RBSE Solutions for Class 8 Social Science History Chapter 10 India After Independence

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 8 Social Science HistoryChapter 10 India After IndependenceTextbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

RBSE Class 8 Social Science Solutions History Chapter 10 India After Independence

RBSE Class 8 Social Science India After Independence InText Questions and Answers

Activity (Page-129)

Question 1. 
Imagine that you are a British administrator leaving Indiia in 1947. You are writing a letter home where you discuss what is likely to happen to India without the British. What would be your views about the future of India?
Answer:
Given the current circumstances and being a British officer, my opinion would be as follows-
(1) In the absence of the British, i.e., without British rule, India will not be able to remain unified and there would be many pieces, like- between the people speaking different languages, upper and lower caste, Hindu and Muslim, rich and poor.

(2) This country will again adopt many inhuman customs and Mil become an uncivilized country.

(3) Indians are not. capable of taking responsibilities. They do not have a sense of dedication to their duties and work, corruption is dominated. Therefore, this country will again become a slave.

(4) Later, India can come under the military rule.
 
Activity (Page-132)

Question 1. 
Discuss in your class, one advantage and one disadvantage today of the decision to keep English as a language of India.
Answer:
Advantages:

1. English is an international language, which keeps India connected with rest of the world.
2. As a language of India, English binds the coutfity, i.e., South india and north india in a thread.

Disadvantages:

1. In most Indians, English creates inferiority complex.
2. English paralysed the people of India, made them feel apart from their social environment and make them strangers in their own country.

Activity (Page-135)

Question 1.
Look at Fig. 5(a), (b), (c). (Refer to the map images given on page 134-135 NCERT book). Notice how the Princely states disappear in 5 (b). Identify the new states that were formed in 1956 and later and the languages of these states.
Answer:
After getting independence in 1947, all the princely states merged with either India or Pakistan so they get disappeared. Sikkim became the part of India in 1975. States formed in 1956 and Later (with languages).

Activity (Page-137

Question 1. 
Discuss in your class whether Mira Behn was right in her view that science and machinery would create problems for human being. You may like to think about examples of the effects of industrial pollution and de-forestatioh on the world today?
Answer:
Yes, I do agree with Mira Behn, that science and machinery would create problems for human beings. Excessive use of technology creates environmental problems like industrial pollution and deforestation, which leads to destruction imnature.

RBSE Class 8 Social Science India After Independence Textbook Questions and Answers

Let’s Recall

Question 1. 
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Answer:
The three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced were as follows-

1. As a result of Partition, 8 million refugees had come into the country from what was now Pakistan. These people had to be found homes and jobs.
2. Then there was the problem of the princely states, almost 500 of them, each ruled by a maharaja or a nawab, each of whom had to be persuaded to join the new nation.
3. The new nation had to adopt a political system that would best serve the hopes and expectation of its population.

Question 2. 
What was the role of Planning Commission?
Answer:
In 1950, the government set up a Planning Commission. Its role is as follows-
(1) The role of Planning Commission was to help design and execute suitable policies for economic development.

(2) Both the State and the private sector would play important and complementary roles in increasing production and generating jobs. What, specifically, these roles were to be-which industries should be initiated by the state and which by the market, how to achieve a balance between the different regions and states - was to be defined by the Planning Commission.

Question 3. 
Fill in the blanks-
(a) Subjects that were placed on the Union List were ..............., ......................  and .................. .  
(b) Subjects on the Concurrent List were ..................... and ............. . 
(c) Economic planning by which both the state and the private sector played a role in development was called a .................... ................model.
(d) The death of sparked off .......................such violent protests that the government was forced to give in to the demand for the linguistic state of Andhra.
Answer:
(a) tax, defense, foreign affairs.
(b) forest, agriculture.
(c) mixed economy.
(d) Potti Sriramulu.

Question 4. 
State whether true or false-
(a) At independence, the majority of Indians lived in villages.
(b) The Constituent Assembly was made up of members of the Congress party.
(c) In the first national election, only men were allowed to vote.
(d) The Second Five Year Plan focused on the development of heavy industry.
Answer:
(a) True 
(b) False 
(c) False 
(d) True.

Let’s Discuss 

Question 5. 
What did Dr. Ambedkar mean when he said that “In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality”? 
Answer:
(1) In the statement said by Dr. Ambedkar, he intended to show the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities prevailling in India. Dr. Ambedkar pointed out that political democracy had to be accompanied by economic and social democracy.

(2) Giving the right to vote would not automatically lead to the removal of other inequalities such as between rich and poor, or between upper and lower castes.

(3) With the new Constitution, he said India was going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognising the principle of one man one vote and one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value.

Question 6. 
After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?
Answer:
After independence, there was a hesitation to divide the country into states on the basis of language because India was divided on the basis of religion. As*a result of the partition of India, more than a million people had been killed in riots between Hindus and Muslims. Therefore, our country could not afford such division on the basis of language. This was the reason that the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel were against the creation of linguistic states.

Question 7. 
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence. 
Answer:
A large part of the population of South India did not speak Hindi, so if Hindi had imposed them, they could have threatened to be separated from India.

Question 8. 
How was the- economic development of India visualised in the early decades after Independence?
Answer:
In the initial decades after independence, the goal of economic development of India was to free Indians from poverty, and building a modem technical and industrial base. In 1905, the government set up a Planning Commission to help design and execute suitable policies for economic development. The path of development was chosen by a mixed economy. Along with agriculture, development was envisaged by heavy industries like steel plants, bridges, huge dams, etc. After independence, all these became important symbols of the development of modem India.