Question:
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.
Answer:
Map 1 and Map 2 given in the NCERT Textbook represent two different times. Map 1 was made in 1154 CE by al-Idrisi, an Arab geographer. This section is a detail of the Indian subcontinent from his larger map of the world. Map 2 was made by a French cartographer in 1720. Both maps are quite different from each other, even though they represent the same area. In Map 1 we find south India at the place where we would expect to find north India and Sri Lanka is the island at the top. The place names are in Arabic. Some familiar places like Kanauj in Uttar Pradesh have been spelt as Qanauj. In comparison to this Map 2 was made nearly 600 later after Map 1. By that time information about the subcontinent had changed a lot. This map appears to be more familiar to us. The coastal areas, particularly, are more detailed.
Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years
Q 1.
What was the basis of such division?
Q 2.
What sources do the historians use for the study of a particular period of history?[V. Imp.]
Q 3.
Why did Brahmanas dominate in the society during this period? [Imp.]
Q 4.
Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?
Q 6.
Who is a cartographer'?
Q 7.
Who were the patrons?
Q 8.
What do you mean by Jati Panchayat?
Q 9.
Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?
Q 10.
What does time mean for historians? How does it help them? [V. Imp.]
Q 11.
What was the major development of this age?
Q 12.
Who was the Chief of the village?
Q 13.
What difference do you trace out in the region of Hindustan of thirteenth century and the modem India?
Q 14.
What were the new groups of people to be prominent in this age? [V. Imp.]
Q 15.
Who was considered a foreigner in the past?
Q 17.
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 18.
What do you mean by pan-regional rule? What was its impact? [V. Imp.]
Q 19.
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 20.
What changes took place during 700 and 1750? [V. Imp.]
Q 21.
What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?
Q 22.
How did the scribes copy down the manuscripts?
Q 23.
What do you mean by archives?
Q 24.
Trace out the major changes in the society during 700 and 1750? What was its main reason? [V. Imp.]
Q 25.
What difference do you notice in the map drawn by al-Idrisi?
Q 26.
What factors contributed to the variety of developments?
Q 27.
What was the change in the religion of the time? Trace out major developments? [V. Imp.]
Q 28.
How were the affairs ofjaiis regulated?
Q 29.
How do the historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?
Q 30.
List some of the technological changes associated with this period.
Q 31.
What were some of the major religious developments during this period?
Q 32.
In what ways has the meaning of the term ‘Hindustan' charged over the centuries?
Q 33.
How history was divided by historians during the middle of the nineteenth century?
Q 34.
What does the term pan-regional empire mean?
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.
