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HISTORY (PAPER-II)
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QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
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There are EIGHT questions divided in two Sections and printed both in HINDI and
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Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all. D
Question Nos. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, are to be
attempted choosing at least ONE question from each Section.
The of marks carried by a question/part is indicated against it.
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must be stated clearly on the cover of this Question-cum-Answer (QCA) Booklet in the
space provided. No marks will be given for answers written in medium other than the
authorized one.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
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( Modem India )
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Critically examine the follo_wing statements in about 150 words each : . 10x5=50
{a) ''1TIf q;) fi:ctl 'l_tfcfi) :
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"Dupleix made a cardinal blunder in looking for the key of India in Madras :
Clive sought and found it in Bengal. n
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Swami Vivekananda opined that "We should give our ancient spirituality and
culture_ and get in return Western science, technology, methods of raising the
standard of life, business integnty and technique of collective effort."
(c) <fi;f mat i%, 1R ilt-ii Cfil quf;r t

\illo Wl1PT 6 Y2 t 1"
"Ryotwari falls into three stages-early, middle and late, and the only
description common to all is that it is a mode of settlement with small farmers,
so small, indeed, that their average holding is, on recent figures, only about
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/2 acres."
_ (d) -a i!So-ij- t Cflll1 fcfi<rr ?.Tl, qtf 1921 I
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"Many of us who worked for the Congress programme lived in a kind of
intoxication during the year 1921. We were full of excitement and optimism .. ..
We had a sense of freedom and a pride in that freedom."
(e) wttftcf; i 1R 3lRifT 3lT% m?t t, 'Tffil Cfil 1lR it 6,
M lft m-n q;T m 'fiBT t , 31ltfCfiT w '1ll1t m 3TI1l fcmq -;i <iil;

"Gandhi's body is in jail but his soul is with you, India's prestige is in your
hands, you must not use any violence under any circumstances. You will be
beaten but you must not resist; you must not raise a hand to ward off blows."
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"Weaving.", R . C: .. Dutt, "was the national industry of the people and
spinning was the pursuit of millions of women. Indian textiles went to
England and other parts of Europe,. to CJna and Japan and Burma and
Arabia and Persia and parts of Africa. Elucidate. 25
(b) t fcti 'TIJ t !1'Nif
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"The first point to note is. the continuing importance:of religion apd philosophy .
as vitaf ingredients in the modem Indian Renaissance. Indeed, there is as
much reason regarding it as a reformation as there is for treating it as a
Renaissance." Critically examine. 25
''cfufcff t it 'lrof t mt t lf.t it t ma
tRt tft 19001t q;"\ Wt q;f err : t fcfi
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"At the dawn of the twentieth century Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, was
full of hostility towards the Indian National Congress and he confidentially
reported to the Secretary of State in November 1900 : My own belief is that the
Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my greatest ambitions while in India
is to assist it to a peaceful demise." Examine. 25
(b) .. 1919 Cfil 1935 t m Tfm, "SffiffcRT
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"Though the Act of !_219 was superseded by that of 1935, the preamble to the
former was not repealed-the preservation of the smile of the Cheshire cat after
its disappearance, and the latter said nothing about Dominion Status."
Elucidate.
4. {a) cfi't. 3ITT fcmlt t ma 1ft t Wlfiul mm t it oqm
3l@fRG1m t Cfil l\tJ w t <t>T{
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"Notwithstanding the quest for modernity and the antagonism that guided
Nehru's attitude towards the inequalities inherent in the social structure in
rural India, the Congress Party did not carry out a concerted campaign against
discrimination based on caste. Nehru's own perception was that industrial
growth was bound to break the stranglehold of this feudal remnant. This,
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however, did not happen in India." Examine. 25
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Cf>JJ--a-"Cfilf t Wfl1f CfiJ<iffitCfi '3U
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''The reorganization-resulted in rationalizing the political map of India without
seriously weakening its unity. If anything, its. result has been functional, in as
much as it removed what had been a major source of discord, and created
homogeneous political units which could be administerea thrbugh a medium
that the vast majority of the population understood. Indeed, it can be said with
the b.enefit of hindsight that language, rather than being a for division,
has proved a eementing intewating 25
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( World History )
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Critically examine following statements in about 150 words each : 1Qx5=50
''<f1R t Toiltt lfR<t <61 B WIR uq; t, IDU
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"For Kant, Enlightenment is mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation
of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error."
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"Six hundred thousand men had died .. The Union was the slaves
freed. A nation 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal' had survived its most terrible ordeal."
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not only deprives a society of its freedom and its wealth, but of its
very character, leaving its people intellectually and morally disoriented."
1917 cji\ e!lc:'ll(ffclCfi Sf>iIB tfq <ll mfcr<rn
W1 qjT s3ll B1raf m 1t t fun q>]
".'{!'lffi'l fcfilt1 m, -:;ft;ft Sflffif t GicTI <tit 3fu: tj\ 1"
"If the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (that resulted in the creation of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union) inaugurated an
international competition for the hearts and minds of people all over the globe,
the Chinese Revolution raised the stakes of that struggle."
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"Decolonization has finished_ It definitely belongs to-the past. Yet somehow it
refused to become history.
6. @) <fil 'iR'R 1:R UI ct1 Wf<f t c#il
WN1T li<; f.ii>srlf!Cfi i 3lR ct) 1f\ <nft t 1"
"In spite of the careful framing of the Charter, the role of UNO as peacekeeper -
and intematit>nal mediator has been somewhat lacklustre and muted and that
continues to be so even arter of Cold War." Elucidate.
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(bJ mm<ft t . 31\f il a1<6aif-l<t> 3Narrcro 3fr\
Gff<m 11U 3Tl&n
"Change in Britain came comparatively peacefully through democratic process
in the first half of the nineteenth century and a model of a functioning
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democracy through ballot box w!s successfully put in place." Elaborate. 25
7. (a) tll!lliilNI<: ":J -aj'q
"New imperialism was a nationalistic, not an economic phenomena." Critically
examine.
(b) "Cf'f 1980 "{{-q Jl'111IBt, t il mlPdll
7f{ I" lXJ!
"By the 1980s, the Communist system of the Soviet Union was incapable of
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maintaining the country's role as a Superpower." Elucidate. 25
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''The European Union is the new sick man of Europe." Critically evaluate. 25
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"There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a
fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure
that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly
democratized." Discuss.
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