What is the primarily nature of Indian Society?

• Indian society is primarily a rural society.

• It is a primarialy urban society.

• It is neither a rural society nor an urban society.

• It is primarily a very advance urban society.

What is meant by liberlisation?

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What do you understand by liberalisation?

Write a short note on Raiyatwari system of colonial period.

Write a short note on farmers' suicide from 1997 to 2006.

What are the main objective behind land reforms in India?

What were the objectives of land reforms after Independence?

What was the objective behind fixing ceiling on land holdings?

What do you understand by land reforms?

Visit a construction site in your neighbourhood, a brickyard, or other such place where you are likely to find migrant workers. Find out where the workers come from. How are they recruited from their home villages, who is the ‘mukadam’? If they are from rural areas, find out about their lives in their villages and why they have to migrate to find work?

Visit you local fruit-seller, and ask her/him about the fruits she/he sells, where they come from, and their prices. Find out what has happened to the prices of local products after fruits began to be imported from outside of India (such as apples from Australia). Are there any imported fruits that are cheaper than Indian fruits.

Collect information and write a report on the environmental situation in rural India.Examples of topics; pesticides, declining water table, impact of prawn farming in coastal areas salination of soil and water logging in canal irrigated areas: loss of biodiversity. Possible source: State of India’s Environment Reports: Reports from Centre for Science or Development Down to Earth.