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1.
Classify the industries on the basis of raw materials used.
2.
Mention the physical factors that determine the land use pattern of a country or a region.
3.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
4.
How can people express their discontent against unpopular laws in a democracy?
5.
Discuss briefly the violation of the Fundamental Rights in Indian society.
6.
How did the Aligarh Movement influence the field of education?
7.
Mention any three causes of decline of Delhi from 1857 to 1911
8.
Why was there great demand for Indian indigo in foreign market?
9.
What impact did Bahadur Shah Zafar's support of the rebellion have on the people and the ruling families?
10.
Why did the British favor settled cultivators over jhum cultivators?
11.
Find out more about the Champaran movement and Mahatma Gandhi's role in it.
12.
The Nawab complains. In 1733 the Nawab of Bengal said this about the English traders: When they first came into the country they petitioned the then government in a humble manner for liberty to purchase a spot of ground to build a factory house upon, which was no sooner granted but they built a strong fort, surrounded it with a ditch which has communication with the river and mounted a great number of guns upon the walls. They have enticed several merchants and others to go and take protection under them and they collect a revenue which amounts to t 100,000. They rob and plunder and carry great number of the king's subjects of both sexes into slavery into their own country.
What was the initial intention of the English traders?
13.
After the British conquest of Bengal, Calcutta grew from a small village to a big city. Find out about the culture, architecture and the life of Europeans and Indians of the city during the colonial period.
14.
How will the information historians get from old newspapers be different from that found in police reports?
15.
Why did the British preserve official documents?
1.
On the basis of raw material's used, industries can be classified as :
(i) Agro-based industries: The raw materials of these industries consist of plants and animals based products. For example, cotton textile industry.
(ii) Mineral based industries: The raw materials of these industries consist of mineral ores. For example, iron industry.
(iii) Forest based industries: The raw materials of these industries consist of forest products. For example, paper industry.
2.
There are many physical factors that influence the land use pattern of a country or a region. These are:
(i) Topography of the place, soil, climate, availability of water and mineral resources. All of them determine the possible use of land.
(ii) Mineral rich regions are favourable for mining purposes.
(iii) Fertile land is used for agricultural purposes.
3.
Mahatma Gandhi was a mass leader.
(i) Gandhiji, aged 46, arrived in India in 1915 from South Africa. Having led Indians in that country in non-violent marches against racist restrictions, he was already a respected leader, known internationally.
(ii) His South Africa campaigns had brought him in contact with various types of Indians: Hindus, Muslims, Parsis and Christians, Gujaratis, Tamil and North-Indians and upper-class merchants, lawyers and workers.
(iii) Mahatma Gandhi spent his first year in India travelling throughout the country, understanding the people, their needs and the overall situation.
4.
People can criticize unpopular laws by holding public meetings, and write about them in newspapers, report to TV news channels. In this way, citizens can express their unwillingness to accept repressive laws framed by the Parliament.
5.
The Fundamental Rights of the Indian citizens which are based on the secular principles have been violated from time to time. Sometimes, some people from minority have moved to Internal Human Rights Commission. The know how about violation of rights of children and women, etc. makes us sensitive about them and enables us to take action when these violations take place.
6.
The Aligarh Muslim University was founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875 at Aligarh. The institution offered modern education, including western science,to Muslims.It also had an enormous impact in the area of educational reform.
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(i) The role of Delhi as a historical imperial town or city ended along with the defeat of Bahadur Shah Zafar in 1857.
(ii) The British had already established their control and they did not take any interest in the development of Delhi as, Calcutta was their capital.
(iii) Its laws and orders were badly hurt during the days of mutiny in 1857. Many people had shifted their bases from Delhi due to several reasons
8.
(i) The European cloth manufacturers used indigo to dye the clothes.
(ii) It produced a rich blue colour which was used for the purpose of dyeing.
(iii) Indigo plant grows only in the tropical regions and it was impossible to grow indigo in temperate climate of Europe.
9.
Bahadur Shah Zafar's support to the rebellion had a significant impact. Threatened by the expansion of British rule, many of the ruling families felt that if the Mughal emperor could rule again, they too would be able to rule their own territories once more, under Mughal authority. When people saw an alternative possibility which appealed to them, they felt inspired and enthused. It gave them the courage, hope and confidence to act.
Some examples of this effect are:
(i) Many troop regiments mutinied to join other troops at nodal points like Delhi, Kanpur and Lucknow.
(ii) Nana Saheb proclaimed himselfPeshwa and a governor under the Mughal king.
(iii) Birjis Qadr, son of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah in Lucknow, acknowledged that he ruled under the Mughal king.
(iv) In Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai joined the rebel sepoys and fought the British along with Tantia Tope, the general of Nana Saheb.
10.
The British favored settled cultivators because:
The British were uncomfortable with groups which moved about (like jhum cultivators) and did not have a fixed home.
They wanted tribal groups to settle down and become peasant cultivators, who were easier to control and administer than people who were always on the move.
The British also wanted a regular revenue source for the state, they introduced land settlements, i.e. they measured the land, defined the rights of each individual to that land and fixed the revenue demand for the state accordingly.
11.
The following points:
1. Oppressive attitude of British Government
2. Rebellion of the Ryots Peasant
3. Gandhiji's role in it.
12.
When the English traders first came to India, they were very polite. They petitioned the then government in a humble manner for permission to purchase land to build a factory house there.
13.
Calcutta was a colonial city developed by the British East India Company and then by the British Empire. It was the capital of the British Indian Empire untill1911 when the capital was relocated to Delhi. It grew rapidly in the 19th century to become the second city of the British Empire. In 1772, Calcutta became the capital of British India. a decision made by Governor-General Warren Hastings. Calcutta underwent rapid industrial growth from the 1850s. Many architecturally famous buildings or movements were built by the British.
Calcutta became the 'Cultural Capital of India'. The contribution of Bengal Renaissance on the national movement of independence was immense. Surendranath Banerjee. Womesh Chunder Banerjee, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal. Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Rabindranath Tagore were some prominent figures of Bengal.
14.
The information in police reports tells us only about what officials thought, what they were interested in and what they wished to preserve for future generation. These records do not always help the historians understand what other people in the country felt and what lay behind their actions. However, the information from old newspapers tells us about the feelings and actions of common people of the country. This information may be affected by the personal views of the news editor, but from these, the historians can infer what common men thought about the incident.
15.
The British believed that all important documents and letters needed to be carefully preserved. They wanted to preserve permanent records of every instruction, plan, policy, decision, agreement, and investigations. Thus, all these documents were carefully written and preserved. These documents helped them to reuse any previous information or decision when necessity arose. These documents were regarded as permanent records for the region, they administered. The British thought that to preserve important documents, it is very necessary to govern a country successfully.
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