Question:
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Answer:
The people from the south were against Hindi replacing English. They threatened to separate from India if Hindi was imposed on them. The Constituent Assembly finally decided that Hindi would be the official language of India and English would be used in the courts, the services, and communications between one state and another.
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.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 7.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 8.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 9.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 10.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 11.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
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.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 15.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 16.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 17.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 18.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 19.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 20.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 21.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 22.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 23.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 24.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 25.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 26.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 27.
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 28.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 29.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 30.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 31.
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 32.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 33.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 34.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 35.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 36.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 37.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 38.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 39.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 40.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 41.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 42.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 43.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
Q 44.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 45.
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 46.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 47.
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 48.
What were company Paintings?
Q 49.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 50.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
