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W.B.C.S Main 2014 Optional Question Paper History.
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W.B.C.S Main 2014 Optional Question Paper History PAPER I
Answer any three questions
1. Answer any three questions (word limit: 200-250 words) : 10 x 3
(a) Explain the terms— Iron Age and Megalithic Culture.
(b) Write a brief note on the extent of the Indus Civilization.
(c) Write a note on the Sabha and the Samiti.
(d) Write a short note on the extent of the Gupta Empire.
(e) What do you know about the various types of land-grants in ancient India.
(f) Write a short note on the Vedanta Philosophies.
2. Answer any two questions (word limit: 700-800 words): 20 x 2
(a) “All historical interpretations are ultimately based on evidence derived from the sources of history, conventionally divided into two categories—literary and archaeological” (Upender Singh). Explain.
(b) What are the general explanations regarding the transformations in vedic society ?
(c) What light do the Buddhist texts throw on the social condition of India around 6th century B.C.E. ?
(d) How have the historians assessed and explained the changes in society following the decline of the Gupta Empire.
3. Write an essay on any one of the following (word limit: 1500 words) : 40
(a) The stages of evolution of the state till the foundation of the Mauryan Empire.
(b) The Urban Society and trade guilds of South India in the Sangam age.
(c) Bengal under Hussian shahi rule.
Group-B
4. Answer any three questions (Word limit 200-250) 10 x 3
(a) Determine the significance of Mahmud of Ghazni’s invasion.
(b) Assess the contributions of Minhaj-i-siraj Juzjani’s as a historian.
(c) What do you know about the iqta system of the Delhi Sultanate.
(d) What were the essential features of Akbar’s religious policy ?
(e) What were he consequences of the invasion of Mongols on the policies of Delhi Sultanate.
(f) Write a short Note on the Jagirdari system of Mughal period.
5. Answer any one questions (word limit: 700-800 words): 20
(a) Briefly discuss the Nature and Structure of the administration of Vijoynagar empire.
(b) Examine the features of Central Asian and Persian styles in Mughal architecture.
(c) Give a critical account of Maratha administration under Shivaji.
6. Write an essay on any one of the following (word limit: 1500 words) : 40
(a) The growth of British power in the eighteenth century.
(b) The crisis in the Mughal economy in eighteenth century.
(c) The main trends of reformist religious movement in India since the 15th Century.
W.B.C.S Main 2014 Optional Question Paper History PAPER II
Group-A
Answer Question no. 1 and any two from the rest
1. Answer any one question: 20 x 1
(a) Do you think that the problem of private inland trade was the primary cause of conflict between Mir. Qasim and the English East India Company ?
(b) How was the Parthana Samaj different from the Brahmo Samaj ?
(c) Write a note on the Swarajist Party. What was it’s achievement ?
(d) Briefly discuss the India Independence Act. 1947.
2. How did the ‘Young Bengal’ movement influence the cultureal and social life in 19th Century Bengal ? 40
3. How was the question of Women’s emancipation addressed by the social reformers of India in the 19th century ? 40
4. Was administrative necessity the main ground for the partition of Bengal in 1905 ? What was it’s result ? 40
5. In what way did Gandhian leadership give a new dimension to the Intional Movement ? 40
Group – B
Answer Question no. 6 and any two from the rest
6. Answer any one question. 20 x 1
(a) Why did the Industrial Revolution begin first in Britain ?
(b) In what way did slavery became a Central issue in the American Civil War ?
(c) Discuss the causes of the rise of Fascism in Italy .
(d) What do you understand by the ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’ ?
7. Would you call the French Ravolution of 1789 a ‘bourgeios revolution’ ? 40
8. Analyse the factors which were responsible for the failure of the League of Nations. 40
9. What led to the collapse of the French colonial empire in lndo-China ? Examine the significanace of the 1954 settlement in this context. 40
10. Anslyse the causes which resulted in the distingration at the socialist after 1985. 40
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