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to do things which earlier were considered the
exclusive domain of the men. They felt they were
capable of taking decisions. History is witness to
this awakening when many women in the past
had become queens who discharged their duties
faithfully.

The suffragettes organised themselves into a
movement and began demanding the right to
vote not only for themselves, but also other
women. They held rallies and to demonstrate States, earlier women did not have the right to
their determination of achieving the right to vote vote. They got it only in 1920 while women in
they chinned themselves to railings in public Britain got the right to vote in 1928. In India, this
places. As you have studied in this chapter that right to vote was given to women along with men
even in an advanced country like the United soon after independence.
Terminology

Dictatorship : government by a dictator
Legislation : laws, considered collectively
Monarchy : a form of government with a monarch at the head

Inside Story
Inside Story
g A government is an institution or a system made of a group of people that takes care or
manages a country or a state.

g Every country needs a government to rule it, by which is meant to run the affairs of the
country according to some law.

g Planning means that it does the work orderly in a phased manner according to resources
available.
g Any discrimination of citizens made by the law is also not permitted.
g An oligarchy is a government ruled by a small group of powerful people

g Under a dictatorship, the government is run by one person who has all the power over the
people in a country.

A. Tick (3) the correct option.
1. In case of a dispute or a crime, people find ____________ in a court.

(a) money (b) home (c) justice
2. ____________ government functions in a village, town or city.
(a) Local level (b) State level (c) Both (a) & (b)

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