Solution of Chapter 1. Structural Change (Social Change and Development in India Book)

How has colonialism impacted our lives? You can either focus on one aspect like culture or politics or treat them together.

Industrialisation and urbanisation are linked processes. Discuss.

Identify any town or city with which you are familiar. Find out both the history of its growth and its contemporary status.

You may be living in a very small town, may be in a very big city, a semi urban settlement or a village.

• Describe the place where you live.

• What are the features, which make you think it is a town and not a city, a village and not a town, or a city and not a village?

• Is there any factory where you live?

• Is agriculture the main job that people do?

♦ Is it the occupational nature that has a determining influence?

♦ Is it the buildings?

♦ Is it the availability of educational opportunities?

♦ Is it the way people live and behave?

♦ Is it the way people talk and dress?