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Because British rule brought no equality or liberty, many historians call the period:Read the answer and worked solution →The Class 8 history textbook is called Our Pasts in the plural because:Read the answer and worked solution →The British set up record rooms attached to administrative institutions because they believed in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the early nineteenth century official documents were beautifully copied by:Read the answer and worked solution →The National Archives of India came up in the:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1946 the colonial government put down a mutiny on the ships of the:Read the answer and worked solution →From the end of the nineteenth century, Census operations were held every:Read the answer and worked solution →Revenue surveys in villages recorded topography, soil, flora, fauna and:Read the answer and worked solution →Official records tell us what the officials thought but not:Read the answer and worked solution →Sources like diaries, pilgrims' accounts and bazaar booklets were all produced by those who were:Read the answer and worked solution →A 1946 newspaper report described a strike over bad food by more than how many Delhi policemen?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the official sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Governor-Generals and ViceroysRead the answer and worked solution →Run the history yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the history wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Official or popular sourceRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the periods and sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →How, when and where bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The prehistoric period of early human development is commonly known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first discovery of rock paintings in India, in 1867-68, was made by:Read the answer and worked solution →Carlleyle's Indian discovery came twelve years before the famous cave paintings of Altamira in:Read the answer and worked solution →Lakhudiyar, a rock shelter site with prehistoric paintings, lies in the:Read the answer and worked solution →At Lakhudiyar the paintings fall into three categories: man, animal and:Read the answer and worked solution →At Lakhudiyar the earliest paintings are in which colour?Read the answer and worked solution →Kupgallu, Piklihal and Tekkalkota are Neolithic painting sites on the granite rocks of:Read the answer and worked solution →The richest prehistoric paintings in India come from which ranges of Madhya Pradesh?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhimbetka lies about how far south of Bhopal?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhimbetka has about how many rock shelters, of which five hundred bear paintings?Read the answer and worked solution →The caves of Bhimbetka were discovered in 1957-58 by:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Because British rule brought no equality or liberty, many historians call the period:

  1. Golden
  2. Colonial
  3. Modern
  4. Medieval
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Correct answer: B. Colonial

1. Modern is linked with science, reason and democracy. 2. Historians prefer the term colonial. 3. Colonisation changed politics, economy, society and culture. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 1, How, When and Where._

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The Class 8 history textbook is called Our Pasts in the plural because:

  1. India speaks many different languages
  2. Rulers changed throne very frequently
  3. Groups experienced change differently
  4. History has too many dates to learn
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Correct answer: C. Groups experienced change differently

1. Colonial changes were not uniform. 2. Different classes and groups lived different pasts. 3. Hence Our Pasts, plural. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 1, How, When and Where._

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The British set up record rooms attached to administrative institutions because they believed in:

  1. Oral traditions
  2. Secret dealings
  3. Burning records
  4. The act of writing
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Correct answer: D. The act of writing

1. Every plan and decision was written up. 2. Writing let things be studied and debated. 3. This produced memos, notings and reports. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 1, How, When and Where._

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