Themes of Indian History III Flashcards
During Cripps Mission (1942),
Lord Cornawallis
pottahs).
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of contract
report on zamindars
fifth report
lost their power to
organise local justice and the local police.
Zamindars
young India started by
Lala Lajpat Rai
Gandhi as Mahatma by
SHAHID AMIN
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Prof. K Swaminathan,
prati sarkar during quit India Movement
Satara
has formed an
All-Bengal Civil Disobedience Council,
Mr. J.M. Sengupta
Vivid Vritt
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Pakistan coined by
Chaudhari rehmat Ali
Constitutional Advisor to the Government of
One was B. N. Rau
Chief Draughtsman,
S. N. Mukherjee
The executive was made partly responsible to the provincial legislature in
GOI 1919,
On 27 August 1947, r from Madras
made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.
B. Pocker Bahadur
Separate electorates was a “poison that has entered
the body politic of our country”, declared
Sardar Patel
believe separate electorates will
be suicidal to the minoritie
G B Pant
Jotedar
Rich ryot
we have a vivid
description of this class of rich peasants known as
jotedars.
In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the
Dinajpur district in North Bengal
Adhiyars or Bagirdars
Share croppers
Halaodars or gantidars otr mandals
Jotedar
he was surgeon to the Governor-General of
India, Lord Wellesley
Francis Buchanan’
he organised a zoo that
became the Calcutta Alipore
Zoo;
In Francis Buchanan’
Then, by the 1780s, the Collector of Bhagalpur, proposed a policy of pacificatio for Paharias
Augustus Cleveland,
The battle between the hoe and the
plough was a long one
Santhals and paharias
Daman i Koh for
santhals
the leader of the
Santhal rebellion
Sidhu Manjhi,
(dikus)
moneylenders
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.
In Francis Buchanan’
A sahukar was someone who
acted as both a
moneylender
and a trader
The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India which was introduced by
Sir Thomas Munro in 1820 based on system administered by Captain Alexander Read in the Baramahal District
In 1859 the British passed a Limitation Law that
stated that the loan bonds signed between moneylenders and ryots would have validity for only three years
Kunjras
Vegetable growers
Birjis Qadr
Lucknow
Gonoo
Singhbum Odisha kol tribals leader during 1857
Shah Mal lived in a large village in
pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh
He fought in the famous Battle of Chinhat in which the British forces under Henry Lawrence were defeated
Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
In 1851 Governor General Lord Dalhousie described
the kingdom of Awadh as “
a cherry that will drop into
our mouth one day
Summary settlement 1856 in
Awadh
was, in fact, called
the “nursery of the Bengal Army’’
Awadh
TheSurvey of India was established
in
1878.
Shimla
Gurkha war
Mount Abu
Anglo Maratha war
In 1864 t
officially moved his council to Simla
he Viceroy John Lawrence
Amar katha
Binodini dasi
Chintadripet was an area meant for
weavers.
Royapuram was a settlement for
Christian boatmen who worked for the Company
Initially jobs with the Company were monopolised
by the a rural caste who took advantage of
the new opportunities provided by British rule.
Vellalars,
were a powerful commercial group that controlled the grain trade in the city.
Telugu Komatis
formed the labouring poor
Paraiyars and
Vanniyars
Calcutta had grown from three
villages called
Sutanati, Kolkata and Govindapur
public health”
became an idea that was proclaimed in projects of
town clearance and town planning.
Lord Wellesley
Lottery commitee
1817
The Town Hall in Bombay
(Fig. 12.24) was built in this style in 1833
Neo Classical style
Elphistone circle
Neo Classical style
University of Bombay and High
Court were all built in this style
Neo Gothic
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
a new hybrid architectural style developed which
combined the Indian with the European. This was
called Indo-Saracenic.
Victoria Terminus, the station and headquarters
of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company
Neo Gothic
Non-cooperation,” wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s
American biographer “became the name
of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji
Louis Fischer,
had persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the protests to men
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
