HISTORY Paper II civils mains 2008

jTime Allowed: Three Hours! jMaximum Marks: 3001
INSTRUCTIONS
Each question is printed both in Hindi and in
English.
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 a medium
other than that specified in the Admission
Certificate.
Candidates should attempt Question Nos. 1
and 5 which are compulsory, and any three
of the remaining questions selecting at least
one question from each Section.
The number of marks carried by each
question . is indicated at the end of the
question.

Section

(Modern India)

1. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each 20x3=60

"Sprung from ,paternalism, the English Utilitarian philosophy as introduced in India rejected its human warmth between rulers and the ruled."
"'The ve??acular press in the nineteenth century was both newspaper as well as 'viewspaper' that enlightened the dormant masses."
moral law, the law of conscience, higher than the law ·of the state, which is oppressive?" (Mahatma Gandhi, 1922)
"In exercising its exclusive power the Parliament additionally enacted the Untouchability (Offences) Act in 1955."

2. Critically examine the impact of the famine policy on rural India. Describe the official remedial measures undertaken. 60
3.Write a critique on the impact of the Drain Theory of in the growth of economic nationalism. 60
4. Describe the changing nature of revolutionary activities in India between 1905-1946. 60

Section

(World History)

5. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each 20x3=60

"France was more fertile than Britain in producing new Socialist theories and movements, though they bore less concrete results in France than in Britain."
1,"Most of the European Revolutions of 1848 were nationalist as well as popular insurrections against foreign rule and repressive policy of Metternich."
"In the long run, th??ocarno T1eai}) (December 1925) was destructive both of the Treaty of yersailles and of the Covenant."
"After World War II, the strategy of the West towards Soviet bloc crystallized as a 'policy of containment'."

6. "The Enlightenment represented alternative approaches to modernity, alternative habits of mind and heart, of conscience and sensibility." Discuss. 60

7. Account for the factors that brought about the end of the Cold War. 60

8. Assess the significance of the political developments that took place in Eastern Europe during 1989-2001. 60