Class 10 Social Science - India an the Contemporary World - II - Chapter Print Culture and The Modern World NCERT Solutions | Write short notes to show what you know

Give reasons for the following: 

a) Woodblock print only came to Europe after 1295.

b) Martin Luther was in favour of print and spoke out in praise of it.

c) The Roman Catholic Church began keeping an Index of Prohibited books from the mid-sixteenth century.

d) Gandhi said the fight for Swaraj is a fight for liberty of speech, liberty of the press, and freedom of association.

Explain how print culture assisted the growth of nationalism in India.

Why did some people fear the effect of easily available printed books? Choose one example from Europe and one from India.

What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
a) Women
b) The poor
c) Reformers

Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?

a) Guiseppe Mazzini
b) Count Camillo de Cavour
c) The Greek war of independence
d) Frankfurt parliament
e) The role of women in nationalist struggles

a) Why growth of nationalism in the colonies is linked to an anti-colonial movement.
b) How the First World War helped in the growth of the National Movement in India.
c) Why Indians were outraged by the Rowlatt Act.
d) Why Gandhiji decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.

Explain the following:

a) Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.
b) In the seventeenth century merchants from towns in Europe began employing peasants and artisans within the villages.
c) The port of Surat declined by the end of the eighteenth century.
d) The East India Company appointed gomasthas to supervise weavers in India.

What steps did the French revolutionaries take to create a sense of collective identity among the French people?

What is meant by the idea of satyagraha?

Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.

Write True or False against each statement:

a) At the end of the nine- teenth century, 80 per cent of the total workforce in Europe was employed in the technologically advanced industrial sector.

b) The international market for fine textiles was dominated by India till the eighteenth century.

c) The American Civil War resulted in the reduction of cotton exports from India.

d) The introduction of the fly shuttle enabled handloom workers to improve their productivity.

Who were Marianne and Germania? What was the importance of the way in which they were portrayed?

Write a newspaper report on:
a) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
b) The Simon Commission

Compare the images of Bharat Mata in this chapter with the image of Germania in Chapter 1.

Briefly trace the process of German unification.

Choose three examples to show the contribution of culture to the growth of nationalism in Europe.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.

Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation.

What steps did the French revolutionaries take to create a sense of collective identity among the French people?

List all the different social groups which joined the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921. Then choose any three and write about their hopes and struggles to show why they, joined the movement.

Write a newspaper report on:
a) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
b) The Simon Commission

Through a focus on any two countries, explain how nations developed over the nineteenth century.

Why did political leaders differ sharply over the question of separate electorates?