Understanding Diversity Civics Chapter 1

NCERT Extra Questions for Class 6  They eat different types of

Social Science Civics Chapter 1 foods.
Understanding Diversity  They celebrate differents
Understanding Diversity Class 6 festivals.
Extra Questions Very Short Answer  They practise different
Type religions.
Question 1. Question 3.
Imagine if all the story-tellers and What are constant reminders of our
writers that you have heard and read rich traditions of respect for
so far were forced to live in a place diversity?
where all people wore the same two Answer:
colours red and white, ate the same Songs and symbols.
food (may be potatoes!), took care of Understanding Diversity Class 6
the same two animals, for example, Extra Questions Short Answer Type
the deer and the cat, and to entertain Question 1.
themselves played snakes and How are history and geography tied
ladders. What kind of stories do you in the cultural life of a region?
think they would write? Clarify with examples from Ladakh
Answer: and Kerala.
 First on red and white colour Answer:
story. Kerala and Ladakh are different in
 Second, potatoes and the men. terms of geographical features.
 Cat and deer story.  Geography of Kerala made
 Snakes and the laddar (ludo). possible the cultivation of
spices and rice.
 Its coastal location made
fishing possible.
 Geography of Ladakh made
possible the wool collection as a
major occupation of the
Ladakhi people.
History of both the regions has seen
similar cultural influences.
 Chinese and Arab Traders
Question 2.
came to these regions and set
How is India a country of diversities?
up trading occupations there.
Answer:
Question 2.
India is a land of diversities because
How is the influence of diverse
of the following:
cultures still in vogue?
 People speak different
Answer:
languages.
Influence of diverse cultures is still Ultimately they uprooted the British
in vogue because of the following: Empire from India and attained
 Man’s life is on the move at freedom in 1947.
present. Question 4.
 We go from place to place and Perhaps you have not noticed that
adopt the culture of new places there are several people in the
where we live in. locality where you live who are poor
 Our cultural traditions also and who do not have enough to eat or
undergo a change. wear and sometimes not even a place
 We also adopt several things to live. This difference is not the
from our neighbourhood. same as the one we have seen earlier.
 Our daily life also changes This is not a difference but it is the
accordingly. question of inequality. How does
 We also hear stories of other’s inequality come?
customs and traditions. Answer:
Question 3. Inequality comes when there is a big
How was unity in diversity seen gap between the haves and the have-
during the British rule in India? nots.
Answer: One has resources and opportunities
 People of India have diverse in abundance while another does not
cultures, customs, traditions have them at all.
and backgrounds.  One lives in luxurious houses
 British took advantage of this while another does not have
diversity and ruled India for even a place or jhoogi to live in.
nearly 300 years.  One spends extravagantly,
But the diverse people rose against another does not have enough
the British as one nation. They to meet his both ends.
showed unity in diversity and threw Caste system is another example of
their rule from India. inequality.
 Man and woman from different  Society has been divided into
cultures, customs, traditions different groups on the basis of
and backgrounds came together work done by the people.
to oppose the British.  A potter’s son is a potter.
 They took part in the freedom  A person engaged in one work
struggle. could not think of another work
 They went to jail together. done by others.
 They worked together to decide  This created inequality in the
joint actions. society.
 They acted as one against the Question 5.
British. From where people who write stories
get their ideas?
Answer:
People who write stories get their  People travelled from one place
ideas from all sorts of different places to another in ships, on horses,
such as on camels or on foot, before the
1. books advent of trains, aeroplanes,
2. real life buses or cars.
3. their imagination.  They went to new lands to
 People living in forests chose settle or to trade.
writing about their fight and  They stayed for a long time at
friendships with animals. one place once they settled
 Others wrote stories about love there.
and honour describing kings  They left their homes due to
and queens. famines and droughts as they
 Some people wrote their could not get enough food there.
childhood memories of school  Some of them went in search of
and friends. work.
Question 6.  When they settled in new
What does Jawahar Lai Nehru say in places they began to change
his book, ‘Discovery of India’ about their life-style according to new
unity in diversity? surroundings, smother time
Answer: they adopted old styles.
 Jawahar Lai Nehru says that  Due to mix of old and new, their
Indian unity is not imposed languages, food, music,
from outside. religions, also underwent
 It was something deeper and change.
within its fold.  Inter mixing of cultures
 People practised the widest resulted in new and different
tolerance of beliefs, and styles, giving birth to
customs. diversities.
 They acknowledged and Thus regions became very diverse
encouraged variety. because of their unique histories.
 Unity in diversity exists in Geographical Basis:
India.  People adapt their lives
 Nehru described his country, according to geographical
“unity in diversity.” conditions.
Understanding Diversity Class 6  Life-style of the people living
Extra Questions Long Answer Type near sea is different from those
Question 1. living in mountainous areas.
How do we explain diversity? They are different in their
Answer: clothing, work, foods, living
We explain diversity in the following styles and in growing food and
manner: vegetables.
Historical Basis:
Question 2. – rice, fish and
Let us try to understand what we vegetables.
mean when we say that historical Many Arab
and geographical factors influence Traders came and
the diversity of a region. We can do settled in Kerala.
this by reading about life in two Ibn Battuta Muslim
different parts of the country, Kerala travelled 700 populations
and Ladakh. Now years ago. reached there 400
do this exercise. According to him years before.
Answer: Muslim
Kerala Ladach community was
Kerala is located respected.
Ladakh is a
in the South West St. Thomas is
desert in the Kamer Saga is
of India, bounded believed to come
mountain of sung by both
by sea on one side here and bring
J&ICs eastern Muslims and
and by mountains Christianity to
part. Budhhists.
on the other. India.
Spices – pepper, Land covered Different
cloves, with snow for a religions are
cardamoms are large part of the practised due to
on the hills. year. Kamer Saga is
historical
sung by both
Fertile land and background like
Sheep keeping: Muslims and and
abundant rainfall Judaism, Islam,
Pashmiiia shawl poems.
have resulted in Christianity,
is woven in
the rice Hinduism and
Kashmir.
cultivation. Buddhism.
Fishing is main Food – meat and Understanding Diversity Class 6
occupation due to milk (cheese and Extra Questions Multiple Choice
location on sea. butter). Questions
Caravan routes Choose the correct answer:
through passes to Question 1.
Cheenawala nets Tibet – trade in To which caste does Sameer Ek
are used. textiles, spices, belong?
raw silk and (a) Muslim
carpets (b) Hindu
Cheenashalli (c) Sikh
(utensils from Buddhism (d) None of these
China) are also reached Tibet via Answer:
popular for Ladakh. Hindu
frying. Major food Question 2.
Which language does Sameer Do
speak? Question 7.
(a) English Where are the Pushmina shawls
(b) Hindi woven?
(c) Sanskrit (a) In Kashmir
(d) Tamil (b) In Tamil Nadu
Answer: (c) In Mumbai
Hindi (d) In Haryana
Question 3. Answer:
What does Sameer Ek do? In Kashmir
(a) Goes to school Question 8.
(b) Sells the newspapers What is dzos?
(c) Both (a) and (b) (a) A type of yak-cow
(d) None of these (b) A type of dog
Answer: (c) A type of goat
Sells the newspapers (d) A type of cat
Question 4. Answer:
Which caste does Sameer Do belong A type of yak-cow
to? Question 9.
(a) Hindu Name the religion which reached
(b) Muslim Tibet via Ladakh?
(c) Sikh (a) Jainism
(d) Christian (b) Buddhism
Answer: (c) Islam
Muslim (d) Sikhs
Question 5. Answer:
On which source do the people of Buddhism
Ladakh depend for drinking water? Question 10.
(a) Rivers Name the state located in Southwest
(b) Sea corner of India,
(c) Melting of snow (a) Kashmir
(d) None of these (b) Haryana
Answer: (c) Kerala
Melting of snow (d) All of these
Question 6. Answer:
Which region/state produces the Kerala
Pushmina wool? Question 11.
(a) Ladakh Who wrote the travelogue in which
(b) Jamshedpur the writer described the lives of
(c) Kolkata Muslims’?
(d) Delhi (a) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (b) Lai Bahadur Shastri
Ladakh (c) Ibn. Battuta
(d) Indira Gandhi (a) helping them
Answer: (b) opposing them
Ibn. Battuta (c) both (a) and (b)
Question 12. (d) none of these
The utensils used for frying Answer:
cheenavala are called opposing them
(a) fry-pan Question 17.
(b) cheenachatti In which city of India is Jallianwalla
(c) both (a) and (b) Bagh situated?
(d) none of these (a) Amritsar
Answer: (b) Kurukshetra
cheenachatti (c) Panipat
Question 13. (d) Mumbai
In what manner are Kerala and Answer:
Ladakh quite different? Amritsar
(a) Geographical features Question 18.
(b) Biological features Who wrote the Discovery of India?
(c) Historical features (a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) All of these (b) Indira Gandhi
Answer: (c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Geographical features (d) Lal bahadur shastri
Question 14. Answer:
Which is the major product grown in Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Kerala? Question 19.
(a) Wool Who coined the phrase ‘Unity in
(b) Spices like clove diversity’ to describe the country?
(c) Both (a) and (b) (a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) None of these (b) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (c) Indira Gandhi
Spices like clove (d) Rajeev Gandhi
Question 15. Answer:
Which is the product of Ladakh? Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(a) Spices Question 20.
(b)Wool Who composed our National
(c) Cotton Anthem?
(d) All of these (a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (b) Lai Bahadur Shastri
Wool (c) Rabindranath Tagore
Question 16. (d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
While the British ruled India, women Answer:
and men from different regions, Rabindranath Tagore
cultural faith came together for