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Class 9 Question Answers — Social Studies — History

The sun rises two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh as compared to Gujarat in the west but the watches show the same time. How does this happen?

From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh, there is a time lag of two hours, but the watches show the same time because the time along the Standard Meridian of India (82° 30’E) passing through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh is tak...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
What were sumptuary laws?

In medieval Europe, dress codes were sometimes imposed upon members of different layers of society through actual laws which were spelt out in some detail. From about 1294 to the time of the French Revolution in 1789,...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Why are 19th and 20th centuries important in the history of clothing?

Before the age of democratic revolutions and the development of capitalist markets in eighteenth-century Europe, most people dressed according to their regional codes, and were limited by the types of clothes and the...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Explain why cricket became popular in India and the West Indies. Can you give reasons why it did not become popular in countries in South America

While British imperial officials brought the game to the colonies, they made little effort to spread the game, especially in colonial territories where the subjects of empire were mainly non-white, such as India and t...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Describe one way in which in the nineteenth century, technology brought about a change in equipment and give one example where no change in equipment took place...

Television channels made money by selling television spots to companies who were happy to pay large sums of money to air commercials for their products to cricket’s captive television audience. Continuous television c...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Discuss why the colonial government in India brought in the following laws. In each case, explain how the law changed the lives of pastoralists:

Waste Land Rules Uncultivated land was taken over by the colonial government and given to selected individuals. This rule was called Waste Land rules. It was brought into force during the mid-nineteenth century. Some...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Explain why nomadic tribes need to move from one place to another. What are the advantages to the environment of this continuous movement?

People who moved from one place to another, as a community, with all their belongings, were called nomads. These nomads moved from place to place in search of food and a livelihood. The nomadic pastoralists had herds...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
What are the similarities between the colonial management of the forests in Bastar and in Java?

The similarities between the colonial management of forests in Bastar and in Java are as follows. Colonial management in Bastar:1.     In 1905, the colonial government proposed to reserve 2/3 of the forests, stop sh...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Discuss how the changes in forest management in the colonial period affected the following groups of people: (a) Shifting cultivators (b) Nomadic and pastoral...

a) Shifting Cultivators Shifting cultivation was a traditional agricultural practice in many parts of Asia, Africa, and South America. Parts of the forest are cut and burnt in rotation. After the first monsoon rains,...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
Discuss why Nazism became popular in Germany.

In 1919 Adolph Hitler took over the German Workers’ Party and called it the Nazi Party, giving birth to Nazism in Germany. During the Great Economic Depression Nazism became very popular. The Nazi Propaganda which was...

Class 9 Subject: Social Studies Topic: History
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