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    W.B.C.S Main 2011 Optional Question Paper History.

    W.B.C.S Main 2011 Optional Question Paper History PAPER I

    Group-A.Continue Reading W.B.C.S Main 2011 Optional Question Paper History.

    Answer any three questions

    1.  Assess the importance of archaeological sources for the study of ancient Indian History.

    2.  Give a brief but critical account of the principal aspects of the Harappan civilization. How is it different from and ante­rior to the culture of the Vedic’ period ?

    3.  What were the different policies adopted by samudragupta to establish his supremacy over his contemporaries and how far was he successful ?

    4.  How far did the interaction between Hinduism and Islam affect Indian society and thought in medieval India ?

    5.  “The Din-l-llahi was a monument of Akbar’s folly, not of his wisdom”. (Smith) comment on this statement with reference to Akbar’s motives behind this religious experiment.

    6.  Was the Partition of India in 1947 inevitable and unavoid­able ?

     

    Group-B

    Answer any two questions

    7.  Was Maurya administration highly bureaucratic and central­ized ?

    8.  How would you characterise Sher Shah an innovator or a reformer ?

    9.  What is exactly the significance of the Hussain Shahi rule in the history of Bengal ?

    10.  “Vidyasagar had the genius and wisdonn of an ancient sage, the energy of an English-man and the heart of a Bengalee mother”. —Justify Vidyaagar’s nomenclature of “traditional moderniser” in the light of the statement and in the context of his various reform work.

    W.B.C.S Main 2011 Optional Question Paper History PAPER II

    Group-A

    Answer any three questions

    1.  “Feudalism collapsed in Western Europe because of its own internal contradictions”. Do you agree with this statement ?    20

    2.  Give reasons for the origin of the Renaissance in ltaly.    20

    3.  What was the Continental System ?  How far did it contribute to the downfall of Napoleon ?    8+12

    4.  Can Alexander II be called Tsar the Liberator’  ?        20

    5.  Trace the rise and growth of Fascism in Italy under Musso­lini.

    OR, Discuss the main characteristics of Fascism.

     

    Group-A

    Answer any two questions

    6.  “The Renaissance scholars laid the eggs which Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation, later on hatched on”.  Dis­cuss.      20

    7.  “The Treaty of Versailles was a dictated peace of victor powers on a vanquished nation”.  Explain.     20

    8.  What were the weaknesses and difficulties of the Weirner Republic  ?  How did Hitler succeed in establishing his dicta­torship  ?      8 + 12

     

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