The 1857 Uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that

had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate

Battle of parsy 1757-1857 great revolt
Before 1857
 Religious upraising
 Hindu upraising -sanyasi Bengal
 Muslim – Farazi movement Haji shariayat ullah
ZAMIDARS/RULERS
 Velu thampi dalava
 Raja Pratap singh
 Vishakahapatanam
TRIBAL UPRAISING
 Garo hillls Meghalaya-khasi-ganga singh
 Ahom revolt
 Examine the linkages between 19th centuries ‘Indian renaissance’ and emergence of national
identity
 19 th century - changes in Indian polity and society 
 Modern education
 Raja ram mohan roy
 Sati/widow marriage
 Emergence of dalit section
 Fight against caste system
 Art Bengal school Rabinandranatha Tagore and followed by renowned artists like
Gaganendranath Tagore,
Assess the impact of global warming on coral life system with examples. 
 The increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activities causes global
warming or climate change
 Bleaching – great barrier reef of Aus
 Caribbean coral reefs ‘will be lost within 20 years’ without protection
 Temp change-phytoplankton-mineral
Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining
coastal ecology. 
 Pollution
 Climate change
 Coastal erosion
 Wood pulp/fire wood -over harvesting
 Mineral imbalance
 Global warming
 Coral reef depletion
 Kallen pokkudan/chilika lake planting
 Natural reasons – tsunami
 Low yield, incresr salinity
Can the strategy of regional-resource based manufacturing help in promoting
employment in India?
 Manufacturing units
 Co operative societies for un organised sector
  Start up in software sector
 Defence corridor
 Skill development-china model
 Msme development
 State govt role
 Discuss the factors for localization of agro-based food processing industries of North West
India.
 Cheap labour
 Connectivity to market through myanamr,Bhutan,
 Climate
 Unpolluted natural resource
 Meat processing is part of life
What makes the Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.
 Secular/religious harmony
 Family
 Generations are connected
 Saving money for coming generations-gold
 Adaption
 Women empowerment
What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism
 Jallikat -vinayaka chathurthi celebration
 Beef ban
 Judiciary secularism
 Supporting minority
 Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian
phase.
 1910 to 1947
 Guided frredom fighters -non vilence
 Indian muslim movement
 A campaign in defense of the caliphate was launched, led in India by the brothers Shaukat
and Muḥammad ʿAlī and by Abul Kalam Azad. The leaders joined forces with Mahatma
Gandhi’s noncooperation movement for Indian freedom, promising nonviolence in return for
his support of the Khilafat movement.
 Women freedom fighters
 Inc
 Upper class participation
 Hindu -rss hindu mahasabha
 No-changers continued their constructive program of spinning, temperance, Hindu-Muslim
unity, removal of untouchability, etc whereas Swarajists won the election of Central
Legislative Assembly in November 1923 filling the political void while the national
movement was regaining its strength.
Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power
during 1940s
 1940-1947:
 Ww2/power transfer
 Two Nations Theory 
 British lawyer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe 
 princely states were not a part of the British India, they became independent and
had the option to either merge with India or with Pakistan or to stay
independent.
 ven after the efforts of Lord Mountbatten, Nehru and Patel, few princely states
like Kashmir, Junagadh and Hyderabad posed some serious challenges in the
already troubled times.
 Bangladesh (later resolved through The Constitution 100th Amendment Act,
2015), the migration issue, Kashmir issue between India-Pakistan etc. have their
roots in the complications created by the British imperial power during the
1940s.
 The August Offer 1940- announced by the then Viceroy Linlithgow, the offer sought to
gain India’s support to the war by proposing- expansion of viceroy’s executive council
with mainly Indians, a constituent assembly post-war with mainly Indians.
 Cripps Mission 1942
Explain how the foundations of modern world were laid by the American and French
revolution
 he American Revolution, conventionally dated 1776-1783
 French Revolution that followed it beginning in 1789
 Constitution,peoples right
 Democracy
 Its success immediately inspired anti-monarchical, democratic, or independence
movements not only in France, but also in the Netherlands, Belgium, Geneva,
Ireland, and the French sugar island of Saint Domingue (modern Haiti)
 Trade-new markets
Impact of the French Revolution:
 Ideologies of liberty, equality, and fraternity
 Colony
 Waekend eup powers
 he abolition of Slavery after the French revolution was the first move against this
repressive system and Britain followed suit in 1833 while the USA banned it in
1865.
 What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?
 Water stress is a condition where the demand for water exceeds the available
amount during a certain period or when poor quality of available water restricts
its use.
 Geographical variation
 Agricultural patterns
 Population density
 Water management practices
 Ni/Himalaya-galcier
 Si-urbanisation,agri
 Ni-mining
 Coastal-unground
How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development
initiatives and tourism?
 Restriction on construction activities
 Tribal alnd protection-adivasi land right act
 Carrying capacity
 Hotspot protection
 Ngo
 Different commissions Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)-gagdgil report
 How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic
development of India? 
 Traffic jam issues solved
 Individual vehicle
 Suburban area development
 Labour force accessibility
 Smart city proposal
 The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) in May 2017 adopted the National Transit
Oriented Development policy with the intention of providing a guiding document to states
and cities that are adopting Transit Oriented Development (TOD) as an urban growth
strategy.
 Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation?
 The metropolitan areas like National Capital Region of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,
Chennai, Bengaluru or coastal industrial hubs like Surat, Kochi, Visakhapatnam
or religious centres like Ajmer, Amarnath, Chardhams etc can be taken as
examples of hubs of such cultural pockets within India.
  diversity of people pools in together at a relatively smaller place, it becomes a
cultural pocket.
 What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?
 Lack of political participation of women
 Glass ceiling
 Media

Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss

Portrayal of Women in Indian Mass Media