Question:
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Answer:
Fine cotton made in India was exported to Mosul in present ,day Iraq by Arab merchants. European traders purchased this cotton and were impressed by the fine quality and called itmuslin.
When the Portuguese first came to India in search of spices they landed in Calicut on the Kerala coast in south-west India. The cotton textiles which they took back to Europe, along with the spices, came to be calledcalico.
Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation
Q 1.
What were the changes that could be seen as women became actively involved in reforms?
Q 2.
State the recommendations of the Wood’s Despatch.
Q 3.
Describe European artists style.
Q 4.
How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?
Q 5.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 6.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 7.
Describe in your own words one painting from this chapter which suggests that the British were more powerful than Indians. How does the artist depict this?
Q 8.
What are miniature paintings?
Q 9.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 10.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 11.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 12.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 13.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 14.
What are 3 lists of subjects that the constitution has provided to balance the different views on power sharing between the centre and the state?
Q 15.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 16.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 17.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 18.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 19.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 20.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 21.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 22.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 23.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
Q 24.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 25.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 26.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 27.
How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?
Q 28.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 29.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 30.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 31.
What kinds of cloth had a large market in Europe?
Q 32.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 33.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 34.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 35.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 36.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 37.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 38.
What did Dr Ambedkar mean when he said that In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life we will have inequality ?
Q 40.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 41.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 42.
Point out which of the following were brought in with British art:
(a) oil painting
(b) miniatures
(c) life-size portrait painting
(d) use of perspective
(e) mural art
Q 43.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 44.
What was the llbert Bill?
Q 45.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 46.
After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?
Q 48.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 49.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 50.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
