que. 08, Answer the following questions.
(a). What is a Nagar Panchayat? Give its composition and source of income?
(b). What are the functions of a government?
(C). How did the Kalinga war prove to be a truing paint in Ashoka's life?
(d). Which is the largest ocean in the world? Describe it in detail.
(e). Why is it not possible to draw accurate maps?
(f). What are the advantages of plateaus?
(g). Discuss about the life of the Harappan people.
(h). How did civilization take place?
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Answer:
a) A Nagar Panchayat or Notified Area Council ( NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban
b)Governments supervise the resolution of conflicting interests, the workings of the political process, the enforcement of laws and rights, and the monitoring of national income and international trade; they regulate economic and social relationships among individuals and private organizations; and they carry out ...
c) Ashoka invaded Kalinga in 261 B.C. In Kalinga War, 100,000 people died, 150,000 were wounded and made prisoners of war. The sight of such a carnage and massacre of human lives, and the sufferings of the wounded made a deep impression on Ashoka's mind. ... Thus, the Kalinga War became a turning point in Ashoka's life.
d)The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins. All of the world's continents could fit into the Pacific basin.
e)It is not possible to draw a accurate map because map is a representation of earth or a part of it on a flat surface and it is impossible to flatten a round shape completely. we cannot draw a accurate map because the actual map is drawn on scale