The first Governor-General of India was

A History of British India was written by

The National Archives of India came up in the

The British preserve official documents because

Usually, census operations in India are held

James Rennel produced the first map of India in

The British thought surveys were important for

Who was the last Viceroy of India?

When New Delhi was built, the National Museum and the National Archives were both located close to the

An advertisement for Lipton tea suggested that royalty all over the world was associated with this tea. When did the advertisement appear?

Where was National Archives in India located and when did it come up?

What is Nationalism?

What is a Directory?

What do you meant by the 'civilizing mission'?

What is Renaissance?

Why do you think enforcement of safety laws is important in any factory?

Can you point to a few other situations where laws (or rules) exist but people do not follow them because of poor enforcement?
(For example, over-speeding by motorists). What are the problems in enforcement? Can you suggest some ways in which enforcement can be improved?

What is a seismograph? Where is it usually kept in your city? If you live in a village, can you find out where the nearest seismograph is kept?

What precautions should one take when one enters a building that has cracked or collapsed because of an earthquake?

How would you prevent bleeding from a wound on the arm?

What is census? When was it conducted for the first time in India?

What was the effect of colonisation on India?

How did the advent of printing press help in spreading news and information in a more effective way?

Answer the following questions related to picture given below:

(i) What is depicted in this picture?
(ii) Why are old advertisements important to us?
(iii) What does this advertisement suggest?

What were the terms and treaty of Allahabad?

Mill justified the British rule in India. Is it clear by his periodisation of history? Justify.

Historians divided Indian history into ancient, medieval and modern. But this division too has its problems. What are these problems?

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?

Why did English develop a strong army?

Read the excerpt and answer the questions that follow: Here is a passage from Edmund Burke's eloquent opening speech during the impeachment of Warren Hastings: "I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under his foot and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both the sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all.
(i) Who was Warren Hastings?
(ii) Why was he impeached?

How was the cultivation traditionally practised by tribal groups carried out?

Why did the tribals agitate under British rule?

Mention the major industrial regions of India and show them on the outline map of India.