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1st Terminal Examination-2017

Class- VIIIA
HISTORY
Time: - 2hr 15mins
F.M: 80

Answer any Eight Questions:

10X8=80

1. a) Why History is called the source of all knowledge?

b) Write about the importance of government
document as the source of the study of history?
c)Give a brief accounts of Indian newspapers and
Journals of the early period?
2+4+4=10

2.a) Name two biographies written in the Mughal

period .
b) What do you know about the ideas of
Rabindranath regarding the education?
c) How did woman play a vital role in the evolution of
society and culture?
2+4+4=10

3.a) what was the outlook of the newspaper Hindoo

patriot?
b)write in short about the Anglicist Orientalist
controversy?
c)Write about initiative of young Bengal in Social
Reform? 2+4+4=10

4.a)Who was the first Bengali to dissect a dead body?

b)How did Davi Hare help the spread of English
Education?
c) How did Swami Vivekananda explain the Neo
Vedanta? 2+4+4=10

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5.a) Which act laid the foundation of Calcutta
University?
b) What reflections of the contemporary Bengali
society also found in
the Bambodini?
c) How did the middle class Bengali ract to the Indio
Rebellion?
2+4+4=10

6.a) Mention one of the feature of Kol rebellion?

b) What were the features of the Indigo Rebellion?
c) Explain the concept of uprising and rebellion.
2+4+4=10

7.a) Who were the Wahabis?

b) write a note on the Sanyasi and Fakir Rebellion.
c) What are the characteristics features of the
Adivasi rebellion?
2+4+4=10

8.a) Which act that brought an end to the East India

Companys rule in
India?
b)What were the aims and objectives of the Indian
Association?
c) How did the middle class oppose the rebellion of
1857?
2+4+4=1
0

9.a)Which organization regarded as the first political

association of Bengal?
b) How did nationalism found in Anandamath?

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c) Write a note on Chauar Rebellion.
2+4+4=10

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