Holiday Homework (2017-18) 8C History Instruction This homework will help you to prepare for the midterm and final exam. Please complete the work in your copy or register and submit on the date given. Make a separate folder for this work. Source 1 Source based (Statement) According to source A, what reasons are suggested for the British victory at the battle of Plassey in 1757? Source 2 The whole floor is covered with a fine cotton mattress four inches thick. In the winter a silk carpet is placed over the mattress. Five or six feet from the sides of the room have shelves. On them are porcelain vases and flower pots. The ceiling is gilt and painted, but with no pictures of man or beast, because these are forbidden by their religion. A description of the house of a nobleman at the time of Aurangzeb. It was written by a French doctor travelling India. What can we learn from source A at the time of Aurangzeb about the lives of noblemen? Source 3 History has viewed Clive both as a courageous and resourceful military commander who ultimately became an imperial statesman, and also as a greedy speculator who used his political and military influence to amass a fortune, at India s expense. Although he attempted to reform the Bengal administration and reduce corruption, Clive was subjected to further political attacks on his return home in1767. Accused of running a corrupt administration, he responded: I stand astonished at my own moderation. From the web page of British Army Museum. According to this source what sort of person was Sir Robert Clive?
Source 4 All the surplus produce of a fertile land under a most bounteous providence was swept into the coffers of the Mughal Nobility and pampered them in a degree of luxury not dreamt of even by kings in Persia or Central Asia. Hence, in the houses of the Delhi Nobility, luxury was carried to an excess. The harems of many of them were filled with an immense number of women of an infinite variety of races, intellect and character. From the writings of Sir Jadunath Sarkar, an early twentieth century Bengali historian. According to source A, what were the weaknesses of the Mughal Empire? Source 5 Romesh Dutt, who became president of Congress in 1899, has written that the purpose of Britain s economic policy in India. was to make India subservient to the industries of Britain and to make the Indian people grow raw produce only to supply materials for the manufacturing industry in Britain. Historians have calculated that in the 150 years after the Battle of Plassey, a sum of 1000 million was transferred from India to Britain. This helps explain the poverty that exited in India in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and may explain why the famines of 1877, 1878, 1889 and 1892 had such a devastating effect. It has been calculated that around 15 million people died in these famines. According to source, what do think about the Indian money being called Drain of Wealth? Source 1 Picture Based
Source 2 What does sorce B tell about what happened at Plassey in 1757? [5] A painting of a British official of the British East India Company riding in an Indian procession in 1825. a) What does Source tell us about the British East India Company I 1825? Source 3 Why do you think the British are acting so cruelly in this picture? Source 4
This cartoon is an example of British propaganda and not drawn to tell the truth. What do you think the message is and how does the cartoon try to put it across? In what ways is that message wrong? 4 Marks Questions 1) Describe what the Marathas did. 2) Who was Tipu Sultan? 3) Who was Ranjit Singh? 4) How was Babur different from the invaders from the north? 5) What difficulties did Humuyan face? 6) What was the EIC? 7) Why was EIC interested in India? 8) What was the Doctrine of Lapse? 9) What happened at Plassey in 1757? 10) Why were the British interested in Sindh? 7 Marks Questions 1) Explain the appeal of India to the East India Company during the early seventeenth century. 2) Why were the British able to take control of India by 1850? 3) Why was Aurangzeb unpopular by the time of his death in 1707? 4) Why the annexation of Sindh was a shameful act?
5) Why was Britain successful in maintaining its control of the sub-continent in the years 1750 to 1850? 6) Was the arrival of the British the main reason for the decline of the Mughal Empire? Give reasons for your answer. 7) Why was an Act of Parliament concerning India passed in Britain in 1773? 8) How was the British system of government organized in India from 1784? 9) Explain how: a. The weakness of India b. The strength of the British contributed to British conquering India. 10) Why do historians mean when they say that to be successful in the nineteenth century Indians had to become Anglicized? 14 Marks Questions 1) Did Shah Walli Ullah contribute more to the spread of Islam than anyone else in the sub-continent before 1850? Explain your answer. 2) Who of the following was the most important in the spread of Islam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: i. Shah Wali Ullah; ii. Syed Ahmad Shaheed Baravailvi; iii. Haji Shariat Ullah? Explain your answer with reference to all three of the above. 3) Which of following was the most important reason for the collapse of the Mughal empire? i. The size of the empire ii. Succession problems iii. The arrival of the British Explain your answer with reference to all three of the above. 4) Why have some historians called Akbar the greatest of all Mughal Emperors? [14] 5) Why were the British interested in Sindh and the attack on it was considered as a shameful British act? 6) Was the introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse in 1852 the most important reason for the War of Independence in 1857? Explain your answer. 7) Describe the achievements of Haji Shariat Ullah in reviving Islam in the subcontinent. 8) Was the attempt to achieve a better understanding with the British the most important contribution that Sir Syed Ahmad Khan made to the Muslim cause during the nineteenth century? Explain your answer. 9) Was the work of the Christian missionaries the most important reason why the Indians opposed British attempts to westernize them between 1750 and 1850? Explain your answer. 10) Were the invasions by the Persians and Afghans the main reason for the decline of the Mughal Empire? Explain your answer.