Question:
What social ideas did the following people support?
Rammohun Roy
Dayanand Saraswati
Veerasalingam Pantulu
Jyotirao Phule
Pandita Ramabai
Periyar
Mumtaz Ali
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
Answer:
Rammohun Roy supported the banning of the practice of sati
Dayanand Saraswati supported widow remarriage
Veerasalingam Pantulu supported widow remarriage
Jyotirao Phule supported equality among all castes
Pandita Ramabai supported womens education
Periyar supported equality for untouchables
Mumtaz Ali supported womens education
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar supported widow remarriage
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.
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 7.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 8.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 9.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 10.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 11.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 12.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 13.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 14.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 15.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 16.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 17.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 18.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 19.
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 20.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 21.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 22.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 23.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 24.
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 25.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 26.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 27.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 28.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 29.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 30.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 31.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 32.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 33.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 34.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 35.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 36.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 37.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 38.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 39.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 40.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 41.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 42.
What social ideas did the following people support?
Rammohun Roy
Dayanand Saraswati
Veerasalingam Pantulu
Jyotirao Phule
Pandita Ramabai
Periyar
Mumtaz Ali
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
Q 43.
Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?
Q 44.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 45.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 46.
What kinds of cloth had a large market in Europe?
Q 47.
When were cotton mills started in India?
Q 48.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 49.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 50.
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 ?
