8 CBSE QUESTION BANK SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHER’S MANUAL FULL MARKS PVT LTD Educational Publishers 4238A/1, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 CONTENTS PART-A: HISTORY (OUR PASTS-III) 1. How, When and Where 3 2. From Trade to Territory The Company Establishes Power 6 3. Ruling the Countryside 12 4. Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age 17 5. When People Rebel (1857 and After) 21 6. Colonialism and The City The Story of an Imperial Capital 25 7. Weavers, Iron Smelters and Factory Owners 29 8. Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation 33 9. Women, Caste and Reform 37 10. The Changing World of Visual Arts 42 11. The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 46 12. India After Independence 51 l Worksheets 1 to 12 56–74 PART-B: GEOGRAPHY (RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT) 1. Resources 75 2. Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Resources 77 3. Mineral and Power Resources 82 4. Agriculture 87 5. Industries 90 6. Human Resources 94 l Worksheets 1 to 6 97–104 PART-C: CIVICS (SOCIAL & POLTICAL LIFE-III) 1. The Indian Constitution 105 2. Understanding Secularism 108 3. Why do We Need a Parliament? 110 4. Understanding Laws 113 5. Judiciary 116 6. Understanding Our Criminal Justice System 119 7. Understanding Marginalisation 121 8. Confronting Marginalisation 124 9. Public Facilities 127 10. Law and Social Justice 129 l Worksheets 1 to 10 131–140 Part-A: HISTORY (OUR PASTS-III) Chapter 1 How, When and Where FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Oral Questions Rapid-Fire Questions 1. James Rennel 1. Dates 2. Robert 2. As powerful figures 3. 1773 3. James Mill 4. Survey of the plant resources 4. When the subjugation of one of the Indian empire country by another leads to 5. False various kinds of political, economic, social and cultural Puzzle Time changes, we refer to the process of colonisation. AROYALTYASGD P 5. Sepoy Mutiny RCREQTBDLST P O 6. Surveys were important for JSIMF P JOWZIHS C P TQKOGVHLNGT effective administration. EWAIVVBQKULAE Fill in the Blanks NGBCZFAUNABNR SNONSNBUCHDCI 1. past 2. economist UWODLMRTEWTIT 3. British 4. deeds SHDYYVXSURVEY 5. Viceregal Palace WXRGCJZYMAFNS True/False ARTOGHFZL P RTX 1. True 2. False 3. True FLORACSAXALGZ SUAJYBAEAKQOL 4. True 5. False SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Multiple Choice Questions True/False 1. (c) Warren Hastings 1. True 2. True 3. False 2. (a) archives and museums 4. False 5. False 3. (a) administer the country effectively Very Short Answer Type Questions 4. (b) The correct answer is 1. Dates become vital in history ‘British’. because we focus on a Match the following particular set of events as (i)—(d) (ii)—(c) (iii)—(a) important. (iv)—(e) (v)—(b) 2. The histories written by British historians in India began Fill in the Blanks revolved around the life of 1. three 2. darkness British Governor-Generals. 3. colony 4. ordinary All the dates in these history 5. surveys books were liked to these 3 personalities to their activities, therefore wrote about the year policies and achievements. a king was crowned, the year 3. The last viceroy of India was he married, the year he had Lord Mountbatten. a child, the year he fought a 4. • It is done to give each particular war, the year he chapter some coherence. died, and the year the next • It is to tell a story in a way ruler succeeded to the throne. that makes some sense and For such events specific dates can be followed. can be determined. Therefore, 5. We do so in an attempt to history is associated with capture the characteristics of dates. a time, its central features as 2. James Mill is his book, A History they appear to us. of British India, divided Indian 6. These sources are : history into three periods— • Official records of the Hindu, Muslim and British. British administration. Although this periodisation • Archives and museums. was widely accepted, it has its • Letters and memos. own problem. It is not easy to 7. They did so to preserve refer to any period of history important documents and as ‘Hindu’ or ‘Muslim’. The letters there. reason is that a variety of 8. The Botanical Survey of India faiths existed simultaneously (1351) is an institution set in these periods. up by the Government of Further, it is also not fair India in 1890 to survey the to characterise an age only plant resources of the Indian through the religion of empire. the rulers of the time. This 9. The British established suggests that the lives and botanical gardens to collect practices of the other do not plant specimens and really matter. It is noteworthy information about their uses. here that even rulers in ancient 10. In the villages, revenue India did not all share the surveys were conducted to same faith. know the topography, the soil 3. This periodisation is borrowed quality, the flora, the fauna, from the west where the the local histories and the modern period was associated cropping patterns. These facts with the growth of all the were necessary to administer forces of modernity i.e., the region. science, reason, democracy, Short Answer Type Questions liberty and equality. Medieval 1. There was a time when history was the term used to describe was an account of battles and a society where these features big events. It was about rulers of modern society did not and their policies. Historians exist. 4 n Question Bank Social Science-VIII But the characterisation of the personalities and popular modern period is difficult to booklets that where sold in accept because Indians did local markets. not enjoy equality, and liberty 6. In the picture, Brahmanas are under the British rule. The shown offering the Shastras to British rulers also did not give Britannia, frontispiece to the much importance to economic first map produced by James growth and progress and the Rennel, in 1782. country remained backward. The picture here tries to This period is, therefore, suggest that Indians willingly referred to as ‘colonial’ by gave over their ancient texts many historians. to Britannia—the symbol of 4. The British colonised India not British power—as if asking in a day. They did it slowly her to become the protector and steadily. They first of of Indian culture. all subjugated local nawabs Long Answer Type Questions and rajas. Then they looked control over the country’s 1. The British thought that economy and society. They surveys were important for collected revenue to meet effective administration. all their expenses, bought Hence, they carried out the goods they wanted at detailed surveys by the early low prices and produced nineteenth century to map crops they needed for export. the entire country. In the What is more the British villages, revenue surveys also brought about changes were conducted to know the in values, tastes, customs topography, solid quality, and practices. In this way, the flora, the fauna, the local they moulded everything in histories and the cropping their favour and successfully patterns. All these facts were colonised the country. seen necessary to know about 5. The British official records tell to administer the region. The us what the officials thought, British also started census what they were interested operations from the end of the in and what they wished nineteenth century. Here it is to preserve for posterity. noteworthy that census was These records do not help held every ten years. These us understand what other prepared detailed records people in the country felt of the number of people in and what they lay behind all the provinces of India, their actions. For that we take noting information on castes, help of other sources such as religions and occupation. diaries of people, accounts The British also carried other of pilgrims and travellers, surveys such as botanical autobiographies of important surveys, zoological surveys, Teacher’s Manual n 5 archaeological surveys, they also set up archives anthropological surveys, and museums to preserve forest surveys. important records. 2. • The British believed that the • Letters and memos that act of writing was important. moved from one branch Every instruction, plan, of the administration to policy, decision, agreement, another in the early years investigation had to be of the 19th century can still clearly written up. They be read in the archives. One were of the view that things can also study the notes could be properly studied and reports that district and debated ofter that. officials prepared. This conviction produced • The instructions and an administrative culture directives that were sent of memos, notings and by officials at the top to reports. provincial administrations • The British also gave can also be read. In the much important to the early years of the 19th preservation of important century these documents documents and letters. were carefully copied out For this they set up record and beautifully written rooms attached to all by calligraphists by the administrative institutions middle of the 19th century, such as the village with the spread of printing, tahsildar’s office, the multiple copies of these collectriats, the lawcourts, records were printed. Chapter From Trade to Territory 2 The Company Establishes Power FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Oral Questions 3. nawab 4. Plassey 5. Salbai 1. A royal edict, a royal order 2. Factors 3. In 1600 True/False 4. The ruler of Mysore 1. True 2. True 3. False 5. Governor-General 4. True 5. False Fill in the Blanks Rapid-Fire Questions 1. Matchlock 1. A poor chowkidar of Sangoli 2. Queen Elizabeth-I in Kitoor, (in Karnataka today) who carried on the anti-British 6 n Question Bank Social Science-VIII resistance movement after Puzzle Time Rani Channamma but was SRANAWMBJWTJ hanged by the British.