Years Advent of Europeans Economic impact

2022 Why did the armies of the British comprising of Indian Why sudden spurt in famines in colonial
soldiers – win consistently against numerous and better India since the 1750s? Give reasons.
equipped armies of the Indian rulers? Give reasons

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017 Clarify how 1750s India was beset with the spectre of a How the decline of traditional artisanal
fragmented polity. industry in colonial India crippled the
rural economy.

2016
2015

2014 Examine critically the various facets of

economic policies of the British in India
from mid 18th century till
independence.

2013
POST INDEP S-R reforms Ideologies - Moderates Movements Governor Generals
The political and administrative
reorganization of states has been a
continuous ongoing process since the
1850s. Discuss with examples.

Assess the administrative and socio- Trace the rise and growth of To what extent did the Bring out Evaluate the Lord
cultural issues in the integration of socio-religious reform role of moderates prepare constructive Curzon's policies &
Princely States movements wrt Young Bengal base for the wider programs of LT implications on
and Brahmo Samaj. freedom movement? Gandhi during national
NCM and CDM movements

Since 1920s, the national

movement acquired
various ideological strands
and expanded its social
base. Discuss.

Assess the role of British imperial linkages between the 19th Many voices 1857 uprising -
power in complicating the process century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ strengthened and culmination of
of transfer of power during the and emergence of national enriched the nationalist the recurrent,
1940s. identity. movement during the big and small
Gandhian phase. local rebellions
Elaborate. in the preceding
hundred years.

Why did ‘Moderates’ fail

to carry conviction with
the nation about their
proclaimed ideology and
political goals by the end
of 19th century?

Importance of new
objectives that got added
to the vision of Indian
Independence since 1920s

Role of women in the how the 1857

freedom struggle uprising
especially during the constitutes a
Gandhian phase. watershed in
evolution of
British policies
towards colonial
India.
It would be difficult for Constituent
Assembly to draft the Constitution
in just 3 years, but its experience
gained with the GOI Act,
1935 .Discuss.

What were the major RIN mutiny -

political, economic and How did the
social developments in naval mutiny
the world which prove to be the
motivated the anti- last nail in the
colonial struggle in India? coffin of British
colonial
aspirations in
India?

Critically discuss the objectives of Defying the barriers of In many ways, Lord
Bhoodan and Gramdan movements age, gender and religion, Dalhousie was the
initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave the Indian women founder of modern
and their success became the torch bearer India. Elaborate.
during the struggle for
Critical note on the evolution and freedom in India. Discuss.
significance of the slogan “Jai
Jawana Jai Kisan”. Analyze their role of
foriegners in the Indian
circumstances that led to Tashkent struggle for freedom.
Agreement in 1966. Discuss the
highlights of the agreement.

Examine the compulsions which

prompted India to play a decisive
roles in the emergence of
Bangladesh.
Personality based

Significance of thoughts of
Gandhi in the present
times. (10)

Differences in the approach

of S C Bose and Gandhi in
the struggle for freedom.
How difficult would
independence be without
Gandhi? Discuss.

Gandhi and Ambedkar,

despite divergent
approaches had a common
goal of amelioration of the
downtrodden.

the contribution of
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
to pre-and post
independent India.
 World between 2 wars

There arose a serious challenge to

the Democratic State System
between the two World Wars.”
2022 Evaluate.
Explain how foundations of the
modern world were laid by the
2019 American and French Revolutions.

Why indentured labour was taken

by British from India to their
colonies? have they been able to
preserve their cultural identity over
2018 there?

What problems are germane to the

decolonization process in the
2017 Malay Peninsula?

The anti-colonial struggles in West

Africa were led by the new elite of
Western -educated Africans.
2016 Examine.

Why did industrial revolution first

occur in England? Discuss the
quality of life of the people there
during the industrialization. How
does it compare with that in India
at present times?

To what extent can Germany be

held responsible for causing the
2015 two World Wars? Discuss critically.

What were the events that led to

the Suez Crisis in 1956? How did it
deal a final blow to Britain’s self-
image as a world power?

The New Economic Policy – 1921

of Lenin had influenced the
policies adopted by India soon
2014 after independence. Evaluate.
 “Latecomer” Industrial revolution
in Japan involved certain factors
that were markedly different from
what west had experience.

Africa was chopped into states

artificially created by accident of
European competition. Analyse.

American Revolution was an

economic revolt against
mercantilism. Substantiate.

What policy instruments were

deployed to contain the great
2013 economic depression?
 Architecture Dynasty wise Sculpture Bhakti
Main contributions of Significance of the lion
Gupta period and Chola and bull figures in
How medieval Indian period to Indian Indian mythology, art
temple sculptures heritage and culture and architecture.
represent the social life
of those days?

2022

Literature - Evaluate the

nature & contribution of
Bhakti Literature to
2021 Indian culture

The rock-cut
architecture is
important source of
knowledge of early
Indian art and history.

Indian Philosophy and

tradition role in Pala period is most
conceiving and shaping significant phase in the
the monuments in history of Buddhism in
2020 India. India. Enumerate.

Highlight Central Asian

and Greco Bactrian
elements in the
2019 Gandhara art

Assess the importance The Bhakti movement

of Chinese and Arab received a re-orientation
travellers accounts in with the advent of Sri
the reconstruction of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
2018 the history of India Discuss.

Why level of excellence

of Gupta numismatic
art is not at all
noticeable in later
2017 times?

Krishnadeva Raya, of
Vijayanagar, was an
Early Buddhist Stupa- accomplished scholar
art successfully himself and also a great
expounds Buddhist patron of learning and
2016 ideals. literature. Discuss.
 Mesolithic rock cut
architecture reflects
the cultural life of the
times & also a fine
aesthetic sense
comparable to modern
painting. Critically
2015 evaluate.

Sufis and medieval

mystic saints failed to
modify either the
religious ideas and
practices or the outward
Gandhara sculpture structure of Hindu /
owed as much to the Muslim societies to any
Romans as to the appreciable extent.
2014 Greeks. Explain. Comment.

Though not very useful

from POV of connected
political history of South
India , the Sangam
literature portrays the
social and economic
conditions of its time
with remarkable
vividness.

Chola architecture
represents a high
watermark in the
evolution of temple
2013 architecture. Discuss.

Dynasty
wise -
cultural
elements
 Art Dance
Medieval Protection IVC Reason based music

architecture
question <--

Persian
literary
sources of
medieval
India reflect
the spirit of
the age.
Comment.

Safeguarding the
Indian art
heritage is the
need of the
moment.
IVC differed from Egypt
Mesopotamia and Greece, in that
its culture and traditions have
been preserved without
breakdown to the present day.
Comment

Taxila university was

associated with many
renowned personalities of
different disciplines. Its
strategic location caused its
fame but unlike Nalanda, it
is not considered as a
university in the modern
sense.

The third battle of Panipat

To what extent has urban was fought in 1761. Why
planning and culture of IVC were so many empire-
provided inputs to the present shaking battles fought at
day urbanization? Discuss. Panipat?

Tandava dance
as recorded in
the early Indian
inscriptions.