Question:
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Answer:
TISCO was set up at an opportune time. All through the late nineteenth century, India was importing steel that was manufactured in Britain. Expansion of the railways in India had provided a huge market for rails that Britain produced. British experts in the Indian Railways were unwilling to believe that good quality steel could be produced in India. In 1914 the First World War broke out. Steel produced in Britain now had to meet the demands of war in Europe. Imports of British steel into India declined dramatically and the Indian Railways turned to TISCO for supply
of rails. As the war dragged on for several years, TISCO had to produce shells and carriage wheels for the war. By 1919 the colonial government was buying 90 per cent of the steel manufactured by TISCO. Soon TISCO became the biggest steel industry within the British Empire.
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.
What are miniature paintings?
Q 5.
How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?
Q 6.
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 7.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 8.
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 9.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 10.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 11.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 12.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 13.
How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?
Q 14.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 15.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 16.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 17.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 18.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 19.
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 20.
What were Tagore’s ideas on education?
Q 21.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 22.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 23.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 24.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 25.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 26.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 27.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 28.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 29.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 30.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 31.
What was the llbert Bill?
Q 32.
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 33.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 34.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 35.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 36.
What kinds of cloth had a large market in Europe?
Q 37.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 38.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 39.
What problems did the Indian textile industry face in the early years of its development?
Q 40.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 41.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 42.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 43.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
Q 44.
After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?
Q 46.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 47.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 48.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 49.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 50.
When were cotton mills started in India?
