Question:
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Answer:
Raja Rammohun Roy was a social reformer. He started the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta. Rammohun Roy strongly felt that unjust practices against women had to end. He also felt that there were many changes that were necessary for the Indian society to develop. Rammohun Roy and members of his Samaj felt that the best way to ensure such changes was by persuading people to give up old practices and adopt a neve way of life. He wanted to spread the knowledge of Western education in the country and bring about greater freedom and equality for women. He wrote about the way women were forced to bear the burden of domestic work, confined to the home and the kitchen, and not allowed to move out and become educated. Rammohun Roy was well versed in Sanskrit Persian and several other Indian and European languages. Roy pointed out to the people that sati was not practiced during the olden days. Through his writings he condemned the practice ofsati. As the British were also opposed to the practice ofsatithey supported Roy and a law was passed banningsati in the year 1829.
Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation
Q 1.
State the recommendations of the Wood’s Despatch.
Q 2.
What were the changes that could be seen as women became actively involved in reforms?
Q 3.
Describe European artists style.
Q 4.
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 5.
How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?
Q 6.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 7.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 8.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
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.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 13.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 14.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 15.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 16.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 17.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 18.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 19.
What were company Paintings?
Q 20.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 21.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 22.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 23.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 24.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 25.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 26.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 27.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 28.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 29.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 30.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 31.
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 32.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 33.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 34.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 35.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 36.
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 37.
What problems did the Indian textile industry face in the early years of its development?
Q 38.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 39.
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 40.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
Q 41.
After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?
Q 42.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 43.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 44.
What were the problems that faced the new government after independence?
Q 45.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 46.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 47.
What was thecalico Act ?
Q 48.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 49.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 50.
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
