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HISTORY:
1. What is history?
History is all about the changes occur overtime and it tells
about the things how it was in the past and how it has changed
in the present.
2. In which way does old advertisement help us?
*old advertisement helps us understand how market had
created for new products and how the new tastes was
popularized.
3. Discuss about the histories written by British in India.
*Histories written by British in India these histories began
with rule of the Warren Hastings who was the first governor
general.
*And this all rules was ended with the last viceroy of Lord
Mountbatten.
4. Who was James mill?
*James was a Scottish economist and political philosopher.
*He was known for his massive three volume book called the
“history of British India”.
5. What had James mill done in his book?
He divided history into three periods as following:
* Hindu
* Muslims and
* British
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6. Why do we try to divide history into different periods?
We do so in an attempt to capture the characteristics of time,
its central features as they appeared to us – that is, demarcate
the difference between the periods – became important.
7. Why dates became important?
*Dates are important, as they note when certain events
happened.
*This is very important because history is recorded
chronologically.
*It helps to know that one event happened before another
event so that one can examine the relationship between
events. Dates also serve to mark periods in history.
8. How do we periodise?
* In 1817 James mill a Scottish economist and political
philosopher.
* He published a three volume book called history of British
India. He divided Indian history into three periods as Hindu
Muslims, and British. This was not accepted because already
Muslims and Hindu despots was ruling over the country.
* So the Indian historians divided Indian history into three
periods as ancient, medieval and modern. This too had its own
problems because this idea was borrowed from the west there
the modern period was associated with the growth and
progress.
9. How they established the control over the economy and
society?
Collected revenue to meet all their expenses and bought the
goods at the lower prices produced crops they needed for
export.
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10. What is colonization?
This process of establishing control over a country by another
country that brings about a social, economic, political and
cultural change is termed as colonization.
11. How and why does Britishers maintained official written
records?
* One important source of British is official records. The
Britishers believed that act of writing records was important.
Every instruction, policies, plan, decision have to be clearly
written up. Once this was done, things could be properly
studied and debated.
* The British also felt that all important documents and
letters needed to be carefully preserved. So they set up record
rooms along with administrative office like tahsildar office,
commissioner office, provincial secretariats and law courts-all
these office had their own record rooms. Specialized
institution such as museums and national archive were also
established to preserve main documents and important
records.
* In the early nineteenth century letters, memos, and
documents were moved from one branch to other. And also in
19th century these document were carefully copied by a
calligraphist.
12. How surveys became important?
* The process of surveying became important under the
colonial
Collected revenue to meet all their expenses and bought the
goods at the lower prices produced crops they needed for
export.
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Administration. By the early 19th century in order map the
entire country.
* in the villages the revenue surveys were conducted.
* This effort was to know the topography, quality of the soil,
flora and fauna, the local histories and the cropping pattern-
this all done to administer the country.
* From the end of the 19th century they started census
operation which held every 10 years.
* there were many other surveys like archeological surveys,
anthropological surveys, zoological surveys, botanical
surveys.
13.explain about the police strike that happened in 1946?
* More than 2000 police man in Delhi made strike on the
basis of the food.
* They refused take their food on Thursday morning and did
protest. Because they didn’t get correct salaries. And they also
got bad quality of food from police line kitchen.
14.which official records do not tell?
We should not tell about the personal thought of the citizen
such as how they felt, how they reacted to the laws. This can
be seen in diaries letters memos and etc..,.
Collected revenue to meet all their expenses and bought the
goods at the lower prices produced crops they needed for
export.
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Collected revenue to meet all their expenses and bought the
goods at the lower prices produced crops they needed for
export.
