RBSE Solutions for Class 7 Social Science History Chapter 7 Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 7 Social Science  History Chapter 7 Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Solutions History Chapter 7 Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities InText Questions and Answers

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Question 1.
Find out how grain is transported from villages to cities at present. In what ways is this similar to or different from the ways in which the Banjaras functioned?
Answer:
In present times, the grain is transported by using bullock carts, buggies, truck, tractors and tempos. This is different from the ways of the Banjaras as they carried grains on the back of cattle.

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Question 2.
Discuss why the Mughals were interested in the land of the Gonds.
Answer:
The Mughal were interested in the land of the Gonds due .to following reasons:

1. The Mughals were very ambitious, so they desired to expand their kingdom.
2. Garh Katanga was a rich state. It earned much wealth by trapping and exporting elephants to other kingdoms.
3. The Mughals desired to capture a huge booty of precious coins and elephants of Gondwana as these were useful for army.

 

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Question 3.
Why do you think the Mughals tried to conquer the land of the Ahoms?
Answer:
The Mughals tried to conquer the land of Ahoms due to following reasons:

1. Their land was fertile and produced a variety of crops.
2. The Mughals were engaged in expanding their kingdom.
3. As the Ahom state was large, it was a good source of revenue.

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities Textbook Questions and Answers

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Question 4.
You are a member of a nomadic community that shifts residence every three months. How would this change your life?
Answer:
Our life would change a lot because settled life would transform into nomadic life. According to nomadic life, we would move from place to place in caravAnswer:We would not have permanent settlement. We would live on agricultural products and we will also have barter system.

Let’s recall 

Question 1. 
Match the column: 

Column A	Column B
1. Garh	(a) khel
2.Tanda	(b) chaurasi
3. Labourer	(c) caravan
4. Clan	(d) garha Katanga
5. Sib Singh	(e) ahom state
6. Durgawati	(f) paik

Answer:

Column A	Column B
1. Garh	(b) chaurasi
2.Tanda	(c) caravan
3. Labourer	(f) paik
4. Clan	(a) khel
5. Sib Singh	(e) ahom state
6. Durgawati	(d) garha Katanga

 

Question 2. 
Fill in the blanks:
1. The new castes emerging within Varnas were called .................   
Answer:
Jatis

2 ................. were historical work written by the Ahoms.
Answer:
Buranjis

3: The ................. mentions that Garha Katanga had 70,000 villages.
Answer:
AkbarNama

4. As tribal states became bigger and stronger, they gave land grants to .................  and .................  
Answer:
temples, brahmanas.

Question 3. 
State whether true or false:
(a) Tribal societies had rich oral traditions. 
Answer:
True

(b) There were no tribal communities in the north-western part of the subcontinent.
Answer:
False

(c) The chaurasia in Gond states contained several cities.
Answer:
False

(d) The Bhils lived in the north-eastern part of the subcontinent.
Answer:
False

Question 4. 
What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturists?
Answer:
Nomadic pastoralists exchanged many goods with settled agriculturists. They mainly exchanged wool, ghee, etc with grain, cloth, utensils and other products.

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Question 5. 
How was the administration of the Ahom state organized?
Answer:
The administration of the Ahom state was organised in the following manner: Ahom society was divided into dans called khels. A khel controlled several villages. The Ahom state depended upon forced labour or paiks. The census of the population was taken. Each village had to send a number of paiks by rotation. People from heavily populated areas were shifted to less populated places.. Ahom dans were thus broken up. By the first half of the 17th century, the administration became quite centralised.

Question 6. 
What changes took place in uama-based society?
Answer:
There are several kind of changes took place in uarna-based system. New castes appeared amongst the brahamanas. On the other hand, many tribes and sotial groups were taken into caste-based society and status of jatis were given to them. Specialised artisans like sometimes, carpenters and masons were also recognised as separate jatis by the Brahmanas. Instead of varna, Jatis became the basis for organising society.

Question 7. 
How did tribal societies change after being organised into a state? 
Answer:
The tribal societies changed after being organised in the following states:

1. They became a part of the caste system with the help of Brahmanas.
2. The leading tribal families could join the ruling classes and a large majority joined the lower Jatis of caste societies.
3. Many dominant tribes of Punjab, Sind and the north-west frontier had adopted Islam quite early.
4. The unequal social order, prescribed by orthodox Hinduism, was not widely accepted in these areas.
5. Some of the tribes such as the Ahoms, became very powerful and conflicted with larger kingdoms.

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Question 8. 
Were the Banjaras important for the economy?
Answer:
Banjaras were important for the economy as:
They were trader-nomads and they controlled trading activities. They transported food grains to the city. They carried food grains on their bullocks carts. They buy grains where it is available at cheap rates and carried it to the places were it is dearer. And from there they rewarded their oxen with the things which would be profitably sold in other places. Sometimes they also helped big merchants as they used Banjaras for trading purpose. They supplied food grains for the Mughal army also.

Question 9. 
In what ways was the history of the Gonds different from that of the Ahoms? Were there any similarities?
Answer:
Similarities between the Gonds and Ahoms:

Gonds	Ahoms
(i) They lived Gond- wana. They had their presence in central India during Medieval period.	They belonged to Brahmaputra valley.
(ii) They Practised shifting cultivation	They did not practice shifting cultivation
(iii) They were annexed by the Mughal.	They defeated by Mughals but Mughals did not rule areas directly.
(iv) Kingdom was large.	Kingdom was small.
(v) Gonds state was not dependent upon the forced labour.	Ahom state was dependent upon the forced labour.