Previous year questions

"There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed, and our society thoroughly democratized." Discuss.

Give social background to the rice of the Maratha movement during the seventeenth century.

Evaluate Rajtarangini as a source of history.

Medieval Indian towns were merely as extension of villages. Comment.

Justify Pliny's statement the Rome was being drained out of its gold by India during the first century of the Christian era.

Evaluate the significance of seals and sealings in the reconstruction of socio-economic and religious life of the Harappan people.

Assess the educational system in early India and identify important educational institutions of the period.

How was the Afghan nobility responsible for the decline of the Afghan Empire? Discuss.

How did the Mongol invasions affect the Delhi Sultanate and the north-western frontier policy of the Delhi Sultans?

Examine the role of adhyaksha in the Mauryan administration.