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HISTORY (PAPER-I)
Time Allowed Maximum Marks 250
Three Hours
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Identify the following places marked on the map

note of about 30 words on each of supplied
them in your
to you and write a
short
Locational hints lor cach ol
thne places marked Question-cum-Answer Booklet.
on the map are
given below seriatim: 50

Paleolithic site

Mesolithic site

Neolithic site

Neolithic-Chalcolithic site

Harappan site

Proto-historic and historic site

Inscriptional site

Jain monastic site

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Coin hoard

Paleolithic site

Terracotta site

Rock-cut caves

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Ancient learning centre

Political and cultural centTe

Buddhist site

Ancient port

Early historic site

Ivory hoard

Buddhist monastic centre

Temple complex
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Do you agree
that ecological
factors iniluenced the
Harappan Civilization? Comment. low and ebb of the
20

Do you consider that the Upanishadic principles embody the high point
Vedic religious thoughtr Comment. of
15

Analvze the significance or

external inluences and indigenous development or
Post-Mauryan arL
15

3. (a) HE19TqTOT51 he, He 4a HGAICIA

FpTa 1 taatu yrAI 3TT m? HeTTTTTO|-

Will it be proper to consider the

megaliths torepresent a single, homogeneous
or
contemporaneous culturer what kind of material life and cultural system is
revealed in the megalithic cultures?

How would you characterize the nature of Mauryan state on the basis of
Kautilya's Arthashastra?
20

How did the Varnashrama Dharma manifest the increasing social complexities
in the Gupta and post-Gupta period arising from social and economic
developnments? 5

The political and economic needs of rulers, combined with economic and
the receptive cultural
status needs of the merchant class, together provided
Comment. 20
milieu in which Buddhism flourished."

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g e number of land grants in hitherto non-arable tracs invanaby meant

pansion of agriculture in early medieval India. How did the management of
yaraulic resources (different types of irrigation works) lacintate cxpansion of

agriculture in this period? 15

SS the relationship between emergence of literature in vernacular

cgages and formation of regional identities in early medieval India.

15

TU-B / SECTION-B

Answer the following questions in about 150 words each:

10x5-50

Discuss the different stages of Indian feudalism and analyze its impact on
Indian political system.

Do you consider Sultan lItutmish to be the real founder of the Delhi

Sultanate?
Discuss.

Identify the different categories of Persian literature which emerged

Delhi Sultanate. during the

Examine the causes of Babur's success against Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle
of Panipat.

f a à?
Discuss the attitude of Chishti saints towards the state.
How were the
Suhrawardi saints different in their attitude towards the government?

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Discuss the transtormation of Sikh community Irom a Nirguna Bhakti sect into
a politico-military organization.

15

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Give your assessment or Danui Lodi s relation with his nobility,
15

Fvamine the basic features of Mughal tomb architecture with special reference

to the Taj Mahal. 20

How did it help in centralization of

Discuss the importance
ol iqta system.
the Delhi Sultanate?
15
administration of

Revolution'? 15
of the Khaljis known
as the 'Khalji
Why is the reign

to be a period of
India is considered
seventeenth century Mughal 20
The late
Jagirdari crisis. Discuss.

administrators
efficient
conquerors,
were not only mighty 15
"The Chola rulers Comment.
of fine temples."
but also builders

the kajput
Akbar and
between
illustrations the
relations 15
Discuss with relevant

states.

Hyderabad
Awadh and
states
like Bengal, 20
to consider the
How lar is it justified
stater
as successor states' of the Mughal

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