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CBSE Class 8 Social Studies Worksheet

History

1.
State True or False: The Moderate leaders support British rule in their speeches and sent representatives to different parts of the country to mobilise public opinion. 
A) true B) false
2.
What were the rules of new education system for students?
3.
State Yes or No: Most Company officials began to feel that investment in the land had to be encouraged and agriculture had to be improved.
A) Yes B) No
4.
Fill in the blanks: The Rowlatt Act curbed fundamental rights such as the ____________ and strengthened police powers.
5.
State Yes or No: The new revenue system by Holt Mackenzie was that the estimated revenue of each plot within a village was added up to calculate the revenue that each village (mahal) had to pay.
A) Yes B) No
6.
State True or False: Members of the HSRA assassinated Saunders, a police officer who had led a lathi charge that caused the death of Netaji Bose.
A) true B) false
7.
Define portrait.
8.
State True or False: The educational system includes books, blackboards, benches, time-tables, roll-call registers and exams.
A) true B) false
9.
State True or False: Mahatma Gandhi felt Western education was ineffective as it stressed on reading and writing rather than practical knowledge and experiences.
A) true B) false
10.
Fill in the blanks: In 1904, ____________ published a book in Japan called The Ideals of the East.
11.
State True or False: Before the nineteenth century, the village patuas and kumors had worked on mythological themes and produced images of gods and goddesses.
A) true B) false
12.
Fill in the blanks: Three or four vats of indigo were needed to manufacture the ____________ .
13.
Explain slave?
14.
Fill in the blanks: In 1956, the ____________ Plan focus on heavy industry, and the effort at state regulation of the economy was to guide economic policy for the next few decades. 
15.
Fill in the blanks: ____________ paintings are bold, deliberately non-realistic style, where the figures emerge large and powerful, with a minimum of lines, detail and colours.
16.
Who felt that the village was an important social institution in north Indian society and needed to be preserved?
17.
State True or False: Many hundred thousand people were killed and numerous women had to face untold brutalities during the Partition. 
A) true B) false
18.
State True or False: On 15 December 1952, 85 days into his fast, Potti Sriramulu demanding the formation of Andhra state died. 
A) true B) false
19.
State True or False: In 1878 the Vernacular Press Act was also enacted in an effort to silence those who were critical of the government. 
A) true B) false
20.
Fill in the blanks: Teaching was oral and there were no separate ____________ before the British rule.

CBSE Class 8 Social Studies Worksheet

History

Answers

1.
Option B

2.
The students had to attend regular classes, pay a fixed fee and clear exams in British period.
3.
Option A

4.
Foreign cloth
5.
Option A
6.
Option B

7.
Portrait means a picture of a person in which the face and its expression are prominent. 
8.
Option A
9.
Option A

10.
Okakura Kakuzo
11.
Option A

12.
Dye
13.
Slave means a person who is owned by someone else the slave owner 
14.
Second Five Year
15.
Kalighat
16.
Holt Mackenzie felt that the village was an important social institution in north Indian society and needed to be preserved 
17.
Option A
18.
Option B
19.
Option A

20.
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