasts a tiger in the zoo with the tiger
in its natural habitat. The poem moves from the zoo to the jungle, and back again to the zoo. It
gives a strong message that the wild animals should remain in their natural habitat and not caged
in zoos and cells. The natural freedom should not be snatched from the wild animals. Captivity is
the worst kind of punishment given to animals living in their natural habitat and environment. The
poem effectively brings out the idea how valuable the necessity of freedom is.

The poet uses two different rhyme scheme abcb and abcd in the poem. The metaphor, velvet
compared with paws of tiger, repetition of the word brilliant, and the imagery used in describing
the tiger and its movement, vivid stripes, lurking in shadow, sliding through long grass, snarling
around houses, terrorising the village, stalking the length of his cage, ignoring visitors’, stars with
his brilliant eyes, at the brilliant stars, adds beauty and a visual treat to the poem.

The poet symbolises cage to the captivity of the tiger by humans and sky to the freedom that the
tiger longs for. By symbolising cage and sky the poet shows the helplessness of the tiger. The use
of alliteration, should be lurking in shadow, should be snarling, plump deer pass, in a concrete
cell, highlights soft sounds like ‘s’, ‘p’ and ‘c’, the poet draws the attention of the readers towards
tiger’s condition. The metaphor, pads of velvet, compares the paws of the tiger to the quality of
softness of velvet and the repetition of the words, stalk, quiet and brilliant emphasizes the strength
of the tiger and its yearning for freedom.

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 4. How to Tell Wild Animals
- Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells (1862 - 1942)

Carolyn Wells, a prolific American writer remembered largely for her popular mysteries,
children’s books, and humourous verse. Wells supplemented her formal education with an early-
formed habit of voracious reading. After completing her schooling she worked as a librarian for
the Rahway Library Association for some years.

From 1900 Wells gave herself entirely to literary work, and over the next four decades she
produced a flood of books, some 170 titles that fell into several genres: children’s stories, mystery
and detective stories, anthologies, and humorous and nonsense writings.

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 Critical Appreciation

The poem, How to Tell Wild Animals by Carolyn Wells narrates the poem in a humorous tone
suggesting some dangerous ways to identify or tell wild animals. The poet tells the readers, if we
ever get a chance to go to the jungle of East and come across an animal with yellowish-brown skin
and whose roar is loud enough to scare us to death, we must recognise the animal as an Asian lion.

In the second stanza, the poet talks about an animal that is of a royal chain. While roaming if one
come across an animal in yellowish skin with black stripes and just in case he kills and eats up,
one must recognise the wild animal as a Bengal tiger. The poet employs dark humour because
after one is already eaten up an animal, it is of no use to recognise its type.

In the next stanza the poet says if one comes across an animal’s sin with spots and who runs fast
and jumps upon us at once, is leopard. Its of no use crying out in pain as the leopard will only
keep on jumping. The poet next says if one walks on the yard and spots an animal which hugs
tightly, then that is bear. If one wants to make sure of its identity, the easiest way is that the
animal will just keep hugging and touching very gently which will confirm its identity as a bear.

In the fifth and sixth stanza the poet talks how it will be a puzzle to a newcomer in the job,
identifying the animals and gives tips. Hyenas will be smiling while crocodiles will be teary-eyed
and both are dangerous. About Chameleon, the poet says looks like a lizard without any ears and
wings and changes its colour based on the surface it sits on.

The use of descriptive language, imagery, helps the readers to visualise the image of Bengal tiger,
especially in the lines A noble wild beast greets you, With black stripes on a yellow ground. The
alliteration, roaming round, very, very hard and novice might nonplus are examples of the same
sound repeated in the beginning of the closely placed words. These words, lep and very are
repeated to emphasis the action. The poet is ironical when she talks about A noble wild beast
greets you and He’ll give you just one more caress. The poet uses ababcc rhyme scheme having a
regular and strong rhythm.

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 5. The Ball Poem
- John Berryman

John Berryman (1914 - 1972)

John Berryman, U.S. poet whose importance was assured by the publication in 1956 of the long
poem Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, He was brought up a strict Roman Catholic in the small
Oklahoma town of Anadarko, moving at 10 with his family to Tampa, Fla. When the boy was 12,
his father killed himself. Berryman attended a private school in Connecticut and graduated from
Columbia University, where he was influenced by his teacher, the poet Mark Van Doren. After
study at the University of Cambridge in 1938, he returned to the U.S. to teach at Wayne State
University, Detroit, beginning a career that included posts at Harvard, Princeton, and the
University of Minnesota.

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 Critical Appreciation

The poem, The Ball Poem, written by John Berryman, talks about a boy, who loses a ball while
playing and is very upset. He is upset, not because it costs high or difficult to get another but his
memories and feelings from his younger days were attached to the ball. The poet says that the boy
must now learn to take responsibilities.

The poet wants the boy to grow up and give up his love for materialistic things. Money cannot buy
everything in life, Happiness or the feelings of belongingness cannot be bought by money
moreover a lot of our belongings will be lost during the course of life.

The poem tries to convey that there will definitely a day will come when we will have to grow up
and take our responsibilities in life. A day will come, we will lose our loved ones and that is the
harsh reality of life.

The poem is written in free verse. The word ball is symbolic of the boy’s childhood, loss of his
innocence as well as symbolises overcoming the loss and becoming a man. The poet compares the
boy’s childhood with the lost ball through the metaphor, All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went. The alliteration, what, what and buys a ball back enhances the beauty of the poem.
The ball, What and how to stand up is repeated in the poem. The imagery, merrily bouncing down
the street gives the visual description and the transferred epithet desperate eyes highlights the
emotion of sadness experienced by the boy is reflected in his eyes.

The poet expresses how the boy has to accept the miseries of life and stand up again to move on
with the life.

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 6. Amanda
- Robin Klein

Robin Klein (1936 - )

Robin McMaugh Klein is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey,
New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Robin Klein is one of nine children.
She had her first short story published at the age of 16. She worked in number of jobs before
becoming an established writer, including tea lady at a warehouse, bookshop assistant, nurse,
copper enamellist, and program aide at a school for disadvantaged children. In 1981, she was
awarded a Literature Board grant for writing, and since then, she has had more than 20 books
published. She is the poet of the poem Amanda.

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The poem, Amanda is written by Robin Klein presents two contrasting perspectives and scenarios.
The poet speaks about a young girl and her dreams and fantasies of freedom on one hand and the
reality in the form of her mother’s restrictions, instructions and dictates on what to do and what
not to do on the other hand. The poem beautifully paints a picturesque portrayal of the world of
fantasies of a girl, Amanda and the constant real strikes on the girl from her mother demanding
corrections in her behaviour. The poem ultimately attaches us with the girl emotionally whereas
the mother seems to be on the wrong path of not understanding her daughter and dictating her
behavioural rules.

The young girl here symbolises all the young girls who are growing up with their world of
fantasies and freedom but are constantly nagged by their mothers on their behaviours and ways
of living a routine life.

The poem keeps alternating between the voices of the controlling adult and the daydreaming of
freedom seeking Amanda. This technique further highlights the conflicting themes of control and
freedom in the poem. The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba, ccc, aaba. The repetitions like
Don’t, Stop, Did emphasises the restrictions imposed by the adult speaker brings out the theme
of control. Amanda refers to mermaid and Rapunzel, alludes to these figures brings her desire to
escape from her parents and live a life of freedom.

The alliteration used in the poem, stop that slouching and sit up straight and stop that sulking,
enhances the rhyme of the poem. The poet has used metaphors to compare the silence with gold
and freedom with sweet, silence is golden and freedom is sweet. The nagging and controlling
nature of the adult speaker repeating, Don’t bite, Don’t hunch, Did you tidy makes Amanda
silent, hushed, bare feet, transferred epithet, would make dust patterns with her feet as a street
orphan.

The poet, Robin Klein brings out beautifully, how difficult it is for children to compromise their
freedom and behave according to the societal norms as this is not only restrains them but also is
responsible for making a child lose his/her individuality, and controlling them so much would
simply take away their uniqueness and originality.

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 7. The Trees
- Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)

Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is widely known for her
involvement to contemporary women’s movement as a poet and theorist. She has published
nineteen volumes of poetry, three collections of essays and other writings. A strong resistance to
racism and militarism echoes through her work. She was called ‘one of the most widely read and
influential poets of the second half of the 20th century’, and was credited with bringing ‘the
oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse’. Her first collection of
poetry, A Change of World, was selected by renowned poet W H Auden for the Yale Series of
Younger Poets Award.

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The poem, The Trees, by Adrienne Rich, is a short symbolic poem focusing on the movement of
trees that are initially indoors but seeking to escape to freedom in the forest. The trees represent
nature but also the nature of being, womanhood in particular. The poem is a free verse poem of
four stanzas. There is no set rhyme scheme and no regular metric beat pattern, each line is
different rhythmically and the lines vary in length. The varying line length, unusual syntax and
powerful imagery need careful understanding of the poem.

The first two stanzas, the poet objectively describes the escape of the trees, actions of the trees,
to their new environment. The last two stanzas, the poet, I, seems to want to ignore this profound
shifting of the trees but paradoxically by mentioning her own aloofness brings the whole
situation into sharper focus.

The use of simile is clear as the branches of the trees are seen like newly discharged patients
heading for the clinic door. The portrayal of the trees with people in need of medical help brings
out patients half-dazed moving with great struggle for fulfilling their true purpose, renewing the
empty forest. In the third and the final stanza also the poet compares both human and domestic
elements, like a voice and like a mirror.

The repetition in the first stanza, the forest that was empty, where no birds, no insect, no sun,
reinforces the idea that previously there was no life outside. The poet personifies the trees, sun,
twigs and bugs in the first, second and the fourth stanzas, no sun bury its feet in shadow, twigs
stiff with exertion, long-cramped boughs shuffling, The trees are stumbling forward.

The poet uses ‘the trees’ to connote the significance of forests and raise the issue of
‘deforestation’. People keep plants and trees in their homes and have the false impression that it
can replace the lost forests. The poet uses the trees as symbolic to say that the issue of
deforestation can be tackled only by planting trees. Also the poet uses trees metaphorically to
represent helplessness of women in the patriarchal society.

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 8. Fog
- Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three
Pulitzer Prize, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his
lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as ‘a major figure in contemporary literature’, especially
for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Comhuskers (1918), and
Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed ‘unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the
breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life’. When he died
in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that ‘Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of
America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America’.

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Carl Sandburg’s Fog is a short poem written in a free verse having no regular rhyme. Carl
Sandburg was inspired by Japanese haiku, and developed what is essentially a haiku into
something more. The poem is an extended metaphor, the poet seeing the fog as a cat that comes
on tiny, silent feet when they are stalking. Only a cat can move in such a way, almost
imperceptibly, and in complete silence.

The poet has chosen cat as it is an independent animal, follows no rules, slips and slides in and out
of our lives as it pleases just like fog which knows no boundaries. Cats are stealthy and moves in
slow motion. They can fix themselves onto an object or creature, seemingly in a trance, yet they
appear to be moving in a most mysterious fashion.

The poet by using this dual imagery of fog and cat, fog turning into a cat, cat morphing back into
the fog, introduces the idea that the fog is alive and is an entity. The short lines of the poem, reflects
the fog rolling in slowly and the use of feet instead of paws makes it life-like.

The poet has given a very lively picture of the fog and compares it with cat which comes silently
and spreads all over the city and the harbour. It is everywhere as if sitting on its haunches, silently.
Then suddenly it gets up and moves to some other place. It’s all about the beauties of nature, which
we fail to enjoy in our busy life. The poem showcases Carl Sandburg’s rich imagination and
creativity by using a common weather like fog to comment on different aspects of nature.

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 9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
- Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well-known for his light verse, of which he wrote
over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyme schemes, he was declared by The New York
Times the country’s best known producer of humourous poetry. Nash was best known for
surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect.

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The poem, The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash, is a humourous poem about a
cowardly dragon named, Custard. Belinda had many pets, a black kitten named Ink, a grey mouse
named Blink, yellow dog named Mustard and a dragon named Custard. All the pets except Custard
were described as brave and compared with tiger and lion. But the dragon is very timid and always
demands a safe place. The other animals make fun of him.

One night, a pirate breaks into the house, frightening all of them. Everyone started running hither
and thither seeking a hideout but to everyone’s surprise Custard bravely moves forward and
savours the man. The poet has tried to put forward the idea that sometimes a timid person comes
out to be the actual hero in the toughest situations of life.

The poem revolves around the theme that one should not judge a book by its cover. The one who
had seemed to be the biggest coward is the one who saves everyone at the end. The pirate who
entered very bravely was gobbled up. Thus, neither Custard nor the pirate, and the other pets are
not what they seem to be. The poet employs irony as well as humour. When the situation demands,
they are bound to show their true colours which may surprise us.

The poet uses simile, sharp as Mustard, mouth like a fireplace, as brave as a barrel full of bears,
brave as a tiger in a cage, snorting like an engine, clashed his tail like iron in a dungeon, to create
humour and irony in the poem. Many places the poet has used repetition, little, as well as used
poetic licence realio, trulio, winda for the sake of rhyming and evoke humour. Belinda is as brave
as a barrel full of bears, here the poet uses simile, compares Belinda with barrel full of bears and
alliteration is also used.

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 10. For Anne Gregory
- William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of
twentieth century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became
a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later
years, he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1923. His major later works include 1928’s. The Tower and Words for Music
perhaps and Other Poems, published in 1932.

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The poem, For Anne Gregory, by William Butler Yeats comprises three stanzas, a conversation
between a young man and a young woman. The poem opens with a young man looking at Anne
Gregory’s beautiful honey-coloured hair expresses any man fall in love with her. This love is not
for Anne but for her beautiful features and gorgeous hair compared to walls, honey-coloured
ramparts, symbolising outer beauty that prevents anyone from looking inside her soul. The young
man believes that no man can love Anne for what she is but for her beauty. The poet uses ab cb
db rhyme scheme and your yellow hair an alliteration to add beauty to the poem.

In the second stanza, Anne replies to the young man that what is visible from the outside is very
superficial and unimportant. She gives an example of changing her beautiful hair and dye it in
black, brown or carrot. Just like the colour of her hair is changeable, outer beauty of any kind is
changeable. So, anyone falling in love with her must see the actual person behind the beauty. Anne
feels that young man, who falls in love with her, must love her for what she is and not for her
yellow hair or outward appearance.

In the final stanza of the poem, the speaker mentions an old religious man, who announced that he
had found a text in which it is written that only God is capable of looking beyond external beauty.
He means that humans do not have the depth and understanding to look inside the soul of a person.
He concludes that only God can love Anne only for herself and not her beauty. The poet has used
repetition, yellow hair and despair to reinforce the notion of external beauty.

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- James Herriot

James Herriot (1940–1992)

James Alfred Wight, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary
surgeon and author. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s
Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with If Only
They Could Talk, first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60
million copies.

Mr. Pumphrey was a rich and emotional lady who has a cut dog Tricky. She loved him so much
that she always overfed him. Therefore, Tricki had put on a lot of weight and hence became
lethargic. When Doctor Herriot saw the fat, he was shocked. Then he made a plan and told Mrs.
Pumphrey that Tricki must undergo treatment for the ailment, in the hospital. The story signifies
that the parents should not be indulgent which may harm their children.

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This story is about a dog named Tricki reared by Mrs. Pumphrey and how his illness is cured by
Mr. Herriot. Mrs. Pumphrey being emotional, caring, affluent, pampered the dog by providing
various coats for various seasons, cushions, toys, beds, bowls and especially by overfeeding him.
This overindulgence leads to Tricki becoming lazy which in turn causes the illness. He had
become fat like a bloated sausage with a leg at each corner, his eyes, bloodshot and rheumy,
stared straight ahead and his tongue lolled from his jaws. Dr. Herriot is called for the rescue and
keeps Tricki for a fortnight under observation in the hospital. He knew from the beginning that
lack of exercise is the only reason for it and what was required to make him recover.

At the surgery, for two days the doctor kept an eye and fed nothing but water. By the end of the
second day, he began to show interest in the surrounding. In the feeding time every dog was liable
to have some competition for the last part of his meal. Initially Tricki was casually licking but
soon got adapted to the prevailing circumstances where he had to race and fight for the food, he
even started hunting rats at night. His health soon progressed and he required no medical
treatment. The anxious Mrs. Pumphrey finally got her dog back after a fortnight and was relieved
to know he became alright. She finally thanks the doctor and calls it a triumph of surgery.

This story represents the current state of most parents who pamper their children and spoil them.
Being tough when required in the upbringing of children must be done to set them on the right
path. Here the dog did not require a surgery since he was at a stage where exercise could cure
him. Similarly the earlier children are corrected the easier it is.

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 2. The Thief’s Story
- Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond (1951)

Ruskin Bond is an Anglo-Indian author born in 19 May 1934 to Edith Clarke and Aubrey
Alexander Bond, in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. His first novel, The Room on
the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond
has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels, including 64 books for children. He
was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was
awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.

The story focuses on basic human values and relationships. It is easier for a thief to burgle a
greedy man. It is difficult even for a thief to burgle a careless and honest person. A young boy
becomes friendly with Anil. Anil trusts him totally and employs him. Does the boy deceive his
trust? The story is about a fifteen-years-old thief.

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This story is about a young thief and Anil, a Magazine writer. The young boy aged 15 who is a
thief by profession and fairly successful at that had no luck of late and decides to introduce himself
as Hari Singh to Anil during a wrestling match. He tries to flatter Anil to become his friend and
gain his trust. Hari asks Anil for a work but Anil denies as he has no money to give, he later asks
if Anil can feed him and Anil agrees to take him if he can cook. Hari had lied that he knows to
cook which became evident after the dinner he had made as it had to be given to stray dog. During
the course of stay for a month Hari prepares tea, buys supplies and makes a few rupees profit out
of it. Anil teaches Hari to read and write, also trusted him with the house key.

One day Anil’s article gets published in the magazine and makes 600 rupees out of it. He happily
shares the news with Hari and sleeps keeping the money under the pillow. Hari had not robbed
for quite a while now and this was a wonderful opportunity for him but he had never stolen from
a person who trusts him. He knew what it was like to steel from a greedy man, rich man and poor
man but this was different. Nevertheless, he decides to steel and depart on the 10:30 train to
Lucknow but as he nears the train, he does not feel like boarding it. He starts to think of the things
he will miss and the friendship he’ll lose. After spending a few hours, introspecting on the maidan
bench in the rain, he decides to keep the dampened money below the pillow and sleeps at his
usual place, the balcony. The next day Anil wakes him up with the tea and hands him over the
wet fifty rupees saying that he shall be paid regularly from now on. It is implied that Anil knows
what Hari had tried to do but he never utters a word or shows it to him.

This story shows the value of relationships over money. There are many ways to accumulate
money but to gain respect and relationships requires honesty.

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 3. The Midnight Visitor
- Robert Arthur

Robert Arthur (1909-1969)

Robert Arthur Jr. born on November 10, 1909 in Fort Mills, Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
He was a writer and editor of crime fiction and speculative fiction known for his work with The
Mysterious Traveler radio series. He was honored twice by the Mystery Writers of America with
an Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama. After graduating, he worked as an editor and later
returned to the University of Michigan where he completed his M.A. in Journalism in 1932.

The Midnight Visitor is a story about how a detective named Ausable got rid of his rival Max by
applying his brain in a grave situation. Ausable was in search of some sensitive papers in the hotel
room. Suddenly, he was attacked by his rival named Max. Max put him at the gunpoint and
claimed the sensitive papers. However, Ausable got rid of the situation by applying extraordinary
intelligence.

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This story is about a secret Agent Ausable along with a writer named Fowler and his adversary
Max. Fowler is a young and romantic writer who meets Ausable in relation to his next story but
he does not fit into any of the description of a secret agent. Ausable is very fat and though he
spoke French and German passably he still had not lost the Boston accent. The hotel where he
stayed and the prosaic telephonic call to make the appointment had made the writer disillusioned
but Ausable asked him to cheer up as he had the paper that will affect the course of history. Once
Ausable closed the door behind and switched on the light there was Max holding a gun pointing
to him. Fowler had his first authentic thrill but Ausable was calm and sat down. Max threatened
Ausable and asked him to handover the papers regarding the missiles. Ausable instead asks how
Max had entered the room and told him there was a balcony through which intruders had come
in the last time. The room used to be bigger and the hotel management is yet to close the entry
through balcony. Max admitted his entry through a passkey and that a balcony would have saved
him some trouble.

During the conversation, there was a sudden knocking at the door which made Fowler startle but
Ausable smiled and told Max that it must be the Police as he had earlier called for extra protection.
Soon the knocking increases making Max angry and go towards the window to jump on the
balcony with the gun pointed towards him. The door opens and there stood the waiter with the
drink and two glasses but alas Max makes the jump only to realize there was no balcony.

This story shows how the secret agent had beautifully evaded a life-threatening situation using
his wit. He had the calmness and intelligence to execute it and managed to successfully safeguard
the paper as well.

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 4. A Question of Trust
- Victor Canning

Victor Canning (1911-1986)

Victor Canning was born in Plymouth, Devon, the eldest child of a coach builder, Fred Canning.
He was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold several short
stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England (1934) was
published when he was twenty-three. Canning also wrote for children: his trilogy The Runaways
was adapted for US children’s television. Canning’s later thrillers were darker and more complex
than his earlier work and received great critical acclaim. The Rainbird Pattern was awarded the
CWA Silver Dagger in 1973 and nominated for an Edgar award in 1974.

It is a story about a locksmith named Horace Danby. He was a very successful businessman. He
had two assistants to help him. Being good and respectable, but he was not totally honest. He was
fond of rare and expensive books. He purchased them at any cost. For this, he robbed safe only
once in a year.

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Horace Danby was a good and respectable citizen in the society. He was fifty and unmarried,
lived with the housekeeper and was usually very well except for occasional hay fever. He was
successful enough in business to have two helpers. He had one issue though; he was not
completely honest. He stole every year to buy expensive rare books. This year he planned to steal
from the house at Shotover Grange. He had been studying the house for two weeks with the plan
and all details obtained from a magazine. The family was in London and the two servants had
gone out for a movie. Danby enters the house and locates the safe to open with gloves, he even
knows the technique to shush the dog by calling its name. While opening the safe the bowl of
flowers on the table kept making him sneeze due to his hay fever. After the loud sneeze a voice
from the doorway asked him whether it was cold or hay fever and before he could think he
answered hay fever.

A young pretty lady dressed in red meets Horace and she seemed quite amused to meet him.
Horace felt if he treated her right, she would perhaps leave him. She also seemed quite reasonable
and since Horace was in a desperate situation, he agreed to her demands if she would let him go
and forget that she ever met him. Before the family left for London, she had promised her husband
she would keep it in the bank instead she kept them in the safe. She had come for taking the jewels
from the safe but had forgotten the number and that if Horace opened it, she would let him go
without informing the Police. She would mend the safe before her husband returned. Horace
accepted and did as she told, opening it in an hour. Post three days he was caught by the Police
as he opened the safe without gloves and his fingerprints matched. Sitting in prison library he
wonders about the charming, clever lady and gets angry when anyone talks about ‘honour among
thieves’. This story illustrates that you must set a thief to catch a thief.

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 5. Footprints without Feet
- H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty
novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary,
politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best
remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction”. He
was born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent. Wells was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Literature four times.

It is a story about a scientist named Griffin, who was searching for different ways that could make
a man invisible. He got success when he developed a formula through which he became invisible.
Footprints without feet, is all about the invisible man who cannot be seen but can feel physically
by touching.

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This story is about a scientist named Griffin who after consuming certain rare drugs becomes
invisible. He is a lawless person and misuses this discovery. The landlord disliked Griffin and
tried to eject him, in revenge he sets his landlord’s house on fire. Thus, it was that he became a
homeless wanderer, without clothes and without money. After stepping in some mud two boys
find mud footprints and they appear from nowhere; they keep following it but later disappear.
Griffin escapes from them and decides to slip into the big London store for warmth to getaway
from the bitterly cold. He wraps every cloth to keep him warm and sleeps with the quilt. The next
morning, he awakes after the assistants start to come and he panics and runs, removing his clothes
to become invisible. He then steals from a theatrical company wearing bandages round his
forehead, dark glasses, false nose, big bushy side-whiskers, and a large hat. To escape without
being seen, he callously attacks the shopkeeper from behind, after which he robs him of all the
money he could find.

He leaves the crowded London and takes a train to the village of Iping. He stays at the local inn
where he had booked two rooms. Satisfied that her guest was an eccentric scientist, and in view
of the fact that he had paid her in advance, Mrs Hall was prepared to excuse his strange habits
and irritable temper. But the stolen money did not last long, and presently Griffin had to admit
that he had no more ready cash. Shortly afterwards a curious episode occurred wherein the
housekeeping money of the Clergyman was stolen and the scientist who had no money was able
to return it. This raised suspicion and the constable eventually catches hold of him only to see
him become invisible and escape. In the meantime Mrs Hall encounters an event where she is
attacked by the chair and thinks it has become possessed by witchcraft done by Griffin.

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 6. The Making of a Scientist
- Robert W. Peterson

Robert W. Peterson (1925 - 2006)

Robert W. Peterson, born on 1925 in Warren, Pennsylvania was an American newspaper writer
who later became a freelance author of magazine articles and books, especially on the topics of
Sports and Scouting.

The Making of a Scientist is a fascinating story of a young student who did marvelous work in the
field of science. Richard Ebright, a solitary child, had a great fascination for catching butterflies
in his childhood. Encouraged by his mother, he kept on enriching his treasures of rocks, fossils,
coins and butterflies. He was able to collect all twenty-five varieties of butterflies and thus started
losing interest in collecting and tagging the butterflies. But with the guidance of Dr. Urquhart he
started doing more complex experiments on the butterflies. This enthused him to open newer vistas
of science and encouraged him.

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This story follows the life of Richard H. Ebright and how his curiosity in butterflies led him to
the discovery about the form and function of a cell. From childhood his mother was very
supportive by engaging him in mind stimulating activities. From kindergarten he had been
collecting rocks, fossils, coins and butterflies. By the time he had reached second grade he had
collected 25 species found around his hometown. Once he had gotten bored with it, at that time
his mother gave him a book called The Travels of Monarch X by Dr Urquhart, which told how
monarch butterflies migrate to Central America.

At the end of the book, readers were invited to help study butterfly migrations by tagging them.
Since by chasing one can’t catch many, he raised them in his basement. He continued this work
for years and eventually lost interest due to lack of feedback. In the Seventh-grade science fair,
he got a hint of what real science was. It was not just about presentations but to experiment. So,
he wrote to Dr Urquhart for ideas, and back came a stack of suggestions for experiments. He
started doing various experiments answering questions like what causes the viral disease that kills
the monarch caterpillars, whether viceroy butterflies copy monarchs, purpose of the twelve tiny
gold spots on a monarch pupa and won a lot of awards and accolades in the field of Zoology
including the International Science and Engineering Fair.

After his freshman year at Harvard University his further research in the golden spots on Monarch
led to the important question on the form and function of cell and DNA, opening up the possibility
for further research and possible answers to preventing cancer and other diseases. This story
shows how the curiosity and enthusiasm made Richard H. Ebright to ask questions and his further
experiences made him into a research scientist. His perception of science was changed altogether
at a science fair by getting inspired from other projects.

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 7. The Necklace
- Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893)

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, born on 5 August 1850, was a 19th century French author,
remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist
school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often
pessimistic terms. He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of
verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his
most famous work.

The story of The Necklace is a satire that gives a strong message on human values. The very first
thing that this lesson teaches us is that everyone should be content in life with whatever little that
he has. One should live within one’s means or else he invites unnecessary problems, anxieties,
and confusion in life. The most important message of the story is that we should be what we are.

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This story is about Mme Loisel and her necklace. Mme Loisel was very pretty and dreamed of
living the high life but ended up marrying a petty clerk. She suffered incessantly, feeling herself
born for all delicacies and luxuries. Her husband was a simple person, content with his life and
tried to make her happy by taking her to a party at the Minister’s residence. Instead of feeling
happy she was upset as she had no beautiful clothes to wear. M Loisel decides to spend his 400
francs that he had saved for buying a gun for hunting at the wife’s request of a suitable costume.
Still, he found her upset over not processing a jewel for the event for which he suggests to loan
from her friend Mme Forestier. The next day Mme Loisel visits her friend, narrates her ordeal,
chooses a diamond necklace and returns in joy. She becomes a huge success at the ball and they
return in a carriage to home. After returning, she removes the wrap, views the mirror and to her
shock the necklace was missing. She gives a loud cry and her husband in dismay searches in the
folds of the cloak.

He decides to walk along the path to find but returns unsuccessfully, later they file a police
complaint and nothing turns up. To buy time they tell Mme Frostier that the clasp of the chain is
broken and will return after fixing it. After no positive news they decide to buy a similar looking
diamond necklace using their life savings. M. Loisel takes loan from many lenders for the
remaining eighteen thousand francs. Their life becomes very difficult for the next ten years. They
sent away the maid and stayed in attic rooms. She washed clothes, utensils, threw garbage, went
to grocer’s, butcher’s and fruiterer’s. Her husband worked in the evenings, putting the books of
some merchants in order, and nights he often did copying at five sous a page. One Sunday while
taking a walk she sees Mme Forestier with her child and now that she had paid, she would tell
her all. She narrates the whole story only to find out that the necklace Mme Forestier had lent was
a look alike and were not worth over five hundred francs.

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 8. Bholi
- K.A. Abbas

K.A. Abbas (1935-1987)

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) was an Indian film director, screenwriter,
novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English. He won four National Film Awards in India.
Abbas wrote 73 books in English, Hindi and Urdu and was considered a leading light of the Urdu
short story. His best-known fictional work remains Inquilab, which made him a household name
in Indian literature. Like Inquilab, many of his works were translated into many Indian, and
foreign languages, like Russian, German, Italian, French and Arabic.

This is the story of Bholi, a simple girl and the fourth daughter of Numberdar Ramlal. How she
transformed and who encouraged her, is the story.

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 Gist of the Lesson
This story is about a girl named Sulekha, fourth daughter of revenue official Ramlal. She had fallen
of the cot on her head when she was ten months old and perhaps it had damaged her brain hence
she remained a backward child and came to be known as Bholi, the simpleton. Bholi used to look
fair and pretty but when she was two years old she had an attack of small pox leaving her entire
body permanently disfigured by deep pock marks. Ramlal was worried about getting her married
as she was neither good looking nor intelligent. When Bholi was seven years old a primary school
was opened and the village Tehsildar inaugurated it. He said to Ramlal that as a representative of
the government he must set an example by sending his daughters to school. Ramlal and his wife
were very worried because if he sent his girls to school then no one would marry them. After a
discussion, as per his wife’s suggestion he decides to take admission for Bholi since there was
already a very less chance of her getting married. Bholi was initially terrified but after she was
made to put on clean clothes, bathed and oil rubbed onto her hair she felt she was being taken to a
place better than her home. She feels happy seeing girls of her age and wishes to make friends but
they make fun of her stammering. The teacher in the class was the only person who was considerate
to her and spoke in a soft and soothing way touching Bholi’s heart.

Not only did the teacher encourage her to speak without fear, she even gave her a book with images
and description of animals which fascinated Bholi. The teacher gave her the confidence that she
can read much bigger books. Thus, years passed, the village became a small town and the little
primary school became a high school. Bholi received a wedding proposal from Bishamber Nath
who was nearing his fifties and limped. Since he was an outsider, he didn’t know about Bholi’s
appearance or intelligence and her parents thought this was a good proposal. On the day of the
wedding Bishamber saw Bholi’s face and demanded five thousand rupees dowry from Ramlal.
Tears streaming down his face, Ramlal counted the notes and placed the bundle at the
bridegroom’s feet. Seeing all this Bholi’s hand struck out and flung the garland into the fire. Bholi
said in a loud and clear voice that she will not marry this man who is a mean, greedy and
contemptible coward. After putting an end to the wedding, she explains to her concerned father
that she will serve them in their old age and teach in the same school where she had learnt so much.
All thanks to her teacher who was present in the wedding the whole time.

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 9. The Book That Saved the Earth
- Claire Boiko

Claire Boiko (1925-2019)

Claire was born on May 17, 1925 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harvard student
Clarence Parker Taylor and his wife, Vivian Adams Taylor. She gave life to her passion for
literature in her career as a children’s playwright. She penned more than 70 plays for Plays
Magazine. Her works have been performed locally at Duzine and Lenape schools and as far away
as Bangladesh. She received hundreds of letters from children thanking her for her plays.

The Book That Saved The Earth, written by Claire Boiko, is a fictional, comic drama about a
nursery book called Mother Goose. The play's plot is set in the twentieth century, and it depicts
an attempt by a Martian named Think-Tank and his crew to attack Earth.

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The Book That Saved the Earth story revolves around a book of nursery rhymes titled, The Mother
Goose which saves the earth from the attack of aliens from the Mars. The story begins with the
historian sitting in a museum telling the audience how one day in the twentieth century the
Martians had planned to attack the Earth. To validate the point, he asks the audience to look into
the historiscope which displays historical events. A character that has a balloon brain, Think Tank,
is the Master and the other character Noodle, his assistant, both talking about how they are going
to invade Earth.

They wanted to establish their rule on the planet Earth which they believe it to be ridiculous. The
Master, Think Tank sends one of the crew to inspect Earth. The crew lands in the library and
appears perplexed as they know nothing of its content. So, they consult their Master, Think Tank,
who they believe to be very intelligent. Think Tank asks them to show the item and decodes it as
sandwiches which are a staple diet of the earthlings. He orders his crew to eat it which they discard
as a tasteless one.

Thin Tank’s assistant Noodle informs him that they are not sandwiches but may be earthling’s
communication devices of ears and later he say may be through eyes. All the crew members start
opening the sandwiches and reads the book. It was a rhymes book named, Mother Goose. But they
were unable to understand anything from the book.

So, they all consume a vitamin from Mars’ chemical department which will give them the extra
intelligence to decode. The crew after eating the vitamins read the book of rhyme. As Oop started
reading the book of nursery rhymes they take the literal meaning of rhymes and feel troubled. Then,
Think Tank calls his crew and informs that they have gathered some information about earthlings,
and they should be postponing the idea of invasion. The Oop read the rhyme Humpty dumpty, and
they all saw the picture of Humpty who looked like Think Tank. The Master drew an inference that
the earthlings have identified him and will kill him soon. So, he asked his crew to run immediately
from Earth and thus a dusted book of rhymes saved the Earth from invasion from Mars.

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 References
1. First Flight, NCERT Text Book –
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?jeff1=0-11
2. Footprints Without Feet, NCERT Supplementary Book -
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?jefp1=0-10
3. CIET AUDIO BOOKS LINK –
https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=firstflight&ln=en
https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=footprint&ln=en
4. Wikipedia and Other Referred Links
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_L%C3%B3pez_(writer)
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Liam-OFlaherty
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%27Flaherty
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Forsyth
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Forsyth
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
o https://archive.org/details/lucio-100
o https://nomadlawyer.org/life-as-a-doctor-traveler-educationist-and-a-social-
worker-lokesh-abrol/
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arup_Kumar_Dutta
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallikannan
o https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/clinton-ms/betty-barber-5656755
o https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTDR-B9T/betty-louise-
renshaw-1927-2013
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Chekhov
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Norris
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Wells
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Wells
o https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Berryman
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Klein
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Rich
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Bond
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Arthur_Jr
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Canning

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canning#:~:text=Canning's%20later%20thrillers%20were%20darker,an%20Edgar%20
award%20in%201974.
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Peterson_(writer)
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant
o https://www.vedantu.com/english/the-necklace-summary
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwaja_Ahmad_Abbas
o https://hudsonvalleyone.com/obituaries/claire-taylor-boiko/
o https://www.yaclass.in/p/english-language-cbse/class-10/supplementary-
14340/the-book-that-saved-the-earth-15045/re-9145c6e5-1ccb-4c46-8114-
58643f06a887#:~:text='The%20Book%20That%20Saved%20The,his%20crew%20to%
20attack%20Earth.
5. Link for Audio Activity Book on Listening and Speaking for Classes 6 to 10 –
https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=interactions&ln=en
6. Curriculum of the Academic Year 2022 – 23 -
https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/CurriculumMain23/Sec/English_LL_2022-
23.pdf
7. Rationalisation of Content in the text books – First Flight -
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?jeff1=rc-11
8. Rationalisation of Content in the text books – Footprints without Feet -
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?jefp1=rc-10
9. CBSE Sample Question Paper -
https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassX_2022_23/EnglishL-SQP.pdf
10. CBSE Sample Question Paper’s Marking Scheme -
https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassX_2022_23/EnglishL-MS.pdf
11. CBSE Question Bank -
https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/QuestionBank/ClassX/EnglishX.pdf
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