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1. Answer any one
of the following
questions (in about 250
words):
30
(a)
What in your
opinion were the
positive steps taken by
the British to modernise
India?
(b)
Examine the
policy of Subordinate
Union towards Princely
States.Account for the
shift from the policy of
subordinate Isolation.
2. Answer any two
of the following
questions (in about150
words each): 15x2=30
(a)
"In the
Montagu-Chalmsford
Report communal
representation and
reservations were not
only retained but
considerably extended."
Comment.
(b)
Evaluate Subhas
Chandra Bose's
contribution to India's
freedom.
(c)
Why and how did
the Congress come to
accept the partition of
the country?
3. Write about the
following (not exceeding
20 words
each):
2 x15 = 30
(a)
Yajnavalkya
Smriti
(b)
Sutta Pitaka
(c)
Bhagawati Sutra
(d)
Gangaikonda-Cholapuram
(e)
Nizamuddin auliya
(f)
Raidas
(g)
Calcutta Madrasa
(h)
Jagat Seth
(i)
Bhawani Mandir
(j)
Baba ram Chandra
(k)
Pandita Ramabai
(l)
Sir Thomas Roe
(m)
Mophlah Rebellion
(n)
Tavernier
(o)
Darul-Uloom
4. Answer any two
of the following
questions (in about125
words each): 10x2=20
(a)
What are the
resource bases available
for the economic
development of the newly
created States of
Jharkhand and
Uttaranchal?
(b)
Elucidate the
factors contributing to
the growing need for
water harvesting in
India, both rural and
urban.
(c)
"Political
boundaries and regional
boundaries need to be
co-terminus." Do you
agree?
5. Write notes on
the following (in about
20 words
each):
2x5=10
(a)
Regurs
(b)
Karewas
(c)
Negative impacts
of shifting cultivation
(d)
Causes of
droughts in India
(e)
Significance of
Lake Chilka
6. Answer any one
of the following
questions (in about 250
words):
30
(a)
comment on the
financial relations
between the Union and
the States in India. Has
post-1991 liberalization
in any way affected it?
(b)
Is it possible to
distinguish between
judicial review and
judicial activism in
India? Does the recent
behaviour of the Indian
judiciary partake more
of judicial activism?
Argue with suitable
examples.
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