Question:
Who was considered a foreigner in the past?
Answer:
The term foreigner' is used in the sense of a person who is not an Indian. In the medieval period it was applied to any stranger who appeared, say in a given village, someone who was not a part of that society or culture. In this sense a forest-dweller was a foreigner for a city-dweller. But two peasants living in the same village were not foreigners to each other, even though they may have had different religious or caste backgrounds.
Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years
Q 1.
Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?
Q 2.
What sources do the historians use for the study of a particular period of history?[V. Imp.]
Q 3.
Who is a cartographer'?
Q 4.
Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?
Q 5.
Why did Brahmanas dominate in the society during this period? [Imp.]
Q 6.
What was the major development of this age?
Q 7.
What was the basis of such division?
Q 9.
Who were the patrons?
Q 10.
Who was the Chief of the village?
Q 11.
What does time mean for historians? How does it help them? [V. Imp.]
Q 12.
What do you mean by pan-regional rule? What was its impact? [V. Imp.]
Q 13.
State whether true or false:
- We do not find inscriptions for the period after 700.
- The Maraihas asserted their political importance during this period.
- Forest-dwellers were sometimes pushed out of their lands with the spread of agricultural settlements.
- Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban controlled Assam, Manipur and Kashmir.
Q 14.
What difference do you trace out in the region of Hindustan of thirteenth century and the modem India?
Q 15.
What do you mean by Jati Panchayat?
Q 16.
Who was considered a foreigner in the past?
Q 18.
What changes took place during 700 and 1750? [V. Imp.]
Q 19.
What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?
Q 20.
Fill in the blanks:
(a) Archives are places where………….. are kept.
(b) …………….was a fourteenth-century chronicler.
(c) ……., ……., ………, ……… and ………… were some of the crops introduced into the subcontinent during this period.
Q 21.
What were the new groups of people to be prominent in this age? [V. Imp.]
Q 22.
Trace out the major changes in the society during 700 and 1750? What was its main reason? [V. Imp.]
Q 23.
How were the affairs ofjaiis regulated?
Q 24.
How did the scribes copy down the manuscripts?
Q 25.
What do you mean by archives?
Q 26.
What was the change in the religion of the time? Trace out major developments? [V. Imp.]
Q 27.
What difference do you notice in the map drawn by al-Idrisi?
Q 28.
What factors contributed to the variety of developments?
Q 29.
How do the historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?
Q 30.
In what ways has the meaning of the term ‘Hindustan' charged over the centuries?
Q 31.
List some of the technological changes associated with this period.
Q 32.
What were some of the major religious developments during this period?
Q 33.
What does the term pan-regional empire mean?
Q 34.
How history was divided by historians during the middle of the nineteenth century?
Q 35.
Find out where records are kept in your village or city. Who writes these records? Is there an archive? Who manages it? What kinds of documents are stored there? Who are the people who use it?
Q 36.
What was the stretch of Delhi Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban's Empire?
Q 37.
What was the process of copying manuscript? What were its drawbacks? [Imp.]
Q 38.
Compare either Map 1 or Map 2 with the present-day map of the subcontinent listing as many similarities and differences as you can find.
