COLONIALISM AND THE CITY Flashcards
WHAT IS DE-URBANISATION?
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.
TERM IDGAH MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?
AN OPEN PRAYER PLACE OF MUSLIMS PRIMARILY MEANT FOR ID PRAYERS.
TERM CUL-DE-SAC MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?
STREET WITH A DEAD END.
MIR TAQI MIR WAS THE COURT POET OF?
ASAF UD DAULAH.
DELHI BECAME THE CAPITAL OF BRITISH INDIA IN?
1911.
FIRST MOSQUE IN INDIA WITH MINARETS AND FULL DOMES IS?
JAMA MASJID IN DELHI.
WHICH FAMOUS POET WITNESSED THE EVENTS OF RANSACKING OF DELHI IN 1857?
GHALIB.
MANY REFER TO THE PERIOD FROM______TO_______ AS A PERIOD OF THE DELHI RENAISSANCE.
1830 TO 1857.
AFTER 1857 REVOLT WHICH MASJID WAS TURNED INTO A BAKERY AND IN WHICH MASJID WORSHIP WAS BANNED?
- ZINAT-AL-MASJID WAS CONVERTED INTO A BAKERY.
- NO WORSHIP WAS ALLOWED IN THE JAMA MASJID FOR FIVE YEARS.
CHANGE BROUGHT IN SHAHJAHANABAD AND DELHI COLLEGE AFTER 1857 REVOLT?
- IN THE 1870s, THE WESTERN WALLS OF SHAHJAHANABAD WERE BROKEN TO ESTABLISH THE RAILWAY AND TO ALLOW THE CITY TO EXPAND BEYOND THE WALLS.
- BRITISH NOW BEGAN LIVING IN THE SPRAWLING CIVIL LINES AREA THAT CAME UP IN THE NORTH, AWAY FROM INDIANS IN THE WALLED CITY.
- THE DELHI COLLEGE WAS TURNED INTO A SCHOOL, AND SHUT DOWN IN 1877.
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.
VICEROY LYTTON.
THE DECISION TO SHIFT THE CAPITAL OF INDIA FROM CALCUTTA TO DELHI WAS ANNOUNCED AT WHICH DURBAR?
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.
WHAT WERE BAOLIS AND EFFLUENTS IN MODERN INDIA?
- BAOLIS- SYSTEM OF WELLS.
- 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.
TERM AMIR IN MODERN INDIA MEANS?
A NOBLEMAN.
THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME WAS PLANNED BY WHOM?
IN 1888 AN EXTENSION SCHEME CALLED THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME WAS PLANNED BY ROBERT CLARKE FOR THE WALLED CITY RESIDENTS.
WHAT WAS THE LAHORE GATE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME?
- THE IDEA WAS TO DRAW RESIDENTS AWAY FROM THE OLD CITY TO A NEW TYPE OF MARKET SQUARE, AROUND WHICH SHOPS WOULD BE BUILT.
- STREETS IN THIS REDEVELOPMENT STRICTLY FOLLOWED THE GRID PATTERN, AND WERE OF IDENTICAL WIDTH, SIZE AND CHARACTER.
- LAND WAS DIVIDED INTO REGULAR AREAS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD.
- CLARKEGUNJ, AS THE DEVELOPMENT WAS CALLED, REMAINED INCOMPLETE AND DID NOT HELP TO DECONGEST THE OLD CITY.
- EVEN IN 1912, WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE IN THESE NEW LOCALITIES WAS VERY POOR.
DELHI IMPROVEMENT TRUST WAS SET UP IN WHICH YEAR AND WHAT CHANGES IT BROUGHT?
- SET UP IN 1936.
- IT BUILT AREAS LIKE DARYAGANJ SOUTH FOR THE WEALTHY INDIANS.
- HOUSES WERE GROUPED AROUND PARKS.
- WITHIN THE HOUSES, SPACE WAS DIVIDED ACCORDING TO NEW RULES OF PRIVACY.
- 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.
MAHADEV GOBIND RANADE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF?
- WIDOW REMARRIAGE ASSOCIATION (MOVEMENT).
- DECCAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.
- POONA SARVAJANIK SABHA.
- WIDOW’S HOME ASSOCIATION.
- PRARTHANA SAMAJ.
- SERVANTS OF INDIA SOCIETY.
- INDIAN SOCIAL CONFERENCE.
PERSONALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH TRADE UNION MOVEMENTS IN BRITISH INDIA?
- NM LOKHANDE
- BP WADIA
- NM JOSHI
- DHUNDHIRAJ THENGDI.
1ST WOMEN IN INDIA TO CONTEST FOR ELECTIONS IN A STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY?
KAMALA DEVI CHATTOPADHYAY.
IN 1931 _______ ATTENDED THE SECOND ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE AS AN OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WOMEN IN INDIA.
SAROJINI NAIDU.
THE 1ST FEMINIST ORGANIZATION IN INDIA WAS FOUNDED BY?
PANDITA RAMABAI FOUNDED THE ARYA MAHILA SAMAJ (ARYA MAHILA SOCIETY).
BOOK- THE HIGH CASTE HINDU WOMEN IS WRITTEN BY?
PANDITA RAMABAI IN 1887.
PANDITA RAMABAI SET UP ________ MISSION FOR YOUNG WIDOWS AND _______ IN 1889 AT BOMBAY FOR DESTITUTE WOMEN.
MUKTI MISSION, KRUPA SADAN AND SHARDA SADAN (HOUSE OF LEARNING).
