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Describe the incidence of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

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Describe the role of Alluri Sitaram Raju in Andhra Pradesh during the 1920s.


● The Jallianwala Bagh incident took place on 13th April.


● A group of villagers had come to Amritsar to attend a fair and had gathered in the enclosed ground of Jallianwala Bagh.


● Since they did not belong to the city, they were unaware of the Martial Law that was imposed.


● General Dyer entered the area, closed all the exits and opened fire on the crowd killing hundreds of people.


● His objective was to produce a moral effect to create a feeling of terror in the minds of the Satyagrahis.


● As the news spread, the people took out their anger in the north Indian towns. A series of clashes, protests, attacks, and strikes began.


● The government responded in brutality and humiliated the people.


● The Satyagrahis were forced to rub their noses on the ground and say Salam to the Sahib. Gandhiji eventually called off the movement.


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● Alluri Sita Rama Raju claimed that he had a variety of special powers such as healing people, making an astrological prediction and surviving Bullet shots.


● The Rebels proclaimed him as an incarnation of the god.


● He was inspired by Gandhi's noncooperation movement and encouraged people to wear Khadi and give up drinking.


● He asserted that India could be liberated only by the use of force and not nonviolence.


● He used guerrilla warfare for achieving Swaraj and attacked and attempted to kill the British officials.


● He was later captured and executed in 1924.


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Assertion (A): Not every good or service that is produced and sold needs to be counted to know the total production in each sector.


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 22

Why did Europeans flee to America in the nineteenth century? Explain.

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Why did merchants move to the countryside in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Explain.


 23

Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follow-

Source A-Religious Debates and the Fear of Print


Print created the possibility of the wide circulation of ideas and introduced a new world of debate and discussion. Even those who disagreed with established authorities could now print and circulate their ideas. Through the printed message, they could persuade people to think 3 differently and move them to action. This had significance in different spheres of life.


Source B-The Reading Mania


The ideas of scientists and philosophers now became more accessible to the common people. Ancient and medieval scientific texts were compiled and published, and maps and scientific diagrams were widely printed. When scientists like Isaac Newton began to publish their discoveries, they could influence a much wider circle of scientifically-minded readers. The writings of thinkers such as Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Jean Jacques Rousseau were also widely printed and read. Thus their ideas about science, reason, and rationality found their way into popular literature.


Source C --- Print Culture and the French Revolution


Print popularised the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers. Collectively, their writings provided a critical commentary on tradition, superstition, and despotism. They argued for the rule of reason rather than custom and demanded that everything is judged through the application of reason and rationality. They attacked the sacred authority of the Church and the despotic power of the state, thus eroding the legitimacy of a social order based on tradition. The writings of Voltaire and Rousseau were read widely; and those who read these books saw the world through new eyes, eyes that were questioning, critical and rational.


Source A-Religious Debates and the Fear of Print


23.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of Print in the transmission of ideas and cultures.


Source B-The Reading Mania


23.2 To what extent do you agree that scientific ideas were circulated through Print.? Give only one aspect.


Source C --- Print Culture and the French Revolution


23.3 To what extent did print culture create conditions for French Revolution ?. Cite anyone evidence to support your answer.