Question:
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Answer:
TISCO was set up at an opportune time. All through the late nineteenth century, India was importing steel that was manufactured in Britain. Expansion of the railways in India had provided a huge market for rails that Britain produced. British experts in the Indian Railways were unwilling to believe that good quality steel could be produced in India. In 1914 the First World War broke out. Steel produced in Britain now had to meet the demands of war in Europe. Imports of British steel into India declined dramatically and the Indian Railways turned to TISCO for supply
of rails. As the war dragged on for several years, TISCO had to produce shells and carriage wheels for the war. By 1919 the colonial government was buying 90 per cent of the steel manufactured by TISCO. Soon TISCO became the biggest steel industry within the British Empire.
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.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 7.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 8.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 9.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 10.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 11.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 12.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 13.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 14.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 15.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 16.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 17.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 18.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 19.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 20.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 21.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 22.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 23.
What were company Paintings?
Q 24.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 25.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 26.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
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.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 29.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 30.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 31.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 32.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 33.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 34.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 35.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 36.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 37.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 38.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 39.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 40.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 41.
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 44.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 45.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 46.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
Q 47.
Why did the wool and silk producers in England protest against the import of Indian textiles in the early eighteenth century?
Q 48.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 49.
What problems did the Indian textile industry face in the early years of its development?
Q 50.
What was thecalico Act ?
