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CBSE Class 8 History Chapter 1 How When and Where Important

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about a CBSE Class 8 History chapter covering topics like how advertisements help create taste, the criteria used to choose important dates in history, why historians divide history into periods, the meaning of colonial, and the sources historians use to write about the last 250 years of Indian history.

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CBSE Class 8 History Chapter 1 How When and Where Important

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about a CBSE Class 8 History chapter covering topics like how advertisements help create taste, the criteria used to choose important dates in history, why historians divide history into periods, the meaning of colonial, and the sources historians use to write about the last 250 years of Indian history.

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CBSE Class 8 History Chapter 1 How, When and Where

Important Questions

1. Advertisements help create taste. How?


2. By what criteria do we choose a set of dates as important?
3. Why do we associate history with a string of dates?
4. Why do we try and divide history into different periods?
5. What is Colonial?
6. What sources do historians use in writing about the last 250 years of Indian history?
7. James Mill divided Indian history into three periods – Hindu, Muslim, Christian. True or False?
8. The British thought surveys were important for effective administration. Do you agree?
9. What is the problem with the periodisation of Indian history that James Mill offers?
10. Why did the British preserve official documents?
11. How will the information historians get from old newspapers be different from that found in police
reports?
12. Define the word history and mention the events that are normally recorded in history books.
13. Who is the creator of the first map of India?
14. Explain the term “time-span” in connection with historical events.
15. James Mill divided his book, ‘The History of British India,’ into Hindu, Muslim and British Periods.
Justify.
16. Elaborate on the National Archives of India.
17. Give a reason for why the British preserved the official document.
18. Find the difference between the information historians get from newspapers and that found in
police reports.
19. Define the problem with the ‘ancient-medieval-modern’ paradigm of the study of Indian history.
20. We should not accept the ‘Hindu-Muslim’ periodisation of Indian history. Why? Justify.

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