Previous year questions

"Nehru's policy of Non-Alignment came to symbolised the struggle of India and other newly independent nations to retain and strengthen their independence from colonialism." Critically evaluate.

Pabna Agrarian Crisis (1870s and 1880s): 2."The peasant movements of the second half of the nineteenth century lacked a positive conception which would unite the people in a common struggle on a wide regional and allIndia plane and help develop long-term political developments." Critically evaluate.

"The forces of free trade and the British determination to create a political and administrative environment conductive to trade and investment had shaped the British policy towards India in the first half of the nineteenth century". Elucidate.

"Plantations and mines, jutes mills, banking, insurance, shipping and export-import concerns in India were run through a system of interlocking managing agencies." Critically examine.

"Instead of serving as the catalyst of an industrial revolution as in Western Europe and the USA, acted in India as 'the catalyst of complete colonization." Examine.

1."The Santhal hool began in July 1855. The core of the movement was economic, the basic cause of the uprising was agrarian discontent." -- Elucidate

"The contact of the new Indian middle class with the West proved to be a catalyst. The social and religious movements launched by Ram Mohan or Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar have to be understood in this context." -- Elucidate.

"Nehru favored the policy of integrating the tribal people in Indian society, of making them as integral part of the Indian nation even while maintaining their distinct identity and culture." -Elaborate with special reference to Northeastern India.

The process of industrialisation in some other countries of Europe was different from that in England."

6."The current practice of categorization of 'Early Modern India' is based on a shift from the old imperialist periodization of 'Muslim India' -- 'British India' to the more secularist one of 'Medieval India' -- 'Modern India', which puts Indian history in a universalist chronological Structure." Critically evaluate.