COLONIALISM AND THE CITY

Question 1

WHAT IS DE-URBANISATION?

Answer 1

MANY TOWNS MANUFACTURING SPECIALIZED GOODS DECLINED DUE TO A DROP IN THE DEMAND FOR WHAT THEY PRODUCED. OLD TRADING CENTRE AND PORTS COULD NOT SURVIVE WHEN THE FLOW OF THE TRADE MOVED TO NEW CENTRES. SIMILARLY, EARLIER CENTRES OF REGIONAL POWER COLLAPSED WHEN LOCAL RULERS WERE DEFEATED BY THE BRITISH AND NEW CENTRES OF ADMINISTRATION EMERGED. THIS PROCESS IS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS DE-URBANISATION. CITIES SUCH AS MACHLIPATNAM, SURAT AND SERINGAPATNAM WERE DE-URBANISED DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Question 2

TERM IDGAH MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?

Answer 2

AN OPEN PRAYER PLACE OF MUSLIMS PRIMARILY MEANT FOR ID PRAYERS.

Question 3

TERM CUL-DE-SAC MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?

Answer 3

STREET WITH A DEAD END.

Question 4

MIR TAQI MIR WAS THE COURT POET OF?

Answer 4

ASAF UD DAULAH.

Question 5

DELHI BECAME THE CAPITAL OF BRITISH INDIA IN?

Answer 5

1911.

Question 6

FIRST MOSQUE IN INDIA WITH MINARETS AND FULL DOMES IS?

Answer 6

JAMA MASJID IN DELHI.

Question 7

WHICH FAMOUS POET WITNESSED THE EVENTS OF RANSACKING OF DELHI IN 1857?

Answer 7

GHALIB.

Question 8

MANY REFER TO THE PERIOD FROM______TO_______ AS A PERIOD OF THE DELHI RENAISSANCE.

Answer 8

1830 TO 1857.

Question 9

AFTER 1857 REVOLT WHICH MASJID WAS TURNED INTO A BAKERY AND IN WHICH MASJID WORSHIP WAS BANNED?

Answer 9

1. ZINAT-AL-MASJID WAS CONVERTED INTO A BAKERY.
2. NO WORSHIP WAS ALLOWED IN THE JAMA MASJID FOR FIVE YEARS.

Question 10

CHANGE BROUGHT IN SHAHJAHANABAD AND DELHI COLLEGE AFTER 1857 REVOLT?

Answer 10

1. IN THE 1870s, THE WESTERN WALLS OF SHAHJAHANABAD WERE BROKEN TO ESTABLISH THE RAILWAY AND TO ALLOW THE CITY TO EXPAND BEYOND THE WALLS.
2. BRITISH NOW BEGAN LIVING IN THE SPRAWLING CIVIL LINES AREA THAT CAME UP IN THE NORTH, AWAY FROM INDIANS IN THE WALLED CITY.
3. THE DELHI COLLEGE WAS TURNED INTO A SCHOOL, AND SHUT DOWN IN 1877.

Question 11

IN 1877,________ ORGANIZED A DURBAR TO ACKNOWLEDGE QUEEN VICTORIA AS THE EMPRESS OF INDIA.
REMEMBER THAT CALCUTTA WAS STILL THE CAPITAL OF BRITISH INDIA, BUT THE GRAND DURBAR WAS BEING HELD IN DELHI.

Answer 11

VICEROY LYTTON.

Question 12

THE DECISION TO SHIFT THE CAPITAL OF INDIA FROM CALCUTTA TO DELHI WAS ANNOUNCED AT WHICH DURBAR?

Answer 12

IN 1911, WHEN KING GEORGE V WAS CROWNED IN ENGLAND, A DURBAR WAS HELD IN DELHI TO CELEBRATE THE OCCASION.
THE DECISION TO SHIFT THE CAPITAL OF INDIA FROM CALCUTTA TO DELHI WAS ANNOUNCED AT THIS DURBAR.

Question 13

WHAT WERE BAOLIS AND EFFLUENTS IN MODERN INDIA?

Answer 13

1. BAOLIS- SYSTEM OF WELLS.
2. EFFLUENTS- CHANNELS TO REMOVE HOUSEHOLD WASTE.
   THEY WERE BROKEN DOWN SO AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE SHAHJAHANI DRAINS WERE CLOSED AND A NEW SYSTEM OF OPEN SURFACE DRAINS WAS INTRODUCED.

Question 14

TERM AMIR IN MODERN INDIA MEANS?

Answer 14

A NOBLEMAN.

Question 15

THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME WAS PLANNED BY WHOM?

Answer 15

IN 1888 AN EXTENSION SCHEME CALLED THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME WAS PLANNED BY ROBERT CLARKE FOR THE WALLED CITY RESIDENTS.

Question 16

WHAT WAS THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME?

Answer 16

1. THE IDEA WAS TO DRAW RESIDENTS AWAY FROM THE OLD CITY TO A NEW TYPE OF MARKET SQUARE, AROUND WHICH SHOPS WOULD BE BUILT.
2. STREETS IN THIS REDEVELOPMENT STRICTLY FOLLOWED THE GRID PATTERN, AND WERE OF IDENTICAL WIDTH, SIZE AND CHARACTER.
3. LAND WAS DIVIDED INTO REGULAR AREAS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD.
4. CLARKEGUNJ, AS THE DEVELOPMENT WAS CALLED, REMAINED INCOMPLETE AND DID NOT HELP TO DECONGEST THE OLD CITY.
5. EVEN IN 1912, WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE IN THESE NEW LOCALITIES WAS VERY POOR.

Question 17

DELHI IMPROVEMENT TRUST WAS SET UP IN WHICH YEAR AND WHAT CHANGES IT BROUGHT?

Answer 17

1. SET UP IN 1936.
2. IT BUILT AREAS LIKE DARYAGANJ SOUTH FOR THE WEALTHY INDIANS.
3. HOUSES WERE GROUPED AROUND PARKS.
4. WITHIN THE HOUSES, SPACE WAS DIVIDED ACCORDING TO NEW RULES OF PRIVACY.
5. INSTEAD OF SPACES BEING SHARED BY MANY FAMILIES OR GROUPS, NOW DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY HAD THEIR OWN PRIVATE SPACES WITHIN THE HOME.

Question 18

MAHADEV GOBIND RANADE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF?

Answer 18

1. WIDOW REMARRIAGE ASSOCIATION (MOVEMENT).
2. DECCAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.
3. POONA SARVAJANIK SABHA.
4. WIDOW’S HOME ASSOCIATION.
5. PRARTHANA SAMAJ.
6. SERVANTS OF INDIA SOCIETY.
7. INDIAN SOCIAL CONFERENCE.

Question 19

PERSONALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH TRADE UNION MOVEMENTS IN BRITISH INDIA?

Answer 19

1. NM LOKHANDE
2. BP WADIA
3. NM JOSHI
4. DHUNDHIRAJ THENGDI.

Question 20

1ST WOMEN IN INDIA TO CONTEST FOR ELECTIONS IN A STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY?

Answer 20

KAMALA DEVI CHATTOPADHYAY.

Question 21

IN 1931 _______ ATTENDED THE SECOND ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE AS AN OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WOMEN IN INDIA.

Answer 21

SAROJINI NAIDU.

Question 22

THE 1ST FEMINIST ORGANIZATION IN INDIA WAS FOUNDED BY?

Answer 22

PANDITA RAMABAI FOUNDED THE ARYA MAHILA SAMAJ (ARYA MAHILA SOCIETY).

Question 23

BOOK- THE HIGH CASTE HINDU WOMEN IS WRITTEN BY?

Answer 23

PANDITA RAMABAI IN 1887.

Question 24

PANDITA RAMABAI SET UP ________ MISSION FOR YOUNG WIDOWS AND _______ IN 1889 AT BOMBAY FOR DESTITUTE WOMEN.

Answer 24

MUKTI MISSION, KRUPA SADAN AND SHARDA SADAN (HOUSE OF LEARNING).