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…