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| “Every human being needs a sense of stable identity to operate in this world. Questions like — Who am I? How am I different from others? How do others understand and comprehend me? What goals and aspirations should I have? – constantly crop up in our life right from childhood. We are able to answer many of these questions because of the way in which we are socialised, or taught how to live in society by our immediate families and our community in various senses.” |
During a communal conflict, communities construct matching but opposite mirror images of each other. Explain this statement.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
A model of the South Asian colonial city
The European town…had spacious bungalows, elegant apartment houses, planned streets, trees on both sides of the street,…clubs for afternoon and evening get togethers…The open space was reserved for…Western recreational facilities, such as race and golf courses, soccer and cricket. When domestic water supply, electric connections, and sewage links were available or technically possible, the European town residents utilised them fully, whereas their use was quite restricted to the native town.
Read the source and answer the following question.
Did the model of the South Asian colonial city cater to the needs of the natives? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development.
The growth of ______ cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How are capitalism and colonialism linked?
Concept: Understanding Colonialism
Read the source and answer the question:
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Urban luxury manufacturers like the high-quality silks and cotton of Dacca or Murshidabad must have been hit first by the almost simultaneous collapse of indigenous court demand and the external market on which these had largely depended. Village crafts in the interior and particularly, in regions other than eastern India where British penetration was earliest and deepest, probably survived much longer, coming to be seriously affected only with the spread of railways. (Sarkar : 1983 : 29) |
When the British took over states and towns of India, some of them lost their courts, artisans, and court gentry. Give any one reason.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
| "For Indian nationalists, the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue." |
How did Indian nationalists promote industrialization in the early years of independence?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Which of the following is true for a model of South Asian colonial city?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Assertion (A): Urbanization in the colonial period saw the prosperity of indigenous industries.
Reason (R): There was emergence of new colonial Cities.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How were labourers recruited and appointed by the colonial administrators in the tea gardens?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How did the planters in the tea plantation live?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Assertion (A): Urbanisation in the colonial period saw the formation of new urban centres.
Reason (R): These urban centres were designed to functions as trading posts alone.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Using an example, show how the treatment of Indian plantation labour was different from the way Colonial administration treated their own labour back home.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Kumudtai’s journey into Sanskrit began with great interest and eagerness with Gokhale Guruji, her teacher at school…At the University, the Head of the Department was a well-known scholar and he took great pleasure in taunting Kumudtai…Despite the adverse comments she successfully completed her Masters in Sanskrit…. Source: Kumud Pawade (1938)
Read the source and answer the following question.
Do you think sanskritisation is a gendered process? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
Elucidate the phenomena of modernity.
Concept: How Do We Approach the Study of Sanskritisation, Modernisation, Secularisation and Westernisation
19th century reform initiated a period of questioning, reinterpretations and both intellectual and social growth. Using suitable examples, justify the given statement.
Concept: Social Reform Movements in the 19th and Early 20th Century
“Famines were also a major and recurring source of increased mortality.” Which of the following is not a cause of famines?
Concept: Size and Growth of India’s Population
Assertion(A): The Population Pyramid shows a bulge in the middle age groups, due to the opportunity provided by the demographic structure.
Reason(R): This is due to the high birth rate in the middle age groups.
Concept: Age Structure of the Indian Population
With the growth of the ______ movement in the 20th century, there was an attempt in several Indian languages to drop Sanskrit words and phrases.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
The growth rate of India in the decade 1911-21, exhibited a diverse pattern. State two reasons.
Concept: Size and Growth of India’s Population
Using the example of Kumud Pawade, show how the process of sanskritisation is gendered.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
