Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps

• down one event or aspect of your
• part of British
• personages, of
• of ropes and pullies

Essential Definitions & Formulas

She

gently perched on a wheel with wings, symbolising time.

Her flight

taking her into the future.

This glorification of machines and technology

even more marked in a picture which appeared on the pages of a trade magazine over a hundred years ago (Fig.

The one at the top

Aladdin from the Orient who built a beautiful palace with his New words Orient – The countries to the east of the Mediterranean, usually referring to Asia.

Give two examples where modern development that

associated with progress has lead to problems.

The one at the bottom

the modern mechanic, who with his modern tools weaves a new magic: builds bridges, ships, towers and high-rise buildings.

Aladdin

shown as representing the East and the past, the mechanic stands for the West and modernity.

Within this account the modern world

associated with rapid technological change and innovations, machines and factories, railways and steamships.

Notice that one wheel

moving only one spindle.

There

a problem with such ideas.

The way in which historians focus on industrialisation rather than on small workshops is a good example of how what we believe today about the past

influenced by what historians choose to notice and what they ignore.

Note down one event or aspect of your own life which adults such as your parents or teachers may think

unimportant, but which you believe to be important.

Will Thorne

one of those who went in search of seasonal work, loading bricks and doing odd jobs.

This

how the British pronounced the word sipahi, meaning an Indian soldier in the service of the British India and the Contemporary World 116 In many places in Carnatic and Bengal, weavers deserted villages and migrated, setting up looms in other villages where they had some family relation.

This

true even in the case of the handloom sector that we have discussed.

It

a mechanical device used for weaving, moved by means of ropes and pullies.

One way in which new consumers are created

through advertisements.

NCERT Thought Questions

• magic lamp. The one at the bottom is the modern mechanic, who with his modern tools weaves a new magic: builds bridges, ships,
• 1.2 The Pace of Industrial Change How rapid was the process of industrialisation? Does industrialisation
• Fig. 5 – Industrial Manchester by M. Jackson, The Illustrated London News, 1857. Chimneys billowing smoke came to characterise the industrial landscape.
• India and the Contemporary World 110
• India and the Contemporary World 114

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