This dependence of weavers on merchants for both raw materials and markets makes merchants powerful. Merchants get what they want and that too at very low prices. 
The weavers don't have any way of knowing that to whom their cloth have been sold to. The merchants sell cloth to the garments factories and this is how they are benefitted to a large extent. Weavers invest all their money and sometimes borrow money to buy looms. Weaver and another adult member work for almost 12 hours a day to produce cloth and then too do not earn enough.
This scheme between the merchant and the weaver is an instance of putting out system. Weaving industry in India uses this system.

The examples of growing up of children of Samoan islands and children of Madhya Pradesh clearly explain that there are many different ways of growing up. The societies start making differences between girls and boys from a very young age.
We ourselves have experienced this when we were given different categories of toys to play with. Boys were given cars, trains and girls were given dolls, kitchen sets, etc. Toys became a method of telling children that the two sexes have different futures. The distinction were made in smallest and everyday things like dressing of girls and boys, games they were allowed to play.

Wind is the movement of air from high pressure area to low pressure areas.
There are three types of wind
(i) Permanent Winds The trade winds, westerlies and easterlies are the permanent winds. These blow constantly throughout the year in a particular direction.
(ii) Seasonal Winds These winds change their direction in different seasons. For example, monsoons in India.
(iii) Local Winds These winds blow only during a particular period of the day or year in a small area. For example, land and sea breeze, L00 etc.

Article 15 talks about, prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
(i) The state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex place of birth or any of them.
(ii) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to
(a) access to shops public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment.
(b) the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of state funds or dedicated to the use of general public.

Initially, Indian crafts and textiles were in great demands in the European markets. As a result, the English began to make attempts to control the Indian craftspersons by appointing Indian traders as their agents. They introduced the system of advances under which the weavers had to weave cloth which was only and already promised to European agents. They no longer were able to sell their own cloth or weaving their own patterns. Thus, the Indian craftspersons lost their independence.

The Chola dynasty opened up different activities to increase produce of lands, so they made the fig. I to irrigate crop fields.

Current issues are discussed in the Assembly and decisions are taken on various issues.
During this time MLAs can express their opinion and ask questions related to the issue. They may give suggestions about running of the government.
Those who wish can respond to the same. The concerned ministers reply to the questions and assure the assembly about the steps taken by the government about a issue.

(i) One of the main reasons for continuance of discrimination is that attitudes change very slowly.
(ii) Persons are aware that discrimination is against the law. Still they continue to treat people unequally on the basis of their caste, religion, disability, economic status and sex.
(iii)It is only when people begin to believe that no one is inferior and that every person deserves to be treated with dignity, that attitudes change.
(iv) Establishing equality in a democratic society is a continuous struggle.
(v) Persons as well as various communities in India contribute to remove inequalities

Temperate grasslands are found in mid latitudinal zone and in the interior part of the continents.
Grass here is short and nutritious.
Common animals are wild buffaloes, bisons, antilopes.

The architectural styles of the Mughal palaces at Fatehpur Sikri and temples at Vrindavan are very similar. The interior of temple Govind Deva at Vrindavan consists of intersecting arches that made the high ceiling roof. Similar roofs can be seen in the monument of Fatehpur Sikri.
This style of architecture is from North-West Iran (Khurasan). Apart from architecture, some temples of Vrindavan and monuments of Fatehpur Sikri are made of red sandstone.

The garment exporter sold the shirt at Rs 200 per piece. He has to pay Rs 70 per shirt for the cloth and other raw materials. Wages to worker cost him Rs 15 per shirt whereas cost of running his office accounts for 15 per shirt. The total cost incurred was Rs 100 where as he has sold one shirt at Rs 200. So he has earned profit of Rs 100 per shirt.

India is a land of huge population, illiteracy is still rampant in India. Many local myths and legends have been receiving wider acceptance even today. Some notable amongst them are:
1. India is a place of snake charmers and Black Magic. India have been facing this myth even before there was any temple. But this myth does not dominate or define the identity of India.
2. Indian people are believed ro have bad luck, if any cat crosses their way. This myth is gaining ground even among the literate classes of society.
3. Indian people think of not having milk while leaving for a journey. They instead can take curd. This myth is still much prevalent.

Alauddin paid great importance to his soldiers because it was they who could defend the sultanate from outsiders. He, therefore, decided to pay their salaries in cash rather than iqtas. The soldiers, therefore, would buy their supplies from merchants in Delhi and it was thus feared that merchants would raise their prices. To stop this, Alauddin controlled the prices of goods in Delhi.

The equator is passes through Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Brazil.

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The cultivation of paddy requires sufficient water. The Ganga-Brahmaputra plains fulfils this condition because they receive high rainfall.

To reach the centre of the Earth is not possible because one will have to dig a hole 6000 km deep in the ocean. The deepest mine in the world is in South Africa which is just about 4 km deep.

The names of languages which changed over time are as follows
Lahori : Punjabi
Telangani : Telugu
Gujari : Gujarati
Mabari : Tamil
Gauri : Bengali
Hindawi : Hindi

(i) Media plays a very significant role in a democracy. It providers news and discusses events related to the country or world.
(ii) It helps the citizens to know about the working of the government, and if required, bring forth the the problems.
(iii) Media helps the people of around the world to known and understand about what is going on in other parts of the world.
(iv)Media helps by "setting the agenda" and helps people to organize protests
(v) Media propagates the policies and programmes of the government and criticizes the unpopular policies.
(vi) It reports crimes, mishappenings and creates opinion about them as well.

The Life of Banjaras :
Peter Mundy, an English trader who came to India during the early seventeenth century, has described the Banjaras.
(i) In the morning we met a tanda of Banjaras with 14,000 oxen.
(ii) They were all laden with grains such as wheat and rice.
(iii) These Banjaras carry their hold, wives and children, along with them.
One tanda consists of many families Their way of life is similar to that of carriers who continuously travel from place to place. They own their oxen. They are sometimes hired by merchants, but most commonly they are themselves merrhants. They buy grain where it is cheaply available and carry it to places where it is dearer. From there, they again reload their oxen with anything that can be profitably sold in other places.
(iv) In a tanda there may be as many as 6 or 7 hundred persons. They do not travel more than 6 or 7 miles a day that, too, in the cool weather. After unloading their oxen, they turn them free to graze as there is enough land here, and no one is there to forbid them.