Question:
What were the problems that faced the new government after independence?
Answer:
A majority of Indians lived in villages and development of villages was the need of the hour. Agriculture had to be improved as farmers and peasants depended on the monsoon for their survival.
Barbers, carpenters, weavers and other service groups of the non-farm sector of the rural economy would not get paid for their services if the crops failed so the government was faced with the task of building dams for irrigation. In the cities, factory workers lived in crowded slums and had little access to education or health care, the government had to draft schemes to
educate the poor and provide adequate health care.
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.
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.
Why did William Jones feel the need to study Indian history, philosophy and law?
Q 7.
Were the weavers given any importance during the national movement?
Q 8.
In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
Q 9.
Name some varieties of cloth that were produced in India during the 18th century.
Q 10.
Name some weaver’s community in India.
Q 11.
What were the advantages that Indian weavers had?
Q 12.
Who did the Indian National Congress wish to speak for?
Q 13.
Write about Raja Rammohun Roy and his reforms
Q 14.
Who are the Agaria?
Q 15.
What helped TISCO expand steel production during the First World War?
Q 16.
How was the right to vote in adopted in the UK and the US?
Q 17.
Name three problems that the newly independent nation of India faced.
Q 18.
Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so. for what reasons?
Q 19.
Give one reason why English continued to be used in India after Independence.
Q 20.
Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national sty le of art?
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 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 24.
What were company Paintings?
Q 25.
Mention the caste system that was prevalent in those days in India.
Q 26.
How was the ecoromic development of India visualised in the earty decades after Independence?
Q 27.
Write a brief not on abolition of untouchability and Reservation Policy.
Q 28.
Who was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?
Q 29.
What made Gandhiji call off the non-cooperation movement?
Q 30.
What is aspinning jenny?
Q 31.
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Q 32.
Describe the paintings done by Robert Ker Porter on the battle of Seringa patam.
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.
Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varmas paintings as national?
Q 36.
Write a brief note on Kalighat paintings.
Q 37.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?
Q 38.
What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?
Q 39.
Write a brief note on the Constituent Assembly.
Q 40.
What were the different reasons people had for not sending girts to school?
Q 41.
Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
Q 42.
Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in
different parts of India. How did the people understand Gandhiji?
Q 43.
Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?
Q 44.
What did the Khilafat movement support?
Q 45.
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 46.
What were the new Governments priorities?
Q 48.
Why did the wool and silk producers in England protest against the import of Indian textiles in the early eighteenth century?
Q 49.
How did the development of cotton industries in Britain affect textile producers in India?
Q 50.
Why did the Indian iron smelting industry decline in the nineteenth century?
