AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
A bad harvest caused food prices to rise sharply, leading to widespread hunger in the countryside. Peasants, unable to sustain themselves, migrated to towns in search of work. However, towns already faced unemployment due to cheap machine-made imports from England competing with small producers. The influx of rural migrants worsened overcrowding in slums. Rising food prices combined with unemployment created mass pauperism in both town and country, ultimately triggering popular revolts — as seen in Paris in 1848, when food shortages and unemployment brought people onto the streets, erecting barricades and forcing King Louis Philippe to flee.
Source: Chapter 1, Section 3.2 — Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt
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The examiner expects a sequential chain: bad harvest → rise in food prices → rural pauperism → migration to towns → urban unemployment (worsened by English competition) → overcrowding/slums → mass hardship → revolt. Avoid just listing problems; use connecting words like "led to," "worsened," "consequently" to show the chain clearly. The Paris 1848 example is directly from the passage and serves as strong supporting evidence. Do not go beyond the passage.