question_answer1)
Who wrote the
novel, 'The Gods Visit Earth'?
question_answer2)
How much impressed
were Gods by the marvels of the city?
question_answer3)
Which aspects of
Calcutta city disturbed the Gods?
question_answer4)
What were the
contrasting images of the city in Durgacharan Ray's Novel?
question_answer5)
Which three
historical processes shaped modem cities?
question_answer6)
For what reasons
were ancient cities known as?
question_answer7)
What is a metropolis?
question_answer8)
Why did people
migrate from rural areas to industrial cities of Britain?
question_answer9)
What kind of people
lived in London during 19th century?
question_answer10)
Which industries in
London employed large number of workers?
question_answer11)
What kind of
criminals existed in London?
question_answer12)
How did women
increase family income in London?
question_answer13)
Which acts kept
children away from Industrial work?
question_answer14)
What is a tenement?
question_answer15)
Why were one room
houses seen as serious threat to public health?
question_answer16)
What steps were
taken to clean up London?
question_answer17)
What did architect
Ebenezer Howard plan for London?
question_answer18)
How did Raymond
Unwin and Barry Parker design the city of Earswick?
question_answer19)
When was the first
underground railway section opened in London?
question_answer20)
What was the role
of family during Industrialization?
question_answer21)
What do you
understand by theory of Individualism?
question_answer22)
What were Chartism
and 10-hour movements?
question_answer23)
How did wealthy
Britishers use their leisure time?
question_answer24)
How did working
class use their leisure time to relax?
question_answer25)
Who was Baron
Haussmann?
question_answer26)
What does
Haussmanisadon mean?
question_answer27)
Name the Presidency
cities of British India.
question_answer28)
How were Presidency
cities called multi-functional cities?
question_answer29)
How did Britishers
get control of Bombay?
question_answer30)
How did British
make use of Bombay City?
question_answer31)
What was the Bombay
Fort Area?
question_answer32)
Who lived in
spacious bungalows in Bombay?
question_answer33)
What were 'Chawls'?
question_answer34)
How were streets of
Chawls used?
question_answer35)
Who was a jobber?
question_answer36)
What was the role
of 'The City of Bombay Improvement Trust'?
question_answer37)
What does
'reclamation' mean?
question_answer38)
Which was the
earliest reclamation project of Bombay?
question_answer39)
How is Bombay
depicted in the earliest filmy songs?
question_answer40)
Which was Bombay
film Industries' First film?
question_answer41)
How did coal in
Industrial cities of London raise serious problems?
question_answer42)
What was the main
complaint of the people living around these cities?
question_answer43)
What did the people
do to make their cities smoke free in Britain?
question_answer44)
When was the first
smoke nuisance law passed in India?
question_answer45)
What was the impact
of burning rice husk in Calcutta?
question_answer46)
Give three
historical processes which have shaped modem cities in decisive ways.
question_answer47)
How were cities
different from villages?
question_answer48)
Why did the
population of London expand from the mid eighteenth century?
question_answer50)
What was the
condition of children during the 18th and 19th centuries?
question_answer51)
What was the condition
of poor labourers in London?
question_answer52)
What steps were
taken to clean up London?
question_answer53)
What were the
reasons for the breaking down of the family as an institution?
question_answer54)
State how a city's
large population was both a threat and an opportunity.
question_answer55)
How was Bombay
developed?
question_answer56)
How did the
development of cities affect the ecology and the environment?
question_answer57)
What efforts were
made to control pollution?
question_answer58)
How did industrialization
change the form of urbanization in the modem period?
question_answer59)
What was the status
of women folk in the conservative industrial towns?
question_answer60)
What was the role
of a 'Jobber' in the chawls?
question_answer61)
What changes were
brought in London city after the Industrial Revolution?
question_answer62)
Why did well off
Londoners want to clear the slums?
question_answer64)
Describe the influx
of migrants in Bombay.
question_answer65)
How was 'Marine
Drive' devised?
question_answer66)
Briefly explain the
rise of London as an industrial and modem city.
question_answer67)
'Bombay was a Prime
City of India.' Justify by giving examples.
question_answer68)
Explain how a city
like Calcutta faced the problem of environmental pollution.
question_answer69)
How did crime grow
in London? How were authorities able to control them?
question_answer71)
What forms of
entertainment were used by the people of London for their leisure?
question_answer72)
Explain what is
meant by Haussmanisation of Paris?
question_answer73)
How did Bombay
gradually become a crowded city?
question_answer74)
Describe the life
in Chawls.
question_answer75)
How did people
entertain themselves in the Chawls?
question_answer78)
How did various
architects develop the concept of Garden City of London?
question_answer79)
Did new spirit of
individualism affect the family institution in cities?
question_answer80)
What was the pace
of development of cities in India in the early 20th century?
question_answer81)
Give a brief
description of land reclamation in Bombay.
question_answer87) Which three historical processes
led to the process of urbanization?
question_answer88) How
development of cities affected ecology and environment?
question_answer89) Which three historical processes
led to the process of urbanization?
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