Solutions Chapter 7. Tribes Nomads And Settled Communities - NCERT Exercise | Class 7 History - Toppers Study

Solutions Chapter 7. Tribes Nomads And Settled Communities - NCERT Exercise | Class 7 History - Toppers Study

1. Match the following:
garh           khel
tanda           chaurasi
labourer       caravan
clan           Garha Katanga
Sib Singh        Ahom state
Durgawati        paik

Answer:

2. Fill in the blanks:
(a) The new castes emerging within varnas werecalled ____________.
(b) _____________ were historical works written by theAhoms.
(c) The ____________ mentions that Garha Katangahad 70,000 villages.
(d) As tribal states became bigger and stronger, theygave land grants to _________ and ________.

Answer:

(a) Jatis (b) buranjis (c) Akbar Nama (d) poets, scholars.
3. State whether true or false:
(a) Tribal societies had rich oral traditions.
(b) There were no tribal communities in the northwesternpart of the subcontinent.
(c) The chaurasi in Gond states contained severalcities.
(d) The Bhils lived in the north-eastern part of thesubcontinent.

Answer:

(a) True (b) False (c) False (d) False 
4. What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadicpastoralists and settled agriculturists?

Answer

(i) They exchange milk, other pastrol products such as wool, ghee, etc.            (ii) Agriculture gave them grain, cloth, utensiland other products.  
5. How was the administration of the Ahom stateorganised?

Answer:

(i) The Ahom state depend upon forced labour or paiks.                           (ii) The census of the population was taken.                                      (iii) Each vilage had to send a number of paiks by rotation. 
6. What changes took place in varna-based society?
Answer:

(i) Smaller castes or jaitis emerged within varnas.                                (ii) Many tribes and social groups were taken into caste-based society and given the status of jaitis.                                                              (iii) Jaitis rather than varna, became the basis for organising society.    
7 How did tribal societies change after being organised into a state?

Answer:

(i) They began to envolve a centralised administrative system.                    (ii) Some social divisons within a tribal society also took place.                    (iii) Tribal kings also began to grant land to Brahmputras, poets and scholar.