WBBSE Class 10 History Sample Question Paper Set 1

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West Bengal Board Class 10 History Model Question Paper Set 1

Group A.

1. Choose the correct answers to the following: 1×20=20

Question 1.
Of the following which constitutes ‘Social History’?
a. History of the ancient people
b. Accounts of the daily life of the people
c. History of environment
d. History of science
Answer:
b. Accounts of the daily life of the people

Question 2.
Of the following which is the earliest text on Indian food habits ?
a. Indian Food: A Historical Companion
b. Indian Food
c. The Charyapada
d. The Indian Food Habits and Cuisine
Answer:
c. The Charyapada

Question 3.
Of the following who was the author of ‘A Handbook of Indian Art’?
a. Ernest Binfield Havell
b. Jamini Roy
c. Nandalal Bose
d. Sarasikumar Saraswati
Answer:
a. Ernest Binfield Havell

Question 4.
Which of the following started publishing features on science?
a. Bijnan Rahasya
b. Banga Darshan
c. Bijnan Sadhana
d. Bangaduta
Answer:
b. Banga Darshan

Question 5.
Of the following who was not associated with the foundation of the Hindu College?
a. David Hare
b. Radhakanta Dev
c. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
d. Lord Hastings
Answer:
c. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar

Question 6.
Who conferred the title of ‘Brahmananda’ to Keshab Chandra Sen?
a. Sivnath Shastri
b. Debendranath Tagore
c. Tarachand Datta
d. Radhakanta Deb
Answer:
b. Debendranath Tagore

Question 7.
Of the following who was the earliest champion of women’s rights?
a. Vidyasagar
b. Maharaja Srischandra
c. Rammohan Roy
d. Motilal Seal
Answer:
c. Rammohan Roy

Question 8.
Of the following who lay the foundation of practical Vedanta?
a. Sri Ramakrishna
b. Bijay Krishna Goswamee
c. Swami Vivekananda
d. Lalan Faqir
Answer:
c. Swami Vivekananda

Question 9.
In which of the following places did the Rangpur Revolt take place 1783?
a. Chotonagpur
b. Rangpur in present Bangladesh
c. Bengal
d. Bhagalpur, in Bihar
Answer:
b. Rangpur in present Bangladesh

Question 10.
With whom did the Chuars align themselves to raise the banner of rebellion?
a. Local zamindars
b. Debi Singh
c. Buddhu Bhagat
d. Madara Mahato
Answer:
a. Local zamindars

Question 11.
Of the following who built the Banser Kella Bamboo fortress. in a fight against the British soldiers?
a. Dudu Mian
b. Titu Mir
c. Joa Bhagat
d. Durjan Singh
Answer:
b. Titu Mir

Question 12.
Of the following who was associated with the Indian Association?
a. Surendranath Banerjee
b. Surendranath Banerjee
c. Debendranath Tagore
b. Harish Chandra Mukherjee
Answer:
d. Rammohan Roy

Question 13.
In which of the following background was the novel Gora composed ?
a. Santhal Rebellion
b. Revolt of 1857
c. Indigo Rebellion
d. Partition of Bengal
Answer:
d. Partition of Bengal

Question 14.
Of the following find the one that is incompatible :
a. Bartaman Bharat
b. Gora
c. Bharatmata
d. Anandamath
Answer:
c. Bharatmata

Question 15.
U.Ray was famous for which of the following ?
a. Spread of science education
b. Spread of Western education
c. Advanced printing technology
d. Spread of medical education
Answer:
c. Advanced printing technology

Question 16.
Of the following who was one of the founders of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science?
a. Jagadish Chandra Bose
b. Mahendralal Sircar
c. Taraknath Palit
b. Mahendralal Sircar
Answer:
d. Satyendranath Bose

Question 17.
Of the following which was ‘in many ways the child of the Non-Cooperation Movement’?
a. Eka Movement
b. Anti-Partition Movement
c. Bardoli Satyagraha
d. Home Rule Movement
Answer:
d. Home Rule Movement

Question 18.
Which of the following Trade Unions was established in 1920 on an all-India basis ?
a. All India Trade Union Congress
b. Girni Kamgar Union
c. Centre of Indian Trade Unions
d. Workers’ and Peasants’ Party
Answer:
a. All India Trade Union Congress

Question 19.
Of the following who was associated with the Civil Disobedience Movement?
a. Pritilata Waddedar
b. Bina Das
c. Kalpana Datta
d. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Answer:
d. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Question 20.
Under whose leadership did the Chittagong armoury raid take place ?
a. Badal Gupta
b. Bina Das
c. Surya Sen
d. Bhagat Singh
Answer:
c. Surya Sen

Group B.

2. Answer the following Questions

(Attempt one question from each sub-group: In all 16 questions 1×16=16

Answer each of the following questions in one sentence :

Question 1.
Who edited the journal Antahpur?
Answer:
Srimati Hemantakumari Choudhury was the editor of the journal Antahpur

Question 2.
Who was associated with the Chhatri Sangha, a female students’ organization of Calcutta?
Answer:
Kalpana Dutta was associated with the organization called Chhatri Sangha.

Question 3.
What was the name of the autobiography of Bipin Chandra Pal ?
Answer:
Sattar Batsar (Seventy Years) was the name of the autobiography of Bipin Chandra Pal.

Question 4.
Who organized the Dipali Sangha in Dhaka for the spread of women education?
Answer:
Dipali Sangha was organized by Leela Roy in Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh)

Identify which of the following is ‘True’ or ‘False’ :

1. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission.
Answer: True

2. Anandamath was written by Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: False

3. Birsa Munda was the leader of the Santhal Rebellion (1855)
Answer: False

4. Matangini Hazra was the leader of the Non-Cooperation Movement
Answer: False

Match column ‘A’ with column ‘B’

A	B
1. Rammohan Roy	a. Banser Kella
2. Radhakanta Deb	b. Bardoli Movement
3. Vallabhbhai Patel	c. Hindu College
4. Titumir	d. Brahmo Samaj

Answer:
1 – (d), 2 – (c), 3 – (b), 4 – (a)

Identify the following places in the given map of India :

1. The region of Santhal Rebellion.
2. Areas of the Indigo Revolt of Bengal.
3. Centre of the Peasants’ Revolt in Pabna (Bangladesh).
4. Centre of the Eka Movement.
Answer:
See the map attached
Or
(Only for blind students)

1. One of the leaders of the Brahmo Movement was _________
Answer: Rammohan Roy

2. The play Neel Darpan was composed by _________
Answer: Dinabandhu Mitra

3. The Nababidhan was formed by _________
Answer: Keshab Chandra Sen

4. One of the centres of the Indigo Rebellion was _________
Answer: Barasat

Select the correct interpretation of the following statements :

1. Statement: Jibansmriti is an autobiography written by Rabindranath.

Interpretation 1: It was the story of his life
Interpretation 2: It was a collection of ‘memory pictures’
Interpretation 3: It was a narrative of the contemporary Bengali society
Answer:
Interpretation 2: It was a collection of ‘memory pictures’

2. Statement: Bangadarshan was published under the editorship of Bankin Chandra Chatterjee.

Interpretation 1: This was a news journal meant for the elites of the society.
Interpretation 2: This was the first literary journal of its kind.
Interpretation 3: This published articles on economic issues
Answer:
Interpretation 2: This was the first literary journal of its kind.

3. The Calcutta Medical College was founded in 1835.

Interpretation 1: This ushered in a new era in medical education.
Interpretation 2: This was meant for treatment of the poor people.
Interpretation 3: This was a College established with official patronage.
Answer:
Interpretation 1: This ushered in a new era in medical education.

4. The Quit India Movement was launched in 1942.

Interpretation 1: Gandhiji personally led the volunteers.
Interpretation 2: The peasantry participated in the movement in a big way.
Interpretation 3: Working class participated in it in a big way.
Answer:
Interpretation 3: Working class participated in it in a big way.

Group C.

Answer the following questions in 2 or 3 sentences (any 11)

Question 1.
Do you think that autobiography can be used as a source of history ?
Answer:
Autobiography tells the story of life of the person writing the autobiography. This is an important source of information of the contemporary period. Hence autobiography may be treated as an important source of the construction of history.

Question 2.
Why was the literary journal Bangadarshan importantant ?
Answer:
Bangadarshan was a literary journal in which contributors used to write articles on different topics. The articles clearly show that the common people of the country were the object of the journal. The articles published included subjects like history, politics, philosophy and so on.

Question 3.
Who came to be called ‘Young Bengal’?
Answer:
Derozio as the teacher of the Hindu College moulded the minds of a number of brilliant students. Derozio taught his students about the evil effects of idolatry and superstition. Such students together came to be known in the contemporary period as ‘Young Bengal’

Question 4.
What programme of welfare measure was introduced by Keshab Chandra Sen after he joined the Brahmo Samaj ?
Answer:
Keshab Chandra’s great achievement was to introduce welfare measures. One such measure was to help the people in distress. Also he organized a volunteer party called Sangat Sabha for famine relief.

Question 5.
How did the Forest Acts cause hardship to the tribal people?
Answer:
The Forest Acts introduced by the British Government caused immense hardship to the tribal people. The tribal women were unable to cook food using fuel-wood which was banned. Moreover, with a ban on shifting cultivation the tribal people were deprived of their basic right of cultivation.

Question 6.
What was the importance of the Rangpur Revolt ?
Answer:
Though the Rangpur Revolt was unsuccessful it clearly brought to the fore the weakness of the prevalent system of farming out of revenue. Besides, the revolt paved the way for the formulation of revenue on a permanent basis.

Question 7.
What was the characteristic feature of the risings prior to the Revolt of 1857 ?
Answer:
The characteristic feature of the pre-1857 revolts was that they were essentially local in character. Besides, the British armed forces also found these revolts easy to suppress. The revolts could not seriously disturb the British colonial rulers.

Question 8.
What did Gaganendranath Tagore express in his cartoon ‘University Machine’?
Answer:
One of the famous cartoons of Gaganendranath was the ‘University Machine’. Through satire Gaganendranath has ridiculed the English education. Through picture he made out the point that after the courses are done, the students come out flattened and crippled.

Question 9.
Why did the British Government close Hicky’s newspaper?
Answer:
James Augustus Hicky set up his printing press in 1780 and in the same year brought out the first newspaper of India. In 1782 the then Company’s government closed the press. The action was due to the fact that Hicky exposed many scandals of the Europeans at that time in his paper.

Question 10.
What ideas Rabindranath had on education?
Answer:
Rabindranath himself had once said that the fundamental purpose of education was not merely to enrich ourselves through the fullness of knowledge. Rather to him the purpose of education was to establish bond of love and friendship between man and man.

Question 11.
Why was Titumir important?
Answer:
Titumir is important because it was he along with his followers offered armed resistance to the oppressive zamindar of Pura. As Titumir’s rebellion assumed an anti government character military was deployed to suppress the rebels. Titumir fought the military from a hurriedly built fortress with bamboos and mud.

Question 12.
Who were Passi Madari and Sahreb ?
Answer:
The insurgent peasants of Hardoi, Sitapur,etc. were active under the name Ekta (or Eka). Passi Madari and Sahreb were the two leaders of the Eka movement.

Question 13.
What was the ‘Rashid Ali Day’?
Answer:
The student community of Bengal staged demonstrations against the government decision of public trial of the INA officers. Rashid Ali was a Captain of the INA who was imprisoned on the charge of sedition. 11 February 1946 was observed as the ‘Rashid Ali Day’ by the students demanding the release of Rashid Ali.

Question 14.
What picture of the refugee problem is revealed in memoirs?
Answer:
Plight of the refugees both from East and West Pakistan to India may be realized from the memoirs of those who struggled for reconstructing their life in an alien land. Recollecting his memories Himangsu Mazumder stated at length how the refugees suffered and struggled making a marshy land liveable.

Question 15.
Why was Uttaloni Sabha founded?
Answer:
Under the leadership of Guruchand Thakur the Mathua movement progressed a lot. He was responsible for the spread of education amongst the Namasudras. Besides, he organized Uttaloni Sabha or uplift meeting for the social uplift of the Namasudras.

Group D.

4. Answer the following questions in 7/8 sentences :

(Attempt one question from each sub-group: in all 6 questions)

Question 1.
Write about the contributions of Raja Rammohan Roy to the Brahmo Movement.
Answer:
It was Rammohan Roy who first analyzed Indian religions and social system to show how idolatry and caste system had created division amongst the Indians. As a reform measure he founded Atmiya Sabha in 1815 which later on was renamed Brahmo Samaj (1828). The Sabha was founded with the purpose of promoting among different religious groups a faith in the unity of the divine and of man.

He attacked the caste system and protested vehemently against the inhuman practice of sati. It was Rammohan’s movement that influenced William Bentinck, the then Governor-General of India to declare the practice of sati illegal. By Regulation XVII of 1829 sati was declared a punishable offence. As a part of the Brahmo Movement it was felt that no real improvement of society was possible without the progress of the womenfolk.

Question 2.
How did Iswarchandra Vidyasagar help the spread of women education ?
Answer:
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar firmly believed that the regeneration of India was possible only through education. Particularly, he emphasized on women education. Having spent his early life in village Iswarchandra could realize the sorrowful condition of the womenfolk. He rightly believed that the emancipation of women was not possible as long as they remained ignorant.

He, therefore, took upon himself the task of promoting the cause of female education. Noticing the British Government’s indifference towards female education Iswarchandra himself started a few model schools for girls. He also collaborated with John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune in establishing the Hindu Female School (present Bethune School and College of Kolkata) in 1849.

Question 3.
What was the importance of the Queen’s Proclamation?
Answer:
Queen Victoria by a Proclamation announced on 1 November 1858 directly assumed the responsibility of the Indian administration in her own hands. Importance of the Proclamation lies in a number of changes that followed it.

• It was in accordance with the Queen’s Proclamation that the honourific title of Viceroy was added to the designation of ‘Governor-General of India’.
• Lord Canning, so far known as the Governor-General of India became the first Viceroy of India.
• In her Proclamation Queen Victoria also announced certain changes in the governmental policy henceforth to be pursued by the British Government in India.
• She made it clear that the British Government had no desire for further territorial expansion in India.
• The Queen also categorically stated that the British Government in India would in no way interfere with the established customs or religion of the Indian people.

Question 4.
What were the objectives of the Hindu Mela?
Answer:
In 1867 the Hindu Mela was started. Debendranath Tagore was its inspirer. The objectives of the Hindu Mela were :

• To foster the spirit of self-help, which was considered essential for the progress and welfare of the nation.
• Manohohon Bose, the great orator of the time, emphasized that national progress, national unity and practice of self-sufficiency must be the sacred goal of the Mela.
• Another objective of the Mela was to help building up of Indian economy.
• Propagation of the motto self-dependency throughout the country was another major objective of the Hindu Mela.

Question 5.
How did Upendrakishor Roy Chowdhury contribute to the development of printing press in Bengal ?
Answer:
Upendrakishor spearheaded the cultural rejuvenation of Bengal. He pioneered the art of engraving in the country. Also he was the first to attempt colour printing.

• Upendrakishor was the man who first introduced the art of modern block-making no only in India but in the whole region of South Asia.
• He learnt the process of block making in stages. While reproducing some illustrations using woodcut line blocks in his book Chheleder Ramayana Upendrakishor found that these were very poor. This encouraged him to learn modern technology in block-making.
• In his endeavour to learn the modern technique Upendrakishor imported books, chemicals and other equipments necessary in block-making from Britain.
• After attaining mastery over the technique Upendrakishor successfully introduced modern block-making, including half-tone and colour blocks.

Question 6.
Write about Rabindranath’s ideas on education.
Answer:
Elaborating his own ideas about the aims of education Rabindranath said that the fundamental purpose of education was not “….merely to enrich ourselves through the fullness of knowledge…”.

• Rather Rabindranath believed that the purpose also was to establish bond of love and friendship between man and man.
• Thus it may be said that Rabindranath’s approach to education was humanistic. He believed in an inner harmony amongst man, nature and god.
• In Rabindranath’s idea of education teachers had to be imaginative. The teachers should understand the child, and help the child to develop curiosity in them.
• Tagore further felt that the creative learning could be encouraged only within natural environment. Living in harmony with nature, children would be able to cultivate their natural creativity.

Question 7.
How did the women revolutionaries participate in the national movement ?
Answer:
The call of Bankim Chandra to save the Motherland from the clutches of the fact, from the emotional hymn Bandemataram touched the womenfolk of the country. In of the nation Partition of Bengal down to the Quit India Movement a remarkable feature is that in the movement was the participation of women. What is all the more important –

• One revolutionary struggle participation of women presented a different picture. the important feature of the women participation was that they got involved in
• The armed struggle on their own initiative. of women
• Another important aspect of the participation of women in the revolutionary movement was that a number of association emerged which initiated the members to revolutionary ideal.

Question 8.
What was the main point of difference between Gandhiji and Ambedkar regarding the Dalits ?
Answer:
There is little doubt that both Gandhiji and Ambedkar were very much aware of the problem of untouchability or the dalits. Yet there was sharp difference between the two regarding the dalit issue.

• That there was little in common in the perception between the two came to the forefront in the early 30 of the nineteenth century.
• Gandhiji refused to view the dalits as a minority who should be given political safeguards. Rather he considered it essentially a social problem, and that was to be tackled by the Hindu community itself.
• Contrarily, Ambedkar describing the dalits as ‘slaves’ advocated for communal representation of the dalits on the ground that ‘untouchability constitutes a definite set of interests which the untouchables alone can speak for.’
• The real break between the two surfaced during the events of the Round Table Conference of 1932.
• In the two Round Table Conferences Ambedkar ended up supporting separate electorate for the untouchables (dalits). But this proved to be too much for Gandhiji. For him the untouchables were a part of Hinduism, and a separate electorate for them would create a division in Hinduism. In his own words ‘it

Group E.

5. Answer any one question in 15/16 sentences :

Question 1.
What led to the peasants’ revolt in Pabna?
Answer:
Peasants’ Revolt in Pabna (presently in Bangladesh) is an ideal example of how the question of rent (khazna) created bitter relationship between the zamindars and the ryots.

a. The Tenancy Act of 1859 was put into force to safeguard the interests of rich peasants and the landed peasantry (jotedar).

b. It was expected that the two classes of people would act as precursor to the development of agriculture. In reality, however, this did not happen.

c. The zamindars did never follow the provisions of the Act. While the Tenancy Act did not allow occupancy right to the peasants, allowed the zamindars to enhance rent at their sweet-will.

d. Official records show that enhancement of rent proceeded after 1859. The peasants were forced to pay increased rent failing which they we evicted.

e. In such a condition the discontent of the peasants found expression in locally organizing resistance to the zamindars. The resistance finally took the shape of a revolt in 1870 when an agrarian league was formed at Esafshahi in the Pabna district of present Bangladesh.

f. Thus all evidences show that the revolt was due to enhancement of rent by the zamindars.

• The characteristic feature of the revolt was that the Muslim peasants of Pubna fought hand in hand with the Hindus.
• The revolt took the form of a rent-strike as the peasants refused to pay rent to the zamindars.
• Leaders of the movement came from the rich peasants, jotedar, village headmen and others. They moved from village to village organizing the league. Khoodi Mollah, a Muslim jotedar, also organized the peasants against the zamindar.

e. As the Act of 1859 had failed to ensure security of the ryots the Bengal Tenanacy Act was passed in 1885. The Act sought to protect the interests of the ryots.

Question 2.
What was the attitude of the educated Bengali society towards the Revolt of 1857?
Answer:
The Bengali intelligentsia was apathetic to the Revolt of 1857. This is such a ticklish problem that none has been able to offer any satisfactory explanation.

1. One thing that may be relevant to note that the Bengali intellectuals, in the mid eighteenth century, were very much conscious of their own interest. As such it will not be fare to say that they merely echoed the sentiments of the British rulers in taking a negative attitude towards the rebels of 1857. In any case their hostile attitude towards the Revolt of 1857 needs an explanation.

2. In Bengal Barrackpore, near Calcutta was the centre of the initial spark of the Revolt of 1857. The revolt broke out over the religious question that there was a conspiracy to destroy religions of the sepoys (over the Enfield Rifle issue). This was in tune with the cry of the orthodox Hindus of the city of Calcutta who had long suspected that the British were bent on destroying their religion and caste and converting them into Christianity. The intellectuals of Bengal, who were against orthodoxy and fanaticism, considered the rebel sepoys as the allies of social reaction. Under the circumstances the Bengali intelligentsia had no option but oppose the rebellion.

3. There were also socio-economic reasons for which the Bengali intelligentsia opposed the Revolt of 1857. Their economic status raised because of the trade and commerce, and the intellectual position was due to their English education. In the success of the Revolt of 1857 they apprehended the return of old social order with all the reactionary principles and ideals. Hence the Bengali intelligentsia did not sympathize with the rebels of 1857.

4. It has been pointed out by Sri Benoy Ghose that the varepsilon Jwing political consciousness of the English educated Bengali middle class also shaped their hostility towards the Revolt of 1857. The educated Bengali middle class saw no hope in the Revolt of 1857. Thus they condemned the rebels of 1857.

Question 3.
What was the role of the peasantry in the Civil Disobedience Movement? Write in short about the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party. 5+3=8
Answer:
A. Peasantry and the Civil Disobedience: Indication for a new mass movement was clear from the demand for Complete Independence raised at the Lahore Session of the Congress. With the violation of the Salt Law on 6 April 1930 at Dandee (in Gujarat) began the Civil Disobedience Movement under the leadership of Gandhiji. People irrespective of their class, creed, sex and religion joined the movement. Peasants were also not lagging behind.

i. Though Gandhiji was unhappy over the peasants’ plight and protested against the zamindars’ oppressions on them, the Congress as an organization, till 1929 at least, was not tactically prepared to take the side of the peasants and thereby come into open conflict with the zamindars. However, the Indian peasantry during the 1930s really built up organization relying upon own strength.

ii. The Great Depression of 1929 adversely affected the Indian peasantry. Increase in the revenue demand also pressed them very hard. Bardoli Satyagraha created a new enthusiasm amongst the peasantry. All this gave a new impetus to the Indian peasants.

iii. Economically ruined peasants of Bihar were organized into Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) under the initiative of Sahajanand Saraswati in 1929.

iv. In course of time Kisan Sabhas were established in other parts of the country as well. For instance, in Bengal such initiative was taken by Muzaffar Ahmed and Bankim Mukherjee both of them were believers in Communist ideology.

v. The Civil Disobedience Movement by Congress, under the leadership of Gandhiji, served as an encouragement to peasants’ movement. During the Civil Disobedience years the peasants of U.P. (United Province at that time, later on Uttar Pradesh) began a new type of movement. It was a ‘no-revenue and no-rent’ campaign. Under the initiative of Jawaharlal Nehru the U.P. Congress Committee lent its full support to the no-rent campaign of the peasants.

vi. The second phase of the Civil Disobedience Movement lasted in U.P. until mid1932. This time the people of the countryside were drawn into the Congress agitation. According to one estimate more than 10,000 Congress volunteers and agitators were convicted in U.P. alone.

B. Workers’ and Peasants’ Party: The first Left-wing peasant organization in India was not conceived as an exclusively peasant body, it was bracketed with ‘workers’. Thus the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (WPP) came into existence by early 1927, under the leadership of the people like S.A. Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, P.C. Joshi and others. Initially it functioned as a left-wing within the Congress. It rapidly gained strength within the Congress in the provincial and national levels. It was, however, not before 1929 that the WPP emerged as a genuine peasant organization.

Group F.

6. Answer the questions in a complete sentence :

Question 1.
Who was the Governor-General of India when the practice of sati was abolished?
Answer:
It was under the Governor-Generalship of Lord William Bentinck that the practice of sati was declared a punishable offence.

Question 2.
Name one of the women participants in the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal.
Answer:
Ashalata Sen, a little girl of 11 years participated in the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal.

Question 3.
Who was the founder of the Bose Institute?
Answer:
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose was the founder of the Bose Institute.

Question 4.
By what name was Surya Sen popular?
Answer:
Surya Sen was popular by the name ‘masterda’.

Question 5.
Who was the chairperson of the States Reorganization Commission ?
Answer:
Fazl Ali was the chairperson of the States Reorganization Committee.

7. Answer the following questions in 2/3 sentences :

Question 1.
What do understand by the term ‘Social History’?
Answer:
‘Social History’ or ‘New Social History’ is a broad branch of history that studies the experience of common people. This branch emerged through the writings of such British historians as Edward Thomson, Eric Hobsbawm, etc.

Question 2.
What was said about education in the Charter Act 1813?
Answer:
The Charter Act of 1813 was a landmark in the history of education in India. The Act directed the East India Company’s government to spend yearly one lakh of rupees for the spread of education in India.

Question 3.
Why was Anti-Circular Society formed ?
Answer:
As a punitive measure against the students who would join political agitation the British Government issued the Carlyle Circular (1905). Immediately Sachindra Prasad Basu organized the Anti-Circular Society in order to encourage the students to participate in the political movement.

Question 4.
Why is Pritilata Waddedar remembered ?
Answer:
Pritilata Waddedar is remembered because she made a daring attack upon the Europeans in a club at Chittagong. She died a martyr’s death consuming poison when she was about to be apprehended by the British police.