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1st Terminal Examination-2017

Class- VIIIB
HISTORY
Time: - 2hr 15mins
F.M: 80

Attempt Any Eight Questions

8X10=80

1.a) How did Lord Hardinge boost the English

education?
b) What picture of the city life of Calcutta is obtained
from the Hootuam Pyanchar Naksha?
c) What reflections of the Contemporary Bengali
society are found in the Bambodhini ?
2+4+4=10

2.a) How did the Forest Acts distress the tribal

people ?
b) write a note on the Barasat Rebellion.
c) How did the middle class intellectuals of Bengal
react to the Indigo
rebellion ?
2+4+4=10

3.a) which organization regarded as the first political

association of Bengal ?
b) What was the importance of the Bangabhasha
Prakashika Sabha?
c) What were the contributions of Surendranath
Banerjee in the formation of Associations?
2+4+4=10

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 4.a)According to Rabindranath, what was the objective
of real education?
b)What was the role of printing press in Journalism?
c) What was the contribution of Upendra Kishore
Roychaudhury to set up printing industries in
Bengal? 2+4+4=10

5.a)When was the partition of Bengal given effect?

b)Write the role about the Ekta movement in U.P.?
c)what was the role of Congress towards the
peasantry during the Civil Disobedience Movement?
2+4+4=10

6.a)How was the first trade Union formed?

b)What was the role of the woman during the Non-
cooperation Movement?
c)write about the note of the Barddi Satyagraha?
2+4+4=10

7.a)How did the women folk of Bengal Observe the day

of partition of Bengal on the 16th October 1905?
b)write about the aims of the Dipali Sangha.
c)write about the partition of Women in the Non
Cooperation Movement?
2+4+4=10

8.Write Short notes on :-

a) Jotiba Phule b)Chhatri Sangha
c)Namasuras
d) Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel
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2 X 4=10
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9. a) Why did the ruler of Kashmir appeal to India for

military assistance?
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 b) How was Junagadh annexed to the Indian Union?
c) What was the response of the princely states to
the call of Sardar patel
to accede to the Indian Union?
2+4+4=10