Q. Which of the following Indian women promoted female education and publicized the needs of non elite women as well: Choose at least one answer. (a) Tarabai Shinde (b) Anandibai Karve (c) Pandita Ramabai (d) Bibi Harman Kaur Ans: (c) Pandita Ramabai
Q. Hindu Child Marriage Bill of 1930 fixed minimum age of marriage for women to- (a) 12 (b) 13 (c) 14 (d) 15 Ans: (c) 14
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Q. The autobiography ‘Amar Jiban’ pertains to: (a) Manikuntala Sen (b) Haimavati Sen (c) Ras Sundari Devi (d) Bibi Harman Kaur Ans: (c) Ras Sundari Devi Explanation: The autobiography “Amar Jiban” pertains to (c) Ras Sundari Devi. Ras Sundari Devi, also known as Rasamoyee, was a Bengali woman from 19th-century India who wrote her autobiography
Q. The colonial construction of Indian history transported which of the following into the intellectual make-up of the educated middle-class of the time: 1. James Mill’s periodisation of Indian history 2. Marshman’s description of social customs 3. Henry Beveridge’s account of religious practices 4. Robert Orme’s explanation of the British military success Select the code
Q. Examine the following statements with regard to the foreign policy of the British and point out the incorrect statements: 1. The foreign policy of the colonial government in India was directed towards protecting the larger British imperial interests 2. The foreign policy was directed towards containing Russian advance in Central Asia because it threatened
Q. The explorers with their travel routes have been cited here: 1. Christopher Columbus : Started from Spain, sailed westward across the Atlantic 2. Bartholomew Diaz : Sailed along the southern-most part of South Africa 3. Magellan: Sailed round the world via South of America 4. Vasco de Gama – Rounded the southernmost part of
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Q. Examine the following historically important statements: 1. Josiah Child went to war with Aurangzeb which resulted in the expulsion of British from the state of Bengal 2. Jole Charnock, faithful to the East India Company, built and fortified the site of Calcutta (not Hugli) as the centre for commerce 3. Gerald Aungier was the
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Q. The British understood the Indian community through the prism of caste. Different ethnographers held different views. Point out the wrong one: (a) A reflection of functional and occupational differentiation: J. C. Nesfield (b) Caste as a trace of early historical conquest – by the Aryans of the indigenous peoples: H. H. Risley (c) The
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Q. Who used the term ‘untouchable’ for the Scheduled castes for the first time? (a) J S Nesfield (b) Alfred Lyall (c) W C Crooke (d) H H Risley Ans: (d) H H Risley Explanation: The term ‘untouchable’ for the Scheduled castes was first used by (d) H H Risley. Herbert Hope Risley, a British
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Q. The Punch, a humourous London Magazine, had depicted the racial bitterness of 1857 by carrying a cartoon of an Indian who was (a) half man and half woman (b) half white and half black (c) half gorilla and half mouse (d) half gorilla and half negro Ans: (d) half gorilla and half negro
