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1. Critically analyse thc writings of Abul Fazl and Abdul

Qadir Badayuni as sources tor the study of Akbar's
reign.

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In the works of Keshavdas,
the strands of historical
and literary discourse are deeply
interwoven Discuss

2What measures were

taken by Sher Shah to establish a
Centralised state structure

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3. Warfare tactics and tecinólogy were important factors
in the early military suçcesesof the Mughals Discuss.

4. Describe the various stages in the evolutionof Mansa

system under Akbar. How did it fulfil his objectives?
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that led to the incorporation of

,What were the factors
Rajputs and other indigenous groups into the Mughal
nobility during the reign o Akbar?

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assessment déseribe the chief features of land revenuc
vstem under. the.Mughals. ow digit nmpact.the

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Discuss the debate on the eighteenth century amongst historians. Which argument do you
find convincing?

2 What steps were taken by the British to seize and consolidate their control over India?

3 Discuss the growth and impact of English education in India.

 Discuss the debate and impact of the imposition of the permanent settlement in Bengal.

5. Discuss the competition between the European trading

companies. What led to the
eventual domination of the East India
Company?

5TU PT T?

Why would it be incorrect to refer to the

uprising of 1857 as a mutiny?

Discuss the context of the early Indian social reformers. What their
were goals?

8 Write short notes on any TWO of the following:

(a) Ryotwari settlement
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Subsidiary Alliance

(d) Commercialisation of agriculture

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Paper Title: History of China and JapanI (C. 1840-1949)
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1. The ethos of the Chinese civilization was based on the Confucian valuo

system. DiscusHI

2. Analyse the role of triangular trade in the outbreak of the first Anglo-Chinec
war of 1840-42.

3. The unequal treaty system in China is the story of "irresponsible imperialism"

Comment.

4. Do you agree with the view that the Taiping movement was a full-fledged
revolution and not a mere traditional peasant rebellion?

faRT?
5. Discuss various phases of the self-strengtheningmovement. Why diditfail?

6. Critically evaluate the Chinese revolution of 1911

7. Analyse the political and cultural background to the May forth movement.

8. Write short notes on any two of the following:

a Secret societies TH ATT

(b) Boxer Protocol
(c) Warlordism T)TaTHTHATE
(d) Sun YatSen
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1. What do you understand

by the erisis of the ancien regime'? How did it lead to the
unfolding of events in 1789?

2. Women played an important role in French Revolution.

Discuss.

3. Napoleon has been seen both as destroyer and saviour of the Revolution.
Explain.

4. Do you think that the

revolutions of 1848 can be called the 'springtime of the
people'?

CT 3HTY5 faTR 1848 5 idyi aTTTHTETRUT à5 THTDI/ 3UTHBTT TH

5. Between 1750 to 1914 Europe witnessed three major waves of

industrialization" (Clive Trebilcock). In the light of the above statement discuss the

industrialization of modern Europe.

6. Discuss the impact of industrialization on women and family in the nineteenth

century.

7. Nationalism was probably the least important of the reasons for unification. Discuss

with reference to either Italy or Germany.

8. Do you think that "nationalism ehanged its meaning and significance when it
travelled from western Europe to eastern Europe in the nineteenth century" (Hans

Cohen)?

Or 372raT

"The Act of Union forms the matrix of the modern Irish history". Elaborate in the

context of different strands ofnationalism in reland.

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1. Women played an important role in the French
Revolution. Discuss. 6. How did industrialization impact gender relations and
class structures in the 19th century Europe?

2. How far was the French Revolution successtul in

7. Nationalism is probably the least important of the
creating a new political culture?
reasons for unification. Discuss with reference to

Germany or Italy.

3. Did Napoleon betray the French Revolution or further

its ideals? Discuss. 8. The second half of the 19th century is associated with
the creation of new national identities. Discuss with
reference to the Balkans.

4. Evaluate the revolutions of 1848 in the light of their

immediate and long-term consequences.

and
5. Evaluate the process of industrialization in France
Germany in the 19th century.

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1. How far did the financial crisis of the late eighteenth

century contribute to the collapse of the ancient
regime in France?

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2. The shift of power from monarchy to the people in
Or (37ra)
France forged new ideologies, rhetoric, symbols, and
imageries, in short, a new political culture. Critically
According to the
traditional interpretation the indus-
trialization of Europe
evaluate the above statement. tion' in began with an 'industrial revolu-
England, which other nations subsequently
imitated. How far do
you agree with this assessment?

Or (372E)
5. How did
Critically examine Napoleon's relationship with the industrialisation affect
family and women's
French Revolution. work in
nineteenth-century Europe?

3. Emerging social and economic tensions in the early 6. "In Britain, political reforms followed compromise
nineteenth century contributed to the course of events not revolution." J. Merriman. Elaborate in the context
leading to the revolutions of 1848. Discuss. of the ninetcenth century.

THTE 1848 ifa eTIEEH ZITRA RTI

4. How did the industrial revolution unfold in the 7. Discuss the main tenets of Marxism. Underline its
German speaking parts of central Europe till 1914? impact on European socialism from mid nineteenth to
What were the special features of this process? carly twentieth century.

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8. The period 1815 to 1860 was a transformative
for period
European politics, economy and socicty. It drew
from the
experiences of the French revolution, the
Napoleonic era and the industrial
revolution.
Comment.

1815 1860 5 37afa qdia zatft, 37tqaRI TT

Or (347an
Write short notes on any two of the following:
(a) Utopian Socialists
b) Luddism
(c) Food Riots in the early nineteenth century
(d) Demographic changes in the first half of the
nineteenth century
(e) Reign of Terror

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1. Give a brief account of Persian historiography of the

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seventeenth century as a source

for the of rural revolts
that occurred in
Mughals in India. study of the
4. Analyse
the nature
of Aurangzeb's
the second half
North India during
reign.

Or (Ha)
Evaluate the importance of the accounts of
and Manucci as a source for the
Bernier to Mughal paintings
or Mughal
study of India
during 5. With reference
seventeenth century
discuss how
the seventeenth century. architecture of the
used to articulate imperial political
visual culture was
and cultural ideology.

2. Describe the changes brought about in the Mansabdari

system during the reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan.
What led to a crisis in the system during the reign of
Aurangzeb?
6. Discuss the political, social and ideological background
to the rise of Marathas under Shivaji.

g31T?
7. How have the recent debates changed our perception
3. Can the war of succession fought during the closing of eighteenth century India?
years of Shah Jahan's reign be termed as a conflict
between liberalism and orthodoxy?

8. Describe the pat tern of India's oceanic trade in the

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1. Assess the image ot Jahangir as a
monarch based
recent studies of his memoir on
Jahangirnama.

5. Describe the Mughal courtly culture during the 17th

Or (37aT)
century with special reference to Umara and
Evaluate the importance of the
travelogues of Bernier Mirzanamna.
Manucci for the study of the
Mughal Empire in the
17th century.

6. How does architecture of Shahjahanabad reflect the

articulation of Mughal imperial authority?
2. Briefly describe Mughal expansion towards Deccan
during the reign of Aurangzeb. How did it affect the
Mughal Empire?
Or (31Ua)
Analyse the imperial ideology embedded in the
Mughal paintings of the reigns of Jahangir and Shah
yT 5T? Jahan.

3. Analyse the political, social and ideological

ackground to the rise of Marathas under Shivaji.
7. Describe the trading activities of European companies
in the Indian Ocean in the 17th contury. What was
their impact on the Indian economy?

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4. In the background of recent writings analyse
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8. Critically examine the debates related to

interpretation of the first half of 18th century India.

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their
forms of labour and S.
1. Analyze the role of different Critically examine the 'white advance on native
impact on the colonial economy
of America. in
ante-bellum America. Illustrate lands
its impact by the
case study of the
Shawnee tribe.

trends that have

2. Discuss the different ideological
Revolution.
shaped the study of American
6. Analyze the causes and consequences of the War of
1812.

faa i f y 1812 RUT 3itT fUTAT TtET

3. Do you agree with the

view that the Federal
Constitution of 1787 was an Economic Document'? 7. Discuss the nature of plantation economy of ante
bellum South and different forms of slave resistance it

generated.

4. Discuss the main tenets of Jefferson's administration.

Americans against Americans.

Or (37uaT) 8. The Civil War pitted
issues that
in the context of the
Analyze the statement
Discuss the main characteristics of Jacksonian the War.
led to
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1. Examine the different forms of labour that facilitated

the process of colonisation in America.
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2. Do you agree with the view that the

policies were responsible for restrictive
the
British
5. Discuss the nature and objectives of the Irish Land
Revolution? American
League in America in the nineteenth century. Didit
infiuence and transform the attitudes of the Irish
f 3 f if f immigrants towards the American society?

3, "The Federal Constitution of the USA was

nobler, inspired by
philanthropic, humanitarian motives. Examine
critically. vfRafaa aaT eT?

6. Was the Monroe Doctrine a

challenge to the world or
was it a
strategy to fulfi U.S. imperialism? Discuss
with reference to its various facets.
4. Examine critically the
white advance on native lands'
in ante-bellum America. Illustrate its impact by the
case studies of the Shawnee and the Cherokee tribes.

Or (ea)
Examine critically the genesis of the War of 1812. Was
it indicative of the USA's desire for territorial
expansionism?

Or (374aT)
1812 3ufA 1 3TAIG YTET
Evaluate the contributions of FJ. Turner to the study
of the Frontier.

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7. Discuss the political economy Or Slavery in ante-bellum

America. Did it facilitate capitaliSm in 'Agrarian
South ?

Or (379a1)
Comment on the patterns of slave resistance with
particular reference to the role of the female slaves in
challenging the nineteenth century racist stereotypes.

8. Discuss the main issues that led to the

Civil War. Was
the war 'inevitable'?

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1. Discuss the
Tsarism in February 1917. 1930
the collapse of TT Ta, à
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5RT 1917 TRATE art rt
aTRTCI
6. Did
Soviet
succeed in policies during
of Preobrazhensky and
2. Discuss the main arguments ring the 1920s
1920's and 1930's
Bukharin on Soviet
industrialisation.
emancipating women?
1920 i 1930 YTE
HRT fa ikA
yfem f¢ar FH7 Ti ?
. Did Russia sign
3. What do you understand by
de-Kulakisation? Did
in
August
a
Non-Aggression
1939 because of the
Pact with Germany
collectivisation turn into a war against
the peasantry?
Western Powers to enter reluciance of the
into an alliance with the
Soviet Union?

1939 T H 5HT

Soviet industrialisation.
4. Discuss the achievements of
on the
What was the impact of industrialisation
standard of living during the 1930's? 8. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Hfaya 3ETO 3vafyai a afI 1930
(a) Prodrazverstka
(b) Treaty of Brest Litovsk
(c) New Economic Policy
and external
5. How far were perceptions of internal
the
threats to the Soviet Union responsible for (d) Stakhanovism.
the 1930's?
changes in party, army and state during

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(d) raaRI

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1. Discuss the nature of the pre-colonial economy in Southeast

Asia with reference to European maritime trade.

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practices and
religious
of the regions and
extent did the cultural diversity
5. To what
traditions in the shaping the polity and society in
pre-colonial Asia ?
transforms Islam in Southeast
local traditions
Southeast Asia.

6. Discuss the nature of the colonial experience in nineteenth

3. The sea played an important role in shaping Southeast Asia'.
century Southeast Asia with a reference to any w o
Comment with reference to pre-colonial maritime economy of
Indonesia, Burma or Thailand
the region.
19f z Rfrur-yei uferam qaf, zsttfkrAT 3stt

7 Trace the changing character of the colonial port city of

Batavia.
A. Discuss the transformation of the agrarian system in South-

east Asia with special reference to rice cultivation.

8. Discuss the importance of the Hikayats in Malay literature.

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scope and aims
of the Hundred Days
3. 4. Analyse the
Why did it fail?
Reform Movement.
4.

role of various classes in the

1. 5. Critically analyse the
Confucianism was the foundation of Chinese
society, 1911 Revolution.
polity and economy. Discuss.

6. The May Forth Movement (1919) was essentially a

2. Some scholars believe that the Opium War had

nothing
socio politico intellectual revolution. Analyse.
to do with Opium, but was really a clash
of
civilizations. What is your view?

7. Review the history of the Chinese Communist Party

from 1921 to 27.

1921 2 7 3afê HYae a7 z E H

the
3.
3 Explain the Political and Social programes of
land policies.
Taipings with special reference to their
8. Write short notes on any two of the following:

(a) Sino-Centrismn
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(b) Yi - Ho Tuan (Boxer

Movement)
(c) Second Opium War

(d) Kuomintang (KMT)

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History of Modern Ehina (1840-1960)-NC
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Critically examine the debate on China and the Great

Divergence in the light of recent historiography.

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Would
the triangular. trade ,in, the outbreak of the main currents within the revolution of 1911.
2 Analyse the role of A. Examine
1911 revolution represents the f+rst phase
the First Anglo-Chinese war (1839-42). On the basis of the you agree that the
of the China's revolutionary struggle ?
can the British Commercial interests
First Treaty Settlement, er

major cause behind the clash 2

be viewed as a

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Fourth Movement of 1919 was an effort to regenerate
5. The May
to meet the challenges of twentieth centuryy
Chinese society
imperialism. Discuss.

(1919) ateai yari HTATyaTi

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3. (a) In what ways do the ideologies and poiicies of the

Taiping and the Boxer movements throw light on their

methods adopted by Mao Tse-

nature ? 6. Analyse the strategies and

Tung in mobilizing the peasants in the Kiangsi (Jiangxi)

period.

Or(3TETD
1 What was the ideology behind the Great Leap Forward ?
(b) Is it correct to view the Boxer movement as an outburst
Critically evaluate its impact on the people of China.
of xenophobia ?

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Write short notes on any two of the following

(a) Confucianism
(b) 1898 Reform Movement

(c) Warlordism

() Three Peoples Principles of Sun Yat-Sen

(e) Second United Front

Agrarian Law of 1950.

(a) PITTHAT

(b) 1898 TeR ARTTA

(c) ETTTT

(e)
1950 51 Ft TR h

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