Name the artist of this painting.

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What are the events covered in Modern History of India?

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Why do we continue to associate History with a string of dates?

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What is History? Why and how do we periodise a time in History?

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What is a Survey? Give examples of different types of surveys conducted.

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What can a historian derive from surveys?

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"James Rennel was a supporter of British rule in India". Justify this statement.

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Describe the way in which the Britishers started the very important procedure of writing the history.

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Which method of periodization was followed by most of the English historians for writing Indian history? Why was this method not suitable in context to India?

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Read the source given and answer the questions that follow:
Newspapers provide an account of the movements in different parts of the country. Here is a report of a police strike in 1946. More than 2000 policemen in Delhi refused to take their food on Thursday morning as a protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the Police Lines kitchen. As the news spread to the other police stations, the men there also refused to take food. One of the strikers said: "The food supplied to us from the Police Lines kitchen is not fit for human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chapattis and dal which we have to eat."
(i) Do you remember the source of this literary evidence?
(ii) To which event the above source is related?
(iii) What was the grievance of the policemen?
(iv) What is the importance of these types of literary sources?

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