Question:
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Answer:
Fine cotton made in India was exported to Mosul in present ,day Iraq by Arab merchants. European traders purchased this cotton and were impressed by the fine quality and called itmuslin.
When the Portuguese first came to India in search of spices they landed in Calicut on the Kerala coast in south-west India. The cotton textiles which they took back to Europe, along with the spices, came to be calledcalico.
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.
How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?
Q 5.
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 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.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 10.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 11.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 12.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 13.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 14.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 15.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 16.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 17.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 18.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 19.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 20.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 21.
What are miniature paintings?
Q 22.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 23.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 24.
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 25.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 26.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 27.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 28.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 29.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 30.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 31.
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 32.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 33.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 34.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 35.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
Q 36.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 37.
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 38.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 39.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 40.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 41.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 42.
How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?
Q 43.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 44.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 45.
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 46.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 47.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
Q 48.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
