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Earn 100

How were the cantonments and civil lines laid out in the planning of urban centres by the British?

Important Questions on Colonialism and Urban Change

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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Discuss>Q 1
Why was there a wall surrounding the city of Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi?
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Find out>Q 1
Which city was the capital of the British Empire till 1911?
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Think and answer>Q 1
Why is New Delhi often called 'Lutyens' Delhi'?
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Time to Learn>Q A
This famous bazaar was established by Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara Begum.
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Time to Learn>Q A
New Delhi was officially inaugurated in
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Time to Learn>Q B

Arrange these cities of Delhi in the order in which they were built.
Kotla Firoz Shah

Tughlaqabad
Shahjahanabad

Jahanpanah
Lal Kot/Qila Rai Pithora

Siri
Dinpanah

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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Time to Learn>Q C
There was de-urbanisation in India during the late eighteenth-nineteenth centuries.
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Updated Integrated Social Science 8>Chapter 9 - Colonialism and Urban Change>Time to Learn>Q C
The concept of a 'walled city' was introduced by the British.