Social Science_Board Paper_Class 10_All India_Set-2_2010

Orissa is the largest producer of bauxite.

Caste system is the main base of social divisions in our society.

Homogenous society is a society that has similar kinds of people, especially where there are no significant ethnic differences.

Secondary sector is the sector in which natural products are changed into other forms through manufacturing process.

Credit or loan refers to an agreement in which the lender supplies the borrower with money, goods or services in return for the promise of future payment.

The female allegory representing the Republic of France was Marianne.

The Hoa Hao movement was more popular in the fertile Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

Jyotiba Phule, the Maratha pioneer of ‘low caste’ protest movements, wrote about the injustices of the caste system in his Gulamgiri (1871).

The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s Yamuna Paryatan (1857), which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of widows.

Bangar is the type of flood plain. It is an old alluvial plain, generally dark in colour and less fertile.