The National Archives of India came up in the

Colonisation means:

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year

The Maratha chiefs were held together in a confederacy under the Peshwa, the members were:
(i) Scindia
(ii) Holkar
(iii)Bhonsle
(iv) Gaikwad

In which state, the weavers created Kalamkari print in cotton clothes?

Cinchona trees provide raw material for making:

Where does the term 'Bewar' mean shifting cultivation?

What was the objective of the new law passed by the Company in 1850?

One of the achievements of the Delhi Improvement Trust was ________

India was the world's largest producer of cotton textiles around the year ____________

Smelting furnaces in villages were built with _______________

The English Education Act was introduced in the year

Peasants and artisans were referred to as

Who established National Congress?

Who was HJ Khandekar?

What is the meaning of Periodization of History?

Why was the revolt known as a sepoy mutiny?

Why and where did the Portuguese first come into India?

Why were the seats reserved for the members of the lowest castes?

Why and how do we periodise a time in history?

Describe the changes that occurred in the composition of the Company's army.

What power did the Residents have?
This is what James Mill, the famous economist and political philosopher from Scotland wrote about the residents appointed by the Company. We place a resident, who really is king of the country, whatever injunctions of non-interference he may act under. As long as the prince acts in perfect subservience, and does what is agreeable to the residents, that is, to the British Government, things go on quietly; they are managed without the resident appearing much in the administration of affairs ... but when anything of a different nature happens,the moment the prince takes a course which the British Government think wrong, then comes clashing and disturbance.
Who was James Mill? 

Imagine a conversation between a planter and a peasant who is being forced to grow indigo. What reasons would the planter give to persuade the peasant? What problems would the peasant point out? Enact their conversation.

What objections did the sepoys have to the new cartridges that they were asked to use?

How did partition of the country change the lives and occupations of the refugees?

Why did handloom weaving in India not die out when cheap British machine-made cloth flooded the Indian market?

Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?

How did Jyotirao, the reformer, justify his criticism of caste inequality in society?

Find out about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
What is Jallianwala Bagh?

What does the advertisement of Lipton's Tea suggest?

Write a short note on the Charter of 1600

Why was Permanent Settlement introduced by the East India Company in 1793?

Have you ever noticed that people living in different types of societies do not share the same notion of work and time? The lives of the shifting cultivators and hunters in different regions were regulated by a calendar and division of tasks for men and women. Verrier Elwin, a British anthropologist who lived among the Baigas and Khonds of central India for many years in the 1930s and 1940s, gives us a picture of what this calendar and division of tasks was like. He writes: In Chait, women went to clearings to ... cut stalks that were already reaped; men cut large trees and go for their ritual hunt. The hunt began at full moon from the east. Traps of bamboo were used for hunting. The women gathered fruits like sago, tamarind, and mushroom. Baiga women can only gather roots or Kanda and mahua seeds. Of all the adivasis in Central India, the Baigas were known as the best hunters ... In Baisakh the firing of the forest took place, the women gathered unburnt wood to burn. Men continued to hunt, but nearer their villages. In Jeth sowing took place and hunting still went on. From Asadh to Bhadon the men worked in the fields. In Kuar the first fruits of beans were ripened and in Kartik kutki became ripe. In Aghan every crop was ready and in Pus winnowing took place. Pus was also the time for dances and marriages. In Magh, shifts were made to new bewars and hunting-gathering was the main subsistence activity. The cycle described above took place in the first year. In the second year, there was more time for hunting as only a few crops had to be sown and harvested. But since there was enough food the men lived in the bewars. It was only in the third year that the diet had to be supplemented with the forest products. Adapted from Verrier Elwin, Baiga(1939) and Elwin's unpublished 'Notes on the Khonds' (Verrier Elwin Papers, Nehru Memorial Museum, and Library). look carefully at the tasks that Baiga men and women did. Do you see any pattern? What were the differences in the types of work that they were expected to perform?

What were the problems faced by tribals during British rule?

Discuss the work and contribution of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar for the upliftment of women.

Read the source below and answer the questions that follow:
A newspaper, The Indian Mirror, wrote in January 1886: The First National Congress at Bombay ... is the nucleus of a future Parliament for our country and will lead to the good of inconceivable magnitude for our countrymen.
(i) What were the aims and objectives of Congress in the first twenty years?
(ii) How did the Moderates in Congress develop public awareness about the unjust nature of the British rule?

Look at the Map along with a present-day political map, of India. In each of these maps try and identify the different parts of India that were under the British rule.