10th Class Social Science Work, Life and Leisure Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science Work, Life and Leisure

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      How did Charles Dickens in his novel 'Dombey and Son' depict the massive destruction in the process of construction of underground railway?

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                      Dickens had depicted the process of construction in the following manner: 19th century London was a city of clerks and shopkeepers, of small masters and skilled artisans, of soldiers and servants, of casual labourers, street sellers and beggars. "Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up, there were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out their plans, upside down, burrowing in the earth...."


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