Exam Details
| Subject | history | |
| Paper | paper 3 | |
| Exam / Course | ugc net national eligibility test | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | university grants commission | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | June, 2010 | |
| City, State | , |
Question Paper
1. Do you think human evolution and development of Palaeolithic stone tools are complimentary to each other
Answer in about five hundred words
2. How did royal women during the Mughal period negotiate for political space
Answer in about five hundred words
3. Gandhi restrained mass movements yet he retained his popularity among the masses. How would you explain this paradox
Answer in about five hundred words
4. Did Ashoka use his Policy of Dhamma as an instrument to administer his empire smoothly
Answer in about five hundred words
5. Assess the significance of overseas trade in the economy of the Mughal empire.
Answer in about five hundred words
6. What was more responsible for the downfall of the Maratha power internal strife or
British aggression
Answer in about five hundred words
7. Examine the diverse subsistence practices of the Neolithic period.
Answer in about three hundred words
8. Discuss the changes of the Indian society during the Kushana period.
Answer in about three hundred words
9. Explain the economic conditions of the Post-Kushan period.
Answer in about three hundred words
10. Discuss the salient features of Indo-Islamic architectures during Sultanate period.
Answer in about three hundred words
11. What were the limitations on the growth of merchant capital in Mughal India
Answer in about three hundred words
12. What was the nature of Maratha resistance to the Mughals after the death of Shivaji
Answer in about three hundred words
13. Discuss the nature of the tribal movements in the nineteenth century India.
Answer in about three hundred words
14. Trace the various phases through which Muslim Communalism passed from 1906 to 1940.
Answer in about three hundred words
15. To what extent did the socio-religious reform movements contribute to the
emancipation of women in the nineteenth century. Discuss.
Answer in about three hundred words
16. Assess the significance of literary sources for writing ancient Indian history.
Answer in about fifty words
17. Write on the position of women during the Gupta period.
Answer in about fifty words
18. Examine the main features of the Dravida style of temple architecture.
Answer in about fifty words
19. Who were Qalandars
Answer in about fifty words
20. Which section of the Zamindars was characterised as Zortalab by the Mughals
Answer in about fifty words
21. Explain the dadni system during the Mughal period.
Answer in about fifty words
22. Explain the 'Drain Theory' of Dadabhai Naoroji.
Answer in about fifty words
23. State the basic features of the policy of non-alignment.
Answer in about fifty words
24. Do you agree with the view that 'all history is contemporary'
Answer in about fifty words
25. There has been a debate for a long time, certainly since Bernier (travels, 165668), as to whether the Mughal empire was a state in the same sense as contemporary European states. Bernier believed that while European states had as their main function the protection of private property, in India, and indeed in Asia in general, the sovereign being himself the proprietor, the destruction of all private property appeared to be the chief function of the state. To this he attributed all the ills from which the Asian economies and societies suffered, notably the intense oppression committed by those whose own capacity to extort was only temporary, since it was derived from the sovereign who might deprive them of it any moment. Although the Mughal sovereign did not actually make the claim to universal landownership attributed to him by Bernier and others, the size of the land tax was indeed such as to absorb the larger part of the surplus. The practical result was that for tax collection purposes alone the state had to acquaint itself with conditions of agriculture in detail and attempt its improvement, a situation that had no parallel in contemporary European states, these tasks being performed there by the large estate owners. Marx, therefore, perceived in the Mughal empire a system of 'Asiatic despotism', based on tax rent, which was essentially different from the laissez-faire state principally because of its concern for protection of agriculture by irrigation and other means. Yet J-0610 21 P.T.O. we must remember that outside the fiscal system the Mughal state interfered little with the structure of property rights subsisting on secondary claims to the agrarian surplus, or with urban property and commerce.
1)State Bernier's perception of the Mughal state.
Answer in about thirty words
What difference Bernier saw between European states and the Mughal empire
Answer in about thirty words
According to the author what was the role of Mughal state in agricultural production
Answer in about thirty words
Author quotes Marx to lay emphasis on which aspect of the Mughal empire
Answer in about thirty words
Give author's view on the nature of property rights of the Mughal state in land.
Answer in about thirty words
Answer in about five hundred words
2. How did royal women during the Mughal period negotiate for political space
Answer in about five hundred words
3. Gandhi restrained mass movements yet he retained his popularity among the masses. How would you explain this paradox
Answer in about five hundred words
4. Did Ashoka use his Policy of Dhamma as an instrument to administer his empire smoothly
Answer in about five hundred words
5. Assess the significance of overseas trade in the economy of the Mughal empire.
Answer in about five hundred words
6. What was more responsible for the downfall of the Maratha power internal strife or
British aggression
Answer in about five hundred words
7. Examine the diverse subsistence practices of the Neolithic period.
Answer in about three hundred words
8. Discuss the changes of the Indian society during the Kushana period.
Answer in about three hundred words
9. Explain the economic conditions of the Post-Kushan period.
Answer in about three hundred words
10. Discuss the salient features of Indo-Islamic architectures during Sultanate period.
Answer in about three hundred words
11. What were the limitations on the growth of merchant capital in Mughal India
Answer in about three hundred words
12. What was the nature of Maratha resistance to the Mughals after the death of Shivaji
Answer in about three hundred words
13. Discuss the nature of the tribal movements in the nineteenth century India.
Answer in about three hundred words
14. Trace the various phases through which Muslim Communalism passed from 1906 to 1940.
Answer in about three hundred words
15. To what extent did the socio-religious reform movements contribute to the
emancipation of women in the nineteenth century. Discuss.
Answer in about three hundred words
16. Assess the significance of literary sources for writing ancient Indian history.
Answer in about fifty words
17. Write on the position of women during the Gupta period.
Answer in about fifty words
18. Examine the main features of the Dravida style of temple architecture.
Answer in about fifty words
19. Who were Qalandars
Answer in about fifty words
20. Which section of the Zamindars was characterised as Zortalab by the Mughals
Answer in about fifty words
21. Explain the dadni system during the Mughal period.
Answer in about fifty words
22. Explain the 'Drain Theory' of Dadabhai Naoroji.
Answer in about fifty words
23. State the basic features of the policy of non-alignment.
Answer in about fifty words
24. Do you agree with the view that 'all history is contemporary'
Answer in about fifty words
25. There has been a debate for a long time, certainly since Bernier (travels, 165668), as to whether the Mughal empire was a state in the same sense as contemporary European states. Bernier believed that while European states had as their main function the protection of private property, in India, and indeed in Asia in general, the sovereign being himself the proprietor, the destruction of all private property appeared to be the chief function of the state. To this he attributed all the ills from which the Asian economies and societies suffered, notably the intense oppression committed by those whose own capacity to extort was only temporary, since it was derived from the sovereign who might deprive them of it any moment. Although the Mughal sovereign did not actually make the claim to universal landownership attributed to him by Bernier and others, the size of the land tax was indeed such as to absorb the larger part of the surplus. The practical result was that for tax collection purposes alone the state had to acquaint itself with conditions of agriculture in detail and attempt its improvement, a situation that had no parallel in contemporary European states, these tasks being performed there by the large estate owners. Marx, therefore, perceived in the Mughal empire a system of 'Asiatic despotism', based on tax rent, which was essentially different from the laissez-faire state principally because of its concern for protection of agriculture by irrigation and other means. Yet J-0610 21 P.T.O. we must remember that outside the fiscal system the Mughal state interfered little with the structure of property rights subsisting on secondary claims to the agrarian surplus, or with urban property and commerce.
1)State Bernier's perception of the Mughal state.
Answer in about thirty words
What difference Bernier saw between European states and the Mughal empire
Answer in about thirty words
According to the author what was the role of Mughal state in agricultural production
Answer in about thirty words
Author quotes Marx to lay emphasis on which aspect of the Mughal empire
Answer in about thirty words
Give author's view on the nature of property rights of the Mughal state in land.
Answer in about thirty words
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