EVENTS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL
10/01/2022 CLASS- 7 SESSION 2021-22
SUBJECT :SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY
CHAPTER-7
TRIBES ,NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES
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1. Match the following:
garh – khel
tanda – chaurasi
labourer – caravan
clan – Garha Katanga
Sib Singh – Ahom State
Durgawati – paik
Answer:
garh – chaurasi
tanda – caravan
labourer – paik
clan – khel
Sib Singh – Ahom state
Durgawati – Garha Katanga
2. Fill in the blanks:
- The new castes emerging within vamas were called……………………
- ……… were historical works written by the Ahoms.
- The…….. mentions that Garha Katanga had 70,000 villages.
- As tribal stales became bigger and stronger they gave land grants to………….. ..
Answer:
- jatis
- Buraryis
- Akbar Nama
- temples, Brahmanas.
3. State whether true or false:
(a) Tribal societies had rich oral traditions.
(b) There were no tribal communities in the north-western part of the subcontinent.
(c) The Chaurasi in Gond states contained several cities.
(d) The Bhils lived in the north-eastern part of the sub-continent.
Answer: (a)—T, (b)—F, (c)—F, (d)—F.
4.VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. How did the castes of entertainers earn their livelihood?
Answer: They earned their livelihood by performing in different towns and villages.
2. Which tribe was very influential in Punjab during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
Answer: The Khokhar tribe was very influential in Punjab during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
3. Name the tribe which was powerful in the north-west.
Answer: Balochis
4. Name any two tribes which lived in the extreme South
Answer: Vetars and Matravers
5. Who were specialised artisans?
Answer: Smiths, carpenters, and masons were specialised artisans
6. Who controlled Garh?
Answer: A Gond clan usually controlled the Garh
7. What made the Brahmanas more influential in the Gond Society? [V. Imp.]
Answer: The Gond raja began to grant land to the Brahmanas. This made them influential.
8. Who was Aman Das?
Answer: He was the Gond raja of Garha Katanga.
9. Who was Durgaivaii?
Answer: She was the daughter of Salbahan, the Chandel Rajput raja of Mahoba. She got married to Dalpat, the son of the Gond raja Aman Das.
10. When did the Mughal forces attack Garha Katanga?
Answer: The Mughal forces attacked Garha Katangst in 1565.
5.Short Answer Type Questions
1. Mention some special features of tribal societies.
Answer: Some special features of tribal societies are :
- They did not follow the social rules and rituals which the Brahmanas prescribed.
- They were not divided into many unequal classes.
- Members of the society were united by kinship bonds.
2. How did the tribal people earn their livelihood?
Answer: The main occupation of the tribal people was agriculture. But there were also hunter-gatherers or herders. Most often they combined these activities to make full use of the natural resources of the area in which they lived. Some tribes were nomadic moving from one place to another.
A tribal group controlled land and pastures jointly and divided these amongst household as per its own rules
3. Write a short note on Bcuyaras’.
Answer: The Banjaras were important trader nomads. They usually moved in caravan known as tanda. A tanda contained as many as 6 or 7 hundred persons. They carried their wives and children along with them. They owned their oxen. They bought grain where it was cheaply available and carried it to places where it was dearer. From there, they again reloaded their oxen with anything that could be profitably sold in other places. The Banjaras did not travel more than 6 or 7 miles a day. They preferred cool weather. After unloading their oxen, they freed them to graze
4. How did Sultan Alauddin Khalji and the Mughals use the Bcuyaras?
Answer: Sultan Alauddin Khalji used the Banjaras to transport grain to the city markets. Under the Mughals the Banjaras carried grain on their bullocks from different areas and sold it in towns. They transported food grain for the Mughal army during military campaigns
5. Write a brief note on the administrative system of the Gond kingdom. [V. Imp.]
Answer: The Gond Kingdom was divided into garhs. Each garh was controlled by a particular Gond clan. This was further divided into units of 84 villages called chaurasi. The chaurasi was subdivided into barhots which were made up of 12 villages each.
