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Themes of Indian History III Flashcards

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During Cripps Mission (1942),

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Lord Cornawallis

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pottahs).

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(deeds

of contract

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report on zamindars

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fifth report

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lost their power to

organise local justice and the local police.

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Zamindars

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young India started by

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Lala Lajpat Rai

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Gandhi as Mahatma by

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SHAHID AMIN

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI

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Prof. K Swaminathan,

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prati sarkar during quit India Movement

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Satara

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has formed an

All-Bengal Civil Disobedience Council,

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Mr. J.M. Sengupta

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Vivid Vritt

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Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

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Pakistan coined by

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Chaudhari rehmat Ali

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Constitutional Advisor to the Government of

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One was B. N. Rau

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Chief Draughtsman,

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S. N. Mukherjee

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The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in

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GOI 1919,

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On 27 August 1947, r from Madras

made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.

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B. Pocker Bahadur

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Separate electorates was a “poison that has entered

the body politic of our country”, declared

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Sardar Patel

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believe separate electorates will

be suicidal to the minoritie

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G B Pant

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18
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Jotedar

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Rich ryot

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we have a vivid
description of this class of rich peasants known as
jotedars.

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In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the

Dinajpur district in North Bengal

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Adhiyars or Bagirdars

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Share croppers

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Halaodars or gantidars otr mandals

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Jotedar

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he was surgeon to the Governor-General of

India, Lord Wellesley

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Francis Buchanan’

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he organised a zoo that
became the Calcutta Alipore
Zoo;

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In Francis Buchanan’

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Then, by the 1780s, the Collector of Bhagalpur, proposed a policy of pacificatio for Paharias

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Augustus Cleveland,

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The battle between the hoe and the

plough was a long one

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Santhals and paharias

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Daman i Koh for

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santhals

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the leader of the

Santhal rebellion

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Sidhu Manjhi,

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(dikus)

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moneylenders

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He searched for valuable, he recorded all signs of iron ore and mica, granite and saltpetre. He carefully
observed local practices of salt-making and ironore-
mining.

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In Francis Buchanan’

30
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A sahukar was someone who

acted as both a

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moneylender

and a trader

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The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India which was introduced by

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Sir Thomas Munro in 1820 based on system administered by Captain Alexander Read in the Baramahal District

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In 1859 the British passed a Limitation Law that

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stated that the loan bonds signed between moneylenders and ryots would have validity for only three years

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Kunjras

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Vegetable growers

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Birjis Qadr

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Lucknow

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Gonoo

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Singhbum Odisha kol tribals leader during 1857

36
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Shah Mal lived in a large village in

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pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh

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He fought in the famous Battle of Chinhat in which the British forces under Henry Lawrence were defeated

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Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah

38
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In 1851 Governor General Lord Dalhousie described

the kingdom of Awadh as “

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a cherry that will drop into

our mouth one day

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Summary settlement 1856 in

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Awadh

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was, in fact, called

the “nursery of the Bengal Army’’

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Awadh

41
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TheSurvey of India was established

in

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1878.

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Shimla

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Gurkha war

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Mount Abu

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Anglo Maratha war

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In 1864 t

officially moved his council to Simla

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he Viceroy John Lawrence

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Amar katha

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Binodini dasi

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Chintadripet was an area meant for

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weavers.

47
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Royapuram was a settlement for

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Christian boatmen who worked for the Company

48
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Initially jobs with the Company were monopolised
by the a rural caste who took advantage of
the new opportunities provided by British rule.

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Vellalars,

49
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were a powerful commercial group that controlled the grain trade in the city.

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Telugu Komatis

50
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formed the labouring poor

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Paraiyars and

Vanniyars

51
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Calcutta had grown from three

villages called

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Sutanati, Kolkata and Govindapur

52
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public health”
became an idea that was proclaimed in projects of
town clearance and town planning.

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Lord Wellesley

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Lottery commitee

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1817

54
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The Town Hall in Bombay

(Fig. 12.24) was built in this style in 1833

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Neo Classical style

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Elphistone circle

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Neo Classical style

56
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University of Bombay and High

Court were all built in this style

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Neo Gothic

57
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Gateway of India built in the traditional
Gujarati style to welcome King George V and Queen
Mary to India in 1911, is the most famous example
of this style. The industrialist Jamsetji

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a new hybrid architectural style developed which
combined the Indian with the European. This was
called Indo-Saracenic.

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Victoria Terminus, the station and headquarters

of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company

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Neo Gothic

59
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Non-cooperation,” wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s
American biographer “became the name
of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji

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Louis Fischer,

60
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had persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the protests to men

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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

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