CLEVER CHILDREN _ A CBSE TUITION CENTRE

Q8. What do you mean by the term ' colonisation'?

Class – 8th History
Chapter – 1 How, when and where Q9. Who was James Mill?

Q10. Who wrote the book ‘A History of British India’?

Q1. Fill in the blanks.
i. Census operations were held every _______years. Q11. What do you understand by history?
ii. British established specialised institutions
like _____________and _____________were also established to preserve Q12. With what did the British historians associate the modern period?
important records.
Q13. What evil practices, according to James Mill, dominated the Indian
iii. More than _________ policemen refused to take food during social life before the British came to India?
police strike in Delhi in 1946.
iv. The periodisation of Indian history given Q14. What was an important aspect of the histories written by the
by ______________came to be widely accepted. British historians in India?
v. _____________ is certainly about changes that occur over time.
Q15. What official records do not tell?
Q2. True/False Or
i. James Mill divided Indian history into three periods – Hindu, What were the things that official records did not tell?
Muslim, Christian.________
Q16. Mention the events for which specific dates can be determined.
ii. The practice of surveying also became common under the
colonial administration. _______ Q17. Why do many historians refer to modern period as colonial?
iii. Official documents help us understand what the people of the
country think.________
iv. The British thought surveys were important for effective Q18. Who are calligraphists? How were they important in the early
nineteenth century?
administration.________
v. By the early nineteenth century detailed surveys were being Q19. Mention one important source used by historians in writing about
carried out to map the entire country. _________ the last 250 years of Indian history.
Or
Q3. When The National Archives of India came up? What sources do historians use in writing about the last 250 years of
Indian history?
Q4. How did paintings project Governor-Generals?
Q20. What do official records not tell? How do we come to know about
Q5. Who became the first governor general of British India? them?
Or
Q6. What did James Mills think about all Asian societies? What official records do not tell? From where do we get such
information?
Q7. How have historians divided Indian history?
Q21. Why did the British preserve official documents? Historians have divided Indian history into 'ancient', 'medieval' and
'modern'. What problems does this division have?
Q22. By what criteria do we choose a set of dates as important?
Q32. How important are dates?
Q23. Why do we try and divide history into different periods? Or
“History is boring because it is all about memorizing dates.” Is such a
Q24. How did the British conquer India and establish their rule? conception true?
Or
Q25. How did the invention of the printing press help in spreading In the common-sense notion, history was synonymous with dates.
news and information? Discuss

Q26. What did the British do to preserve important official documents Q33. How did surveys become important under the colonial
and letters? administration?
Or Or
Why did the British set up record rooms attached to all administrative Explain the importance of survey under the colonial administration.
institutions? Or
Why did surveys become a common practice under the colonial
Q27. James Rennel was supporter of British Rule in India. Discuss. administration?
Q28. Why we continue to associate history with a string of dates?
Or
What was the reason behind the use of dates in history?

Q29. How did James Mill view India?

Q30. What is the problem with the periodisation of Indian history that
James Mill offers?
Or
The Periodisation of Indian History made by James Mill during 1817
was unjustified. Why?

Q31. Historians divide Indian history into ancient, medieval and

modem. But this division too has its problems. What are these
problems?
Or
Historians divided history into ancient, medieval and modern period.
What is the problem with this periodisation?
Or
'Dividing Indian history into ancient, medieval and modern periods by
historians too has its problem' Explain.
Or