Flash Education

2016

HISTORY

Time - Three Hours Fifteen Minutes

(First fifteen minutes for reading the question paper only)

Full Marks - 90

(For Regular and Sightless Regular Candidates)

Full Marks - 100

(For External and sightless External Candidates)

Special credits will be given for answers which are brief and to the point.

Marks will be deducted for spelling mistakes, untidiness and bad handwriting.

1. On the outline map of India supplied, geographical positions of certain places of

historical importance are indicated by dot (ʘ) marks. Match them with the list given

below (any ten) : [1 x 10 = 10]

(a) Barrackpore, (b) Bareiliy, (c) Chauri-Chaura, (d) Delhi, (e) Gwalior, (f) Dacca

(Dhaka), (g) Jamshedput, (h) Kakdwip, (i) Lahore, (j) Mangalore, (k) Nagpur,

(l) Pune, (m) Simla, (n) Seringapatam

OR,

Answer the following in one or two words each (any ten) : [1 x 10 = 10]

(a) Who was appointed as the Governor-General of Bengal In 1798 ?

(b) In which year did the English annex Sind ?

(c) Name an educational institution founded by Alexander Duff.

(d) In which region of lndia did Begum Hazrat Mahal provide leadership to the Great

Revolt (1857)?

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(e) In which year was the Morley-Minto Reforms Act introduced ?

(f) Which period in the history of the Indian National Congress is regarded as the

Moderate Era ?

(g) Where was the satyagraha movement staged for the first time in India ?

(h) Which day was observed in India as “Purna Swaraj Day” before independence ?

(i) What was the German Parliament known as ?

(j) Where is the Supreme Court of India situated ?

(k) Who presides in the Upper House of the Indian Parliament ?

(I) Name one national leader of Ghana.

(m) In which year did Indonesia become independent?

(n) From which date did the Partition of India become effective '?

2. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences (any ten) : [2 x 10 = 20]

(a) State any two causes of the failure of the Great Revolt of 1857 .

(b) What were the main aims of the social reform movements of the nineteenth century ?

(c) By which act did Lord Lytton suppress the freedom of the pass and why ?

(d) What is meant by the safety-valve theory’ ?

(e) Why is Aurobindo Ghosh remembered in the context of the national movement ?

(f) State two reasons of the failure of the Extremist movement.

(g) Why did the Indians oppose the Simon Commission ?

(h) State two reasons for the debacle of democracy in Europe on , the eve of the Second

World War.

(i) Why did the Congress ministries resign in 1939 ?

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(j) In what way was the Quit India Movement different from earlier movements ?

(k) What were the main demands of the Tebhaga Movement ?

(l) State any two Fundamental Duties mentioned in the Indian Constitution.

(m) What is meant by ‘responsible government’ ?

(n) What was the Truman Doctrine ?

3. Answer the following questions in seven or eight sentences : [4 x 5 = 20]

(a) Discuss the role of Lord Cornwallis as the founder of the British administrative system

in India.

OR,

Discuss the importance of the Doctrine of Lapse in the expansion the British empire in

India.

(b) What was the impact of the Permanent Settlement on the peasantry of Bengal ?

OR,

Write a note m the Ryotwari Settlement.

(c) Discuss the contribution of the Christian missionaries in the spread of Western

education in India.

OR,

Discuss the impact of Western education in India.

(d) What were the causes of the rise of Fascism in Italy.

OR,

What were the aims of Hitler’ s foreign policy ?

(e) Write a short note on Bhagat Singh.

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OR,

What was the contribution of the INA in the freedom movement of India ?

4. Answer the following questions : [6 x 5 = 30]

(a) Between whom was the Treaty of Bassein (1802) signed ? Why did the Maratha leaders

resent this treaty? How was the Maratha power finally destroyed ?

OR,

Describe the role of the police and the army as pillars of British imperialism in India.

(b) What was the attitude of the British government towards the Moderates in the early

phase of the history of the National Congress. Evaluate the Moderate movement.

OR,

What was the aim of the Anti-Partition Movement ? Mention the limitations of this

movement.

(c) Why was the Khilafat Movement initiated ? Why did Gandhiji link up the Khilafat

Movement with the Non-cooperation Movement? Name a leader of the Khilafat

Movement. Why did the Khilafat Movement lose its relevance ?

OR,

Mention any two social reform programmes of the Non-cooperation Movement. How

far was this movement successful ?

(d) What shape did the rift between the Leftists and the Rightists of the Congress take in

the Tripuri Session in 1939 ? In what way was the national movement influenced by

this rivalry ?

OR,

Who wrote the booklet ‘Now or never’ ? What was the importance of the Fourteen-

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point demands of Muhammad Ali Jinnah ? Evaluate the significance of the Lahore

Session of the Muslim League (1940).

(e) With what aims was the United Nations Organisation founded ? State the number of its

founder-member states. Since when was India a member of this organisation ? State one

difference in the activities of the General Assembly and the Security Council.

OR,

What is meant by the Non-Aligned Movement ? Name one European state and one

African state as leaders of this movement. Evaluate the foreign policy of Jawaharlal

Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.

5. Answer any ONE question : [10 x 1 = 10]

(a) What was the European background of national consciousness in nineteenth century

India ?

(b) What was the impact of the First World War on India’s economic and political fields ?

(c) Write an essay on the evolution of Parliamentary democracy in India (1950-1964).

[For External Candidates Only]

6. Answer any ONE question : [10 x 1 = 10]

(a) Briefly describe the social reform movements of Rammohan and Vidyasagar.

(b) Analyse the cause of the First World War.

(c) Give a short account of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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