Reliance Foundation School, Koparkhairane

Session 2022-2023
History Revision Worksheet
Name: ____________________________ Date: _________________
Class: 8 Sec: __________________ Roll No.: ___
Topic: Revision Worksheet No.:

Q-1 Multiple Choice Questions

1) In which year was Birsa seen roaming in the forests of chotanagpur, Jharkhand?
a) 1894
b) 1985
c) 1895
d) 1899
2) Who were dikus?

a) People from different tribes

b) Officers
c) Moneylenders
d) Foreigner
3) From which tribes were the followers of Birsa Munda from?

a) Dongria tribe
b) oraons
c) Santhals
d) Both b) and c)
4) What was the other name for shifting cultivation?

a) Walking cultivation
b) Jhum cultivation
c) Moving cultivation
d) Bewar
5) What did they do with the seeds from sal and mahua?

a) Extract Fish
b) Extract Oil
c) They grew trees from it
d) None of these
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6) The Khond lived in

(a) Karnataka
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Odisha

7) The revolt of Songram Sangama rose in the year 1906 in

(a) Bengal
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Odisha

8) Birsa spent time in the company of ……………. preachers.

(a) Buddha
(b) Vaishnava
(c) Sikhs
(d) None of these

9) What type of lives did the herders live?

(a) Sophisticated
(b) Settled
(c) Nomadic
(d) None of these

10) log houses were built in the village of which tribe?

a) Khond tribes
b) Santhal tribe
c) Gond tribe
d) Nishi tribe

Q-2 Fill in the blanks

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 1) Birsa was born in a family of Mundas________.
2) A field that had been cultivated once was left Fallow for many years.
3) Bewar is a term used in Madhya Pradesh used for shifting cultivation.
4) Before the arrival of the British in many areas the tribal chiefs were important people.
5) Birsa went to the local missionary school and listened to the sermons of the missionaries.

Q-3 Answer the following question in one or two sentences:

Q1. In which year did the Mughal emperor appoint the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal.1765

Q2. What event is shown in the picture given below?

Q4. Who was the Governor –General of India when the Permanent Settlement was introduced?
Lord Cornwallis
Q5. An Englishman named Holt Mackenzie devised a new system. When did it came into effect?1822
Q6. Thomas Munro was the governor of which place in India? Madras
Q7. Who was William Morris? was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural
conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and
Crafts Movement
Q8. What was the colour of the Indigo? Greenish dark blue
Q9. Mahatma Gandhi’s visit in which year marked the beginning of which movement against the indigo
planters? 1917, Champaran
Q10. When was Birsa released from jail 28/01/1898
Q11.Where did Birsa go for schooling?
Q12.In the 18th century this was very much in demand in the European market…. Name the item?
Q13. What was the colour of the flag of the Birsa raj’s flag?

Q-4 Answer the following questions in 3 to 4 sentences only.

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 1) The Company had become the Diwan, but it still saw itself primarily as a trader. What was its
expectation and what was the effort?
2) Bengal’s economy was facing a deep crisis. How was this visible?
3) Elaborate on Permanent Settlements.
4) After the permanent settlement was introduced, by the first decade of the 19 th century the situation
had changed. What were these changes?
5) Why did the East India Company start the cultivation of the opium and indigo? How did it expand to
cultivate it?
6) Why did the woad producers in Europe pressurize their governments to ban the import of indigo?

7) “silk was very much in demand in the European market” why?

8) What were the problems that the Santhals faced with regards to trading with silk?
9) What was the impact on the tribal when the forest laws changed?
10) Describe settled cultivation.
11) In 1895 when people saw Birsa roaming the forest, what did they believe he could do? Answer in 3-5
points.
12) “Some of them practised jhum cultivation”. How did they do jhum cultivation and what was the other
name for it?
13) What were the problems faced by the tribal while searching for work?
14) When was Birsa released from jail? What did he do after getting free from jail?

Q-5 Answer the following questions in 5 to 6 sentences only:

1) How did Birsa Munda give a fight to the Britishers?

2) Describe Birsa Munda's early life and how he got such a big following?
3) Explain how the Britishers tricked the tribals?
4) What happened to the tribal chiefs after Britishers came to India?
5) How did the tribals who practised jhum cultivation live and how did the British try to stop them?
6) How did the tribals live?
7) “Lose your bad practices in order to become a Christian” elaborate and why did birsa say this and what did
he mean by it?

Q-6 answers these questions by marking in the map given below.

1) During Britishers time, the khond tribe were living in the forest of this state.
2) Name the state where santhal tribe were residing in the forest of this state in 1946
3) Name and mark the state during British rule, log houses were built in a village of the nishi tribes
4) In 1906, the revolt of Songram Sangama, was held in this state
5) During British time, the santhal tribes reared cocoons, in the present day state.

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