Modern History
Notebook: History PYQP
Created: 10/24/2020 7:00 PM
Author: kunalofficial97@gmail.com
YEAR PSIR - 1B
2020
Q1. Dalit Perspective on
Indian National
Movement.Discuss.
Q2. National Movement in
India was anti imperialist &
2019 increasingly radical in its
socio economically  &
political programmes.
Q1. Revolt of 1857 is a "
Sepoy Mutiny " or " First
War Of Independence ".
2018
Comment.
2017 Q1. The Success Of MG lay in
transforming both political &
non political movements into
a unified nationalist
movement. Comment.
Q2. Differentiate btw
Moderate Nationalism from
Updated: 10/25/2020 3:43 PM
QUESTIONS
Q1. The 1857 uprising was the
culmination of the recurrent, big and
small
local rebellions that had occurred in the
preceding hundred years of
British rule. Elucidate.
Q2.  Examine the linkages between the
nineteenth century’s ‘Indian
Renaissance’ and the emergence of
national identity.
Q3. Many voices had strengthened and
enriched the nationalist movement
during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
Q4. Assess the role of British imperial power
in complicating the process of
transfer of power during the 1940s.
Q1.  Throw light on the significance of
the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the
present times.
Q2.   Why indentured labour was taken by
the British from India to their
colonies? Have they been able to preserve
their cultural identity over
there?
Q1. Clarify how mid-eighteenth century
India was beset with the spectre of a
fragmented polity.
Q2.  Why did the ‘Moderates’ fail to carry
conviction with the nation about
their proclaimed ideology and political goals
by the end of the nineteenth
 Extremist/Militant
Nationalism in terms of their
objective & means.
Q1. Critically examine Radical
2016 Humanist Perspective on
Indian National Movement.
Q1. Satyagraha as a strategy
in Indian National
Movement. Comment .
2015
Q2. Compare Nehruvian &
Gandhian model of
development.
2014 Q1. Examine how peasant
movements promoted  in 1761. Why were so many
 Nationalist Ideas during
struggle for Indian
Independence.
century?
Q3.  Examine how the decline of traditional
artisanal industry in colonial India
crippled the rural economy.
Q4. Highlight the importance of the new
objectives that got added to the
vision of Indian Independence since the
twenties of the last century.
Q5.  The women’s questions arose in
modern India as a part of the 19th
century social reform movement. What
are the major issues and debates
concerning women in that period?
Q1. Explain how the uprising of 1857
constitutes an important watershed in
the evolution of British policies towards
colonial India.
Q2. Discuss the role of women in the
freedom struggle especially during the
Gandhian phase.
Q3. Highlight the differences in the
approach of Subhash Chandra Bose and
Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for
freedom.
Q1. How different would have been the
achievement of Indian independence
without Mahatma Gandhi? Discuss.
Q2.  Mahatma Gandhi and Dr B.R.
Ambedkar, despite having divergent
approaches and strategies, had a common
goal of amelioration of the
downtrodden. Elucidate.
Q3.  It would have been difficult for the
Constituent Assembly to complete its
historic task of drafting the Constitution for
Independent India in just
three years but for the experience gained
with the Government of India
Act, 1935. Discuss.
Q1. The third battle of Panipat was fought
empire-shaking battles fought at Panipat ?
Q2.  Examine critically the various facets
of economic policies of the British
in India from the mid-eighteenth century till
independence.
 Q3.  In what ways did the naval mutiny
prove to be the last nail in the coffin of
British colonial aspirations in India?

Q1. Comment on Marxist

understanding of India's
freedom movement.

Q2. Gandhian Perspective of

development & its
contemporary
relevance.Comment.
 
Q3. Efficacy of Satyagraha as
moral resistance to colonial
rule. Comment.( 2012 )
2013
Q4. Dalit perspective on
INM. Comment. ( 2011 )
Q1. Defying the barriers of age, gender and
religion, the Indian women
became the torchbearer during the
struggle for freedom in India. Discuss.
Q2 Several foreigners made India their
homeland and participated in various
movements. Analyze their role in the Indian
struggle for freedom.

Q5. Significance of CDM. Q3. In many ways, Lord Dalhousie was the
Comment.( 2011 ) founder of modern India.
Elaborate.
Q6. Comment on Indian
Nationalism as depicted in
S.N Banerjee's " A Nation In
Making ". ( 2010 )