NCERT Solutions for Exploring Society: India and Beyond Chapter 10 Grassroots Democracy Part 1 Governance
Updated on 2026-09-05
About this chapter
The chapter’s one idea: people living together need rules, and rules need someone to make them and someone to see that they are followed. When many people live together “there can be disagreements and disorder, and rules become necessary to maintain order and harmony in the society”. The book then gives three exact words: governance is the process, government is the group or system that does it, and laws are “some of the more important rules”. Rules are not fixed for ever. Just as you can discuss a rule at home with your parents, or a student body can ask the school management to change a rule, “citizens also have a say in the laws and rules governing the society”. This single sentence is the seed of the whole chapter — it is why democracy comes later in the same chapter. A government work
- Chapter opening
- Introduction
- The ten pictures of Fig. 10.2
- Three Organs of Government
- Separation of powers
- Three Levels of Government
- Democracy
- The chapter in four points
- End-of-chapter exercise
Exercises
- Chapter opening — The Big Questions Page 149
- Introduction — In-text Questions Page 150
- Introduction — LET’S EXPLORE Page 150
- The ten pictures of Fig. 10.2 — LET’S EXPLORE Page 153
- Three Organs of Government — LET’S EXPLORE Page 154
- Separation of powers — LET’S EXPLORE Page 155
- Three Levels of Government — LET’S EXPLORE Page 156
- Democracy — In-text Questions Page 159
- The chapter in four points — Before we move on … Page 160
- End-of-chapter exercise — Questions, activities and projects Page 161