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12th Standard
History
Answer all the following Questions.
Write a note on Indigo revolt?
Make a list of the important political associations formed in India prior to the Indian National Congress.
How did M.G. Ranade explain the idea of Swadesh?
What were the repressive measures adopted by the colonial government to crush the nationalist movements?
What was the background for the launch of the Khilafat movement?
How was the visit of Prince of Wales to India received?
Why was the Rowlatt Act opposed by the nationalists?
Identify the persons who appeared and defended the accused in the Meerut Conspiracy Case.
What were the demands put forth by Muslim under the leadership of Aga Khan.
What is the importance of Lahore resolution?
What was the essence of the JVP Committee’s recommendations?
What were the immediate tasks before the new government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru?
Point out the outcome of Diet of Worms.
Point out the importance of the battle of Saratoga.
Highlight the essential features of Industrial Revolution.
Explain Poor Laws.
What is the importance of the year 1873 in the economic history of America?
Highlight the outcome of the Balkan crisis.
What is Nihilism?
Why did Germany withdraw from the League of Nations in 1933?
Enumerate the essential principles of Atlantic Charter.
What do you know about Cominform?
Outline the concept of Perestroika.
What are the Contributions of Early Nationalists?
Who are called by triumvirate? What they do?
Why Home Rule Movement Decline?
What are all included in Non-cooperation movement?
For indepenace what was action of Kalpana Dutt.
Who are members of Gaurakshini Sabha?
Who addressed Mahatma Gandhi as "Father of the Nation" & where?
Answers
1) The indigo revolt of 1859-60 was one of the responses from the Indian farmer to the oppressive policy of the British.
2) Indian tenants were forced to grow indigo by their planters who were mostly Europeans. Used to dye the clothes indigo was in high demand in Europe.
Madras Native Association (MNA) on 26 February 1852.
Indian Society - 1865
East Indian Association - 1866
Madras Mahajana Sabha (MMS) on 16 May 1884
1) Swadeshi means 'of one's own country'.
2) The origin of the idea can be traced to 1872 when Mahadev Govind Ranade, in a series of lectures in Poona, popularised the idea of Swadeshi.
3) According to Ranade, the goods produced in one's own country should be given preference even if the use of such goods proved to be less satisfactory.
1) The Newspapers (Incitement to Offence) Act, 1908. This act empowered the magistrate to confiscate press property which published objectionable material making it difficult to publish anything critical of British rule.
2) Indian Press Act 1910 made it mandatory for publishers and the printers to deposit a security that could be seized in case they printed 'obnoxious material'.
3) The Indian Criminal Law Amendment Act allowed summary trials and also imposed the prohibition of 'association dangerous to the public peace'.
1) The dismemberment of the Caliphate was seen as a blow to Islam. Muslims around the world, sympathetic to the cause of the Caliph, decided to oppose the move.
2) Muslims in India also organised themselves under the leadership of the Ali brothers - Maulana Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali started a movement known as Khalifat Movement.
1) The visit of Prince of Wales in 1921 to several cities in India was also boycotted.
2) The calculation of the colonial government that the visit of the Prince would evoke loyal sentiments of the Indian people was proved wrong.
1) Despite every elected member of the central legislature opposing the bill, the government passed the Rowlatt Act in March 1919.
2) This Act empowered the government to imprison any person without trial.
3) Gandhi and his associates were shocked.
4) Almost the entire country was electrified when Gandhi called upon the people to observe 'hartal' in March-April 1919 against the Rowlatt Act.
Famous Indian lawyers like K.F. Nariman and M.C. Chagla appeared in the court on behalf of the accused.
The League supported the partition of Bengal, demanded separate electorates for Muslims, and pressed for safeguards for Muslims in Government Service.
The idea of separate nation for Muslims.
1) The demand for linguistic reorganisation of states did not stop.
2) The issue gained centre-stage with Pattabhi Sitaramayya's election as the Congress President at the Jaipur session.
3) A resolution there led to the constitution of a committee with Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Pattabhi Sitaramayya and Jawaharlal Nehru also called the JVP committee.
Thus, the new government of India was faced with the mammoth task of developing the economy, improving conditions in agriculture, widening the manufacturing sector, increasing employment and reducing poverty.
1. The pope tried to hold peace talks with Luther by calling him for Diet of Worms. If failed.
2. The Diet of Worms disavowed his books and burnt them.
3. He was outlawed from the Holy Roman Empire by the emperor. Martin Luther's radical views influenced many and one such was Thomas Muntzer who fought for a classless society.
4. This started the Peasant's Rebelling in parts of Germany. However, Luther supported the feudal lords in this fight and denounced the peasant movement.
1. At the Battle of Saratoga, the British General Burgoyne was forced to surrender.
2. Finally, the British forces surrendered to the American forces at York Town.
3. With this victory the northern colonies became free.
1. The use of iron and steel.
2. The use of new sources of energy or fuels such as coal, steam, and iron.
3. The invention of new machines that increased production.
4. Developments in transport and communication.
1. In Britain the Poor Laws, as codified during Elizabethan period.
2. This act provided a relief for the aged, sick, and poor infants.
3. This act also provided a relief for the capable unemployed in workhouses.
1. The global economic Depression occurred in 1873.
2. This economic Depression also affected the United States very seriously.
3. American railroads became bankrupt in this period.
1. The Bulgarians felt injured and awaited an opportunity to take revenge on Serbia.
2. The passions of the Serbians were inflamed by victory.
3. Anti-Austrian struggle in Serbia and Bosnia became ever more militant.
1. Nihilism represented a revolt against the established social order.
2. It rejected all authority exercised by the state, church and by the family.
3. It based its belief only on scientific truth.
1. In Disarmament Conference, The issue was the German rearmament plan on a par with France.
2. The French refused to agree to this proposal.
3. As a result, Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.
1. No territorial changes without the consent of the people concerned.
2. Freedom to travel across the sea without hindrance.
3. Disarmament of all nations that threaten aggression.
1. USSR set up The Cominform the Corrnnunist Information Bureau in September 1947.
2. This was an organisation in which all European communist parties were represented.
3. It discouraged trade contact between the non-communist countries and tried to forge ideological and material linkages with its member countries.
1. With the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as the President of USSR in March 1985, there were phenomenal political and social changes in the Soviet Union.
2. Gorbachev committed himself to reforms. In February 1986 he spoke in the Communist Party Congress, explaining the need for political and economic restructuring, or perestroika, and called for a new era of transparency and openness, or glasnost.
3. By Perestroika Gorbachev loosened centralised control of many institutions, allowing businesses, fanners and manufacturers to decide for themselves which products to make,how much to produce; and what te charge for them.
1) Leaders of the INC adopted the constitutional methods of presenting petitions, prayers and memorandums and thereby earned the moniker of "Moderates".
2) It was also the time some sort of an understanding about colonialism was evolving in India.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai, often referred to as the Lal- Bal-Pal triumvirate, Maharashtra, Bengal, Punjab, emerged as the epicentres of militant nationalism during the Swadeshi phase.
Home Rule Movement declined after Besant accepted the proposed Montagu- Chelmsford Reforms and Tilak went to Britain in September 1918 to pursue the libel case that he had filed against Valentine Chirol, the author of Indian Unrest.
1) Non-cooperation movement included boycott of schools, colleges, courts, government offices, legislatures, foreign goods, return of government conferred titles and awards.
2) Alternatively, national schools, panchayats were to be set up and swadeshi goods manufactured and used.
3) The struggle at a later stage was to include no tax campaign and mass civil disobedience, etc.
1. While Bhagat Singh represented young men who dedicated their lives to the freedom of the country, Kalpana Dutt-represented the young women who defied the existing patriarchal set up and took to arms for the liberation of their motherland.
2. Not only did they act as messengers (as elsewhere) but they also participated in direct actions, fought along with men, carrying guns.
Cow protectionists in the Punjab, the activities of Gaurakshini Sabhas in the Central Provinces, the campaigners for the recognition of Devanagiri as official language in courts and government offices in the United Provinces were also involved in the Congress organization.
Bose addressed a message to Gandhi over the Azad Hind Radio from Rangoon. Calling him the 'Father of the Nation'.