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SECTION A [MODERN INDIA] Q.1 Critically examine the following statements in about 150 words each : 10×5=50 (a) ‘The Battle of Plassey (1757) was a skirmish while the Battle of Buxar (1764) was a real war’. [10 Marks] (b) ‘The Treaty of Amritsar (1809) was significant for its immediate as well as potential effects’. [10 […]

SECTION A [ANCIENT INDIA] Q.1 Identify the following places marked on the map supplied to you and write a short note of about 30 words on each of them in your Question-cum-Answer Booklet. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim: [50 Marks] (i) Paleolithic site (ii) Mesolithic […]

SECTION B [MEDIEVAL INDIA] Q.5 Answer the following questions in about 150 words each: 10×5=50 Q.5 (a) What were ‘Brahmdeya’ grants? How do you account for the large number of such grants in the early medieval period? [10 Marks] (b) The establishment of large number of urban settlements in North India in the thirteenth century […]

History Optional Online Course cum Test Series- 2024 [English and Hindi] SYLLABUS AND SOURCES FOR TEST SERIES- 2024

History Optional Online Course cum Test Series- 2023 [English and Hindi] [Batch IV] SYLLABUS AND SOURCES FOR TEST SERIES- 2023

Solution: Weekly Problem Practice For History Optional- 2023 [World History: Week 6] Q.1 What were the contributions of Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi in the Unification of Italy? [20 Marks] Ans: Three people clearly played a great role in the process of unifying the State: Giuseppe Mazzini (Heart and soul of Italy Unification) , the ideological […]

Weekly Problem Practice For History Optional- 2023 [World History: Week 6] Q.1 What were the contributions of Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi in the Unification of Italy? [20 Marks] Q.2 What were the causes of the collapse of Communism in Soviet Union between 1985-1991? Elaborate it. [20 Marks] Q.3 German political unity was grafted on a […]

Solution: Weekly Problem Practice For History Optional- 2023 [World History: Week 5] Q.1 What problems were germane to the decolonization process in Kenya? Also discuss role played by Jomo Kenyatta in the process. [10 Marks] Ans: The British thought that independence for the colonies of East Africa was not so necessary as for West Africa. […]

Weekly Problem Practice For History Optional- 2023 [World History: Week 5] Q.1 What problems were germane to the decolonization process in Kenya? Also discuss role played by Jomo Kenyatta in the process. [10 Marks] Q.2 “The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness […]

Solution: Weekly Problem Practice For History Optional- 2023 [World History: Week 4] Q.1 Discuss the Treaty of Versailles. How for was it unjust? [10 Marks] Ans: The Treaty of Versailles was peace document signed at the end of World War I between the victor Allied Powers and defeated Germany. Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles […]