How Nomads and Mobile people lived

Question 1

Nomadic pastoralists moved over long distances with their __________ .

Answer 1

Animals

Question 2

Nomadic pastoralists lived on ______ and other __________.

Answer 2

Milk and other pastoral products

Question 3

What did the nomadic pastoralists exchange with settles agriculturists for what in return? What did they do with these goods?

Answer 3

They exchanged wool,ghee, utensils, etc with settled agriculturists for grain, cloth and other products.
They bought and sold these goods from one place to another, transporting them on their animals.

Question 4

A chain of _________ connected India to the outside world.

Answer 4

Mobile trainers

Question 5

Give an example of the goods Central Asian traders brought to India. Name the trader nomads who carried them to local amrkets.

Answer 5

Central Asian traders brought goods such as nuts to India. The Banjaras and other traders carried these to local markets.

Question 6

Who were the most important trader-nomads?

Answer 6

Banjaras

Question 7

Name the caravan of the Banjaras. How many oxen were present in the Tanda that Peter Mundy met?

Answer 7

Tanda, 14000 oxen

Question 8

__________ used the Banjaras to transport grain to the city markets.

Answer 8

Sultan Aluaddin Khalji

Question 9

__________ wrote in his memoirs about the Banjaras.

Answer 9

Emperor Jahangir

Question 10

What did Emperor Jahangir write in his memoirs about the Banjaras?

Answer 10

He wrote in his memoirs that the Banjaras carried grain on their bullocks from different areas and sold it in towns.

Question 11

_________ carried grain for the Mughal army during Military campaigns.

Answer 11

Banjaras

Question 12

Who are itinerant groups?

Answer 12

Itinerant groups , such as craftpersons, pedlars and entertainers travel from place to place practicing different occupations.

Question 13

Highlight the key difference and similarity between Nomads and Itinerant groups.

Answer 13

• Nomads are mainly pastoralists who roam from one pasture to another with their flocks and herds.
  -Itinerant groups such as craftpersons, pedlars and entertainers travel from one place to another practicing different occupations.
• Both groups often visit the same places every year.

Question 14

Peter Mundy compares the lifestyle of the Banjaras to _________ .

Answer 14

He compares the lifestyle of the Banjaras to that of carriers who continuously travel from place to place.

Question 15

Name some of the Grains the Banjaras carried.

Answer 15

Rice and Wheat

Question 16

What all do the Banjaras carry with them?

Answer 16

They carry their households- wives and children, grains (goods) and oxen.

Question 17

How did the Banjaras manage their trade?

Answer 17

They own their oxen. They are sometime hired by merchants, but most of the times they are themselves merchants. They buy grain where it is cheaply available and sell it in places where it is dearer. From there , they reload their oxen with anything that can profitably be sold in other places.

Question 18

How many persons were there in a Tanda? How far did they travel in a day?

Answer 18

In a Tanda there may be as many as 6 or 7 hundred persons. They do not travel more than 6 or 7 miles a day, that, too, in cool weather.

Question 19

‘After unloading their oxen, They turn them free to graze.’ Why?

Answer 19

As their is enough land and no one to forbid them.

Question 20

Many Pastoral tribes reared and sold ________ such as ________ and _______ to the __________.

Answer 20

Animals such as cattle and horses to the prosperous people.

Question 21

Different castes of _________ traveled from village to village. What did they make and sell?

Answer 21

Petty pedlars, They made and sold wares such as ropes, reeds , straw matting and coarse sacks.

Question 22

Sometimes mendicants acted as _________; There were castes of __________ who performed in different _____ and ______ for their livelihood.

Answer 22

Wandering traders, Entertainers, Towns , Villages

Question 23

Name an area of the Kutiya Kond tribe.

Answer 23

Orissa.