Question:
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Answer:
Raja Ravi Varma mastered the Western art of oil painting and realistic life study, but painted themes from Indian mythology. He dramatised on canvas, scene after scene from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. From the 1880s, Ravi Varmas mythological paintings became the rage among Indian princes and art collectors.
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.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 9.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
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.
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Q 18.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 19.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 20.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
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.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 24.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
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.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 31.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 32.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 33.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 34.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
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.
What did the Khilafat movement support?
Q 50.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
