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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME

Test Code : QIP (M)/H/

HISTORY

By S. BALIYANPh. 09818333201

09871216382

Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks : 300

INSTRUCTIONS

Answers must be written in the medium specified in the admission

Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover of

the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will

be given for the answers written in the medium other than that specified in

the Admission Certificate.

Candidates should attempt Question Numbers 1 and 5 which are com

pulsory, and any three o f the remaining questions by selecting at least

one question from each section

All questions carry equal marks.

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SECTION-AQ .l Critically evaluate the following statements in about 200 words each:

(a) "If the battle of Plassey had made the English a pow erful factor in the

politics of Bengal, the victory of Buxar made them a great power of India".(B) Trained by us to happiness and independence, and endowed with our

learning and political institutions, India will remain the proudest monument

o fBritish benevolence.

(c) "Treaty of Salbai was hardly honourable for British but it paved the way

(b) The Subsidiary Alliance System was the British Trojan horse tactics in

Empire building. Substantiate.

Q.3 (a) The British social control was buttressed by an illusion created by

ideological influences which always remained the central concern o f Impe

rial educational enterprises in India.Comment.

(b) Although Indian modernisers looked towards the colonial state for sup

port and direction, they could neither leave their tradition nor forget theirIndian identity. Comment.

for the consolidation of the British cmpi^

Q.2 (a) The English Utilitarianism had manifested in India as well but its

form and content were entirely Colonial. Elucidate.

Q.4 1858 is the Great Divide in modem Indian history, as the policy, prac

tice and ideas of the government that followed differed fundamentally from

the government of the Company which it displaced. Discuss.

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(a) "The commercialization of agriculture, instead o f benefitting the peas

ants, proved to be another instrument of British colonial exploitation in India".

(b) "After the pacification of the revolt of1857, the classical colonial eco

nomic relationship between Britain and India gradually emerged".

(c) "The complex power struggle going on in India had played an important

role in the establ ishment of British Indian Empire".

SECTION-BQ.5 Critically evaluate t ie following statements in about 200 words each:

Q.6 (a) Far from planning the industrialization of India, the imperial rulers

deliberately followed policies to de-industrialize India. Elaborate.

' (b) The poverty o f Indian people was the consequence of the British land

revenue and taxation policy Comment.

Q.7 (a) The peasant and tribal revolts o f19th century were against the

composite appratus o f dominance over the masses emerged as result of the

establishment o f British rule in India. Comment.

(b)British conquest o f Sind was both a political and moral sequel to the

first Afghan war. Comment.

Q.8. The recurring famines in the 19^ century were the inevitable conse

quence o f the British policy and expose the real character of the paternal

solicitude for the peasantry on the part ofthe British administration. Exam

ine this statement critically.