Democratic government is better as it is answerable to the people.

The assertion of social diversities in a country is very normal and healthy. It can be justified by the following arguments

1. Sometimes various disadvantaged and marginal social groups express their grievances. Then the government know about the injustice faced by these groups and can initiate some necessary steps to rectify it.
2. Sometimes expressing various kinds of social divisions in politics can reduce the intensity of the differences. This leads to the strengthening of democracy.
3. Sometimes marginalized people voice their demands in a peaceful and constitutional way. In this way, they seek a fair position through elections. Thus, democracy becomes the best way to fight for recognition and accommodates diversity.
4. Castes have also a positive impact on politics. Universal Adult Franchise and the principle of one-person-one-vote brought new consciousness among people of castes that were treated as inferior and low. In this sense, caste politics has helped people from the Dalit and OBC castes to gain better access to decision-making. Several political and non-political organizations have been demanding for the end of discrimination against these castes and more dignity and opportunities for these castes in our society.

India is a Federal State because of power between the Centre and the States.

1. The ethnic composition of Belgium is very complex. 

2. It has two main languages: Dutch and French. Of the country’s total population, 59% lives in the Flemish region and speaks Dutch language.

3. Another 40% of people live in the Wallonia region and speak French. Remaining 1% speak German.

4. In the capital city Brussels, 80%of  people speak French while 20% are Dutch-speaking. The minority French speaking community was relatively rich and powerful. This was resented by the Dutch-speaking community, who got economic and education benefit much later.

Along the northern face of the central upland (Bhot Country) lateritic soil is found. These soils varying from sandy to silty loam (especially on flat valleys) are very much acidic in character and are highly leached.

Shelter belts are Rows of trees to control erosion.

The Process of unification of Germany:

1. In the 1800s, nationalist feelings were strong in the hearts of the middle-class Germans. They united in 1848 to create a nation-state out of the numerous German states.
2. By 1848, the popular effort of political associations failed in installing a constitutional monarchy in Germany. 
3. The failure of Frankfurt Parliament made it clear that German unification had to come through the combined effort of monarchy and army supported by large landowners.
4. Prussia soon became the leader of German unification movement.
5. Chief Minister, Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of the process with support from Prussian army and Prussian bureaucracy.
6. The unification process was completed after Prussia won wars with Austria, Denmark and France over seven years time.
7. In January 1871, the Prussian king, William I, was proclaimed the German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles.

Industries can be classified on the basis of ownership in following categories:

1. Public Sector: Owned and operated by government agencies, e.g., BHEL, SAIL.
2. Private Sector: Owned and operated by individuals or a group of individuals, e.g., Bajaj Auto Ltd., Dabur Industries, TISCO.
3. Joint Sector: Run jointly by the government and Individual or group of individuals, e.g. Oil India Ltd. (OIL)
4. Cooperative Sector: Owned and operated by the producers or suppliers of raw material, workers or both. Resources are pooled and profits and losses are shared, e.g.  Amul India, coir industries in Kerala, Sugar industries in Maharashtra.

Steps taken by the French for the development of the 'Mekong Delta region' were:

1. The French built canals to drain lands in the Mekong Delta to increase cultivation.
2. Infrastructure projects were undertaken to ensure easy and smooth movement of goods from one part to the other part of the country.
3. The vast system of irrigation works-canals and earthworks-built mainly with forced labour increased rice production.
4. It allowed the export of rice to the international market. The area under rice cultivation went up (from 2,74,000 hectares in 1873 to 2.2 million hectares in 1930). Vietnam exported two-thirds of its rice production and became the third largest exporter of rice in the world.
5. Work was started on the Trans Indo-China rail link which would connect the northern and southern parts of Vietnam and China. A second line was built between Vietnam and Siam (Thailand) through Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

The role of business classes in the 'Civil Disobedience' Movement :

(a) Indian industrialists had made huge profits during the First World War.

(b) They became powerful. They wanted to expand their business, they wanted protection against imports of foreign goods.

(c) They formed the Indian Industries and Commercial Congress in 1920.

(d) They formed Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries in 1927.

(e) Purshotamdas, Thakurdas and G.D Birla attacked colonial control over the Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement.

1. It was attended by 831 delegatesform all over Germany in St.Pauls Church.
2. Women had no representatiopn or say. Also, the controverial issue of extension of female politcal rights was raised .
3. Deputies debated over fundamental rights rather than central power and te assembly ended in the framing of a constitution

India is an agricultural country as nearly 65% of its population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. It provide food, raw material for industries and some product for export. It accounts for about 25% of the gross domestic product.

Mahatma Gandhi started his famous Salt March accompanied by 78 of his trusted volunteers. The March was over 240 miles and volunteers walked for 24 days. On 6th April, 1930, they reached Dandi and ceremonially violated the salt law and manufactured salt by boiling sea water. This marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement. 

Civil Disobedience Movement:-
This movement started in 1930 when Gandhi’s eleven demands were rejected by the colonial government.
In this movement the response of the Muslims was lukewarm.
In this movement people not only refused to cooperate with the British but also broke colonial laws.
Women participated in this movement in a large scale. They, along with Gandhiji, manufactured salt. They also played active role in picketing foreign cloth and liquor shops. 

According to international convention the longitudinal difference between two time meridians should be a multiple of 7.5 degrees, so that time difference is always in half hours or full hours (7.5 deg * 4 min/deg = 30 minutes).

To find the time meridian of a country, take the westernmost longitude and the easternmost longitude of that country, take the mean, and find the nearest multiple of 7.5 degree.

As India's longitudinal extent is from 68° 7' 53" E to 97° 24' 47" E.

Nearest multiple of 7.5° is 82.5°.

So 82"30 minutes east has been selected as the Standard Meridian Time of India.

The cotton textile industry is located
in almost every state in India, where one or more of the locational factors have been favourable.

1. Tamil Nadu has the largest number of mills.
2. Coimbatore is the most important centre as approximately half the mills are located there.
3. In Karnataka, the cotton textile industry has developed in the cotton producing areas in the north-eastern part of the state.
4. In Andhra Pradesh, Telangana region most of the mills are spinning mills producing yarn. Most important centres are Hyderabad, Secunderbad, Warangal and Guntur.
5. In Uttarpradesh, Kanpur is the largest centre.Hathras, Saharanpur, and Agra are the impotant centres.
6. West Bengal has centres like Howrah, Serampur, Kolkata and Shyamanagar.

Different people have different development goals as all are not equally developed. Conflicting goals mean that development goals of a particular person or group is harmful and opposite to another persons development goals. For example a rich business man can have development goal of erecting a large dam.This development goal is conflicting to persons like farmers who want to do farming as erecting dams means lose of farming land for farmers.