IGNOU BA/BDP BSHF-101 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2018

IGNOU BDP BSHF-101 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2018

IGNOU BA/BDP BSHF-101 Solved Assignment 2018



Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences 


Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) Course Code: BSHF-101

 Assignment Code: BSHF-101/AST/TMA/2017-18

 Total Marks: 100 
Note: Instructions are there for each section.

 DCQ: Answer any two in about 500 words each.

 1. What do you understand by the term post-industrial society?Discuss. 20 


AnswerIn sociology, industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for the division of labour. Such a structure developed in the West in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution and replaced the agrarian societies of the pre-modern, pre-industrial age. If a nation becomes post-industrial, it passes through, or dodges, a phase of society predominated by a manufacturing based economy and moves on to a structure of society based on the provision of information, innovation, finance, and services....

2. Discuss the different aspects of the non-cooperation movement. 20


AnswerNon-cooperation movement was the first nation-wide mass movement against the British rule in India. There was widespread political discontent in India by the end of 1919 which culminated in the Non-cooperation movement under Gandhi. The non-cooperation movement was a reaction against the Rowlatt Act (1919) and Jallianwala Bagh massacre. During the First World War, the prices of various commodities rose, the conditions of the people worsened and the government extracted many dues from the people in the name of war efforts....

 3. What are the different modes of transfer of funds from the centre to the states?Discuss. 20 

4. Discuss some of the sources of thinking that went into formulating a strategy for development immediately after independence? 20 

MCQ: Answer any four questions in about 250 words each.

 5. How do you see the role of education in shaping the present society? Discuss. 12 

6. What do you understand by the term 'renaissance'? 12 

AnswerThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the term. As a cultural movement, it was marked by a series of new developments in the fields of art, literature, religion, philosophy,....

7. How did the Indian economy adapt to globalisation? Comment. 12 

8. How do you see India's record of distributive justice? Discuss. 12 

9. Comment on the main environmental challenges we are facing today? 12 


AnswerThe term environment and the problems related to the environment is a very complex subject. Every day we get to hear depressing news about the environment going from bad to worse. The most important environmental concern relates to the dangerously increasing phenomenon of global warming as also referred to as climate change....

10. Discuss the contribution of the urban revolution during the bronze age. 12 

AnswerThe urban revolution took place during Bronze Age. This period supported an urban population, skilled craftsmen, traders, priests, and writers.  The two great urban civilization of this age were Sumer and Akkad. During this period towns become centres of a number of activities. Using hundreds of labours with...

11. How has kathak developed as one of the most popular dance forms of North India? 12 

12. What do you understand by the term 'Fundamental Duties' as given in our constitution? 12


AnswerThe preamble of India sets out the tone and tenor of the entire Constitution. It declares India to be a sovereign, secular, democratic republic assuring liberty of thought, expression, and belief to all its citizens, equality, and justice to all the citizens. These words constitute the cornerstone of the Indian constitution.... 

SCQ: Write short notes on any two in about 100 words each: 6+6 

13. 
(i) Bharatnatyam
AnswerBharatnatyam is the oldest among the contemporary dance forms of India. Its claim to antiquity rests not on its association with Natyashastra, as also on the overwhelming literary, sculptural, and historical evidence on Bharatnatyam....

(ii) Swara in Indian music
AnswerSwara is that sound which has some meaning and which possesses a distinct identity. The seven notes of the scale (swaras), in Indian music are named shadj, rishabh, gandhar, madhyam, pancham, dhaivat and nishad, and are shortened to Sa, Ri (Carnatic) or Re (Hindustani), Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, and Ni and written S, R, G, M, P, D, N. Collectively these notes are known as the sargam (the word is an acronym of the consonants of the first four swaras)....

 (iii) Disability in India 
(iv) Scheduled Tribes 



Solved Essay - Discuss the factors that led to the capitalist economic development in Europe.
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