Question:
What were the changes that could be seen as women became actively involved in reforms?
Answer:
The whole scenario changed as women became actively involved in reforms. They wrote books and started schools. They started training centres, and set up womens associations. Women formed olitical pressure groups to push through laws for the right for females to vote. They fought for better health care and education for women. They joined various nationalist and socialist movements from the 1920s.
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 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.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 10.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 11.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 12.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 13.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 14.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 15.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 16.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 17.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 18.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 19.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 20.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 21.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 22.
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 23.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 24.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 25.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 26.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 27.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 28.
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 29.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 30.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 31.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 32.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 33.
Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
Q 34.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 35.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 36.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 37.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 38.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 39.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 40.
What were company Paintings?
Q 41.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 42.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 43.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 44.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 45.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 46.
How did Jyotirao the reformers justify their criticism of caste inequality in society?
Q 47.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 48.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 49.
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 50.
Why did the wool and silk producers in England protest against the import of Indian textiles in the early eighteenth century?
