Towns, Traders and Craftspersons Question Answers: NCERT Class 7 Social Science - Our Past-2 (History)

(a) thanjavur
(b) khwaja muinuddin chisti
(c) vijayanagara
(d) masulipatnam

(a) true
(b) false
(c) false
(d) false

Thanjavur was located near the perennial river kaveri. It was from this river that was water supplied to the city. Also the water supply from the city had been came from wells and tanks.

The native trader, craftpersons, merchants and artisans used to live in the black towns in the cities like as madras.

The towns grew around temples due to the following reasons:
- Temple were often central to the economy and society.
- Rulers, who built temples, donated land and money to carry out the rituals, feed pilgrims and priests and celebrate festivals etc.
- Pilgrims who flocked to the temples also do donations.
- Temple authorities used their wealth to finance, trade and banking.

- Temples were the places to show the most experienced art work. Therefore, the craftsperson were important for the buildings and maintenance of temples, they performed some activities that are as follows:

- The craftsperson of bidar were so famous for their work in copper and silver that it can be named as bidri.
- The panchalas orb vishwakarma made of goldsmiths bronze smiths, masons and carpenters, were important for to the building of temples.
- Weavers often donated money to temple.

- Surat was the most important or main medieval port on the Indian subcontinent's west coast. 
- It was the emporium of western trade during the mughal period of time.
- Surat was gateway trade with west asia through the gulf of ormuz.
- Surat has also been known as the gate of mecca, because many pilgrims ship gets sail from here.
- There were also various retail and wholesale shop selling cotton textile.

Craft production in cities like Calcutta is different from that in cities as thanjavur:

- Craftspersons in thanjavur were not- dependent while in Calcutta they were in the hands of Europeans.
- In thanjavur, crafts were made on interest and they were creative and specialized while in Calcutta, craftsperson take initiate to work on a system of advances.
- In Calcutta, they had to made the design that is supplied to them by the company agents. They now had to move into the black towns established by the European companies within these new cities.