The construction worker is getting Rs. 400 per day which is much lower than the minimum wage of Rs. 565 for semi-skilled workers. The worker at the provisional store is getting Rs. 5000 per month which is way below the minimum wages of Rs. 14,698 per month for non-matriculate worker

SEWA (self employed women's association), Women's Indian association, ladies circle of Indian women.

Characteristics of plantation farming :
(i) It is a single crop farming practised on a large area.
(ii) Crops are mainly grown for the market.
(iii) It is both labour intensive and capital intensive.
(iv) It has an interface of agriculture and Industry.
(v) Developed network of transport and communi-cation connecting the plantation processing industries and markets play an important role in the development of plantations.
(vi) Examples of plantation crops are tea, coffee, rubber, sugar cane and banana.

Diversification is a method of portfolio management whereby an investor reduces the volatility (and thus risk) of his or her portfolio by holding a variety of different investments that have low correlations with each other.

• The families of farmers of both these countries are involved in the agricultural works.
• The governments of both these countries provide them with new hybrid corn seeds and modern machineries.

A biosphere reserve is an ecosystem with plants and animals of unusual scientific and natural interest. It is a label given by UNESCO to help protect the sites. The plan is to promote management, research and education in ecosystem conservation. This includes the 'sustainable use of natural resources'.

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Bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases like typhoid, cholera, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis, skin infection and gastrointestinal are spreading through polluted water.

IT plays an important role in various sectors and industries. ... In an industry that automates things for the benefit of humankind, IT helps to make the manufacturing process less cumbersome and more automated. Information technology plays the mainrole in students being able to keep their jobs and go to school. With the introduction of computers, the business world was changed and by using computers and software, businesses use information technology to ensure that their departments run smoothly. Information technology (IT) is the use of any computers, storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange all forms of electronic data.

Weavers often belonged to communities that specialised in weaving. Their skills were passed on from one generation to the next.
The communities famous for weaving includes:
(i) The Tanti weavers of Bengal.
(ii) The Julahas or Momin weavers of north India.
(iii) Sale and Kaikollar and Devangs of South India.

The province of Bengal was partitioned into East and West bengal by Lord Curzon. 

• West Bengal included the provinces of ‘Bengal’ incorporating present day West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha. Calcutta was declared as the capital city.
• East Bengal included the provinces of ‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ which consisted of the eastern districts of Bengal and Assam.

What was most disturbing was that while West Bengal had Hindus in majority, Muslims were in majority in East Bengal. It was an attempt by the British to divide Bengal on communal lines.

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 (popularly 'the atrocities act' or POA) and The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (popularly Forest Rights Act or FRA) are two key legislations for both the Dalits and Adivasis. The 1989 Act is important for another reason: Adivasi activists refer to it to defend their right to occupy land that was traditionally theirs. Activists have asked that those who have forcibly encroached upon tribal lands should be punished under this law.

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them.

It was invented by James Hargreaves; the spinning jenny was a machine that speeded up the process of spinning. Thus, reducing the demand for labour. What was done by 10 workers could be done by one on a single spinning jenny and many spindles could be spun on it with loads of bundles of cotton.

The main benefit of Public Interest Litigation is that it helps to serve the people at large. It is does not benefit the individual but instead it benefits the public and mainly the weaker section of the society, who cannot afford to move to the court in order to protect the Fundamental Right.
 

History painting was another category of imperial art. Various episodes of British imperial history were projected dramatically through such paintings. Such paintings enjoyed great prestige among the British public as they showcase the British power. These painters took firsthand accounts of travelers to make initial sketches for such paintings.

Imperial history paintings were an attempt to create a public memory of imperial triumphs. Victory was a thing which should be implanted in public memory; both Indian and British. Such paintings were used as tools to showcase the British as invincible and all powerful.

The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Robert Chambers, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

"Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous.

Different crops are grown in different regions because growing of crops depends upon the geographical conditions, demand of produce, labour and level of technology. Favourable topography of soil, climates also play an important role in selection of crops to be grown in that area

Manual scavenging refers to the practice of manually cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling in any manner, human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. It often involves using the most basic of tools such as buckets, brooms and baskets. Manual scavenging is a caste-based occupation involving the removal of untreated human excreta from bucket toilets or pit latrines, that has been officially abolished by law in India as a dehumanizing practice.