A model of the South Asian colonial city
The European town…had spacious bungalows, elegant apartment houses, planned streets, trees on both sides of the street,…clubs for afternoon and evening get togethers…The open space was reserved for…Western recreational facilities, such as race and golf courses, soccer and cricket. When domestic water supply, electric connections, and sewage links were available or technically possible, the European town residents utilised them fully, whereas their use was quite restricted to the native town.
Read the source and answer the following question.
Did the model of the South Asian colonial city cater to the needs of the natives? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development.
The growth of ______ cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How are capitalism and colonialism linked?
Concept: Understanding Colonialism
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Urban luxury manufacturers like the high-quality silks and cotton of Dacca or Murshidabad must have been hit first by the almost simultaneous collapse of indigenous court demand and the external market on which these had largely depended. Village crafts in the interior and particularly, in regions other than eastern India where British penetration was earliest and deepest, probably survived much longer, coming to be seriously affected only with the spread of railways. (Sarkar : 1983 : 29) |
When the British took over states and towns of India, some of them lost their courts, artisans, and court gentry. Give any one reason.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
| "For Indian nationalists, the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue." |
How did Indian nationalists promote industrialization in the early years of independence?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Kumudtai’s journey into Sanskrit began with great interest and eagerness with Gokhale Guruji, her teacher at school…At the University, the Head of the Department was a well-known scholar and he took great pleasure in taunting Kumudtai…Despite the adverse comments she successfully completed her Masters in Sanskrit…. Source: Kumud Pawade (1938)
Read the source and answer the following question.
Do you think sanskritisation is a gendered process? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
Elucidate the phenomena of modernity.
Concept: How Do We Approach the Study of Sanskritisation, Modernisation, Secularisation and Westernisation
19th century reform initiated a period of questioning, reinterpretations and both intellectual and social growth. Using suitable examples, justify the given statement.
Concept: Social Reform Movements in the 19th and Early 20th Century
“Famines were also a major and recurring source of increased mortality.” Which of the following is not a cause of famines?
Concept: Size and Growth of India’s Population
Assertion(A): The Population Pyramid shows a bulge in the middle age groups, due to the opportunity provided by the demographic structure.
Reason(R): This is due to the high birth rate in the middle age groups.
Concept: Age Structure of the Indian Population
With the growth of the ______ movement in the 20th century, there was an attempt in several Indian languages to drop Sanskrit words and phrases.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
The growth rate of India in the decade 1911-21, exhibited a diverse pattern. State two reasons.
Concept: Size and Growth of India’s Population
Using the example of Kumud Pawade, show how the process of sanskritisation is gendered.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
What was unique about the social reform movements of the 19th century?
Concept: Social Reform Movements in the 19th and Early 20th Century
| Table 3: The Declining Sex-ratio in India, 1901-2011 | ||||
| Year |
Sex ratio (all age groups) |
Variation over the previous decade | Child Sex ratio (0-6 years) | Variation over the previous decade |
| 1901 | 972 | - | - | - |
| 1911 | 964 | -8 | - | - |
| 1921 | 955 | -9 | - | - |
| 1931 | 950 | -5 | - | - |
| 1941 | 945 | -5 | - | - |
| 1951 | 946 | +1 | - | - |
| 1961 | 941 | -5 | 976 | - |
| 1971 | 930 | -11 | 964 | -12 |
| 1981 | 934 | +4 | 962 | -2 |
| 1991 | 927 | -7 | 945 | -17 |
| 2001 | 933 | +6 | 927 | -18 |
| 2011 | 943 | +10 | 919 | -8 |
| Note: The sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 males; Data on age-specific sex ratios are not available before 1961. |
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- Give reasons for the declining sex ratio.
- In your opinion, what steps should be taken to deal with this bias against the girl-child?
Concept: Some Theories and Concepts in Demography
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| Ways of thinking ........ John Stuart Mill's essay 'On Liberty' soon after its publication became a text in Indian colleges. Indians came to know about Magna Carta and the struggle for liberty and equality in Europe and America. |
Mention the kind of Westernization being referred to in the given source.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
"Sanskritisation seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion." Give two reasons to support this statement.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
The varied social reform movements did have common themes. Yet there were also significant differences. State any two differences.
Concept: Social Reform Movements in the 19th and Early 20th Century
The interaction of the tribal communities with the mainstream has generally been on terms unfavourable for the tribals. Many tribal identities today are centred on ideas of ______ to the overwhelming force of the non-tribal world.
Concept: Tribal Communities
Assertion(A): Tribes are pristine societies uncontaminated by civilisation.
Reason(R): Tribes should really be seen as “secondary” phenomena arising out of the exploitative and colonialist contact between pre-existing states and non-state groups like the tribals.
Concept: Tribal Communities
