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| 1651. |
Name any two hill stations developed during the British period. Why did these hill stations ideal destination for the British and become developed Europeans? Give any one reason. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/following-463335" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOLLOWING">FOLLOWING</a> two hill stations were during <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/british-402367" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BRITISH">BRITISH</a> period: <br/> (i) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/shimla-2213" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHIMLA">SHIMLA</a> in Himachal Pradesh <br/> (ii) Mount-Abu in <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/rajasthan-72" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RAJASTHAN">RAJASTHAN</a>. <br/> They developcd hill stations because they <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/found-458144" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOUND">FOUND</a> its environment similar to that of Furope and thus was ideal for holidays and recreation.</body></html> | |
| 1652. |
Quit India Movement" was genuinely a mass movement bringing into its ambition hundreds of thouands of ordinary Indians." Analyse the statement. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :The Quit India <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/movement-1104563" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MOVEMENT">MOVEMENT</a> was launched in August 1942 by Gandhiji. The slogan of the movement was 'Do or Die' and 'British leave India. It was the third major movement againt British Rule. Although Gandhiji was jailed at once, younger activists organised strikes and acts of sabotage all over the country. They, in very large numbers, left their <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/colleges-922014" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COLLEGES">COLLEGES</a> to go to jail. Particularly active in the underground resistance were socialist members of the Congress, such as jeyprakash Naryan. In several districts, such as Satara in the west and Medinipur in the east, "independent governments were proclaimed. A large number of women across the country also participated in the processions. The British <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/responded-7708962" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RESPONDED">RESPONDED</a> with much force, yet it took more than a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/year-1464599" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about YEAR">YEAR</a> to suppress the rebellion. Thousands of Indians <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/joined-521893" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about JOINED">JOINED</a> the mass movement. <br/>The congress leaders were sent to jail. Jinnah expanded his influence over Muslims in Punjab and Sind. In 1994, Ghandhiji was released from prison. Afterwards the Congress startted negotiations with the league.</body></html> | |
| 1653. |
The stampe Act Congress consisting of delegates form nine of the thirteen colonies met in 1765 at |
| Answer» <html><body><p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/rhode-7708602" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RHODE">RHODE</a> Island <br/>Connecticut <br/>Georgia <br/>Maryland </p>Solution :The first <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/continental-931894" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONTINENTAL">CONTINENTAL</a> Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/september-640024" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEPTEMBER">SEPTEMBER</a> 5, to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/october-584768" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OCTOBER">OCTOBER</a> 26, 1774. All of the coloines except Georgia sent delagates. Countries which sent their delegates are New Hamphshire, Massachusetts, Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/york-749673" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about YORK">YORK</a>, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia , North and South Carolina.</body></html> | |
| 1654. |
Explain any four changes that came about in the social life in the new cities under colonial rule. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Social changes took place in various stages in the cities. Cities offered new opportunities for women. Middle-class women <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/sought-631968" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOUGHT">SOUGHT</a> to express themselves through the medium of journals, autobiographies and books. But many people resented these attempts to change traditional patriarchal norms. Conservatives feared that the education of women would turn the world upside down, and threaten the basis of the entire social order, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/even-976335" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EVEN">EVEN</a> reformers who <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/supported-7259086" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SUPPORTED">SUPPORTED</a> women.s education saw women primarily as others and wives, and wanted them to remain within the enclosed spaces of the household. Over time, women became more visible in public, as they entered new professions in the city as domestic and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/factory-982849" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FACTORY">FACTORY</a> workers, teachers, and theatre and film actresses. But for a long time women who moved out of the household into public spaces <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/remained-7263094" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REMAINED">REMAINED</a> the objects of social censure.</body></html> | |
| 1655. |
How were the cities in Imperial British period different from the cities of other time. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :These cities were different from the other cities as, (i) The old towns <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/began-389975" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BEGAN">BEGAN</a> to decline and many new towns <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/came-2497334" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CAME">CAME</a> up to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/replace-1185206" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REPLACE">REPLACE</a> them. (ii) The mighty Mughal empire lost their prominence, with the British began to gain important. (iii) The regional capitals, i.e. Poona, Lucknow, Hyderabad, began to gain <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/importance-1038031" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IMPORTANCE">IMPORTANCE</a> with the establishment of British empire. (iv) Old <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/port-15087" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PORT">PORT</a> and trading centres lost their importance. To replace them, many new trading centres came up and gained British recognition.</body></html> | |
| 1656. |
Discuss whether kings in early states were invariably Kshatriyas. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :(i) Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras compiled between c. 500-200 BCE lay down code of social <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/behaviour-894636" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BEHAVIOUR">BEHAVIOUR</a> and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ideal-1035490" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IDEAL">IDEAL</a> order in great details. <br/> (ii) Caste status was determined by birth and was prescribed under the four fold Varnahierarchy. The kshatriyas were to "<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/engage-451368" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ENGAGE">ENGAGE</a> in warfare" protect people, administer justice, study the vedas, get sacrifies performed and give gifts. <br/> (iii) The Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras explained that only kshatriyas could be kings.However, several important ruling lineages had different origins. <br/>(a) Mauryas: Brahmanical texts <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/describe-437592" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DESCRIBE">DESCRIBE</a> them of low origin while Buddhist texts term them as kshatriyas. <br/> (b) The Sungas and Kanvas, the successors of Mauryas were Brahmans. <br/> (c) The Shaka rulers were regarded as Mlechchhas-barbarians or outsiders by Brahmans. <br/>(d) The Satavahana rulers were Brahmans.</body></html> | |
| 1657. |
Who composed the original story of "Mehabharata in oral form ? Explain any four elments considered by the historians while analyzing the Mahabharata. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : There is no <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/concrete-928347" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONCRETE">CONCRETE</a> proof about who was composer of original story of text of the Mahabharata. Historians speculate that the original story was composed by charioteerbards known as sutas who generally accompained Kshatriya warriors to the battlefield and composed poems celebrating their victories and other achievements. These compositions circulated orally. <br/> (i) Language and content: They looked for what kind of language is used and when was it prevalent. E.g, Mahabharata is written in Prakit language which was a language of common use. <br/> (ii) Search for convergence Since Mahabharata mestions many <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/forests-464072" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FORESTS">FORESTS</a>, palaces and battles, historians look for these evidences. E.g, Kurukshetra war is supposed to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/happen-1015459" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HAPPEN">HAPPEN</a> in present day Kurukshetra and his torians do the archaeological digging to ascertain this. <br/> (iii) They look for similarity between <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/traditions-1425056" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRADITIONS">TRADITIONS</a> depicted in Mahabharata and other <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/texts-1243373" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TEXTS">TEXTS</a> of that time. <br/> (iv) Since Mahabharata was period, the historians search for otiginal contents and other inscriptional evidences such as inscription of chiciot during war at many places.</body></html> | |
| 1658. |
"Oral testimonies and memories are the important sources for constructing the history of partition of India." Examine the statement. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) Oral history techniques help historians to write experiences of people during the time of partition. In fact, history of partition has been reconstructed with the help of oral narratives. It is not possible to extract such kind of information from government records. <br/> (ii) Government would not provide such information which paint them in bad colour. It will also not tell about the daily development of the events during the partition.<br/> (iii)Moreover, Government was involved in negotiation. Documents of government deal with policy matters and throw light on efforts of major political parties. <br/> (iv) But the oral history tells the day-to-day account. It is told by the people who have actually gone through the trauma and pains of the partitions. <br/> (v) But the oral data is not free from limitations. Oral data lacks concrete details. It does not have the chrological order. <br/> (vi) Oral accounts are concerned with tangential issues adn that small individual experiences are irrelevant to the unfolding of the larger canvas of history.<br/> (vii) In oral history, people may not talk of their personal aspects. They can hide even their fault or fault of their community as a whole. <br/>Many people may not <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/remember-621937" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REMEMBER">REMEMBER</a> all events. People tend to forget also. Accuracy of narration can also. be <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/questioned-7708419" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about QUESTIONED">QUESTIONED</a>. <br/> (i)Oral testimonies help to understand the trails and tribulations of ordinary people during partition.. Official or government documents provide only political aspects. <br/> (ii) Partitions was viewed as a time of suffering, challenge and unexpected alterations in the lives of people. Oral accounts help us to grasp the experiences and memories in <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/detail-25539" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DETAIL">DETAIL</a>. <br/>(iii) They give a description of the experiences of women and even children. <br/> (iv) It enables historians to write richly textured, vivid accounts of what happened to people at the time of partition. <br/> (v) It allows historians to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/broaden-7303380" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BROADEN">BROADEN</a> the boundaries of their discipline. It shows the vivid experiences of the poor and the powerless. <br/> (vi)It also succeeds in exploring the experiences of those men and women whose existence till now has been ignored. <br/> (vii)Oral testimonies become important because official <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reports-1185349" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REPORTS">REPORTS</a> lack personal experiences.</body></html> | |
| 1659. |
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: A ryot petitions This is an example of a petition from a ryot of the village of Mirajgaon, Taluka Karjat, to the Collector, Ahmednagar Deccan Riots Commission: The sowkars (sahukars) have of late begun to oppress us. As we cannot eatn enough to defray our houschold expenses, we are actually forced to beg of them to provide us with money, clothes and grain,, which we obtain from them not without great difficulty, nor without their compelling us to enter into hard conditions in the, bond. Moreover, the necessary clothes and grain are not sold to us at cash rates.. The prices asked from us are generally twenty-five or fifty per cent more than demanded from customers making ready money payments The produce of our fields is also taken by the sowkars, who at the time of removing it assure us that it will be credited to our account, but they do not actually make any mention of it in the accounts. They also refuse to pass us any receipts for the produce so removed by them. Give details on the commission that investigated petitions and grievances of the concerned people. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : Jeovolts <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/started-3073717" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STARTED">STARTED</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/erupting-7679468" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ERUPTING">ERUPTING</a> in deccan by thc ryots against sahukars in 1875. Worried by the memotics of 1857, the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/government-1010037" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GOVERNMENT">GOVERNMENT</a> of India setup a commission of inquiry to investigate in cases of riots. The commission submitted a report in parliament in 1878. <br/> The commission held <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/enquiries-972182" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ENQUIRIES">ENQUIRIES</a> in the districts where the riots spread, recorded statements of ryots, sahukars and eyewitnesses, compiled statistical dara on revenue rates, prices and interest rates in different tegions, and collated the reports sent district collectors.</body></html> | |
| 1660. |
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: A ryot petitions This is an example of a petition from a ryot of the village of Mirajgaon, Taluka Karjat, to the Collector, Ahmednagar Deccan Riots Commission: The sowkars (sahukars) have of late begun to oppress us. As we cannot eatn enough to defray our houschold expenses, we are actually forced to beg of them to provide us with money, clothes and grain,, which we obtain from them not without great difficulty, nor without their compelling us to enter into hard conditions in the, bond. Moreover, the necessary clothes and grain are not sold to us at cash rates.. The prices asked from us are generally twenty-five or fifty per cent more than demanded from customers making ready money payments The produce of our fields is also taken by the sowkars, who at the time of removing it assure us that it will be credited to our account, but they do not actually make any mention of it in the accounts. They also refuse to pass us any receipts for the produce so removed by them. Why was the harvest taken away by the money lenders and why was it not credited to the peasant's account? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : In the cases of poor harvest ryots had to borrow <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/money-25502" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MONEY">MONEY</a> from the sahukars and sometimes <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/buy-391430" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BUY">BUY</a> clothes and grains from the shop. But they had to pay a very l igh price and even the interest rate was very high. Therefore, Sahukars used to keep on adding moner to the borrower's acCount and in the times of good harvest they took most of the harvest for the reoayment. <br/> But the sahukars used to manipulate the accounts and they did not add that the gtains they had <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/taken-659096" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TAKEN">TAKEN</a> from he ryots in order to kecp the ryots <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/perpetually-7383421" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PERPETUALLY">PERPETUALLY</a> in delst. Most of the times they did not give the receip ts for the grains they had taken.</body></html> | |
| 1661. |
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: A ryot petitions This is an example of a petition from a ryot of the village of Mirajgaon, Taluka Karjat, to the Collector, Ahmednagar Deccan Riots Commission: The sowkars (sahukars) have of late begun to oppress us. As we cannot eatn enough to defray our houschold expenses, we are actually forced to beg of them to provide us with money, clothes and grain,, which we obtain from them not without great difficulty, nor without their compelling us to enter into hard conditions in the, bond. Moreover, the necessary clothes and grain are not sold to us at cash rates.. The prices asked from us are generally twenty-five or fifty per cent more than demanded from customers making ready money payments The produce of our fields is also taken by the sowkars, who at the time of removing it assure us that it will be credited to our account, but they do not actually make any mention of it in the accounts. They also refuse to pass us any receipts for the produce so removed by them. What kind of injustice was experienced by the ryots? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :The ryots were to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bear-394857" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BEAR">BEAR</a> double injustice from ahukars as well as revenue collectors. In the deccan <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/region-1182095" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REGION">REGION</a>, the ryotwari system of revenue collection was adopted wherby ryots had to pay revent e to collectors on Fixcd intervals. But in cases of por harvest the ryots could not pay revenue and even run the house hold sa they had to bortow money and kind from the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/sahukars-2259508" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SAHUKARS">SAHUKARS</a>, who exploited them oy charging high and even <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/accounts-14064" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACCOUNTS">ACCOUNTS</a>.</body></html> | |
| 1662. |
Mention the changes which developed gradually during 600 BCE -600 CE . |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Following changes were developed in the architecture of temples:<br/> (i) Early temple was a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/small-1212368" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SMALL">SMALL</a> square room called the garbhgriha –the house of gods and goddesses .<br/> (ii) There was a single doorway for the worshipper to enter and offer worship to the images.<br/> (iii) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/gradually-469128" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GRADUALLY">GRADUALLY</a> the tall structure was called as .Shikhara.. It was built over the central shrine . Walls of temple were decorated with sculpture . <br/> (iv) Later , temples becomes more elaborate - with assembly halls, huge walls and arrangements for supplying <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/water-1449333" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WATER">WATER</a> . <br/> (v) Some temples were <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hollowed-7687965" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HOLLOWED">HOLLOWED</a> out of huge rocks as artificial <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/caves-414383" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CAVES">CAVES</a> .</body></html> | |
| 1663. |
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow: Escaping to the countryside This is how the famous poct Mirza Ghalib described what the people of Delhi did when the Bnush forces occupied the city in 1857. Smiting the enemy and driving him before them, the victors (ie, the British) overran the city in all directions. All whom they found in the street they cut down. For two to three days every road in the city, from the Kashmiri Gate to Chandni Chowk, was a battlefield. Three gates-the Ajmeri, the Turkman and the Delhi-were still held by the rebels... At the naked spectacle of this venge ful wrath and malevolent hatred the colour fled-from-men's-faees, and a vast concourse of men and women . took to precipitate flight through these three gates. Seeking the little villages and shrines outside the city, they drew breath to wait until such time as might favour their return How did the people escape from Delhi and where did they take shelter? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : As the three gates, the Ajmeri Gate, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/turkman-2313368" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TURKMAN">TURKMAN</a> gate and Delhi gate were in control of rebels, people whe'saw with naked cyes, spectacle of this <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/vengeful-7721966" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about VENGEFUL">VENGEFUL</a> wrath and malevoleat hatred, fled through these three gates. Sceking the little <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/villages-1446518" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about VILLAGES">VILLAGES</a> and shrines <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/outside-1143075" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OUTSIDE">OUTSIDE</a> the city, wherever they could found safe <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/shelter-641996" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHELTER">SHELTER</a>.</body></html> | |
| 1664. |
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow: Escaping to the countryside This is how the famous poct Mirza Ghalib described what the people of Delhi did when the Bnush forces occupied the city in 1857. Smiting the enemy and driving him before them, the victors (ie, the British) overran the city in all directions. All whom they found in the street they cut down. For two to three days every road in the city, from the Kashmiri Gate to Chandni Chowk, was a battlefield. Three gates-the Ajmeri, the Turkman and the Delhi-were still held by the rebels... At the naked spectacle of this venge ful wrath and malevolent hatred the colour fled-from-men's-faees, and a vast concourse of men and women . took to precipitate flight through these three gates. Seeking the little villages and shrines outside the city, they drew breath to wait until such time as might favour their return Who was Mirza Ghalib ? What did he describe? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Mirza Ghalib the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/famous-456388" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FAMOUS">FAMOUS</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/urdu-721905" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about URDU">URDU</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/poct-3774972" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POCT">POCT</a> who described what the people of Delhi did when the British forces <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/occupied-7262366" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OCCUPIED">OCCUPIED</a> the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/city-917172" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CITY">CITY</a> in 1857.</body></html> | |
| 1665. |
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow: Escaping to the countryside This is how the famous poct Mirza Ghalib described what the people of Delhi did when the Bnush forces occupied the city in 1857. Smiting the enemy and driving him before them, the victors (ie, the British) overran the city in all directions. All whom they found in the street they cut down. For two to three days every road in the city, from the Kashmiri Gate to Chandni Chowk, was a battlefield. Three gates-the Ajmeri, the Turkman and the Delhi-were still held by the rebels... At the naked spectacle of this venge ful wrath and malevolent hatred the colour fled-from-men's-faees, and a vast concourse of men and women . took to precipitate flight through these three gates. Seeking the little villages and shrines outside the city, they drew breath to wait until such time as might favour their return Why did British attack Delhi? Give two reasons |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Reasons of British attack on Delhi: (i) Rebels recognised the symbolic value of Delhi. <br/> (ii) To <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/establish-975526" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ESTABLISH">ESTABLISH</a> the British control over the heels. <br/> (iii) To uproot the parallel government <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/set-11758" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SET">SET</a> up by the rebels <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/iv-501699" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IV">IV</a>) To <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/suppress-656318" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SUPPRESS">SUPPRESS</a> the revolt of 1857</body></html> | |
| 1666. |
How did changes occur in the building pattern of colonial cities after the revolt of 1857? Cite any two examples. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : (i) The British <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/felt-456915" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FELT">FELT</a> that <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cities-917075" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CITIES">CITIES</a> needed to be better defended and white pcople had to live in more secure and scgregatcd enclaves. (ii) To ward off the threat of the "natives" pasture lands and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/agricultural-851840" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AGRICULTURAL">AGRICULTURAL</a> fields around the older <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/towns-1424223" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TOWNS">TOWNS</a> were cleared and new urban <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/spaces-1219927" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SPACES">SPACES</a> known as "Civil Lines" wete set up</body></html> | |
| 1667. |
Describe the detailed observations and critical insights given in the Bernier's "Travels in the Mughal Empire". |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : Bernier's The Travels in the Mughal Empire' is marked by detailed observations, critical insights and reflection. <br/> (i)According to Bernier, there was no private property during Mughal India. He was a firm believer in the virtues of private property, and saw crown ownership of land as being harmful for both the state and its people. He thought that the emperor owned all'the land and distributed it among his nobles, and this had disastrous consequences for the economy and society <br/> (ii)Owing to crown ownership of land, landholders could not pass on their land to their children. So they were abverse to any long-term investment in the susbstanance and expansion of production. It had led to the uniform <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ruination-1192032" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RUINATION">RUINATION</a> of agriculture, excessive oppression of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/peasantry-1149633" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PEASANTRY">PEASANTRY</a> and a continuous decline in the living standards of all sections of society except the ruling aristocracy. <br/> (iii) Bernier's descriptions influenced Western theorists from the eighteenth century onwards. The French philosopher Montesquieu, for instance, used this account to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/develop-431630" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DEVELOP">DEVELOP</a> the idea of oriental despotism, according to which rulers in Asia (the Orient or the East) enjoyed absolute authority over' their subjects, who were kept in conditions of subjugation and poverty, arguing that all land belonged to the king and that private property was non-existent. <br/> (iv) According to this view, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/everybody-454349" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EVERYBODY">EVERYBODY</a>, except the emperor and his nobles, barely,managed to survive. This idea was further developed as the concept of the Asiatic mode of production by Karl Marx in the nineteenth century. He argued that in India(and other Asian countries), before colonialism, Surplus was approptiated by the state. This led to the emergence of a society that was composed of a large number of autonomous and (internally) egalitarian village communities. <br/> (v) The imperial court presided over these village communities, respecting their autonomy as long as the flow of surplus was unimpeded. This was regarded as a stagrant system. <br/> (vi) Contemporary European travellers and writers often highlighted the treatment of women as a crucial marker of difference between Western and Eastern societies. Not surprisingly, Bernier chose the practice of Sati for detailed <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/desctiption-2055001" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DESCTIPTION">DESCTIPTION</a>. He noted that while women scemed to embrace death cheerfully, others were forced to die.</body></html> | |
| 1668. |
Why travel accounts of foreigners are important for studying medieval times? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :The accounts of foreign travellers are important because: <br/> (i) They have <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/enriched-7679187" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ENRICHED">ENRICHED</a> our knowledge of medieval history as they have provided many descriptions of the social life of that times-Bernier and Ibn Battuta. <br/> (ii) The writers came from differentbackgrounds and gave their <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/attention-887571" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ATTENTION">ATTENTION</a> to day-to-day <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/activities-848359" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACTIVITIES">ACTIVITIES</a> and other practices. <br/> (iii) This difference in perspective that <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/made-3718337" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MADE">MADE</a> the accounts of foregners <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/much-2164829" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MUCH">MUCH</a> interested .</body></html> | |
| 1669. |
What do you think were the advantages and disadvantages of enclosing agricultural land within the fortified area of the city ? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Advantages of enclosing agriculture land within fortified area : <br/> (i) It had an elaborate canal system which drew water from the Tungabhadra to provide irrigation facilities. <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ii-1036832" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about II">II</a>) It enclosed agricultural tracts, cultivated fields, garden and forests. This enclosure saved crops from being eaten by wild animals. <br/> (iii) In the medieval period, sieges were laid to starve the defending armies into <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/submission-1231206" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SUBMISSION">SUBMISSION</a>. These sieges lasted for many months or many years. So the rulers of Vijayanagara adopted and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/elaborated-7375517" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ELABORATED">ELABORATED</a> a strategy to protect the agricultural belt and built large granaries. <br/> (iv) The kings, as confirmed by the travellers, took keen interest in ensuring water supply to Vijayanagara.<br/> Disadvantages <br/> (i) This system was very expensive. During adverse circumstances, this system <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/proved-7287273" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROVED">PROVED</a> inconvenient to the farmers. <br/> (ii) The farmers had to seek the permission of gate-keeper to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reach-1178062" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REACH">REACH</a> their field. <br/> (iii) If enemy encirled the field, the farmer could not look after their field. <br/> As kingdom was attacked by the enemies at the time of standing crop or harvest time, the aggressors could easily burn the crops.</body></html> | |
| 1670. |
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: The Poor Peasant An excerpt from Bernier's description of then peasantry in the countryside: Of the vast tracts of country constituting the empire of Hindustan, many are little more than sand, or barren mountains, badly cultivated, and thinly populated. Even a considerable portion of the good land remains untilled for want of labourers, many of whom perish in consequence of the bad treatment they experience from Governors. The poor people, when they become incapable of discharging the demands of their rapacious lords, are not only often deprived of the means of subsistence, but are also made to lose their children, who are carried away as slaves. Thus, it happens that the peasantry, driven to despair by so excessive a tyranny, abandon the country. In this instance, Bernier was participating in contemporary debates in Europe concerning the nature of state and society, and intended that his description of Mughal India would serve as a warning to those who did not recognise the "merits" of private property. Explain in brief the reasons given by Bernier for the exploitation of the peasants. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :Land was <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/owned-1144371" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OWNED">OWNED</a> by the state, because of the private ownership of land, agriculture was ruined and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/peasants-1149634" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PEASANTS">PEASANTS</a> were exploited.</body></html> | |
| 1671. |
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: The Poor Peasant An excerpt from Bernier's description of then peasantry in the countryside: Of the vast tracts of country constituting the empire of Hindustan, many are little more than sand, or barren mountains, badly cultivated, and thinly populated. Even a considerable portion of the good land remains untilled for want of labourers, many of whom perish in consequence of the bad treatment they experience from Governors. The poor people, when they become incapable of discharging the demands of their rapacious lords, are not only often deprived of the means of subsistence, but are also made to lose their children, who are carried away as slaves. Thus, it happens that the peasantry, driven to despair by so excessive a tyranny, abandon the country. In this instance, Bernier was participating in contemporary debates in Europe concerning the nature of state and society, and intended that his description of Mughal India would serve as a warning to those who did not recognise the "merits" of private property. Name two European thinkers influenced by Bernier observation. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :(a) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/karl-530631" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about KARL">KARL</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/marx-555794" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MARX">MARX</a> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/b-387190" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about B">B</a>) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/montesquieu-563575" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MONTESQUIEU">MONTESQUIEU</a>.</body></html> | |
| 1672. |
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: The Poor Peasant An excerpt from Bernier's description of then peasantry in the countryside: Of the vast tracts of country constituting the empire of Hindustan, many are little more than sand, or barren mountains, badly cultivated, and thinly populated. Even a considerable portion of the good land remains untilled for want of labourers, many of whom perish in consequence of the bad treatment they experience from Governors. The poor people, when they become incapable of discharging the demands of their rapacious lords, are not only often deprived of the means of subsistence, but are also made to lose their children, who are carried away as slaves. Thus, it happens that the peasantry, driven to despair by so excessive a tyranny, abandon the country. In this instance, Bernier was participating in contemporary debates in Europe concerning the nature of state and society, and intended that his description of Mughal India would serve as a warning to those who did not recognise the "merits" of private property. Write any two problems about cultivating land. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Two problems about cultivating the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/land-539118" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LAND">LAND</a> according to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bernier-395849" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BERNIER">BERNIER</a> were: <br/> (a) The land was sandy. <br/> (b) There was a lack of labourers. <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/c-7168" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about C">C</a>) The mountains were barren.</body></html> | |
| 1673. |
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: The Poor Peasant An excerpt from Bernier's description of then peasantry in the countryside: Of the vast tracts of country constituting the empire of Hindustan, many are little more than sand, or barren mountains, badly cultivated, and thinly populated. Even a considerable portion of the good land remains untilled for want of labourers, many of whom perish in consequence of the bad treatment they experience from Governors. The poor people, when they become incapable of discharging the demands of their rapacious lords, are not only often deprived of the means of subsistence, but are also made to lose their children, who are carried away as slaves. Thus, it happens that the peasantry, driven to despair by so excessive a tyranny, abandon the country. In this instance, Bernier was participating in contemporary debates in Europe concerning the nature of state and society, and intended that his description of Mughal India would serve as a warning to those who did not recognise the "merits" of private property. Why did the peasantry abandon the land? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :It was on <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/account-25640" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACCOUNT">ACCOUNT</a> of the following reasons:<br/> (a) The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/officials-1129308" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OFFICIALS">OFFICIALS</a> were rapacious and oppressive. <br/> (b) If the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/demands-947840" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DEMANDS">DEMANDS</a> of the officials could not meet, they deprived the poor of the means of subsistence.</body></html> | |
| 1674. |
Accounting to Buddhism , which are four eternal truths? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Accounting to Buddhism the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/four-464592" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOUR">FOUR</a> eternal <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/truths-1428540" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRUTHS">TRUTHS</a> are as given below: <br/> (i) The world is <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/full-1001178" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FULL">FULL</a> of sorrow. <br/> (ii) The causes of these sorrows are lust and desire.<br/> (iii) The pain of sorrow can be removed by suppressing desire and cravings .<br/> (iv) Trishna or desire can be conquered only when we follow the middle path on the Eight Noble Paths. <br/> The eight noble paths should be followed by Buddhist to get the highest bliss , consists of eight principles. These principles are, <br/> (a) Right Action `""` (b) Right knowledge <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/c-7168" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about C">C</a>) Right Faith `""` (d) Right Aspirations <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/e-444102" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about E">E</a>) Right Speech `""` (f) Right Living <br/> (g) Right Efforts <br/> (h) Right Mindfulness and Meditation.</body></html> | |
| 1675. |
"Domingo Paes has called the Mahanavami Dibba of Vijaynagar Empire as The House of Victory'." Justify. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : (i) Some of the more <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/distinctive-956739" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DISTINCTIVE">DISTINCTIVE</a> structures in the area have been given names based on the form of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/buildings-905283" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BUILDINGS">BUILDINGS</a> as well as their <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/functions-13351" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FUNCTIONS">FUNCTIONS</a>. The "King's palace" is the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/largest-1067604" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LARGEST">LARGEST</a> of enclosures. <br/> (ii) It has two of the most impressive platforms, usually called the "Audience Hall" and the "Mahanavami Dibba". (iii) Domingo Paes called the "Audience Hall" and the "Mahanavami Dibba" the "House of victory". The "Mahanavami Dibba" is situated on one of the highest points in the city and is a massive platform. <br/> (iv) Paes maintained that in this "House of Victory" the king has a room made of cloth. Where the idol has a shrinc and in the middle is <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/placed-591674" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PLACED">PLACED</a> which stands a throne of state.</body></html> | |
| 1676. |
Explain the role played by zamindars in Mughal India. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) The zamindars in the Mughal period were the class of those people who lived off agriculture but did not participate directly in the proccsses of agricultural production. The zamindars were landed proprietors who had some social and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/economic-448435" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ECONOMIC">ECONOMIC</a> privileges by virtue of their superior status in rural Society. <br/> (ii) Caste hierarchy was also responsible for the higer status of zamindars. They also performed certain services (Khidmat) for the state. <br/> (iii) The zamindars had extensive personal lands termed milkiyat. This milkiyat lands were cultivated for the personal use of the zamindars, with the help of lired or servile labour. <br/> (iv) The zamindars were at <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/liberty-541546" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LIBERTY">LIBERTY</a> to sell, mortgage these lands at will. They could often collect revenue on ehalf of the state. <br/> (v) The other source of zamindars' power was their over military sources. Most of them had fort resses as well as an armed contingent comprising units of infantry, cavalry and artillery. <br/> (vi) If we visualise of social relations in the Mughal countrysideits very narrow apex. In this context Abul Fazl's account indicates an "Upper caste", Brahmana-Rajput combine had already made that firm control overural society. It also reflects a fairly good representation from intermediate castes along with a liberal as a pyramid, zamindars constituted sprinkling of Muslim zamindars. <br/> (vii) The dispossession of weaker people by a powerful military chieftain was a popular way of expainding zamindari. In <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/northern-581406" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NORTHERN">NORTHERN</a> India the Rajputs and the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/jars-1061402" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about JARS">JARS</a> fallownd the strategies to firm up their control over cxtensive swathes of tetritory (viii) The zamindars led the colonisation of agricultural land and helped in settlling cultivators by providing them <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cash-910172" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CASH">CASH</a> loans, another means of cultivation. <br/> (ix) Zamindars were an exploitative class and their relationship with the peasantry had a touch of reciprocity parermatismrand patronagee That is why zamindars often got the support of the peasantry in their conflict against the state</body></html> | |
| 1677. |
Write the demands meant for oral history. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :(i) It helps <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/us-718298" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about US">US</a> grasp experience and memories in <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/detail-25539" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DETAIL">DETAIL</a>. <br/> (ii) Oral <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/accounts-14064" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACCOUNTS">ACCOUNTS</a> are concerned with tangential issue. <br/>(iii)Majority of the historians aregue the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/uniqueness-1438159" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about UNIQUENESS">UNIQUENESS</a> of personal experience make generalization difficult.<br/> (iv) Oral history allows the historians to broaden the boundaries of their discipline.</body></html> | |
| 1678. |
State the anglicised names of villages where the British first set up trading posts. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) Madras, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bombay-400341" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BOMBAY">BOMBAY</a> and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/calcutta-412293" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CALCUTTA">CALCUTTA</a> were the Anglicised names of villages where the British first set up trading posts. (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ii-1036832" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about II">II</a>) They are now known as Chennai, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/mumbai-482" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MUMBAI">MUMBAI</a> and Kolkata <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/respectively-1186938" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RESPECTIVELY">RESPECTIVELY</a>.</body></html> | |
| 1679. |
Mention the nature of Civil Disobedience Movement. Discuss its spread in all parts of the country along with its failures. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 and this mass movement was based on truth and non-violence and was the first important step taken towards complete independence. <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/various-1443317" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about VARIOUS">VARIOUS</a> aspects of this movement were as under: <br/> (a) Causes: <br/> (i) The Simon Commission visited India in 1928. The commission had no member from India. So the people widely opposed the report of the commission when published. It also raised discontent among the people. <br/> (ii) The Peasants Movement of Bardoli inspired Gandhi to launch a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/national-21808" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NATIONAL">NATIONAL</a> movement against the British Rule.<br/>(iii) The British government rejected recommen dations of the Nehru Report. <br/> (iv) Gandhiji put forward a few conditions before the British Government but all his proposals were rejected. Under these circumstances, Civil Disobedience Movement began against the British Rule. <br/> (b) The Progress of Movement:(i) The Civil Disobedience Movement begun with Dandi March. He started his journey from Sabarmati Ashram on <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/12-269062" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 12">12</a> March, 1930 and reached Dandi. He reached Dandi on 6 April, 1930 and made a fistful of salt from the sea-water and violated the salt law.<br/> (ii) It was the beginning of the movement. It later on <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/spread-1222907" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SPREAD">SPREAD</a> to different parts of country. <br/> To crush this movement, the British adopted repressive measures. Many people were put behind the bars. But it did not dampen the vigour of the people. <br/> (iii) A compromise was reached between Gandhiji and the Viceroy. According to this agreement, Gandhiji agreed to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement. He gave his approval to take part in the Second Round Table Conference. <br/> (c) End of the Movement:(i) London, 1931, Gandhiji participated on behalf of the Congress in the Second Round Table Conference. No solution could be found for the redressal of Indian problems. Gandhiji felt depressed and returned to India.<br/>(ii) On returning to India he relaunched the Civil Disobedience Movement. The British Government took repressive measures to control this movement. In 1933, the Congress officially decided to suspend this movement and it was finally withdrawn in May, 1934. <br/> (d) Causes for failure:(i) The movement could not utilize the enthusiasm of the common people and was called off and in between dampened its pace. <br/> (ii) This movement did not prove beneficial for the farmers.<br/>(iii) The Congress failed to forward any social and economic programme. As a result of this a new party emerged within the Congress. It was named as Congress Socialist Party.<br/>(iv) Some scholars argued that the leadership of this movement was in the hands of the rich who were unable to understand.Besides it had limited objectives.<br/>(e) Significance: <br/> (i) The import of foreign clothdeclined. <br/> (ii)The collection of government revenue was reduced due to picketing of wine shop.<br/>(iii) The Indians were permitted to make salt by boiling sea water near the sea-coast.<br/>(iv) Political awakening was seen among the farmers, labourers, tribal people and women. All these people had <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/become-389953" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BECOME">BECOME</a> an inseparable part of national movement. <br/> (v) The British Empire got a severe jolt due to emergence of political unity of Indians.</body></html> | |
| 1680. |
Read the given sources and answer the questions that follow: The problem with separate electorate At the Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi stated his arguments against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes: Separate electorates to the "Untouchables" will ensure them bondage in perpetuity ... Do you want the "Untouchables" to remain "Untouchables" for ever? Well, the separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma. What is needed is destruction of "Untouchability", and when you have done it, the barsinister, which has been imposed by an insolent "superior" class upon an "inferior" class will be destroyed. When you have destroyed the barsinister to whom will you give the separate electorates?Who demanded separate electorate for the untouchables? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : Dr. BR Ambedkar demanded separate electorate for <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/untouchables-1439691" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about UNTOUCHABLES">UNTOUCHABLES</a>. <br/> (i) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bondage-900636" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BONDAGE">BONDAGE</a> and stigma attached to untouch ables in perpetuity. <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ii-1036832" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about II">II</a>) According to him, political power would empower the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/discriminated-7281690" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DISCRIMINATED">DISCRIMINATED</a> in their struggle against the upper caste Hindus.<br/>(iii) Depressed <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/classes-16111" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CLASSES">CLASSES</a> to be raised up in scale of life by opportunities.</body></html> | |
| 1681. |
Read the given sources and answer the questions that follow: The problem with separate electorate At the Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi stated his arguments against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes: Separate electorates to the "Untouchables" will ensure them bondage in perpetuity ... Do you want the "Untouchables" to remain "Untouchables" for ever? Well, the separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma. What is needed is destruction of "Untouchability", and when you have done it, the barsinister, which has been imposed by an insolent "superior" class upon an "inferior" class will be destroyed. When you have destroyed the barsinister to whom will you give the separate electorates?What alternative did he want? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> : He wanted to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/abolish-366092" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ABOLISH">ABOLISH</a> untouchability so that there should be no distinction between <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/upper-721698" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about UPPER">UPPER</a> and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/lower-1080637" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LOWER">LOWER</a> caste.</body></html> | |
| 1682. |
Read the given sources and answer the questions that follow: The problem with separate electorate At the Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi stated his arguments against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes: Separate electorates to the "Untouchables" will ensure them bondage in perpetuity ... Do you want the "Untouchables" to remain "Untouchables" for ever? Well, the separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma. What is needed is destruction of "Untouchability", and when you have done it, the barsinister, which has been imposed by an insolent "superior" class upon an "inferior" class will be destroyed. When you have destroyed the barsinister to whom will you give the separate electorates? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : (i) He did not favour separate electrorates, because he <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/felt-456915" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FELT">FELT</a> that it <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/would-3285927" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WOULD">WOULD</a> enslave them for ever.<br/>(ii) The whole barrier between superior and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/interior-1048275" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INTERIOR">INTERIOR</a> was <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/done-2591742" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DONE">DONE</a> away.</body></html> | |
| 1683. |
Read the given sources and answer the questions that follow: The problem with separate electorate At the Round Table Conference, Mahatma Gandhi stated his arguments against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes: Separate electorates to the "Untouchables" will ensure them bondage in perpetuity ... Do you want the "Untouchables" to remain "Untouchables" for ever? Well, the separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma. What is needed is destruction of "Untouchability", and when you have done it, the barsinister, which has been imposed by an insolent "superior" class upon an "inferior" class will be destroyed. When you have destroyed the barsinister to whom will you give the separate electorates?Where was the Round Table Conference held? Why was it called on? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution : The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/round-625673" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ROUND">ROUND</a> Table <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/conference-424453" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONFERENCE">CONFERENCE</a> was held in <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/london-4672" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LONDON">LONDON</a>. It was called because, the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/british-402367" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BRITISH">BRITISH</a> had realised that their rule will no longer <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/last-3704365" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LAST">LAST</a> long.</body></html> | |
| 1684. |
Who was Krishnadeva Raya ? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/krishnadeva-535032" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about KRISHNADEVA">KRISHNADEVA</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/raya-2245269" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RAYA">RAYA</a> was the most <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/powerful-1161984" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POWERFUL">POWERFUL</a> and important ruler of Vijayanagara empire. He belonged to Tuluva Dynasty and ruled from `1509` to `1529` <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ce-407660" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CE">CE</a>. He had established his control over two most powerful cities - Gulbarga and Bidar.</body></html> | |
| 1685. |
Considerthe followingstatements : 1 TheArthashastra isthe firstIndian textto define aState. 2 The mainconcerns oftheArthashastraare theoreticalissues likethe origins ofthestate. Which of thestatements givenabove is // arecorrect ? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>I only <br/>2 only <br/>Both 1 and 2<br/>Neither1 nor 2</p>Solution : The title "Arthashastra" is often translated to "the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/science-40" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SCIENCE">SCIENCE</a> of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/politics-3439" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POLITICS">POLITICS</a>",but the book Arthashastra has a broder scope. It inculed books on the nature of government, law, civil and criminal ciurt <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/systems-1237607" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SYSTEMS">SYSTEMS</a>, ethics, economics, markets and trade , the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/methods-11862" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about METHODS">METHODS</a> for <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/screening-1196647" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SCREENING">SCREENING</a> ministers, diplomancy, theories on war, nature of peace, and the duties and obligations of a king.</body></html> | |
| 1686. |
State two characteristics of Krishnadeva Raya's rule. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) Everyone was <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/free-465311" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FREE">FREE</a> to adopt the religion of his choice in his rule (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/empire-450885" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EMPIRE">EMPIRE</a>). <br/> (ii) He maintained a strict control over government officials. Culprits were <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/severely-7383932" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEVERELY">SEVERELY</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/punished-593549" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PUNISHED">PUNISHED</a>. He made every effort for the welfare of his people.</body></html> | |
| 1687. |
In theManusmritiwhichformof marriageresults from the"Voluntaryunionof amaidenand herlover " ? |
| Answer» <html><body><p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/eighth-967044" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EIGHTH">EIGHTH</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/form-996208" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FORM">FORM</a> <br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/fifith-2640096" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FIFITH">FIFITH</a> form <br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/seventh-1203448" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEVENTH">SEVENTH</a> form <br/>Sixthform </p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :N//A</body></html> | |
| 1688. |
How were the lives of forest dwellers transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies ? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Transformation in the lives of forest-dwellers (sixteenthand seventeenth centuries):<br/>(i) Huge areaswere covered with forestsin the variousparts of India in the 16th and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/17thcentury-278887" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 17THCENTURY">17THCENTURY</a>. Forest - dwellerswerecalledJungli. The term .Jungli. was used to describe those whose occupations included activitiessuchas hunting, gathering of forest produce, and shifting cultivation.<br/>(ii)These activitieswere performedaccording toa specific reason in the variousregions. Considerthe exampleof the Bhils whofished in summerand collected forest produce in spring. Such <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/activities-848359" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ACTIVITIES">ACTIVITIES</a> enabled theforest <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tribes-1427528" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRIBES">TRIBES</a> to be mobile whichwas a characteristicfeature of their life.<br/>(iii) Asthe state required elephants for the consolidation of mighty army, the peshkesh was levied on the forest people for supply of elephants.<br/>(iv)The livesof the forest-dwellersled to the spreadof commercial agriculture. Forest productslike honey, beeswax, gum and lac were in hugedemand. Gum and lac became major items ofoverseasexportsin the seventeenth century, and earnedvaluableforeign <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/exchange-454713" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EXCHANGE">EXCHANGE</a>.<br/>(v) Elephants werealso captured and sold. <br/>(vi)Tribes like the Punjab Lohanisengaged in overlandtrade with Afghanistan and internaltrade in Punjab as well .<br/>(vii)Social factors werealso responsiblefor transforming the lives ofthe forest-dwellers.<br/>(viii) Many tribalchiefs became zamindars, some even becamekings. They recruit people fromthierown tribes in their army. Forexamplein Assam, Kings depended on people who renderedmilitary services in exchangeof land .<br/> (ix) Bythe sixteenth century, the transition from a tribal to a monarchial system had taken place. InAin-i Akbari, description has been mentionedaboutthe existence of tribal kingdoms in north-eastern India.<br/>(x)Description is alsomade regardingthe kings who fought and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/conquered-2538591" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONQUERED">CONQUERED</a> an number of tribes, New cultural influences alsoentered in the forested areas. Probably sufi saintsplayed a remarkable role in spreading Islam in theseareas.</body></html> | |
| 1689. |
Why do archacologist and historians find Harappan script enigmatic? Explain reasons. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Harappan script is an enigmatic script because of the following reasons: <br/> (1) Most inscriptions are short and the longest one containing about 26 signs. <br/> (2) These scripts were not <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/alphabetical-858354" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ALPHABETICAL">ALPHABETICAL</a> as it has too many signs (between 375 to 400). <br/> (3) he script was written from night to left as some seals show a wider spacing on the right and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cramping-938260" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CRAMPING">CRAMPING</a> on then left. <br/> (4) Harappan scals have a line of writing <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/probably-1167177" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROBABLY">PROBABLY</a> containing the name and title of the owner. <br/> (5) The motif, generally an animal, conveyed ameaning to those who could not read. <br/> (6) The writing has been found on variety of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/objects-20533" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OBJECTS">OBJECTS</a> such as seals, copper tools, rims of jars, copper and terracotta tablets, jewellery and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bone-900685" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BONE">BONE</a> rods.</body></html> | |
| 1690. |
How was town planning founded in the early decades of the 19th century? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) In the early decades of the 19th century after the Wellesley.s departure. (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ii-1036832" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about II">II</a>) The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/work-20377" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WORK">WORK</a> of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/town-1424184" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TOWN">TOWN</a> planning was <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/funded-7681841" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FUNDED">FUNDED</a> by public lotteries organised by the lottery committee.</body></html> | |
| 1691. |
Highlight the aspects observed by Domingo Paes on the Mahanavami Dibba of the Vijayanagara empire. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :A (i) The Mahanavami Dibba was a massive place formed in the capital city of Vijayanagara empire, Hampi. It had a base of about `11000 sq.` feet, having a height of forty feet. <br/> (ii) The base of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/platform-25930" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PLATFORM">PLATFORM</a> was covered with relief carvings, which added to the beauty of Mahanavami Dibba. Here, the Hindu festival Mahanavami or Navaratri were celebrated eith great enthusiasm in the months of September-October. <br/> (iii) This festival was celebrated for nine days. It was the time when the Rayas (rulers) of Vijayanagara expressed their power and prestige. <br/> B. On this occasion, following rituals and ceremonies were held: <br/> (i) The sacrifice of buffaloes and other animals were made. Prayers were <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/offered-7257483" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OFFERED">OFFERED</a> to the state gods and goddess. State horse was worshipped. <br/> (ii) Not only this, dances, wrestling and other entertaining items such as procession of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/caparisoned-7671592" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CAPARISONED">CAPARISONED</a> horses, elephants, and soldiers on their horses were also <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/performed-2211234" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PERFORMED">PERFORMED</a>. <br/> (iii) On this occasion, the Nayakas and subordinate kings offered precious gifts to the Raja. On the last <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/day-944776" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DAY">DAY</a>, the Raja inspected his army and accepted gifts and tributes.</body></html> | |
| 1692. |
Describe in brief the nastaliq style of calligraphy. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> : (i) Nastaliq style of calligraphy <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/gained-2665852" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GAINED">GAINED</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/importance-1038031" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IMPORTANCE">IMPORTANCE</a> during the tenure of Akbar. (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ii-1036832" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about II">II</a>) It was a fluid style of writing with long horizontal strokes.</body></html> | |
| 1693. |
Discuss the main features of Mauryan administration. Which of these elements are evident in the Asokan inscriptions that you have studies? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :The important features of the MauryanEmpire are as folows: <br/> (i) There were five major political centres in the empire. The capital Pataliputra and the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/provincial-592999" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROVINCIAL">PROVINCIAL</a> centres of Taxila, Ujjayini, Tosali and Suvarnagiri. <br/> (ii) king had an effective control over the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/military-1096446" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MILITARY">MILITARY</a> through a war office which was divided into <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/committees-923538" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COMMITTEES">COMMITTEES</a> and sub committees. As mentioned by Megasthenes sub committees are as follows: <br/> (a) First looked after navy <br/> (b) The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/second-1197322" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SECOND">SECOND</a> looked after transport and provisions. <br/> (c) The third sub-committee look after infantry. <br/> (d) The fourth was to look-after the horses.<br/> (e) The fifth had the responsibility of elephants. <br/>(f) Sixth had the responsibility of elephants<br/> (iii) The activities of the second sub comittee were varied , to arrange for bullock carts to carry equipment procuring food for soldiers and fodder for animals. To recruit servants and artisans to look-after the soldiers. <br/> (iv) Other officials mentioned in Ashoken inscription are those connected with the administriation of the city and those who worked among frontier people. Headman of village was known as Gramika. The Amatyas assisted the governors and pradesikas were officers in the pradesika-Rajukas who responsible to collect tax. The yukyas were petty officers. <br/>(v) Ashoka ensured the well being of people in this world and the next a special officer wasappointed to as Dhamma mahamattas. One of his <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/functions-13351" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FUNCTIONS">FUNCTIONS</a> was to record gifts and donationsmade to religious establishments and spreading the message of Dhamma.</body></html> | |
| 1694. |
What were the two functions performed by Vaishyas? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) They <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/practise-1162415" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PRACTISE">PRACTISE</a> trade and agriculture. <br/> (ii) They looked after their <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cattle-910885" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CATTLE">CATTLE</a>.</body></html> | |
| 1695. |
Describe the various methods used by scholars to reconstruct the history of the city and the empire from the ruins of Hampi up to 20th century. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :(i) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hampi-481909" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HAMPI">HAMPI</a>, the capital city of the Vijayanagara empire, was discovered by Colonel Colin <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/mackenzie-550391" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MACKENZIE">MACKENZIE</a>. Mackenzie, who was a well-known engineer, surveyou and a cartographer visited Hampi in `1800`. <br/> (ii) He prepared the first survey of Hampi. In preparing it he collected most of his information from the priest of Virupaksha and the Pampadevi temple working as the first Surveyor General of India `(1815-1821)`. <br/> (iii) He tried to understand the past of India in a better way. He surveyed historical sites so that their governance could be made easy and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/efficient-966565" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EFFICIENT">EFFICIENT</a>. His <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/efforts-449198" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EFFORTS">EFFORTS</a> gave a new impetus to the future researchers. <br/> (iv) As early as `<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/1836-1799227" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 1836">1836</a>`, an epigraphist began to collect inscriptions from the Virupaksha temple. He was Alexander Greenlaw.</body></html> | |
| 1696. |
"In spite of the limitations, the Ain-i-Akbari remains an extra y document of its time." Explain the statement. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :In spite of limitations, that Ain-i-Akbari is an extraordinary document of its <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/time-19467" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TIME">TIME</a> is very true as It provides fascinating glimpses into the structure and organisation of the Mughal Empire and gives us the quantitative information about its products and people. Abul Fazł achieved a major <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/break-903849" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BREAK">BREAK</a> through in the tradition of medieval chronicles who wrote mostly about remarkable political events, wars conquests political machinations and dynastic turmoil. <br/> The Ain recorded the information about the empire and the people of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/india-54" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INDIA">INDIA</a> and thus constitutes a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/bench-895060" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BENCH">BENCH</a> matk for studying India at the turn of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/17th-278830" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 17TH">17TH</a> C The value of the Ain's quantitative evidence is uncontested where the study of agratian relation is concerned. The information on the people, their professions and trades and on the imperial establishment and the mansabdars of the empire provided in Ain enables the historians to reconstruct the social fabric of India at that time.</body></html> | |
| 1697. |
What was 'Gotra'? |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :It <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/means-1091780" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MEANS">MEANS</a> that <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tradition-1424750" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRADITION">TRADITION</a> in which <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/gotra-475433" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GOTRA">GOTRA</a> was named after a Vedic seer. The members of the Gotra were considered as the descendants of that seer. It came into <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/practice-1162387" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PRACTICE">PRACTICE</a> in 1000 BCE.</body></html> | |
| 1698. |
Gandhiji and Salt Satyagraha' had made the British rulers desperately anxious." Analyse the statement of Times, American news magazine in this context. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Secret reports were filed by the police officials who monitored Gandhiji's movements. They also reproduced the speeches that he gave at the villages <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/en-446027" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EN">EN</a> route, in which he called upon local officials to renounce government employment and join the freedom struggle. The police spices of the British <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reported-2248280" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REPORTED">REPORTED</a> about Gandhiji's meetings and also and also who ali attended them. They observed that thousands of volunteers were flocking to the nationalist cause. Among them were many officials, who had resigned from their posts with the colonial government. Writing to the government, the District Superintendent of Police remarked, "Mr Gandhi appcared calm and collected. He is gathering more strength as he proceeds." The American newsmagazine, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/time-19467" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TIME">TIME</a>' was deeply sceptical of the Salt March reaching its destination and scorned at Gandhiji's looks, writing with disdain of his "<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/spindly-2278527" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SPINDLY">SPINDLY</a> frame" and his "spidery loins". It claimed that Gandhiji "sank to the ground" at the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/end-971042" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about END">END</a> of the second day's wallking The magaziae-did not- believe that "the emaciated saint would be physically able to go much further" <br/> But within a week it had changed its mind and wrote that the massive popular following that the march Tad hade the Briush ruters esperately anxious"</body></html> | |
| 1699. |
Examine the outcome of the provincial elections of 1937 and cxplaintho solo of Congress ministeries and Muslim League on it. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Only about 10 to 12 per cent of the population enjoyed the right to vote. <br/> (ii) The Congress did well in the elections, winning an absolute majority in five out of eleven provinces and forming governments in seven of them. <br/> (iii) It did badly in the constituencies reserved for Muslims, but the Muslim League <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/also-373387" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ALSO">ALSO</a> fared poorly <br/> (iv) The League <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/failed-2080748" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FAILED">FAILED</a> to win a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/single-644669" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SINGLE">SINGLE</a> scat in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) <br/> (<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/v-722631" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about V">V</a>) In the United Provinces, the Muslim Leaguc wanted to form a joint government with the Congress <br/> (vi) The Congress had won an absolute majority in the province, so it rejected the offer. <br/> (vii) Some scholars argue that this rejection convinced the League that if India remained united, then Muslims would find it difficult to gain political power ccause they would remnain a minority. <br/> (vill) The League represented Muslim interests <br/> (ix) The Congress ministrics also contributed to the widening rift <br/> (x) In the United Provinces, the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/party-1148316" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PARTY">PARTY</a> had rejected the Muslim League proposal for a coalition government party because the League tended to support landlordism, which the Congress wished to abolish. <br/> (xi) The congress ministries resigned in October 1939.</body></html> | |
| 1700. |
Name four essence of the subjects, protected by the Mughal emperor, according to his court historian Abul Fazl. |
| Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :These <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/four-464592" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOUR">FOUR</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/essence-453052" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ESSENCE">ESSENCE</a> were: (i) (a) Life, (b) Property, (c) Honour, (d) Faith. (ii) They were called Jan, Mal, Namus and den. In the protection of this the emperor demanded <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/obedience-1127171" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OBEDIENCE">OBEDIENCE</a>, and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/share-25805" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHARE">SHARE</a> of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/resources-11387" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RESOURCES">RESOURCES</a>.</body></html> | |