Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre
Kamla Nagar, Kanpur
Class-10
WORKSHEET
Subject Social Science
HISTORY
1) VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Who started Satyagraha? Explain the concept of Satyagraha.
2. What was the Khilafat agitation? Why did Gandhiji give support to this agitation?
3. Where and Why did Mahatma Gandhi decide to call off the Non-Cooperation
Movement?
4.Who led the peasant movement in Awadh and why?
5. Who formed the Swaraj Party? What was the reason for forming the Swaraj Party?
II) Short Answer Type Questions:
1. Describe briefly any three economic effects of the Non-Cooperation Movement.
2. Mention the limitations of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
3. Why was the Rowlatt Act of 1919 unpopular among the Indians?
4. Explain the circumstances leading to the Poona Pact, 1932. What are its
provisions?
5. How had the First World War created a new economic situation in India? Explain
with three examples.
6. “The Civil Disobedience Movement was different from the Non-Cooperation
Movement”. Explain.
7. How did the Non-Cooperation Movement unfold? Who participated in it? How
did different social groups conceive of the idea of Non-Cooperation?
8. Why did the rich peasant communities join the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Why did they not join when it was re-launched in 1932?
9. Who had designed the ‘Swaraj flag’ of 1921? Explain the main features of this
‘Swaraj flag’.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:
1.Why was Congress reluctant to allow women to hold any position of authority within
the organization? How did women participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Explain.
2. How did cultural processes help in creating a sense of collective belongingness in
India? Explain
3. “Some of the Muslim political organizations in India, were lukewarm in their response
to the ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’.” Examine the statement.
4. Who was Alluri Sitaram Raju? Explain his role in inspiring the rebels with Gandhi’s
ideas.
5. The middle classes played an important role in the Non-Cooperation Movement in
the cities. Explain. Why do you think that the movement slowed down in the cities?.
III. Case Based Questions
Read the source given below and answer the questions: Another means of creating a
feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history. By the end
Of the nineteenth century many Indians began feeling that to instill a sense of pride in
the nation, Indian history had to be thought about differently. The British saw Indians as
backward and primitive, incapable of governing themselves. In response, Indians began
looking into the past to discover India’s great achievements. They wrote about the
glorious developments in ancient times when art and architecture, science and
mathematica, religion and culture, law and philosophy, crafts and trade had flourished.
This glorious time, in their view, was followed by a history of decline, when India was
colonised. These nationalist histories urged the readers to take pride in India’s great
achievements in the past and struggle to change the miserable conditions of life under
British rule.
1. Who was the founder of the Depressed class association? Name the association
formed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar for Dalits in 1930.
2. What were the main features of the Gandhi-Irwin pact?
3. “Dalit participation was limited in the Civil Disobedience Movement”. Examine
the statement.
