IAS Mains History 2001
Paper II
Section A

Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each:

‘Dalhousie changed the map of India with speed and thoroughness no campaign could equal.’

‘The tribal and peasant rebellion laid the foundation of the revolt of 1857’

‘The British industrial policy in the nineteenth century ruined the Indian handicrafts’

The Quit India Movement was a spontaneous revolt of the people against British rule.

Discuss the main features of the ‘Raiyatwari Settlement’ in South India. Did it satisfy the aspirations of the peasantry?

Examine the economic and social factors which led to he rise of Indian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the architect of India's policy of non-alignment. In the light of this statement discuss India's relations with the two ‘Power Blocks’ between 1947 1964.

Section B

Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each:

‘Marxian Communism is primarily the offspring of German Hegelianism and French Socialism.’

Besmirch created a new Germany with the policy of ‘blood and iron’

‘There was not only a difference of principles at Paris (Peace Conference) but a clash of personalities’

‘The decolonization led to the break-up of empires.’

‘The Napoleonic Empire was doomed because of its inherent and self-defeating contradictions’ Elucidate.

Trace the various stages of European imperialism in Africa in the nineteenth century.

Discuss the aims of the establishment of the Arab League and assess it role in safeguarding the interests of the Arab nations.