NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Why Do We Need A Parliament
Chapter 3 Why Do We Need a Parliament? We in India pride ourselves on being a democracy. Here we will try and understand the relation between the ideas of participation in decision-making and the need for all democratic governments to have the consent…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Understanding Secularism
Chapter 2 Understanding Secularism Imagine yourself as a Hindu or Muslim living in a part of the United States of America where Christian fundamentalism is very powerful. Suppose that despite being a US citizen, no one is willing to rent their house…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Understanding Our Criminal Justice System
Chapter 6 Understanding Our Criminal Justice System When we see someone violating the law, we immediately think of informing the police. You might have seen, either in real life or in the movies, police officers filing reports and arresting persons.…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Understanding Marginalization
Chapter-7 Understanding Marginalisation What Does it Mean to be Socially Marginalised? To be marginalised is to be forced to occupy the sides or fringes and thus not be at the centre of things. This is something that some of you have…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Understanding Laws
Chapter-4 Understanding Laws You may be familiar with some laws such as those that specify the age of marriage, the age at which a person can vote, and perhaps even the laws dealing with buying and selling of property. We now…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life The Indian Constitution
Chapter 1 The Indian Constitution In this chapter, we are going to begin with football, a game many of you have probably heard of, or even played. As the name suggests, this is a game that involves the players’ feet. According to the rules of…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Public Facilities
Chapter 9 Public Facilities Amu and Kumar are travelling through Chennai in a bus. As they go round the city, they observe the water facilities available…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Law and Social Justice
Chapter 10 Law and Social Justice Do you recall the ‘Story of a shirt’ from your Class VII book? We saw there that a chain of markets links the producer of cotton to the buyer of the shirt in the supermarket. Buying and selling was…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Judiciary
Chapter-5 Judiciary A glance at the newspaper provides you a glimpse of the range of work done by the courts in this country. But can you think of why we need these courts? As you have read in Unit 2, in India we have the rule of law. What this means is…
NCERT Class 8 Civics Social and Political Life Confronting Marginalization
Invoking Fundamental Rights The Constitution, as you have learnt in the first chapter of this book, lays down the principles that make our society and polity democratic. They are defined in and through the list of Fundamental Rights that are an…
NCERT Solutions Class 8 Social Science Chapter 3 Why do we need a Parliament?
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Social Science Civics for Chapter 3 Why do we need a Parliament? Exercises: 1. Why do you think our national movement supported the idea that all adults have a right to vote? Answer People from…
NCERT Solutions Class 8 Social Science Chapter 2 Understanding Secularism
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Social Science Civics for chapter 2 Understanding Secularism 2. Will the government intervene if some religious group says that their religion allows them to practice infanticide? Give reasons for your answer…
NCERT Solutions Class 8 Social Science Chapter 6 Understanding Our Criminal Justice System
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 for Social Science Civics for Chapter 6 Understanding Our Criminal Justice System All of the processes, written in bold on page 74, are crucial to a fair trial. Write in your own words what you understand of the following processes…
NCERT Solutions Class 8 Social Science Chapter 7 Understanding Marginalisation
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Social Science Civics Chapter 7 Understanding Marginalisation Q1. Write in your own words two or more sentences of what you understand by the word 'marginalisation'? Ans. When a group of people is forced to stay away from the…
NCERT Solutions Class 8 Social Science Chapter 4 Understanding Laws
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Social Science Civics Chapter 4 Understanding Laws Q1. Write in your own words what you understand by the term the 'rule of law'. In your response include a fictitious or real example of a violation of the rule of law. Ans. Law is…