Q5 – Define the following
• Mandapika
• Mandapas
• Haat
• Black towns
• White Towns
Answers
Answer:
A mandapika or mandi refers to a market in small town in which nearby villagers brought their products to be sold. It was an important place where internal trade took place. ... These towns also had market streets called hatta comprising of shops.
Mandapa (also spelled mantapa or mandapam) in Indian architecture, especially Hindu temple architecture, is a pillared hall or pavilion for public rituals. Mandapas are described as "open" or "closed" depending on whether they have walls.
Nowadays permanent shops and markets are opening in many rural places, but historically the HAAT was a temporary market which allowed people to purchase goods they could not easily access.
Black towns, either mostly or completely African-American incorporated communities with autonomous black city governments and commercially oriented economies often serving a hinterland of black farmers, were created with clearly defined economic and political motives. ...
The region where factories is located which represent the actual and symbolic pre-eminence of the British in term of their power as well as their cultural values and social practices were known as "white town".