History Optional Question Paper-1 (2006)
Paper-I
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt Questions 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining question selecting at least one question from each Section.
Section-A
- Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on the places plotted by you on the map: 4 × 15 = 6
- Konark
- Taxila
- Talikota
- Somnath
- Kalinjar
- Mandu
- Murshidabad
- Nalanda
- Tanjore
- Amber
- Anegondi
- Chanderi
- Arikmedu
- Kaibangan
- Nagarjunakonda
- Eran
- Pattadakal
- Halebid
- Dvasamudra
- Discuss the changing approaches to the study of early Indian History. 60
- Describe the expansion of the Gupta Empire under Samudragupta. 60
- Describe the major stages in the evolution of architecture during the ancient period. 60
Section-B
- Write short essays in not more than 200 words each on any three of the following: 20 × 3 = 60
- The Khilji Revolution:
- Sufism in North India
- Religious Tolerance of Akbar
- Dara Shukoh
- Bring out the main features of the administrative system under Delhi Sultanate during Turko-Afghan period. 60
- Write a short essay on the development of literature during the Mughal period. 60
- Examine the factors which were responsible for opening and development of European tarde in India during the 16thand 17th 60
History Optional Question Paper-2 (2006)
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt Questions 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one question from each Section.
Section-A
- Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60
- Neither Alexander the Great nor Napoleon could have won the empire of India by starting from Pondicherry as a base and contending with a power which held Bengal and the command of the Sea.
- “A self-sufficient village, based on agriculture carried on with the primitive plough and agriculture carried on with the primitive plough and bullock-power, and handicrafts by means of simple instruments, was a basic feature of Pre-British Indian economic.”
- “So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the lest heed to them.”
- “I felt that if we did not accept partition, India would be split into many bits and would be completely ruined.”
- Examine the circumstances which led to the Third Mysore War. Could Cornwallis have avoided it? 60
- What do you mean by the commercialization of Indian agriculture? Discuss its results. 60
- Account for the emergence of the left-wing within the Congress. How far did it influence the programme and Policy of the Congress?
Section-B
- Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: 3 × 20 = 60
- “No taxation without representation.”
- “Colonies are like fruits which cling to the tree only till they ripen.”
- “Treaty of Versailles contained the seeds of future conflict.”
- “A clever conqueror will always impose his demands on the conqueror will always impose his demands on the father of the conqueror by instalments.”
- “The Renaissance scholars laid the eggs which Luther, the Reformation, later on hatched.” Discuss. 60
- Critically analyse the causes and results of the Chinese Revolution of 1949. 60
- Give a brief account of the struggle against ‘Apartheid’ in South Africa. 60