Question:
What were Tagore’s ideas on education?
Answer:
Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the British. Teachers had to be imaginative, understand the child, and help the child develop her curiosity. The natural desire of the child to be creative should be encouraged. Tagore felt that creative learning could be encouraged only within a natural environment. Living in harmony with nature, children could cultivate their natural creativity.
Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation
Q 1.
What were the changes that could be seen as women became actively involved in reforms?
Q 2.
State the recommendations of the Wood’s Despatch.
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.
What are miniature paintings?
Q 8.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 9.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 10.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 11.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 12.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 13.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 14.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 15.
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 16.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
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.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 19.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 20.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 21.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 22.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 23.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 24.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 25.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 26.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 27.
What were the three categories of Imperial Art?
Q 28.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 29.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 30.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 31.
How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?
Q 32.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 33.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 34.
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 35.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 36.
What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?
Q 37.
What problems did the Indian textile industry face in the early years of its development?
Q 38.
What was the llbert Bill?
Q 41.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 42.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 43.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 44.
Give a brief sketch of Thomas Daniell and his paintings.
Q 45.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 46.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 47.
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 48.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 49.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 50.
After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?
