Tag: political science

• The British East India Company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in the Indian province of Bengal, where they developed a method of growing opium poppies cheaply and abundantly so that they could sell it in china. It took place in 1773.
  
• In the year 1870 British government exported 50,000 chests of opium from Bengal annually.
  
• In 1820s opium production decreased rapidly in British occupied territories. Production increased in princely states and Rajasthan which are unoccupied territories because here, the local traders were offering much higher prices to peasants which made the peasants interested to grow opium.
  
• In 1780s village headmen started paying peasants for producing opium in advance so as to attract poor farmers to grow opium.
  

The European peasants had discovered that planting crops like clover and turnip improved the soil and made it more fertile. Turnip was a good fodder crop for cattle. These crops had the capacity to increase the nitrogen content of the soil. Nitrogen was important for crop growth. Cultivation of the same soil over a few years depleted the nitrogen in the soil and reduced its fertility. By restoring nitrogen, turnip and clover made the soil fertile once again

The "Suffrage" means "Right to vote". This is a political right. 

A common stereotype about Muslim is that they are not interested in educating girls and therefore do not send girls to school but the actual reason is that poverty amongst Muslim is an important reason why Muslim girls do not attend a school or drop out from school after a few years.

The TMS set up a cooperative that bought the catch from the fishermen at a fair price. The cooperative then sold the catch in the market and got a good price. This helped in increasing the income of the fishermen substantially.

Displacement means changing of place or moving from one place to another. Displacement is caused due to several reasons such as the building of dams, settlement of civilization, annexation of territory or capturing of territory etc. Displacement compels people to leave their inhabited place and to settle at other places. This has led to the uprooting of villages and bastis as the development projects require lands and place which erase the trace of place which was once inhabited by people.

Caste distinction or caste discrimination is a process that involves dividing people into social groups known as castes mostly by birth, profession, and personality. It divides the society into four major parts. Caste system resulted in lots of discrimination and exploitation of lower caste people. The caste distinction is an evil of our society.

Law of nature or natural law is the idea that there are forms of some natural laws that exist by themselves. It is determined by nature. For example, falling of leaves, flowing of a river, rising and setting of the sun, blooming of flowers etc.

Human law is the basic law to which all the human being should follow. But like any other law, human laws also need to be changed with changing conditions. It should be molded and drafted according to the situations. It shouldn't be rigid and permanent.

Untouchability was a practice in which so-called lower caste people used to be kept at a distance, they were not given the status of social equality. Article 17 of the Indian Constitution abolished the practice of untouchability. Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.