5. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
(a) Explain the meaning of the terms “imperialism' and 'colony?
(b) Why did the British flock to hill stations in the summer?
(c) What is a cantonment?
(d) Why did the British feel the need to survey India?
(e) What are oral sources? How are they a useful source of information?
Answers
Explanation:
Although imperialism and colonialism focus on the suppression of another, if colonialism refers to the process of a country taking physical control of another, imperialism refers to the political and monetary dominance, either formally or informally. ... Few colonies remain remote from their mother country.
Answer. This is so because they belonged to region which is cool and can't cope up with extreme summer or heat of India during summer season !
A cantonment (/kænˈtɒnmənt/, /kænˈtoʊnmənt/, or UK: /kænˈtuːnmənt/) is a military or police quarters. ...
British conducted so many surveys in india because the british people wanted to be famous all over the india and as well as the whole world by the future people . They conducted surveys in order to check their spread of business all over the india.
Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives and most of these cannot be found in written sources. Oral history also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work (published or unpublished) based on such data, often preserved in archives and large