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Give explanations for the following:

Why well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century?




The well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century:

(i)First, the vast mass of one-room houses occupied by the poor were seen as a serious threat to public health: they were overcrowded, badly ventilated, and lacked sanitation.

(ii)Second, there were worries about fire hazards created by poor housing.

(iii)Third, there was a widespread fear of social disorder, especially after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
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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.

 

How did the condition of women workers change from 19th to 20th centuries in London?


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

 

Explain any three reasons for which the population of London city expanded during the nineteenth century.

 


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.


Give explanations for the following:

Why a number of Bombay films were about the lives of migrants?


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