CBSE History Class 8

Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of the Golden Age

Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of the Golden Age - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT

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Q1: Name the tribe of Birsa.
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Q2: Birsa belonged to which village and state?
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Q3: Name the place where Songram Sangma revolted against the Forest Laws.
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Q4: Among the followers of Birsa were the tribals of Santhals an___________ tribes.
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Q5: The tribes used to practice Shifting cultivation in North Eastern India. True/False.
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Q6: Name the place where Khond people used to live?
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Q7: Name the flowers which were used to colour the clothes and leather.
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Q8: How did the forest tribes used to extract the oil?
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Q9: The colonial officials finally decided to allow.
  1. rotational cultivation.
  2. plantation cultivation.
  3. jhum cultivation.
  4. cash crop cultivation.
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Q10: The Baiga tribe belonged to _______________.
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Q11: Name the tribe which was one of the important forest dwellers.
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Q12: When did the tea plantation started in India?
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Q13: Name a Tribal groups living on herding and rearing of animals.
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Q14: The van gujjars belonged to_______.
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Q15: Who were the van gujjars?
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Q16: The labadis belonged to Punjab. True/False
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Q17: According to Verrier Elwin Baigas was the best hunting tribe of central India
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Q18: Elwin was a British anthropologist. During 1930-40, he had spent considerable amount of time with the tribal communities of central India
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Q19: Tribals of Bihar were recruited to work in___________.
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Q20: The British plans of settling tribal groups were not accepted in the regions of the _____________.
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Q21: Name the market where the Indian silk was in great demand in the eighteenth century.
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Q22: The East India Company got the zamindari rights over three villages. Name them.
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Q23: Why did the British reserved the forests of India?
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Q24: Give reason why, Jhum cultivation was allowed in the reserved forests?
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Q25: Name the place where The Forest Satyagrah took place.
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Q26: In Hazaribagh, the tribe involved with the rearing of silk cocoons was the Santhals. True/False
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Q27: Name the method used to sown the seeds in jhum cultivation.
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Q28: What was the color of the flag raised by Mundas as a symbol of Birsa Raj?
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Q29: Name the place where traders procured the cocoons from the tribes and then exported it.
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Q30: Who were chiefs?
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Q31: Who were Mundas?
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Q32: all the members of the clan were regarded as descendants of the original settlers.True/False
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Q33: Besides curing diseases, Birsa was capable of
  1. bringing rain.
  2. multiplying grain.
  3. growing trees.
  4. vanishing.
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Q34: The thousands of tribals who began following Birsa thought that he was their_________.
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Q35: Name a tribal group belonging specifically to the Chotanagpur region.
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Q36: Name the tribal group of the Chotanagpur region other than the Mundas and the Santhals
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Q37: Name the term that was often used by the tribals in India for outsiders.
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Q38: Tribal customs were very different from those laid down by the brahmanas. True/False
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Q39: Name the field that was left uncultivated for a while so that its soil can recover the fertility.
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Q40 : Why does ash from burning of trees was collected?
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Q41: Name the leaves used for making plates by the Dongria Kandha women of Orissa.
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Q42: How cooking oil was extracted?
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Q43: The Khonds used forest shrubs and herbs for_________.
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Chapter 5: Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of the Golden Age