Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Resources — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

Read the following extract and answer the question that follow:
"We must starve for food"
In 1823 the Company government in India received a petition from 12,000 weavers stating:
Our ancestors and we used to receive advances from the Company and maintain ourselves and our respective families by weaving Company’s superior assortments. Owing to our misfortune, the aurangs have been abolished ever since because of which we and our families are distressed for want of the means of livelihood. We are weavers and do not know any other business. We must starve for food, if the Board of Trade do not cast a look of kindness towards us and give orders for clothes.

1. Who wrote the above petition and to whom? What does it highlight?

How else did the British use the countryside from other than collecting revenue?

Define the following
(i) Sericulture 
(ii) Pisciculture 
(iii) Viticulture 
(iv) Horticulture

What do you mean by Nabobs?

In his last letters to two of his sons, Aurangzeb wrote, “I came alone and am going away alone. I know not who I am and what I have been doing. … I have not done well for the country and the people, and of the future there is no hope. I was helpless [in life] and I am departing helpless.” What do these words tell us about Aurangzeb? How do you feel about them?

Why was Bengal divided by the British in 1905?

Describe how the population of the world has grown in history. What has caused the population explosion?

Explain the Maratha administration under Shivaji, focusing on ciwl and military structures.

Why is Ahmedabad called 'Manchester of India'?

Who was Keshub Chandra Sen? What was done by the Brahmo Samaj after 1830?