Economic development and political change; Land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; Ecology and environmental policy In post-colonial India; Progress of science.

PYQs: Economic development and political Change [1985-2026]

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Year	Question	Answer
2026	How did the introduction of Community Development Programme and Panchayat Raj Programme promote welfare of rural India? Explain.	View answer
2024	Why did the demand for land reform never become an agenda in national politics after 1947? Elucidate.	View answer
2024	India’s developmental strategy after independence was influenced by economic imperatives, not ideological considerations. – Comment.	View answer
2022	How did the popular movements help us to understand the nature of environmental crisis in post-colonial India?	View answer
2020	Planning was seen as a powerful instrument that could be used to remove regional inequality. Examine.	View answer
2019	How did the introduction of Community Development Programme and Panchayati Raj promote welfare of rural India?	View answer
2018	Trace the development of land reforms in India between 1947 and early 1960's.	View answer
2017	How far the developments in science and technology in post – Independence period put India on the path of modernity?	View answer
2016	Critically examine the nature and scope of environmental movements in Independent India.	View answer
2015	“Jawaharlal Nehru, though a declared socialist, was pragmatist enough to focus on providing building blocks to the making of a new India.”. Examine.	View answer
2012	“The Chipko became famous as the first major environmental movement in post – colonial India and gave rise to the understanding that environmental issues are often women’s issues because they suffer most from its deterioration." – Explain.	View answer
2011	“Nehru’s ‘temple of Modem India' consisted not only of steel and power plants, irrigation dams, but included institutions of higher learning particularly in the scientific field." Elaborate.	View answer
1995	“Having won political freedom, India had to win economic and cultural freedom." Comment.	View answer