Question: What is the work of the police? Answer: The police maintain law and order to establish peace in the society. By doing this, the police provide security to the general public. Question: List two things that the work of a Patwari includes. Answer: Patwari measures land and keeps land …

Question: Give an example of diversity in India. Answer: The people of India, living in different parts, speak different languages. Question: Give an example of unity in diversity among Indians. Answer: All Indians share the same national pride of having India as their motherland. Question: Why did Samir Do, the paper …

Question: When was the Iron Pillar made? Answer: It was made about 1500 years ago. Question: Mention the most striking feature of the Iron Pillar. Answer: The Pillar has not rusted in all these years. Question: What do you mean by the word ‘Stupa’? Answer: The word Stupa means a …

Question: Where can evidence of trade be found? Answer: Evidence of trade can be found in the Sangam poems. Question: What was South India famous for? Answer: It was famous for items like gold and precious stones and spices like pepper. Question: How can you say that Rome had a …

Question: Name two famous works of Persian literature and their authors from Medieval India. Answer: The historian Barani, wrote the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi and Abdul Fazl wrote the biography of Akbar Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari. Question: What was the language and dialect of the book Padmavat? What was its theme? Answer: Malik …

Question: Name the four Vedas. Answer: The four Vedas are: Rigveda Samaveda Yajurveda Atharvaveda Question: In what language has the Rigveda been composed? Answer: The Rigveda is in Vedic Sanskrit. Question: What were the various purposes of fighting battles as depicted by the Rigveda? Answer: Battles were fought for cattle, …

Question: What was known as a qasba in medieval India? Answer: During the Sultanate Period (13th to 16th Centuries CE), many of the villages, especially the district headquarters, slowly grew into towns, known as qasba. Question: Name a city that was both an administrative and a trade center during the Mughal …

Question: What do you understand by the term gender? Answer: The way each society perceives what a ‘man’ is and what a ‘woman’ is, and what their different roles and responsibilities are, is called gender. It is more than the biological difference between men and women. Question: What is a stereotyping? Give …

Question: Who was Nadir Shah? What was the result of his attack on Delhi? or Describe the impact of Nadir Shah’s invasion upon Delhi. Answer: Nadir Shah, the ruler of Iran, sacked and plundered the city of Delhi in 1739 CE and took away immense amounts of wealth. As a …

Question: Write a short note on the term “Sapta Sindhu”. Answer: During Vedic age, India was called “Sapta Sindhu” or the “Land of seven rivers”. These rivers were the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej and the mythical Saraswati. Sindhu was the Sanskrit name for the Indus. The earliest reference to …