History

Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation

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.
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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.

How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?

Q 5.

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 6.

Name some weaver’s community in India.

Q 7.

Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.

Q 8.

What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?

Q 9.

Who are the Agaria?

Q 10.

Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms

Q 11.

Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?

Q 12.

How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?

Q 13.

Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?

Q 14.

Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?

Q 15.

What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?

Q 16.

Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.

Q 17.

What brought the moderates and radicals together?

Q 18.

Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.

Q 19.

Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?

Q 20.

In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?

Q 21.

What are miniature paintings?

Q 22.

Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?

Q 23.

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 24.

Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.

Q 25.

What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?

Q 26.

What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?

Q 27.

Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?

Q 28.

Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?

Q 29.

Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.

Q 30.

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 31.

What was Thomas Babington Macaulay instrumental for?

Q 32.

Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.

Q 33.

What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?

Q 34.

What were the three categories of Imperial Art?

Q 35.

What was the role of the Plannirg Commission?

Q 36.

What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?

Q 37.

Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiritothe American movement to free slaves?

Q 38.

Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?

Q 39.

What did the Muslim League resolution of 1940 ask for?

Q 40.

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 41.

What were the new Governments priorities?

Q 42.

Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?

Q 43.

Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?

Q 44.

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 45.

How was the politics of the Radicals within the Congress different from that of the Moderates?

Q 46.

Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?

Q 47.

Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.

Q 48.

How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?

Q 49.

What is jamdani?

Q 50.

What is bandanna?