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Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years

Question:

What was the process of copying manuscript? What were its drawbacks? [Imp.]

Answer:

As there was no printing press during the period between 700 and 1750, Scribes used to copy down the manuscripts which were hand-written. Sometimes it was difficult to recognize the original script. So the Scribes used their own way of interpreting the facts. Consequently, there were differences were found in the copies written by different Scribes. As all the copies were handwritten, it was difficult to recognize which was the original one. It was the drawback of such copying.

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Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years

Q 1.

What was the basis of such division?

Q 2.

Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?

Q 3.

Who used the term Hindustan for the first time and when?

Q 4.

What sources do the historians use for the study of a particular period of history?[V. Imp.]

Q 5.

Who is a cartographer'?

Q 6.

What was the major development of this age?

Q 7.

Why did Brahmanas dominate in the society during this period? [Imp.]

Q 8.

Who were scribes?

Q 9.

Who were the patrons?

Q 10.

Who was considered a foreigner in the past?

Q 11.

Who was the Chief of the village?

Q 12.

What does time mean for historians? How does it help them?  [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 changes took place during 700 and 1750? [V. Imp.]

Q 15.

What difference do you trace out in the region of Hindustan of thirteenth century and the modem India?

Q 16.

What do you mean by pan-regional rule? What was its impact? [V. Imp.]

Q 17.

What do you mean by Jati Panchayat?

Q 18.

What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?

Q 19.

What were the new groups of people to be prominent in this age?  [V. Imp.]

Q 20.

Trace out the major changes in the society during 700 and 1750? What was its main reason? [V. Imp.]

Q 21.

Who was al-Idrisi?

Q 22.

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 23.

How did the scribes copy down the manuscripts?

Q 24.

How were the affairs ofjaiis regulated?

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.

What were some of the major religious developments during this period?

Q 32.

List some of the technological changes associated with this period.

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.