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Correct answer is (ii) woman

Correct answer is The gods

Correct option is True

1. Bairam Khan was the guardian of Akbar. 

2. Akbar adopted a liberal religious policy. 

3. In the year 1576 Akbar defeated Rana Pratap in the Battle of Haldighati. 

4. Buland darwaza was built to celebrate Akbar’s victory over Gujarat.

G-77 countries is an abbreviation for the group of 77 countries that demanded a new international economic order (NIEO); a system that would give them real control over their natural resources, without being victims of neo-colonialism, that is, a new form of colonialism in trade practised by the former colonial powers.
The G-77 can be seen as a reaction to the activities of the Bretton Woods twins (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) because these two institutions were designed to meet the financial needs of industrial and developed countries, and did nothing for the economic growth of former colonies and developing nations.

The Group of 77 or G-77 demanded a New International Economic Order (NIEO).
By the NIEO they meant a System that would give them:
(i) Actual control over their natural resources.
(ii) More development assistance.
(iii) Fairer prices for their raw materials.
(iv) Better access for their manufactured goods in developed countries' markets

(d) It has the story of King Rama.

These wars were fought to defend and uphold the honour of motherhood. That was why they were considered sacred.

1. When Lakshmana became unconscious in the battle, the heavenly healers Ashwinikumars prescribed sanjeevani – a miraculous medicinal plant found only in the Valley of Flowers.

2. Indian yogis come to meditate in the Valley of Flowers.

The important reasons behind the end of Bretton Woods system are :
(i) A decline in economic power of the USA.
(ii) Change in the international financial system
(iii) Unemployment in industrialized countries.

(iv) Shifting of production enterprises.
(v) Changes in China.

(i) Decline in economic power of the USA : 
(a) US dollar no longer commanded confidence. 
(b) US dollar could not maintain its value in relation to gold. 
(c) A collapse of fixed exchange rates on floating exchange rates. 
(ii) Change in the international financial: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created to meet the financial needs of the industrial countries. The international financial system changed, and developing countries were forced to borrow from western commercial banks. 
(iii) Unemployment in industrialized countries: Industrial world was hit by unemployment. The number of unemployed started rising and people  trudged long distances looking for any work they could find. 
(iv) Shifting to production enterprises: MNCs shifted their production units to Asian countries because of cheap labor and low wages. 
(v) Changes in China: China became an attractive destination for investment by foreign MNCs.

(i) The Bretton Wood Conference was convened in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, U.S.A.
(ii) Its main aim was to preserve economic stability and full employment in the industrial world.
(iii) The conference established International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank).

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

Explanation: IMF and World Bank were set up after the Second World War to assist the countries in financial matters. These 2 institutions are together called the Bretton Wood twins or Bretton Woods Institutions. IMF overlooked the economic conditions of the member countries and offered financial advice. World Banks offered loans to such countries for the development of its economic and social infrastructures.

The important reasons behind the end of Bretton Woods system are :
(i) A decline in economic power of the USA.
(ii) Change in the international financial system.
(iii) Unemployment in industrialized countries.

(iv) Shifting of production enterprises.
(v) Changes in China.

(i) Decline in economic power of the USA :
(a) US dollar no longer commanded confidence.
(b) US dollar could not maintain its value in relation to gold.
(c) A collapse of fixed exchange rates on floating exchange rates.
(ii) Change in the international financial: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created to meet the financial needs of the industrial countries. The international financial system changed, and developing countries were forced to borrow from western commercial banks.
(iii) Unemployment in industrialized countries: Industrial world was hit by unemployment. The number of unemployed started rising and people
trudged long distances looking for any work they could find.
(iv) Shifting to production enterprises: MNCs shifted their production units to Asian countries because of cheap labor and low wages.
(v) Changes in China: China became an attractive destination for investment by foreign MNCs.

(i) MNCs shifted their production units to Asian countries because of cheap labor and low wages.
(ii) Availability of raw materials and a large market.
(iii) Effects: lt stimulated world trade and flow of capital. Countries like India, China, and Brazil underwent rapid economic transformation.It generated employment opportunities and introduced competition in the domestic markets.

Abdul, the Achiever

Once upon a time during the reign of Emperor Akbar, there lived a very humble school teacher. He had an equally humble and down to earth son named Abdul. Abdul dreamt of becoming a scholar. His father could not fund him for the books because they were very costly. His father tried to borrow books from the school library but was unsuccessful. Abdul was disheartened.

He hit upon a brilliant idea to solve his problem. He decided to work for the rich, instead of taking money for services, he requested them to allow him to read the books in their stores. Abdul read and read and became a learned scholar that too one in a million. Now that he had completed his education he aspired to work in the Emperor’s office. The Emperor heard of him and was ready to appoint him. He was first put in charge of the Murgikhana.

Abdul was disappointed at first but then decided to put in his best. His efforts paid him well. The hens were healthier than before. The Emperor was surprised that Abdul had not used any money from the treasury. The Emperor was worried that the hens had died but Abdul told the Emperor that all the hens were in the pink of health because he was feeding them with the left-overs from the Emperor’s kitchen, which was free of cost and something the hens enjoyed and that was the secret of their health.

The Emperor was happy and put him in charge of the library. Abdul was unhappy because he aspired to be a courtier. But he took his job too as a challenge and started making changes in the library. A year later when the Emperor entered the library he was shocked to see that all the books had very expensive covering.

He thought that this would have cost a fortune. Abdul clarified the Emperor’s doubt and told him that it has cost nothing because he used the rich, discarded fabrics of the bags in which requests were sent to the Emperor. Abdul said that he had asked the royal tailors to stitch the jackets and covers for the books. The Emperor was so impressed that he immediately appointed Abdul his courtier.

Moral: Waste not, want not.

(i) The Bretton Wood Conference was convened in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, U.S.A.
(ii) Its main aim was to preserve economic stability and full employment in the industrial world.
(iii) The conference established International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank).

The Bretton Woods Agreement was finalised in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA. It established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to preserve global economic stability and full employment in the industrial world. These institutions also dealt with external surpluses and deficits of member nations, and financed post-war reconstructions.

The Bretton Woods Agreement was finalised in July 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA. It established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to preserve global economic stability and full employment in the industrial world. These institutions also dealt with external surpluses and deficits of member nations, and financed post-war reconstructions.

The skill which comes out is making best from waste. It not only saves money but also helps to save the environment.

Alliteration: The sound of the letter ‘n’ has been repeated for better poetic effect.

A brighter tomorrow means a better or brighter future.

Answer is: aspire.

The Emperor made Abdul his poultry keeper, in charge of the Royal Murgikhana.

Mrs. Packletide was not a good shot as she was not a professional hunter. When she took her shot, it wounded and killed the goat and not the tiger who suffered a heart-failure and died. She missed her shot but was able to annoy Loona Bimberton.

Interrogative.

Abdul’s father could not get any books for him.

Abdul had noticed that all the formal requests that came to the Emperor were in bags made of the best of fabrics which were discarded. He used these discarded silk, velvet and brocade to make beautiful covers and jackets for the books in the library.

Rohan worked day and night for a brighter tomorrow.

In the year of 1517, Martin Luther wrote the novel The Ninety Five These. He wrote it against the contemporary practice of the church with respect to indulgences. He was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.

Miss Mebbin blackmailed her into buying her a weekend cottage otherwise she would have told Loona Bimberton the truth that it was not the tiger but a mere goat that Mrs. Packletide had shot.

No, she was not sincere and devoted because she threatened to disclose the true facts of the hunt, if Mrs. Packletide did not pay the money that would enable her to buy a cottage for herself.

Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and Kannada languages and then printed the first Malayalam book in 1713. The first printing press was introduced by Portuguese missionaires in the 16^th century in Goa.
 

It is a popular literature book, which is small in size. It was used earlier by people in the middle ages of Europe. It is a small pamphlet type book which contains, poems, stories and ballads. It was carried by petty peddlers and sold by them in the city. It was also known as ‘penny chapbook’ as it was sold for a penny.

Books and manuscripts are compared to treasures rare and exclusive.

Manuscripts in India had a very rich tradition, and it was written in Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. It was copied on Palm Leaves or handmade paper. It was beautifully illustrated by artists and written in beautiful handwriting by scribes after this it was pressed between two wooden covers or sealed at the end of one side.

(i) To attract people, the printers started printing popular ballads and folk tales.

(ii) To attract people books had been incorporated with lots of illustrations.

(iii) Ballads and folk tales were sung and recited to the people in gatherings in the villages.

Value Point :

Great lover of money – saved money by not tipping, asked Mrs Packeltide to pay less for the old goat.

Detailed Answer :

Miss Mebbin, the paid companion of Mrs. Packletide, had a protective elder sisterly attitude towards money. She was a great lover of money. Many a times she had saved roubles, centimes and francs by not tipping. She had asked Mrs. Packletide also to pay less to the villagers as the tiger was quite old and if he didn’t touch the goat, she need not pay for the goat as well.

Provoked by griffin’s rudeness and suspecting him of indulging in vivisection, the landlord through it best to throw. Him out of his property.IN THE meantime griffin had decided to turn invisible and vanish before any further complications occurred. Hence, he look the drugs to decolourise his blood, which started making him feel drowsy and sick. Meanwhile the landlord repeatedly knocked at his door. Griffin didn’t respond. He then heard the footsteps going away but soon there was the sound of their returning and the knocking resumed. Griffin realised that there was an attempt to push a blue paper under his door. It irritated and in this fit flag open the door .It irritated gigging and in this fit flung open the door. The moment the old man saw griffin’s, which had turned white like stone owing to the effect of the drungs, he got a shock of his life. He ran away without serving the eviction native.

Mrs. Packletide loved showing off and to be mentioned in the magazines. She drew pleasure from making others feel inferior and low. So, she decided to kill a tiger in order to be in the limelight and also to make Loona Bimberton feel small.

The Gutenberg Press: It was established by Johann Gutenberg. By 1448, he had perfected the system of printing with olive and wine presses, using contemporary technological innovations. The first book that he printed was the Bible, making 180 copies in 3 years.
Although these books were printed, a unique touch remained in the handmade decorations of the front page, illuminated borders and purchaser-specified designs. The Gutenberg Press was the first-known printing press in the 1430s.

(i) Books became cheaper and helped the individuals to read which developed rational thinking, scientific outlook, liberalism and democratic ideas.

(ii) The writings of the great philosophers like Thomas Paine, Rousseau and Voltaire spread the ideas of democracy and also exposed them to monarchial and church propaganda which finally helped to end despotism.

(iii) The people were not influenced directly by everything they read or saw. They accepted some ideas and rejected others. They interpreted things in their own way. Print did not directly shape their minds, but it did open up the possibility of thinking differently.

Some people in eighteenth-century Europe thought that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism. It’s easy and cheap availability meant that literacy would no longer be restricted to the upper classes. While the clergy and monarchs feared the enlightenment that a vast reading public would gain, reformers like Martin Luther welcomed the change. They felt that it would mark an end to the blind adherence to the rulers’ ideology. This can be seen in the French Revolution as well. The print medium allowed the ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood set forth by Rousseau and Voltaire in their writings to reach the public. It created a new culture of dialogue and debate that initiated the working class into questioning and re-evaluating social customs and norms. The power of reason that the public gained initiated social reform, and brought an end to despotism.

Jealous of Loona Bimberton, Mrs. Packletide decided to hunt a tiger and send a tiger-claw brooch to Loona Bimberton on her birthday. Since she was not a good hunter, she wanted the hunting to occur without any risk. So, she paid one thousand rupees to the villagers to make arrangements for tiger hunt like finding an old tiger and not letting it run away from that place.

The earliest kind of print was done in China in 594 AD. The printing was done by pressing the inked woodblock on the paper, and as the paper of that time could not be printed on both sides so, the craftsmen did a peculiar thing; they folded the paper on one side and then printed on both the sides, these were the Accordion books. The printing was sponsored by the imperial state.

The first step towards invisibility required the consumption of a drug that decolourised the blood. Griffin’s felt very sick and drowsy after taking this drung.This condition made him very irritable. As this drug. This condition made him very irritable. As this drug started working on him, physical changes also started setting in. His hands and face started turning white like white stone. He experienced a horrible time. He underwent a lot of anguish all through the night. He kept on feeling sick and fainted intermittently. His skin seemed to be on fair. His body emitted a lot of heat and it felt like grim death. As he was going through this agonising experience, he realised the misery and pain that he had subjected the poor cat to. He moaned and groaned, sobbed and talked. He then became insensible and woke up in the darkness of the night. Then the painful phase was over, but griffin felt he was killing himself. By the morning his hands became invisible. By and by, all his body disappeared. He then felt very weak and hungry. By an effort at will, however, he completed the entire process. He found his strength back by about midday. Now he was ready to face the world and enjoy the advantage of invisibility