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List the items of food available to people in Harappan cities. Identify the groups who would have provided these.
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How do archaeologists trace socio-economic differences in Harappan society? What are the differences that they notice?
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Map work
On the given map, use a pencil to circle the sites where evidence of agriculture has been recovered. Mark an X against sites where there is evidence of craft production and R against sites where raw materials were found.
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The following is an excerpt from the Mahabharata in which Yudhisthira, the eldest Jandava, speaks to Sanjaya, a messenger:
Sanjaya, convey my respectful greetings to all the Brahmanas and the chief priest of the house of Dhritarashtra. I bow respectfully to teacher Drona … I hold the feet of our preceptor Kripa … (and) the chief of the Kurus, the great Bhishma. I bow respectfully to the old king (Dhritarashtra). I greet and ask after the health of his son Duryodhana and his younger brother ... Also greet all the young Kuru warriors who are our brothers, sons and grandsons … Greet above all him, who is to us like father and mother, the wise Vidura (born of a slave woman) ... I bow to the elderly ladies who are known as our mothers. To those who are our wives you say this, “I hope they are well-protected”… Our daughters-inlaw born of good families and mothers of children greet on my behalf. Embrace for me those who are our daughters … The beautiful, fragrant, well-dressed courtesans of ours you should also greet. Greet the slave women and their children, greet the aged, the maimed (and) the helpless …
Try and identify the criteria used to make this list – in terms of age, gender, kinship ties. Are there any other criteria? For each category, explain why they are placed in a particular position in the list.
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Write a short essay (about 500 words) on the following:
Discuss whether the Mahabharata could have been the work of a single author.
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Map work
Compare the map in this chapter with Map 1 in Chapter 2. List the mahajanapadas and cities located near the Kuru-Panchala lands.
Map 1 of Chapter 2(Kings, Farmers and Towns)
Map 1 of Chapter 3(Kinship, Caste and Class)
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Discuss the role of the begums of Bhopal in preserving the stupa at Sanchi.
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Read this short inscription and answer:-
In the year 33 of the maharaja Huvishka (a Kushana ruler), in the first month of the hot season on the eighth day, a Bodhisatta was set up at Madhuvanaka by the bhikkhuni Dhanavati, the sister’s daughter of the bhikkhuni Buddhamita, who knows the Tipitaka, the female pupil of the bhikkhu Bala, who knows the Tipitaka, together with her father and mother.
- How did Dhanavati date her inscription?
- Why do you think she installed an image of the Bodhisatta?
- Who were the relatives she mentioned?
- What Buddhist text did she know?
- From whom did she learn this text?
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Why Was the Jotedar a Powerful Figure in Many Areas of Rural Bengal?
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How Did Zamindars Manage to Retain Control Over Their Zamindaris?
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How Did the Paharias Respond to the Coming of Outsiders?
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Write a note on the Kitab-ul-Hind.
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Write a short essay (250-300 words) on the following:
Why were many zamindaris auctioned after the Permanent Settlement?
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Why Did the Mutinous Sepoys in Many Places Turn to Erstwhile Rulers to Provide Leadership to the Revolt?
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Explain with examples what historians mean by the integration of cults.
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Discuss the Extent to Which Religious Beliefs Shaped the Events of 1857.
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What have been the methods used to study the ruins of Hampi over the last two centuries? In what way do you think they would have complemented the information provided by the priests of the Virupaksha temple?
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Write a short essay (250-300 words) on the following:
Examine any two sources presented in the chapter, choosing one visual and one text, and discuss how these represent the point of view of the victor and the vanquished.
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What Do the Terms “White” and “Black” Town Signify?
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To what extent is it possible to characterise agricultural production in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries as subsistence agriculture? Give reasons for your answer.
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