Social Science Question(1 Marks)

False.
Explanation:
The Balochis were another large and powerful tribe in the north-west. They were divided into many smaller clans under different chiefs.

True.
Explanation:
Contemporary historians and travellers give very scanty information about tribes. A few exceptions apart, tribal people did not keep written records. But they preserved rich customs and oral traditions.

Gondwana.

Tribes are people who do not follow laid down norms of society. Members of each tribe were united by kinship bond.

The Mughal forces attacked Garha Katangst in 1565.

Kamal khan.

Garha Katanga earned huge wealth by trapping and exporting wild elephants to other kingdoms. This made it a rich state.

Aurangzeb.

They use oral traditions and rich customs of the tribal people to write their (tribals) histories.

Banjaras.

When the Mughals defeated the Gonds, they captured a huge booty of precious coins and elephants.

As per varna system, the hindu society was divided into four groups on the basis of the works they had to perform.

Castes of entertainers earn their livelihood by performing in different towns and villages.

Whatever we know about them is through their rich customs and oral traditions which passed on from one generation to than other. Modern historians use contemporary oral tradition to write about tribal societies.

Itinerant groups, such as craftspersons, pedlars and entertainers travel from place to place practising their different occupations.

In Punjab, the Khokhar tribe was very influential during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Jahangir.

Buranjis were historical works written by the Ahoms.

Historical works was known as buranjis.

In 1662, the Mughals under Mir Jumla attacked the Ahom kingdom.

Smiths, carpenters and masons were specialised artisans.

Specialised artisans were recognised as separate jatis by the Brahmans.

Balochis.

Kamal Khan.

Assam.

The Banjaras were the most important trader nomads.

False.
Explanation:
A chaurasi in Gond states was a unit of 84 villages. The chaurasi was subdivided into barhots which were made up of 12 villages each.

The Gond raja began to grant land to the Brahmanas. This made them influential.

Kamal Khan Gakkhar was made a noble (mansabdar) by Emperor Akbar.

The Khokhar tribe was veiy influential in Punjab during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Kutiya Kond tribe lives in Orissa.

Chandra Shah was uncle of Bir Narain.

Caravan of banjaras.

Gaddis.

The new castes emerging within varnas were called jatis.

As tribal states became bigger and stronger, they gave land grants to poets and scholars.

Shifting cultivation.

A clan is a group of families or households claiming descent from a common ancestor. Tribal organisation is often based on kinship or clan loyalties.

Shepherd.

Banjara.

Khokhar tribe.

Aurangzeb.

Precious coins and elephants.

Kamal Khan Gakkhar was the chief of Gakkhar tribe.

Banjaras.

Tanda was the term used for the caravan of most important trader- nomad tribe called the Banjaras.

Raja Man Singh.

Durgawati was the daughter of Chandel rajput Raja of Mahoba, Salbahan. She got married to Gond raja Dalpat. Dalpat was the son of gond raja Aman Das.

Son.

Shifting cultivation.