Day: February 3, 2015

IAS Mains History 1988 Paper -I Section A 1. Write short essays of not more than 200 words each on any three of the following: (a) Position of women in the Rigvedic society (b) The intellectual revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. (c) Mauryan court art as an alien grafting (d) The Maukharis paving the […]

IAS Mains History 2001

IAS Mains History 1989 Paper -I Section A 1. Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you. Also give brief descriptive notes on the places marked on the map: (i) Ahichhatra (ii) Atranjikhera (iii) Ayodhya (iv) Brahmagiri (v) Burzahom (vi) Chamba (vii) Dhauli (viii) Dwarka (ix) Hastinapur (x) Kalibangan (xi) […]

IAS Mains History 1984 Paper -I Section A 1. Write short answers of not more than 200 words each on any three of the following: (a) How do you account for the decline of the major cities of the Indus Valley Civilization? (b) What was the position of Varuna in the Vedic system of Gods? […]

IAS Mains History 1983 Paper-I Section A 1. Mark any fifteen of the following on the map supplied to you and give short descriptive notes on them: (i) Amaravati (ii) Arikamedu (iii) Avanti (iv) Bedsa (v) Belur (vi) Bhrigukachha (vii) Dwarka (viii) Elephanta (ix) Halebid (x) Kanchipuram (xi) Kaushambi (xii) Kurukshetra (xiii) Lothal (xiv) Madurai (xv) […]

IAS Mains History 1981

IAS Mains History 1980

IAS Mains History 1979

  IAS Mains History 1985 Paper -I Section A 1. Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and give brief descriptive notes on them: (i) Ajanta (ii) Atranjikhera (iii) Ayodhya (iv) Bharhut (v) Dhauli (vi) Ganjam (vii) Gaya (viii) Gwalior (ix) Harappa (x) Junagadh (xi) Kalibangan (xii) Kapilavastu (xiii) Kanyakubja […]

European Penetration into India: The Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and the Dutch; The English and the French East India Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic Wars: Part III Situation at the eve of British-French struggle Since the 15th century when Europeans first arrived in India the fight for supremacy between rival factions became a […]