Class 12th History NCERT

Theme 3
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Theme 1/9 - Colonialism and the Countryside

• Sunset Law
• Under Permanent Settlement System.

• Jotedars
• Class of rich peasants
• Adhiyars / Bargadars
• Sharecroppers
• Fifth Report
• Report on the administrations and activities of East India
Company.

• Damin - i - Koh
• Land of the Santhals
• Limitation Law
• In 1859, The British passed a limitation Law that states that
the loan bond signed between moneylender and the root
would have validity for only three years, this law was meant
to check the accumulation of interest over time.

• Deccan Riots Report -

• In that report they said that for the Deccan Riots, the
moneylenders are to be blamed.
 Theme 2/10 - Rebels and the Raj

• En eld Ri es
• One of the prominent causes of the revolt of 1857, was
introduced during the Generalship of Lord Hardinge around
1850’s.

• Subsidiary Alliance - Lord Wellesley - 1798

• Protection of ally from internal and external threats to
power.
• British army station in the territory of ally for which ally
had to pay for.
• Ally could enter into agreements with other rulers or
engage in warfare only with permission of the British.

• Awadh Annexation in 1856

• One of the causes - Should there was food for producing
Indigo and cotton, and the region was ideally located to
be developed into the principal marker of Upper India.

• Summary Settlement - Awadh - 1856

• Similar to that of Ryotwari System.
• Summary Settlement proceeded to removed the
Taluqdars - intermediary wherever possible.

• ‘Relief of Lucknow’ Painitng

• Related to Revolt of 1857
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Theme 3/11 - Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist
Movement

• “Praja Mandals”
• Nationalist creed in the princely States.
• New Viceroy Lord Willigon -
• After Gandhi returned from England after Gandhi-Irwin Talks
- The new Viceroy of India was Lord Wellingdon.

• Harijan Journal -
• Written by Mahatma Gandhi
• A Bunch of Old Letters -
• Letter conversations between Mahatma Gandhi and
Jawahar Lal Nehru