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The document discusses multiple choice questions about topics related to British rule in India such as when James Mill published a work on British India, the year the mutiny broke out in the Royal Indian Navy, the location of important institutions like the National Museum and Archives during British rule, identifying the personality who believed Asians were inferior to Europeans according to the information given, statements about surveys conducted in India, statements regarding administrative records maintained by the British, distinguishing between assertion and reasoning, questions about how historians classified Indian history and details about surveys and census operations conducted in India.

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Doon International School Mohali

The document discusses multiple choice questions about topics related to British rule in India such as when James Mill published a work on British India, the year the mutiny broke out in the Royal Indian Navy, the location of important institutions like the National Museum and Archives during British rule, identifying the personality who believed Asians were inferior to Europeans according to the information given, statements about surveys conducted in India, statements regarding administrative records maintained by the British, distinguishing between assertion and reasoning, questions about how historians classified Indian history and details about surveys and census operations conducted in India.

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Doon International School

Mohali

2024-25 NAME CLASS: _Vlll SECTION

SUBJECT:HISTORY TOPIC :How When and Where

Multiple choice questions

1 .When did James Mill publish a massive three-volume work “A History of British India”?
a. 1943 b. 1890 c. 1817 d. 1906

2. In which year did the mutiny break out on the ships of the Royal Indian Navy?
a. 1946 b. 1947 c. 1948 d. 1948

3. During British rule, where was the National Museum and the National Archives located?
a) Near university of Delhi b) Near Vice regal Palace
c) Near British India Company office d) Near the Parliament

4. Identify the personality with the help of the following information.


a)According to him, all Asians were inferior to Europeans.
b) He thought that before the British rule in India; c) Hindu and Muslim despots ruled the nation.
d) He was an economist from Scotland.
a. Karl Marx b. Warren Hastings c. James Mill d. Britania

5.Consider the following statements about the surveys in India Choose the correct statement/s:
I. The practice of surveying also became common under the colonial administration.
II. The British believed that a country had to be properly known before it could be effectively
administered.
III. By the early sixteenth century detailed surveys were being carried out to map the entire country.
IV. There were many surveys – botanical surveys, zoological surveys, archaeological surveys,
anthropological surveys, forest surveys.
a. I, II, and III only. b. II, III, and IV only.
c. I, III, and IV only. d. I, II, and IV only.

6. Consider the following statements regarding the administrative records. Choose the correct statement/s.
I) The British believed that the act of writing was important.
II) Every instruction, plan, policy decision, agreement, the investigation had to be written up.
III) The British also felt that all important documents and letters needed to be carefully destroyed.
IV) Specialized institutions like archives and museums were also established to preserve important
records.
a. I, II and III only. b. II, III and IV only.
c. I, III and IV only. d. I, II and IV only
7. Two statements are given in the question below as Assertion (A) and Reasoning (R). Read the statements
and choose the appropriate option.
a. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is true but R is false.
d. A is false but R is true.
Assertion: We often divide history into different chapters.
Reasoning: Different chapters in history are completely unrelated to each other.

Q8. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
Did not a variety of faiths exist simultaneously in these periods? Why should we characterize an age
only through the religion of the rulers of the time? To do so is to suggest that the lives and practices of
others do not really matter. We should also remember that even rulers in ancient India did not all share

the same faith.


a. How did James Mill divide Indian history? (2)
b. Explain the British historians’ classification of Indian history. (3)

Q9.Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
By the early nineteenth century, detailed surveys were being carried out to map the entire country. In the
villages, revenue surveys were conducted. The effort was to know the topography, the soil quality, the
flora, the fauna, the local histories, and the cropping pattern – all the facts seen as necessary to know
about to administer the region. From the end of the nineteenth century, Census operations were held
every ten years.
1. What do you understand by census?
a. Numbering of citizens b. Numbering of elderly people

c. Numbering of women d. Numbering of children

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