Day: October 7, 2026

Q. “The Orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 19th century constituted a turning point in shaping colonial educational policy in India.” Examine. [UPSC- 2026] Ans: The Orientalist-Anglicist controversy was a debate within the East India Company’s administration in the 1820s and 1830s over the content and medium of education to be promoted in India. The Charter Act […]

Q. Lenin was the brilliant strategist of the socialist revolution. Substantiate. [UPSC- 2026] Ans: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924) led the Bolshevik Party, directed the October Revolution of 1917 and founded the Soviet state. Many revolutionaries of his time were thinkers or agitators. Lenin was above all a strategist: he adapted Marxist theory to Russian conditions, […]