Chapter 8

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL FORMATIONS

 Let’s recall

1. State whether true or false:

(a) Nadir Shah invaded Bengal.

(b) Sawai Raja Jai Singh was the ruler of Indore.

(c) Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth Guru of the Sikhs

(d) Poona became the capital of the Marathas in the eighteenth century..

 Let’s discuss

2. How were the Sikhs organised in the eighteenth century?

3. Why did the Marathas want to expand beyond the Deccan?

4. Do you think merchants and bankers today have the kind of influence they had in the eighteenth century?

 5. Did any of the kingdoms mentioned in this chapter develop in your state? If so, in what ways do you think life in the state would have been different in the eighteenth century from what it is in the twenty- first century?

 Let’s do

6. Collect popular tales about-rulers from any one of the following groups of people: the Rajputs, Jats, Sikhs or Marathas.

Type by- Gauri Bora