Question:
What were company Paintings?
Answer:
During the 1 Sth and 19th centuries, the British employed Indian artists to illustrate the manners and customs of India and to record scenes of monuments, deities, festivals, and occupations. These works later became known as Company paintings because they were created by Indian artists employed by members of the British East India Company.
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 varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 7.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 8.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 9.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 10.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 11.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 12.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 13.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 14.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 15.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
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.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 18.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
Q 19.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 20.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 21.
Why were people dissatisfied with British rule in the 1870s and 1880s?
Q 22.
What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?
Q 23.
What were company Paintings?
Q 24.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 25.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
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 the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 28.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 29.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 30.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 31.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 32.
What were the new Governments priorities?
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.
What is aspinning jenny?
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.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 40.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
Q 41.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 42.
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.
What problems did the Indian textile industry face in the early years of its development?
Q 45.
Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?
Q 46.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 47.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 48.
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 49.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 50.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
