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Weekly Problem Practice for 2025 History Optional [Modern India: Week 7]

Q.1 “Notwithstanding the quest for modernity and the antagonism that guided Nehru’s attitude towards the inequalities inherent in the social structure in rural India, the Congress Party did not carry out a concerted campaign against discrimination based on caste. Nehru’s own perception was that industrial growth was bound to break the stranglehold of this feudal remnant. This, however, did not happen in India.” Examine. [20 Marks]

Q.2 Analyse the India-China relations in the 1950s and 1960s especially in the light of contentions over the McMohan Line. [20 Marks]

Q.3 How did the introduction of Community Development Programme and Panchayati Raj promote welfare of rural India? [10 Marks]

Q.4 “Dalit Movements for empowerment in independent India have essentially been for carving out political space through electoral politics.” Discuss. [10 Marks] 

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