Category: History

NCERT Class 8th History Notes Part 2:-
1. Murshid Quli Khan -> Alivardi Khan -> Sirajuddaulah – as the Nawab of Bengal
2. Battle of Plassey fought between nawab of Bengal Sirajuddaulah – Robert Clive
3. Who became the Nawab of Bengal after Sirajuddaulah defeat -Mir Jafar
4. Battle of Buxar (1764) – British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula and Shah Alam II
5. Mughal emperor appointed the Company as the Diwan of of Bengal – In 1765
6. Tipu Sultan (ruled from 1782 to 1799) modernised his army with the help of – French
7. First Anglo-Mysore War – 1767-69
8. Second Anglo-Mysore War – 1780-84
9. Third Anglo-Mysore War – 1790-92
10. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War – 1799
11. Capital of Mysore Kingdom – Seringapatam
12. Third Battle of Panipat – 1761
13. First Anglo-Maratha War 1775–1782
14. Second Anglo-Maratha War – 1803–1805
15. Third Anglo-Maratha War – 1817–1819
16. Who started the policy of “paramountcy” – Lord Hastings
17. Who revolted against British in Kitoor (in Karnataka today) – Rani Channamma
18. Who started The Doctrine of Lapse – Lord Dalhousie who was the Governor-General from 1848 to 1856
19. Doctrine of Lapse – if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”.
20. Which kingdom was annexed first using The Doctrine of Lapse – Satara (1848).

Class 8th NCERT History One Liner Notes:-
1. Duke of Connaught – Prince Arthur
2. First Governor General – Warren Hastings in 1773
3. Last Viceroy – Lord Mountbatten
4. James Mill published which book – A History of British India
5. First Map of India – James Rennel, 1782 (asked by Robert Clive)
6. The subjugation of one country by another which leads to changes in political, economic, social and cultural views. This process is called as colonisation.
7. Aurangzeb died – 1707
8. Mughal emperor at the time of 1857 revolt – Bahadur Shah Zafar
9. Bahadur Shah Zafar and his sons arrested by – Captain Hodson
10. In 1600, the East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of England.
11. Who give sole right to trade with the East to East India Company – Queen Elizabeth I
12. Who had discovered sea route to India – Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer in 1498
13. East India company primarily buys in its early days – cotton and silk produced, Pepper, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon
14. First English factory was set up in Bengal – the banks of river Hugli in 1651
15. Nawab of Bengal – Murshid Quli Khan

UPSC NCERT Class 8th History Book Notes Part 4
1. In Permanent Settlement the rajas and taluqdars were recognised as zamindars.
2. Zamindars collect rent from the peasants and pay to the Company.
3. Mahal – Mahal is a revenue estate which may be a village or a group of villages.
4. Mahalwari system was introduced by – Holt Mackenzie in 1822
5. Village headman collect the revenue from the village (mahal) and pay to company. This system came to be known as the mahalwari settlement.
6. Ryots – cultivators
7. Ryotwari system was introduced by – Captain Alexander Read & Thomas Munro
8. Company directly collect the revenue from the ryots (cultivators)
9. Kalamkari prints – by weavers of Andhra Pradesh
10. Two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.
11. nij cultivation – produced indigo in the land owned directly or rented
12. ryoti cultivation – the planters forced the ryots to sign a contract.
13. Blue Rebellion (नील विद्रोह) – March 1859
14. Gomasthas – agents of planters

SSC UPSC Class 8th History NCERT Book Notes Part 5
1. Dongria Kandha tribe – Orissa
2. Dikus – outsiders
3. Fallow – A field left uncultivated for a while to recover fertility of soil
4. Jhum cultivation – Shifting cultivation
5. Khonds tribe – Orissa
6. Baigas tribe – central India
7. Van Gujjars of the Punjab hills – were cattle herders (inhabiting the foothills of Himalayan States)
8. Labadis tribe – Andhra Pradesh
9. Gaddis of Kulu – were shepherds
10. Bakarwals of Kashmir – reared goats
11. Bewar – A term used in Madhya Pradesh for shifting cultivation
12. Mundas – of Chottanagpur
13. Nyishi tribes – Arunachal Pradesh
14. Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India
15. Revolt of Songram Sangma – in 1906 in Assam
16. Forest satyagraha of the 1930s – in the Central Provinces
17. Santhals -Jharkhand
18. Kols rebelled in 1831-32
19. Santhals rose in revolt in 1855
20. Bastar Rebellion – in central India broke out in 1910
21. Warli Revolt – in Maharashtra in 1940
22. Vaishnav – Worshippers of Vishnu

Class 8th History NCERT Book Notes for SSC UPSC Part 6
1. The method of sowing seeds in jhum cultivation is known as – broadcasting or scattering.
2. The tribal chiefs got – Land titles in central India under the British rule.
3. Peshwa Baji Rao II adopted son – Nana Saheb
4. Resented – to feel angry about something because you think it is unfair
5. Begum Hazrat Mahal along with her son Birjis Qadr – Lucknow
6. Nana Saheb – Kanpur
7. Rani Lakshmibai – Jhansi
8. Rani Avantibai Lodhi of Ramgarh – Mandla region of Madhya Pradesh
9. Ahmadullah Shah, a maulvi from – Faizabad
10. Bakht Khan – in the region of Delhi
11. Zamindar, Kunwar Singh – Bihar
12. Delhi was recaptured from the rebel forces in September 1857
13. The British Parliament passed a Act in 1858 and transferred the powers of the East India Company to the British Crown
14. Secretary of State for India was appointed
15. Governor-General of India become – Viceroy
16. Paika Rebellion of 1817 an armed insurrection by the Paikas – Odisha
17. Leader of Paika of Khurda rebellion – Bakshi Jagabandhu Bidyadhara
18. Paiko means – “foot soldiers”
19. sicca rupee – silver currency (in the region of odisha)
20. The uprising was set off on 29 March 1817 as the Paiks attacked the police station and other government establishments at Banpur .
21. Taiping Rebellion – China
22. Patola was woven in – Surat

Class 8th History NCERT Book One Liner Notes Part 7
1. Muslin – Finely woven textiles
2. Calico (derived from Calicut) – cotton textiles
3. Jamdani – is a fine muslin on which decorative motifs are woven on the loom, typically in grey and white
4. Jamdani weaving centers – Dacca in Bengal and Lucknow in the United Provinces
5. Chintz, Cossaes (or khassa) and bandanna – cotton cloths
6. Bandanna – brightly coloured and printed scarf for the neck or head
7. In 1720, the British government ban the use of printed cotton textiles – chintz – in England through an act known as the Calico Act
8. Spinning jenny was invented by – John Kaye
9. Invention of the steam engine by – Richard Arkwright
10. Dacca was famous for its mulmul and jamdani weaving
11. Tanti weavers belongs to – Bengal
12. Julahas or momin weavers belongs to – north India
13. Sale (साले), kaikollar and devangs belongs – south India
14. Specialist block printers known as – Chhipigars
15. Aurang – A Persian term for a warehouse