4. Short answer questions:
(a) What do you understand by the term 'town?
(b) What were capital towns?
(c) What are port towns?
(d) Mention two factors that helped in the growth of Surat.
(e) Which city is called the Varanasi of the South?
Answers
Answer:
1.compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city. b : a compactly settled area as distinguished from surrounding rural territory. c : a large densely populated urban area : city.
2.A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
3.city, town, or other place where ships load or unload. 2. a place along a coast in which ships may take refuge from storms; harbor
4.Its location near the sea shore providing scope for navigation and trading. Its trading potential was immense. 2.It was famous for cotton textile industry.
5.Kanchipuram (Conjeevaram in its erstwhile colonial avatar) is probably the oldest living city in southern India. With innumerable temples and serpentine bylanes teeming with people, the sobriquet “Varanasi of the South” sits easily on this ancient city. It was a leading centre of religious and intellectual life