Class 7 Social Science: Chapter 03 Resistance and the First War of Independence - Questions and Answers | Teaching Manual
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Resistance and the First War of Independence - Questions and Answers & Model Questions
1 ) Who were Nagodas?
Answer: Nagodas were the sericulturists of Bengal.
2) How the life of the Nagodas became miserable?
Answer:
• Forced to live like slaves
• Compelled to do weaving for meagre wages.
• The workers who were not willing to obey were
tortured and properties were seized.
• Decided to give up their traditional occupation.
• Decided to cut off their thumbs.
3 ) Who were exploited under the company rule?
Answer:
• Farmers
• Weavers
• Craft men
• Tribals
4) What were the strategies they adopted to exploit the farmers?
Answer:
• Levied Heavy taxes on Farmers.
• No tax concessions were sanctioned even when drought and flood destroyed agriculture.
• Middlemen (Zamindars) were assigned to the duty of collecting tax.
• Imposed the condition that tax was to be paid in the form of cash.
• The farmers had to depend on ‘Sahus’- the private money lenders – for loans at a high rate of interest.
5. Which farmers in Bengal were exploited by the British? How was?
Answer: Mainly cotton, jute and indigo cultivators; And farmers who grow food crops.
• The realization that the soil of Bengal was suitable for the cultivation of cotton, jute and indigo, which are the main raw materials required for
industries in England prompted the British to expand their cultivation.
• Cotton, jute and blue were forcibly cultivated by the farmers.
• Expansion of cotton, jute and blue instead of food crops on the land where food crops were traditionally grown.
• Because the Overtime duty and the heavy tax policies led the farmers to lose their farmland and became labourers.
6. what was the name of the middlemen appointed by the English East India Company to collect taxes from the farmers?
Answer: Zamindars
7. What was the name of the moneylenders in Bengal during the rule of the English East India Company?
Answer: Sahus
8) Which were the major raw materials for the industries in England?
Answer: Commercial crops like cotton, jute and indigo.
9) When did the Indian railway launch?
Answer: The Indian Railways was launched on 16th April 1853
10) The first train from Bombay (Mumbai) to thane was flagged off at ----------on ----------
Answer: 3:35 pm, 16th April 1853
11) Write about the beginning of Railways in short?
Answer: The Indian Railways was launched on 16th April 1853. The first train from Bombay to Thane was flagged off at 3:35 pm on that day. The train had 14 coaches that carried 400 passengers. In March 1861 the first train in Kerala ran from Tirur to Beypur.
12. What was the reason for the English East India Company's focus to shift to agriculture after the conquest of Bengal?
Answer: The realization that the soil in Bengal was suitable for the cultivation of raw materials for their native industries, such as cotton, jute and indigo, prompted the British to enter the agricultural sector. At the same time, the aim is to plunder the maximum wealth of the region.
13 ) How did the forest laws imposed by the company adversely affect tribal life?
Answer:
• These laws gave the Company absolute control over the forests.
• Disturbed the collection of forest products.
• Adversely affected the tribal traditional farming.
• To exploit mineral deposits in forests the British constructed roads and railways in their regions.
14 ) What were the reasons for the decline of the handloom industry in India?
Answer:
• The large scale of export of cotton, the raw materials of handloom industry to Britain.
• The large scale import of cheaper textiles manufactured in the British factories.
• Excessive taxes were levied on clothes
15) What were the peasant revolts against the company?
Answer:
• The Sanyasi and Fakir rebellions occurred at the end of the 18th century.
• Mappila rebellions in Malabar in the 19th century and Farazi rebellions in Bengal.
16) Which of these tribes revolted against the British East India Company?
Answer:
• The Bhils in Maratha
• The Kohlis in Ahammed Nagar
• The Kols in Chota Nagpur
• The Santhals in Rajmahal hills
• The Kurchiyas in Wayanad
17) The Rajmahal hills witnessed the sacrifice of more than ---------- Santhals in rebellion.
Answer: 15000
18) Who were the leaders of the Santhal rebellion?
Answer: Sidhu and Kanhu
19) What was the reason behind the Pazhassi revolt?
Answer: Pazhassi revolt was one of the major revolts of Kerala. The British lifted Pazhassiraja’s right to collect taxes from Kottayam, in North Malabar. This was the immediate cause of Pazhassi raja’s revolt.
20) Who led Guerilla wars against the British in the forests of Wayanad?
Answer: Pazhassiraja
21) Which revolt was one of the major revolts of Kerala?
Answer: Pazhassi revolt.
22) Who were the leaders of the Pazhassi revolt?
Answer: Thalakkal Chandu, Kaitheri Ambu, Edachana Kunkan and Athan Gurukkal were the prominent leaders who fought with Pazhassi raja in the revolt.
23) The Anti-British revolts in Travancore were led by whom?
Answer: Veluthampi Dalawa.
24) What was the reason behind the anti-British revolts in Travancore?
Answer: The anti-British revolts in Tranvacore were led by Veluthampi Dalawa. The constant intervention of the company in the home affairs of Travancore hindered the smooth administration of Dalawa. This was the main reason for him to turn against the British.
25) When was the Kundara Proclamation announced?
Answer: In 1809
26) Who led the struggle of 1857?
Answer: The Indian soldiers in the British army (Sepoys) and the kings who lost their hereditary rights as per the Doctrine of Lapse were the main leaders of the revolt.
27) What was the life of Indian soldiers (sepoys) like?
Answer: The living conditions of Sepoys were miserable and they had to lead a hard life.
• Meagre wages
• Prolonged working hours
• Denying leave
• Slave like treatment by superior officials
• Poor quality food
28) Who was the first Indian soldier to protest against Military officials?
Answer: Mangal Pandey
29) The sepoys proclaim --------- as ‘shahen-shah-e-Hindustan?
Answer: Bahadur Shah
30) Where did the revolt against the military officials started?
Answer: Meerut
31) Which are the places where the revolt (1st Independence war) was located?
Answer: Meerut, Kanpur, Allahabad, Jhansi, Arrah and Faizabad
32) What were the leaders of the revolts of 1857 and the places where the revolts took place?
Answer:
• Nana Sahib and Tantia Tope in Kanpur
• Rani Lakshmi Bhai in Jhansi
• Begum Hazrat Mahal in Lucknow
• Maulavi Ahmadullah in Faizabad
• Kunvar Singh in Arrah.
33. Let us examine the reasons for the failure of the First War of Independence.
Answer:
• Though the revolt was widespread in North India, there was no coordination.
• The Company had all the advantages of stronger military power, better weapons and coordination.
• It failed to ensure mass support.
• The English educated Indians were against the revolt.
• The rulers of affluent princely states supported the Company.
34. What were the changes made in the administration after the First War of Independence in 1857?
Answer: The rule of the English East India Company came to an end with the Queen's proclamation in 1858. India came under the direct rule of the British Queen.
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