Year: 2024

Q.1 Describe briefly the main events (1940-47) which contributed towards the partition of India. Was it inevitable? [20 Marks] Ans: The partition of India was neither a sudden activity nor a spontaneous one. The winds of partition began to blow early on during the freedom struggle itself. There were many reasons behind this. However, more […]

Q.1 How British power in India become British power of India by 1818? [10 Marks] Ans: Starting from the control over Bengal, British continuously worked towards increasing their political control over other territories of India. In this process they exploited all the opportunities presented to them due to political disunity in India and waged numerous […]

Q.1 How British power in India become British power of India by 1818? [10 Marks] Q.2 Discuss the nature, working and effects of the Dual Government in Bengal. [20 Marks]  Q.3 “We have crippled our enemy without making our friends too formidable.” Comment on it in the light of the Third Anglo-Mysore war. [10 Marks] […]

Q. What were the causes and consequences of the revolutionary upsurger of the 1840s in Europe? [UPSC- 2021] Ans: Throughout the nineteenth century, Europe witnessed it’s most widespread revolutionary wave in 1840s particularly in 1848 now often referred to as the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution. The central and western European countries […]

Q. Europe was at war with itself in the first half of the twentieth century with a long cease-fire. Comment. [UPSC- 2021] Ans: The first half of the 20th century in Europe was a period marked by two major wars, World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945), with a long cease-fire in interwar […]

Q. “Industrial Revolution had far reaching social and political consequences with the advent of assembly line factories, urbanization and rise of the urban working class.” Critically examine. [UPSC- 2020] Ans: In Industrial Revolution, which started in England in the 18th century and later spread toother parts of Europe and North America, machines changed people’s way […]

Q. ‘Rousseau kindled a hope which became the spirit of the Enlightenment’. Critically examine. [UPSC- 2022] Ans: Enlightenment was intellectual, philosophical, cultural and social movement. It spread throughout Europe (mainly Western Europe) during the 17th and 18th century. This period is called the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. It represented a huge […]

Q. Do you understand that the lack of statesmanship in London during the 1760’s and the 1770’s was, an important contributory factor in precipitating the American Revolution. Analyse. [UPSC- 2022] Ans: American Revolution (1775–83) was insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United […]

Q. Engels did much more than Marx himself to popularise the ideas of Marxism. Critically examine. [UPSC- 2022] Ans: Friedrich Engels was a German socialist philosopher and the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism. He met Marx in 1844, and they jointly authored a number of works, including The Holy Family […]

Q. The prolonged conflict between the Vijayanagara Kingdom and the Bahmani successor states was influenced less by cultural factors, and more by strategic and economic considerations. Comment. [20 Marks] विजयनगर साम्राज्य और बहमनी उत्तराधिकारी राज्यों के बीच लंबे समय तक संघर्ष सांस्कृतिक कारकों से कम और रणनीतिक और आर्थिक विचारों से अधिक प्रभावित था। टिप्पणी […]