Question:
State the recommendations of the Wood’s Despatch.
Answer:
The Wood’s Despatch recommendations were:-
1.An education department was to be set in every province.
2.Universities on the model of the London University be established in big cities such as Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.
3.At least one government school be opened in every district.
4.Affiliated private schools should be given grant in aid.
5.The Indian natives should be given training in their mother tongue also.
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.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 7.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 8.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 9.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 10.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 11.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 12.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 13.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 14.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 15.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 16.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 17.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 18.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 19.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 20.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 21.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 22.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 23.
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 24.
What were company Paintings?
Q 25.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 26.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 27.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 28.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 29.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 30.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 31.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 32.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 33.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 34.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 35.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 36.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 37.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 38.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 39.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 40.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 41.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 42.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 43.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 44.
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 46.
Why did the wool and silk producers in England protest against the import of Indian textiles in the early eighteenth century?
Q 47.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 48.
What was thecalico Act ?
Q 49.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 50.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
