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Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Dividing history into periods.
    Item
    Periodisation
  2. Clue
    Term many historians prefer for British rule.
    Item
    Colonial
  3. Clue
    Where the British kept documents.
    Item
    Record room
  4. Clue
    Copied documents in beautiful writing.
    Item
    Calligraphist
  5. Clue
    Institution preserving records.
    Item
    Archives
  6. Clue
    Ten-yearly count of people.
    Item
    Census
  7. Clue
    Mapping land, soil and crops.
    Item
    Survey
  8. Clue
    Made the 1782 map of Hindustan.
    Item
    Rennel
  9. Clue
    Wrote A History of British India.
    Item
    James Mill
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation

_Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 1, How, When and Where._
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