B. Match the following.
Column B
Column A
a. novelist
1. William Shirer
2. Secondary sources
3. Hind Swaraj
4. Premchand
b. Gandhi: A Memoir
c. Survey of India
d. paintings and biographies
e. Mahatma Gandhi
5. Dehra Dun
C. Answer the following questions very briefly.
1. What was the first newspaper in India?
2. Name any two types of government records.
3. When was the first census of India conducted?
4. What are archaeological sources of Indian history?
5. Name two newspapers started by Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
6
Answers
Answered by
2
Answer:
1. Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper published on the Indian subcontinent. It was founded in Calcutta, capital of British India at the time, by Irishman James Augustus Hicky in 1779.
2. Point 1. map and survey.
Point 2. the 2 types of government records are map and survey.
3. A systematic and modern population census, in its present form was conducted non synchronously between 1865 and 1872 in different parts of the country. This effort culminating in 1872 has been popularly labeled as the first population census of India However, the first synchronous census in India was held in 1881.
Similar questions