Question:
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Answer:
Raja Rammohun Roy was a social reformer. He started the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta. Rammohun Roy strongly felt that unjust practices against women had to end. He also felt that there were many changes that were necessary for the Indian society to develop. Rammohun Roy and members of his Samaj felt that the best way to ensure such changes was by persuading people to give up old practices and adopt a neve way of life. He wanted to spread the knowledge of Western education in the country and bring about greater freedom and equality for women. He wrote about the way women were forced to bear the burden of domestic work, confined to the home and the kitchen, and not allowed to move out and become educated. Rammohun Roy was well versed in Sanskrit Persian and several other Indian and European languages. Roy pointed out to the people that sati was not practiced during the olden days. Through his writings he condemned the practice ofsati. As the British were also opposed to the practice ofsatithey supported Roy and a law was passed banningsati in the year 1829.
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.
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 weaver’s community in India.
Q 7.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 8.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 9.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 10.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 11.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 12.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 13.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 14.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 15.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 16.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 17.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 18.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 19.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 20.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 21.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 22.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 23.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 24.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 25.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 26.
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 27.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 28.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 29.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 30.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 31.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 32.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 33.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 34.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 35.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 36.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 37.
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 38.
What were company Paintings?
Q 39.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 40.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 41.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 42.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 43.
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.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 45.
What was thecalico Act ?
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.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 49.
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 50.
What did the Khilafat movement support?
