Question:
What brought the moderates and radicals together?
Answer:
In 1905 Viceroy Curzon partitioned Bengal which was the biggest province of British India and included Bihar and parts of Orissa. The government separated East Bengal and merged it with Assam.
The British stated that Bengal was divided for administrative convenience; where as the real reason was to restrict the influence of Bengali politicians and to split the Bengali people.
It was this division of Bengal that brought the moderates and radicals together. All the leaders opposed the division. Large public meetings and demonstrations were organised and novel methods of mass protest developed.
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 made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 28.
What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?
Q 29.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 30.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 31.
How do the names of different textiles tell us about their histories?
Q 32.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 33.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 34.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
Q 35.
What were company Paintings?
Q 36.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 37.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 38.
Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?
Q 39.
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 40.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 41.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 42.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 43.
Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
Q 44.
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 45.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 46.
What was thecalico Act ?
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.
How did Jyotirao the reformers justify their criticism of caste inequality in society?
Q 50.
Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?
