Category: General Studies

UPSC NCERT Class 8th History Book Notes Part 4
1. In Permanent Settlement the rajas and taluqdars were recognised as zamindars.
2. Zamindars collect rent from the peasants and pay to the Company.
3. Mahal – Mahal is a revenue estate which may be a village or a group of villages.
4. Mahalwari system was introduced by – Holt Mackenzie in 1822
5. Village headman collect the revenue from the village (mahal) and pay to company. This system came to be known as the mahalwari settlement.
6. Ryots – cultivators
7. Ryotwari system was introduced by – Captain Alexander Read & Thomas Munro
8. Company directly collect the revenue from the ryots (cultivators)
9. Kalamkari prints – by weavers of Andhra Pradesh
10. Two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.
11. nij cultivation – produced indigo in the land owned directly or rented
12. ryoti cultivation – the planters forced the ryots to sign a contract.
13. Blue Rebellion (नील विद्रोह) – March 1859
14. Gomasthas – agents of planters

SSC UPSC Class 8th History NCERT Book Notes Part 5
1. Dongria Kandha tribe – Orissa
2. Dikus – outsiders
3. Fallow – A field left uncultivated for a while to recover fertility of soil
4. Jhum cultivation – Shifting cultivation
5. Khonds tribe – Orissa
6. Baigas tribe – central India
7. Van Gujjars of the Punjab hills – were cattle herders (inhabiting the foothills of Himalayan States)
8. Labadis tribe – Andhra Pradesh
9. Gaddis of Kulu – were shepherds
10. Bakarwals of Kashmir – reared goats
11. Bewar – A term used in Madhya Pradesh for shifting cultivation
12. Mundas – of Chottanagpur
13. Nyishi tribes – Arunachal Pradesh
14. Bhil or Bheel is an ethnic group in western India
15. Revolt of Songram Sangma – in 1906 in Assam
16. Forest satyagraha of the 1930s – in the Central Provinces
17. Santhals -Jharkhand
18. Kols rebelled in 1831-32
19. Santhals rose in revolt in 1855
20. Bastar Rebellion – in central India broke out in 1910
21. Warli Revolt – in Maharashtra in 1940
22. Vaishnav – Worshippers of Vishnu

Class 8th History NCERT Book Notes for SSC UPSC Part 6
1. The method of sowing seeds in jhum cultivation is known as – broadcasting or scattering.
2. The tribal chiefs got – Land titles in central India under the British rule.
3. Peshwa Baji Rao II adopted son – Nana Saheb
4. Resented – to feel angry about something because you think it is unfair
5. Begum Hazrat Mahal along with her son Birjis Qadr – Lucknow
6. Nana Saheb – Kanpur
7. Rani Lakshmibai – Jhansi
8. Rani Avantibai Lodhi of Ramgarh – Mandla region of Madhya Pradesh
9. Ahmadullah Shah, a maulvi from – Faizabad
10. Bakht Khan – in the region of Delhi
11. Zamindar, Kunwar Singh – Bihar
12. Delhi was recaptured from the rebel forces in September 1857
13. The British Parliament passed a Act in 1858 and transferred the powers of the East India Company to the British Crown
14. Secretary of State for India was appointed
15. Governor-General of India become – Viceroy
16. Paika Rebellion of 1817 an armed insurrection by the Paikas – Odisha
17. Leader of Paika of Khurda rebellion – Bakshi Jagabandhu Bidyadhara
18. Paiko means – “foot soldiers”
19. sicca rupee – silver currency (in the region of odisha)
20. The uprising was set off on 29 March 1817 as the Paiks attacked the police station and other government establishments at Banpur .
21. Taiping Rebellion – China
22. Patola was woven in – Surat

Class 8th History NCERT Book One Liner Notes Part 7
1. Muslin – Finely woven textiles
2. Calico (derived from Calicut) – cotton textiles
3. Jamdani – is a fine muslin on which decorative motifs are woven on the loom, typically in grey and white
4. Jamdani weaving centers – Dacca in Bengal and Lucknow in the United Provinces
5. Chintz, Cossaes (or khassa) and bandanna – cotton cloths
6. Bandanna – brightly coloured and printed scarf for the neck or head
7. In 1720, the British government ban the use of printed cotton textiles – chintz – in England through an act known as the Calico Act
8. Spinning jenny was invented by – John Kaye
9. Invention of the steam engine by – Richard Arkwright
10. Dacca was famous for its mulmul and jamdani weaving
11. Tanti weavers belongs to – Bengal
12. Julahas or momin weavers belongs to – north India
13. Sale (साले), kaikollar and devangs belongs – south India
14. Specialist block printers known as – Chhipigars
15. Aurang – A Persian term for a warehouse

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