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🌍 Gender, Religion and Caste (Civics)

CBSE Class 10 · Social Science · Chapter 3

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80%	What is communalism? Explain its various forms in politics — Define → prejudice/superiority → majoritarian/separatist → mobilisation on religious lines → communal violence (Partition) → secularism as the democratic answer.	5 MARKS
70%	What makes India a secular state? / secular features of the Constitution — No official religion → freedom to profess/practise/propagate any religion or none → no discrimination + equality before law → state may intervene to ensure equality within religions (untouchability ban).	5 MARKS
55%	Sexual division of labour / gender in politics / women's under-representation — Sexual division of labour (home=women, outside=men, unpaid) → women's movement demanded equality + representation → 1/3 reservation in local bodies; 2023 Act reserves 1/3 Lok Sabha & Assembly seats.	3 MARKS
45%	Relation between caste and politics (two-way) — Caste IN politics (candidates, alliances, voter influence) + politics IN caste (politicisation, alliances, new caste groups) + caste alone does not decide elections.	3 MARKS
40%	Caste inequalities / casteism — limits and dangers OR public-private division — Casteism = caste as sole basis of community; dangers = division, neglect of development, tension. Public/private = women's issues kept 'private' until the movement made them political.	3 MARKS

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Gender, Religion and Caste (Civics) · Class 10 Social Science · Chapter 3