- What were the events that led to the Quit India Movement? Point out its results. [Answer in 150 words] [10 Marks] [2024]
- What was the difference between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in their approach towards education and nationalism? [Answer in 150 words] [10 Marks] [2023]
- How did colonial rule affect the tribal in India and what was the tribal response to colonial oppression? [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2023]
- Why did the armies of the British East India Company–mostly comprising of Indian soldiers–win consistently against the more numerous and better equipped armies of the Indian rulers? Give reasons. [Answer in 150 words] [10 Marks][2022]
- Why was there a sudden spurt in famines in colonial India since the mid-eighteenth century? Give reasons.[Answer in 150 words][10 Marks][2022]
- Bring out the constructive programmes of Mahatma Gandhi during Non-Cooperation Movement and Civil Disobedience Movement.[250 Words] [15 Marks] [2021]
- To what extent did the role of the Moderates prepare a base for the wider freedom movement? Comment.[250 Words] [15 Marks] [2021]
- Trace the rise and growth of socio-religious reform movements with special reference to Young Bengal and Brahmo Samaj. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2021]
- Evaluate the policies of Lord Curzon and their long-term implication on the national movement. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2020]
- Since the decade of the 1920s, the national movement acquired various ideological strands and thereby expanded its social base. Discuss. [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2020]
- 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. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2019]
- Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2019]
- Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate. [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2019]
- Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s. [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2019]
- Throw light on the significance of the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the present times.[150 Words] [10 Marks] [2018]
- Clarify how mid-eighteenth-century India was beset with the spectre of a fragmented polity. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2017]
- Why did the ‘Moderates’ failed to carry conviction with the nation about their proclaimed ideology and political goals by the end of the nineteenth century? [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2017]
- Examine how the decline of traditional artisan industry in colonial India crippled the rural economy. [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2017]
- Highlight the importance of the new objectives that got added to the vision of Indian Independence since the twenties of the last century. [250 Words] [15 Marks] [2017]
- Explain how the upraising of 1857 constitutes an important watershed in the evolution of British policies towards colonial India. [200 Words] [12.5 Marks] [2016]
- Discuss the role of women in the freedom struggle especially during the Gandhian phase.[200 Words] [12.5 Marks] [2016]
- Highlight the differences in the approach of Subhash Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for freedom. [200 Words] [12.5 Marks] [2016]
- How difficult would have been the achievement of Indian independence without Mahatma Gandhi? Discuss. [200 Words] [12.5 Marks] [2015]
- Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B R Ambedkar, despite having divergent approaches and strategies, had a common goal of amelioration of the downtrodden. Elucidate. [200 Words] [12.5 Marks] [2015]
- Examine critically the various facets of economic policies of the British in India from mid-eighteenth century till independence. [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2014]
- In what ways did the naval mutiny prove to be the last nail in the coffin of British colonial aspirations in India? [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2014]
- What were the major political, economic and social developments in the world which motivated the anti-colonial struggle in India? [150 Words] [10 Marks] [2014]
- Defying the barriers of age, gender and religion, the Indian women became the torchbearer during the struggle for freedom in India. Discuss. [200 Words] [10 Marks] [2013]
- Several foreigners made India their homeland and participated in various movements.Analyze their role in the Indian struggle for freedom. [200 Words] [10 Marks] [2013]
- In many ways, Lord Dalhousie was the founder of modern India. Elaborate. [200 Words] [10 Marks] [2013]