Unit-3 The Rise Of National Consciousness

In this Unit we will discuss how British policies developed a national consciousness in the nineteenth century.

How did printing press help in updating knowledge?

How did the formation of organisations help in the growth of National consciousness?

What was the British aim in giving modern education to Indians?

How did newspapers and journals help in the growth of national consciousness?

Why did the educated Indian middle class become disillusioned with the British after 1857?

What was the nature of early peasant and tribal revolts?

Why did the British lay the Railway lines?

Why was it that during the early years of colonial rule the Indian opposition to the foreign rule could not be properly channelized?

List the two main classes of Indian society which were ruined by the colonial rule.

How did the British policies in India affect the Indian economy?

What was the nature of early peasant and tribal revolts?

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The early peasant and tribal revolts were spontaneous and lacked an organised effort.