Category: General Studies

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.’