NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 6 Work, Life and Leisure
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 6 Work, Life and Leisure NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 6 Work, Life and Leisure NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social History Chapter 6 Work, Life and Leisure Q.1. Give three reasons why the population of London expanded from the middle of the eighteenth century. [CBSE 2008 ID). Sept. 2010. 2011] Ans. By 1750, the population of London was about 675,000. Its population, however, continued to expand. Between 1810 and 1880 it increased from 1 million to about 4 million. ” The reasons for this increase were as given below : Migrant populations: London was a powerful magnet for migrant populations. Even though it did not have large factories. Historian Gareth Stedman Jones says, “Nineteenth-century London was a city of clerks and shopkeepers, of small masters and skilled artisans, of a growing number of semi-skilled and sweated out workers, of soldiers and servants, of casual labourers, street sellers a...