Question:
What were Tagore’s ideas on education?
Answer:
Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the British. Teachers had to be imaginative, understand the child, and help the child develop her curiosity. The natural desire of the child to be creative should be encouraged. Tagore felt that creative learning could be encouraged only within a natural environment. Living in harmony with nature, children could cultivate their natural creativity.
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.
What are miniature paintings?
Q 6.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 7.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 8.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 9.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 10.
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 11.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 12.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 13.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 14.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 15.
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 16.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 17.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 18.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 19.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 20.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 21.
How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?
Q 22.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 23.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 24.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 25.
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 26.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 27.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 28.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 29.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 30.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
Q 31.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 32.
What kinds of cloth had a large market in Europe?
Q 33.
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 34.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 35.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 36.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 37.
When were cotton mills started in India?
Q 38.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 39.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 40.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 41.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 42.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 43.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 44.
What were company Paintings?
Q 45.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 46.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 47.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 48.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 49.
What was the llbert Bill?
Q 50.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
