10th Class Social Science Work, Life and Leisure Question Bank

done Extract Based Questions - Work Life and Leisure Total Questions - 4

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  Read the following extract taken from the textbook and answer the questions:

  In 1899 G.G. Agarkar wrote about Bombay:

  The enormous expanse of Bombay city; its great and palatial private and governmental mansions; broad streets which accommodate up to six carriages abreast.... the struggle to enter the merchants  lanes;  the  frequent troublesome noise of passenger and goods trains whistles and wheels; the wearisome bargaining in every market, by customers who wander from place to place making enquiries with silver and notes in their pockets to buy a variety of commodities; the throngs of thousands of boats visible in the harbour ... the more or less rushed pace of official and private employees going to work, checking their watches... The cloudy of black smoke emitted by factory chimneys and the noise of large machines in the innards of buildings ... Men and women with and without families belonging to every caste and rank travelling in carriages or horseback or on foot, to take the air and enjoy a drive along the sea shore in the slanting rays of the sun as it descends on the horizon ...'

  G.G. Agarkar, 'The Obverse Side of British Rule or our dire poverty'.

   

  (a) How was Bombay acquired by the British?

  (b) How did it expand so quickly?

   
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  Study the picture and answer the questions based on it.

   

  (a) What kind of building does the picture depict? In which city were they generally found?

  (b) Give two features regarding life in these buildings.

   
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  Study the picture and answer the questions based on it.

   

  (a) What were the functions of pleasure gardens in the 19th century.

  (b) What forms of entertainment were available for the elite and the common people?

   
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  The Many Sides of Bombay

  My father came down the Sahyadris

  A Quilt over his shoulder

  He stood at your doorstep.

  With nothing but his labour

  I carried a tiffin box

  To the mill since childhood

  I was cast the way

  A smith forges a hammer

  I learned my ropes

  Working on a loom

  Learnt on occassion

  To go on strike

  My father withered away toiling

  So will I, and will my little ones

  Perhaps they too face such a nights

  Wrapped in coils of darkness

  Excerpted from the poem Maze Vidyapeeth (1975) by Narayan Surve.

   

  (a) What kind of life of a labourer is depicted through these lines?

  (b) Explain the pathos and hopelessness hidden in these lines.

  (c) Do you think in modem day, the life of a labourer has changed in Bombay? If so how?

   
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