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History NCERT Notes Class 8th for SSC UPSC Part 8
1. Samachar Darpan – Bengali newspaper
2. First cotton mill in India – As spinning mill in Bombay in 1854
3. Smelting – The process of obtaining a metal from rock (or soil) by heating it to a very high temperature
4. First mill in Ahmedabad – in 1861
5. High carbon steel called Wootz produced – south India
6. Agarias – a community of iron smelters
7. Rajhara Hills is famous for – iron ore
8. River Subarnarekha – flows through Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha
9. Cul-de-sac – Street with a dead end
10. Khanqah – A sufi lodge, often used as a rest house for travellers and a place where people come to discuss spiritual matters
11. Idgah – An open prayer place of Muslims primarily meant for id prayers
12. Lal Qila or the Red Fort, made of red sandstone
13. Shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya – in Delhi
14. Delhi became the capital of British India – 1911
15. Gulfaroshan – A festival of flowers

Class 8th NCERT History Notes Part 10
1. Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) founded Brahmo Sabha (later known as the Brahmo Samaj) in Calcutta
2. Sati was banned – 1829
3. In which year the Widow Remarriage Act was passed – 1856
4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875
5. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta
6. Tarabai Shinde published – Stripurushtulna
7. Pandita Ramabai wrote a book about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women. She also founded a
widows’ home at Poona
8. Prarthana Samaj was founded – 1867 to remove caste restrictions
9. Paramhans Mandali was founded in 1840 to work for the abolition of caste
10. Madigas caste – Andhra Pradesh
11. In 1873, Jyotirao Phule wrote a book named Gulamgiri, meaning slavery
12. E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker was famous with the name – Periyar
13. Periyar founded the Self Respect Movement
14. Brahmo Samaj formed – 1830
15. The Young Bengal Movement – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
16. Swami Vivekananda’s guru – Ramakrishna Paramhansa
17. The Veda Samaj Established in Madras (Chennai) in 1864
18. The Aligarh Movement was founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875 at Aligarh
19. The Singh Sabha Movement – the first Singh Sabhas were formed at Amritsar in 1873 and at Lahore in 1879
20. American Revolution – 1776

History NCERT 8th Notes for SSC CGL & UPSC
1. Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College – Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875 at Aligarh
2. Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College later became – Aligarh Muslim University
3. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was established on 2 April 1870
4. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was established by M. G. Ranade and G. V. Joshi
5. The Arms Act was passed in 1878 to disallow Indians from possessing arms

Class 8th History Question & Answer Part 3
1. The states which were annexed using the Doctrine of Lapse – Satara (1848), Sambalpur (1850), Udaipur (1852), Nagpur (1853), & Jhansi (1854)
2. Awadh was annexed on the ground – to free the people from the “misgovernment” of the Nawab
3. Qazi – A judge
4. Mufti – A jurist of the Muslim community
5. Under the Regulating Act of 1773 – a new Supreme Court was established.
6. By 1857 the Company directly rule over about 63 per cent of the territory and 78 per cent of the population of the Indian subcontinent
7. Sawars – trained soldiers on horseback
8. Musket – A heavy gun used by infantry soldiers
9. Matchlock – An early type of gun in which the powder was ignited by a match
10. Tiger of Mysore – Tipu Sultan
11. A criminal court – faujdari adalat
12. A civil court – diwani adalat
13. 1770 famine killed ten million people in Bengal (one-third of the population)
14. Haats – Weekly markets
15. Who introduced Permanent Settlement (in 1793) – Lord Cornwallis

SSC, UPSC, HPSC Class 8th History Notes
1. In 1920 the British imposed a harsh treaty on the Turkish Sultan or Khalifa
2. Leaders of the Khilafat agitation – Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali
3. The lawyers who gave up their practices during Non-Cooperation Movement – Motilal Nehru, C.R. Das, C. Rajagopalachari and Asaf Ali etc.
4. In Kheda, Gujarat, Patidar peasants organised nonviolent campaigns during Non-cooperation movement
5. Gandhi Ji called off the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 due to Chauri Chaura incident when a crowd of peasants set fire to a police station in Chauri Chaura
6. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) – 27 September 1925, Nagpur
7. Communist Party of India – 26 December 1925
8. Hindustan Republican Army founded by – Ram Prasad Bismil, Sachindra Nath Bakshi, Sachindranath Sanyal, and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee.
9. After Bhagat Singh association Hindustan Republican Army become – Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
10. HSRA published a manifesto known as – ‘The Revolutionary.’

प्राउड रिजर्व की विदेश नीति – लार्ड लिटन
सहायक संधि – लॉर्ड वैलेस्ली
Doctrine of Lapse – लॉर्ड डलहौजी
महालवारी – होल्ट मैकेंजी द्वारा 1822 में बनाई गई थी और 1833 में लॉर्ड विलियम बेंटिंक द्वारा संशोधित की गई
रैयतवारी​ प्रणाली – थॉमस मुनरो और कैप्टन अलेक्जेंडर रीड

NCERT Class 8 History Notes of Chapter The Changing World of Visual Arts
1. The leader of the British troops was Major General David Baird in the battle of Seringapatam
2. Indian Mural Paintings are paintings made on the walls of caves and palaces
3. Walls of Seringapatam palace covered with mural paintings – famous battle of Polilur of 1780 in which
Tipu and Haidar Ali defeated the English troops
4. Scroll painters (called patuas) – in Bengal
5. Raja Ravi Varma belonged to the family of the Maharajas of Travancore in Kerala
6. Kalidas’s poem – Meghaduta

NCERT History Class 8th Notes in Points
1. Indian Constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950
2. One of the member of Constituent Assembly H.J. Khandekar said that it was the upper castes who were responsible for the Harijans “being unfit today”.
3. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee – Dr B.R. Ambedkar
4. Potti Sriramulu went on a hunger strike demanding the formation of Andhra state to protect the interests of Telugu speakers
5. New state of Andhra (which subsequently became Andhra Pradesh) – 1 October 1953
6. Bhilai Steel Plant was established in 1959 in collaboration with which country – Russia
7. Bhilai Steel Plant situated in which state – Chhattisgarh
8. Gandhi Sagar Dam is built on which river? – Chambal River
9. Second Five Year Plan focused strongly on the development of heavy industries
10. Tipu Sultan of Mysore was finally defeated in 1799 at the famous battle of Seringapatam