Previous year questions

Bhakti and mysticism of Lal Ded emerged as a social force in Kashmir. Comment.

"Six hundred thousand men had died. The union was preserved, the slaves freed. A nation 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal' had survived its most terrible ordeal." Critically examine.

"Weaving", says R.C. Dutt, "was the national industry of the people and spinning was the pursuit of millions of women." Indian textiles went to England and other parts of Europe, to China and Japan and Burma and Arabia and Persia and parts of Africa. Elucidate.

"The first point to note is the continuing importance of religion and philosophy as vital ingredients in the modern Indian renaissance. Indeed, there is as much reason for regarding it as a reformation as there is for treating it as a renaissance." Critically examine.

"At the dawn of the twentieth century Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, was full of hostility towards the Indian National Congress and he confidentially reported to the secretary of state in November 1900: My own belief is that the congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise." Examine.

"By the 1980s, the communist system of the Soviet Union was incapable of maintaining the country's role as a superpower." Elucidate.

"Decolonization has finished. It definitely belongs to the past. Yet somehow it has refused to become history." Critically examine.

"New imperialism was a nationalistic, not an economic phenomenon." Critically examine.

"In spite of the careful framing of the charter, the role of UNO as Peacekeeper and international mediator has been somewhat lack luster, muted and that continues to be so even after the end of cold war." Elucidate.

"Change in Britain came comparatively peacefully through democratic process in the first half of the nineteenth century and a model of a functioning democracy through ballot box was successfully put in place." Elaborate.