Work, Life and Leisure (Chapter-6)

Describe the problems of traveling in the underground railway?

Explain the life style of workers of mid 19th century in Britain?

Describe the life in chawls?

‘Bombay was a prime city if India’. Justify by giving examples.

What was the status of the women folk in the conservative industrial towns?

Explain the social change in London which led to the need for underground?

How did people entertain themselves in the ‘chawls’?

Give three reasons why the population of London expended from the middle of the 18th century?

What steps were taken to clean up London?

To what extent does government regulation and new laws solve problems of pollution? Discuss one example each of the success and failure of legislation to change the quality of

(a) public life

(b) private life

Give explanations for the following:

(a) Why well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century.

(b) Why a number of Bombay films were about the lives of migrants.

(c) What led to the major expansion of Bombay's population in the mid-nineteenth century.

Explain what is meant by the Haussmanisation of Paris. To what extent would you support or oppose this form of development? Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper, to either support or oppose this, giving reasons for your view.

How does the existence of a large urban population affect each of the following? Illustrate with historical examples.

(a) A private landlord

(b) A Police Superintendent in charge of law and order

(c) A leader of a political party

Explain the social changes in London which led to the need for the Underground railway. Why was the development of the Underground criticised?

What were the changes in the kind of work available to women in London between the nineteenth and the twentieth century? Explain the factors which led to this change.

What forms of entertainment came up in nineteenth century England to provide leisure activities for the people.

Give two reasons why the population of London expanded from the middle of the eighteenth century.