Question:
Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?
Answer:
Raja Ravi Varma painted scenes from the Ram ay ar.a and the Mahabharata.During the 1880s, Ravi Varmas mythological paintings became the rage among Indian princes and art collectors, who filled their palace galleries with his works. As his paintings became very popular Ravi Varma set up a picture production team and Printing press on the outskirts of Bombay. Here colour prints of his religious paintings were mass produced. Even the poor could now buy these cheap prints.
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.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 9.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
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.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 12.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 13.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 14.
Who are the Agaria?
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.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 20.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
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 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 25.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 26.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 27.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 28.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 29.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 30.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 31.
What kinds of cloth had a large market in Europe?
Q 32.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
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.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 38.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 39.
When were cotton mills started in India?
Q 40.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 41.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 42.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 43.
What was the llbert Bill?
Q 44.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 45.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 46.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 47.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 48.
What were company Paintings?
Q 49.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 50.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
