(a)

Opposing views can be expressed

(b)

Russian Communist party

(a)

Collapse of Wall Street Exchange

(b)

22⁰ N

(d)

Soap stone

(c)

Highlands of Chattisgarh  

(d)

All the above

(d)

People are free to believe in and practice any religion

(b)

Preamble

(c)

Agriculture

(d)

Capital

(a)

1/6 of India's landmass

(a)

Camels and buffaloes

(b)

USA

(d)

curved bat was replaced by a straight one 

(a)

Mrs Stanton

(b)

20^oN and 20^oS

(b)

15th

(b)

age composition

(a)

SCs

(b)

Head of the state 

(c)

Yugoslavia

(c)

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

(a)

Grain banks in different regions

Rousseau

Vladimir Lenin

Jog Falls (at Sharwathi River in Karnataka)

False

False

True

True

True

True

Native Americans lived by hunting, gathering, fishing; others cultivated corn, beans, tobacco and pumpkin.

The Third Estate was considered the unprivileged class because they had no political rights and social status. They bore the burden of the state taxes .

The Tready  of versailles  signed between the victories powers or the Allies Germany after World War I was harsh and humiliating for Germany:
(i) Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 per cent of its territories, 75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to Denmark, France, Poland and Lithuania.
(ii) Germany was to be demilitarised to weaken her power. Strenth of her army was limited to 100,000 and she was not required to have any airforce and submarines.
(iii) The War Guilt Clause in the Treaty held Germany responsible for war and damages the Allied countries suffered.
(iv) Germany was also requitred  to pay for the loss and damages suffered by the Allies during the war.Reparation amount was fixed at $600 crore.
(v) The Allied armies also occupied the resource rich  Rhineland for much of the 1920s.The area of the Rhine valley was to be demilitarised.

1. India is situated from west to east in about 30 longitudes. It takes 4 minutes to cross a longitude 360 longitude 24 hours = 15 longitudes in 1 hour (60 min)
2. India is situated between 68 E to 97 E. Hence, there is a two hours difference in the timing of the westernmost extremity and the easternmost extremity of India. If there is no standard meridian in india, we have to advance our watch by 4 minutes on each longitude, if we travel from west to east. In order to avoid the problem we have chosen as standard meridian and its local time is taken as standard throughout the country.
Location:
Statdard Meridian of India is \(82^{ \circ }30'E\) and it passes through Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.

The Ganga plain extends between Ghaggar and Teesta rivers (Excluding these two rivers). It is spread over the states of North India (Haryana, Delhi, U.P, Bihar, partly Jharkhand) and West Bengal to its East.

River Tapti
(i) Tapti river rises in the Satpura ranges , in the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh
(ii) Tapti river rises in a rift valley parallel to the Narmada. It is smaller in length.
(iii) Its basin covers parts of Madhya Pradesh , Gujarat and Maharashtra

The permanent of the Security Council should not be given the power to veto, because in that case the Security Council is not able to take any decision if even one member says no to that decision. Besides, the Security Council is not able to take nay action against a permanent member even if that country has violated an international law or even attacked or captured any other country.

(i) Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980 and since then the country has faced several elections
(ii) All the elections has been won by ZANU-PF,under Robert Mugabe
(iii) President Mugabe is popular but also uses unfair in elections
(iv) Criticism of government's action is not allowed.
(v) The citizens have no right to freedom of speech and expression

India has a written constitution, so that both the union Government and state government can refer to it. It establishes supremacy of the constitution as to be independent in their spheres of governance.

1. Tejpal Singh agrees to give Savita the loan at an interest rate of 24 per cent for four months. Besides this, she also has to work on Tajpal Singh's field as a farm labourer during the harvest season at $35 per day.
2. Yes, Savita's condition woul be different if she could get  a loan from the bank at a low rate of interest. But it is not easy to the people like Savita to obtain loan from the bank as bank asks for collateral security while giving loan. Savita does not have any collateral security.

A person aged 7 years and above, who can read and write with understanding in any language, is treated as literate.Per cent of literate people to the total population above 7 years is literacy rate which was 74% in 2011.

The Imperial Forest Research Institute was established at Dehradun in 1906.

1. Valour
2. Manliness
3. Self-worth
4. Respect for elders
5. Discipline.

Rich farmers invested in threshing machines because:
(i) They feared shortage of labour due to Napoleonic wars.
(ii) Moreover they felt that the available labour was insolent, lazy and prone to drinking.
(iii) To reduce dependence on labour and increase efficiency.

(i) The world's first cricket was founded in Hambledon in the 1760s
(ii) The other was Marylebone Cricket Club. It was founded in 1787. This club soon became the guardian of cricket's regulations.

The causes for change in male and female clothing in colonial India were:
(i) Influence of western dress forms and missionary activity.
(ii) Cloth and clothes became very important symbols of the Indian National Movement.

Heavy rainfall

Ebony belongs to tropical evergreen forests Sundari trees to mangrove forest vegetation region
(a) Two states where elephants are found:
(i) Assam
(ii) Kerala

1. According to the 2001 census data reveals that Uttar Pradesh with a population size of 166 million.
2. It accounts for nearly 16% of the country's population.

This is not true.
These days, many women cast their votes independently and according to their own wishes. Moreover, depriving the women of the right to vote will be anti-democratic. That is why, women in almost all the countries have been given the right to vote.

At the Centre(Union Level)

Name	Name of Ministry  (Keeps on changing)
(i) Sh. Rajnath Singh	Home
(ii) Smt. Smriti Irani	H.R.D
(iii) Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad	Information and Broadcasting
(iv) Sh. Arun Jaitley	Finance
(v)  Sh. Sarbanand Sonowal	Youth Affairs & Sports

 (b) In our State (Haryana)

Name	Name of Ministry  (Keeps on changing)
(i) Sh. Manohar Lal Khattar	Chief Minister
(ii)  Sh. Ram Bilas Sharma	Education
(iii) Capt. Abhimanyu	Finance
(iv) Narbir Singh	Forest
(v) Anil Vij	Health
(vi) Mrs. Kavita Jain	Women and Child Welfare
(vii) Rao Narbir Singh	PWD

Rights are reaonable claims of a person over other fellow beings, over the society and over the government.

The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state of India.
1. Although state level poverty has witnessed a secular decline from the levels of early seventies, the success rate of reducing poverty varies from state to state.
2. Recent estimates show while the all India HCR was 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 states like Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pardesh, Bihar and Odisha were above all India poverty level.
3. Bihar and Odisha continue to be the two poorest states with poverty ratio of 33.7 and 32.6 percent respectively as per datas of 2013-14. Along with rural poverty, urban poverty is also high in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

(a) Minimum support price 
(i) It is the pre-announced price at which the government purchases food grains from the farmers in order to create a buffer stock. The minimum support price is declared by the government every year before the growing season. This provides incentives to the farmers for raising the production of the crops.
(ii) The rising minimum support prices of rice and wheat have induced farmers to divert land from the production of coarse grains-the staple food of the poor-to the production of these crops. The rising minimum support prices have raised the maintenance cost of procuring food grains.
(b) Buffer stock. The surplus stock of foodgrains, namely wheat and rice, procured and stored by FCI is known as buffer stock. It is distributed in the deficit areas and among needy people.
(c) Issue price. The price at which foodgrains are issued by the government to deficit areas is known as Issue Price. This price is lesser than the market price.
(d) Fair price shops. Fair price shop is a government-sponsored outlet to supply essential items at subsidised rates to the weaker section of society and BPL families.