NCERT Class 7 History Tribes Nomads
TRIBES, NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES You saw in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 how kingdoms rose and fell. Even as this was happening, new arts, crafts and production activities flourished in towns and villages. Over the centuries important political, social and economic developments…
NCERT Class 7 History Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years
TRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS Take a look at Maps 1 and 2. Map 1 was made in 1154 CE. by the Arab geographer al-Idrisi. The section reproduced here is a detail of the Indian subcontinent from his larger map of the world. Map 2 was made in the 1720s by a French…
NCERT Class 7 History Towns Traders And Craftsperson
TOWNS, TRADERS AND CRAFTSPERSONS What would a traveller visiting a medieval town expect to find? This would depend on what kind of a town it was – a temple town, an administrative centre, a commercial town or a port town to name just some possibilities. In fact, many towns…
NCERT Class 7 History The Making Of Regional Cultures
THE MAKING OF REGIONAL CULTURES One of the commonest ways of describing people is in terms of the language they speak. When we refer to a person as a Tamil or an Oriya, this usually means that he or she speaks Tamil or Oriya and lives in Tamil Nadu or Orissa. We also tend to…
NCERT Class 7 History The Delhi Sultans
THE DELHI SULTANS In Chapter 2 we saw that regions like the Kaveri delta became the centre of large kingdoms. Did you notice that there was no mention of a kingdom with Delhi as its capital? That was because Delhi became an important city only in the twelfth century. Take a…
NCERT Class 7 History The Creation Of An Empire
THE CREATION OF AN EMPIRE:The Mughal Dynasty Ruling as large a territory as the Indian subcontinent with such a diversity of people and cultures was an extremely difficult task for any ruler to accomplish in the Middle Ages. Quite in contrast to their predecessors, the…
NCERT Class 7 History Rulers And Buildings
RULERS AND BUILDINGS Figure 1 shows the first balcony of the Qutb Minar. Qutbuddin Aybak had this constructed around 1199. Notice the pattern created under the balcony by the small arches and geometrical designs. Can you find two bands of inscriptions under the balcony? …
NCERT Class 7 History New Kings And Kingdoms
NEW KINGS AND KINGDOMS Many new dynasties emerged after the seventh century. Map 1 shows the major ruling dynasties in different parts of the subcontinent between the seventh and twelfth centuries. The emergence of new dynasties By the seventh century there were big landlords…
NCERT Class 7 History Eighteenth Century Political Formations
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL FORMATIONS If you look at Maps 1 and 2 closely, you will see something significant happening in the subcontinent during the first half of the eighteenth century. Notice how the boundaries of the Mughal Empire were reshaped by the emergence of a…
NCERT Class 7 History Devotional Paths
DEVOTIONAL PATHS TO THE DIVINE You may have seen people perform rituals of worship, or singing bhajans, kirtans or qawwalis, or even repeating the name of God in silence, and noticed that some of them are moved to tears. Such intense devotion or love of God is the legacy of…