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WBBSE History Question Paper

First Unit Test History
Class X Full Marks : 40

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Paper 1

1. Answer the following in one or two words (answer any six questions) : 6×1=6
(a) During the administration of which Governor-General was the Maratha Confederacy finally destroyed ?
(b) When was the Treaty of Salbai signed ?
(c) Who introduced the Ryotwari settlement ?

(d) When was the Company’s monopoly trade with India abolished ?
(e) What was the meaning of Daman-i-Koh ?
(f) Who led the Barasat Uprising ?

(g) What does Wahabi mean ?
(h) In which year was the Calcutta Asiatic Society founded ?
(i) By which name were the followers of Derozio known ?
(j) Who was the first president of the Indian National Congress ?

2. Answer the following in two or three sentences (answer any five questions) : 5×2=10
(a) What do you mean by the Cornwallis Code ?
(b) When and why was the Fort William College set up ?
(c) State one positive and one negative effect of the Permanent Settlement in Bengal.

(d) What was Economic Drain ?
(e) Why is Dudu Mian remembered ?
(f) When and where did the Revolt of 1857 break out ?
(g) What do you mean by Anglicist-Orientalist controversy ?

3. Answer the following in seven or eight sentences : 4×3=12
(a) Write a note on the Ryotwari Settlement in the Madras Presidency.
Or
Analyse the chief features of the Mahalwari Settlement in U.P.

(b) What were the reasons for the outbreak of peasant revolts in the first century of the British rule ?
Or
Why were the Indian Sepoys aggrieved at the introduction of the Enfield Rifle ?

(c) Discuss the role of Vidyasagar as a social reformer.
Or
Discuss the role of the middle class to the emergence of nationalism.

4. Answer any two of the following questions : 6×2=12
(a) When and between whom was the Treaty of Amritsar signed ? After which battle was Punjab incorporated into the British Empire ? Who was then the Governor-General of India ? 1+1+3+1
Or
When and by which Act was founded the Supreme Court at Calcutta ? What is meant by ‘Rule of Law’ ? 1+1+4

(b) In the nineteenth century what changes took place in the nature of the trade between England and India ? Give two reasons for these changes. What was the effect of these changes on India’s handicraft industry ? 2+2+2
Or
How did Britain cripple Indian cotton industry ? What was the Industrial Revolution ? 3+3

(c) Discuss the economic and political causes of the Revolt of 1857. 3+3
Or
State three reasons for failure of the Revolt of 1857. 2+2+2

(d) Who founded the Brahmo Samaj and when ? Assess the role of the Brahmo Samaj in the social reform movement of the ninetenth century. 1+1+4
Or
What was the Ilbert Bill controversy ? What was the impact of this ? 3+3

Paper 2

History :
Class X :
Full Marks : 40
1. Answer the following in one or two words (answer any six questions) : 6×1=6
(a) Name the treaty which ended the Second Anglo-Mysore war.
(b) With whom did the British conclude the Treaty of Sagauli ?
(c) When was the treaty of Bassein signed ?

(d) In which year Cornwallis took charge as the Governor General of Bengal ?
(e) Who introduced the Ryotwari Settlement ?
(f) Name a leader of the Kol Rebellian.
(g) Who is known as the Father of Modern India ?
(h) In which year the Vernacular Press Act was passed ?

2. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences. Answer any five questions : 5×2=10
(a) What was the political significance of the Treaty of Salbai ?
(b) Which Indian ruler first signed the ‘Subsidiary Alliance’ of Lord Wellesley and in which year ?

(c) What was Mahalwari settlement ?
(d) Who was defeated and killed in the Battle of Balakot (1831) ?
(e) When and where did the Revolt of 1857 break out ?

(f) Which philosophy did Swami Dayananda preach ?
(g) What were the two main objectives of the Indian Association ?
(h) Mention any two objectives of the Prarthana Samaj.