Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The British “fought the First Maratha War in a period when their fortunes were at the lowest ebb”. Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The British conquered India “in a fit of absent mindedness.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The British policy towards Indian States in 1818-1858 was one of “isolation and noninterference tempered by annexation.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘This Anglo-Maratha War covering nearly nine years from the murder of Narayan Rao to the Treaty of Salbye emphatically discloses the vitality of the Maratha nation which had not been exhausted either by the disaster of Panipat or the death of their great Peshwa Madhavrao.’ Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Explain the British policy of ‘Subordinate union’ of Indian States with British India from 1858 to 1905. How did the Government of India implement this policy during this period?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How did the British establish their control over Maharashtra in the first two decades of the 19th century? Why did the Maratha challenge ultimately collapse?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘The treaty of Bassein, by its direct and indirect operations, gave the Company the Empire of India.’ Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The verdict of Plassey was confirmed by the English victory at Buxar.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The British conquest of Sind was both a political and moral sequel to the first Afghan War. Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful and human piece of rascality it will be.’ Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “…the hunt of the Pindaris became merged in the Third Maratha War.” Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘The revolution of 1760 (Bengal) was really no revolution.’ Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘Upon the whole, then, I conclude that the treaty of Bassein was wise, just and a politic measure.’ Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Thus ended the famous battle of Buxar, on which depended the fate of India and which was as gallantly disputed as was important in its results.” Comment
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Critically examine the political, military and administrative factors that led to the transformation of the Maratha character in the 18th century. How did these changes influence its rise and eventual decline?
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Evaluate the impact of the Third Battle of Panipat on the political economy of 18th-century India.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Examine the role of the Asaf Jahi Dynasty in the political transformation of the State of Hyderabad.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How did the Maratha guerilla warfare tactics contribute to their military successes against larger and more established armies?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “During the Carnatic Wars, the French position, which at one time dazzled the Indian world by its political successes, was destined to end in humiliation and failure.” Explain.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The economy of India was not stagnant in the eighteenth century. Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution After the battle of Plassey, the mercenary became the Kingmaker.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Analyze the rise of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars and the Anglo-Maratha Wars had virtually eliminated the French front the contest of supremacy in South India. Discuss.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Haidar Ali was born to build an empire, and Tipu Sultan to lose one”. Comment.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The Marathas posed a significant threat to the integrity of the Mughal Empire. Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The Battle of Plassey (1757) was a skirmish while the Battle of Buxar (1764) was a real war.” Critically examine.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Account for the rise of the Maratha power in the eighteenth century.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “It was Dupleix who had first showed the way of intervening in disputes of the Indian rulers and thereby acquiring political control over vast territories- a technique which was later perfected by the English East India Company.” Elaborate.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Aurangzeb’s Deccan policy was a major factor in Mughal decline. Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Critically examine: “The Battle of Plassey (1757) thus marked the beginning of political supremacy of the English East India Company in India.”
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How far is it justified to consider the states like Bengal, Awadh and Hyderabad as ‘successor states’ of the Mughal state?
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Critically evaluate history of the Eighteenth century India with reference to culture and economy.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution It was as much the court intrigues as also the defiance of the provincial powers that hastened the decline of the Mughals in the 18th Century. Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution After the Battle of Plassey, how did India transit from the medieval to the modern age?
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The Afghan invasions in the Eighteenth Century not only signified the military irrelevance of the Mughal Empire but also hastened its decline”. Explain.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Comment on the French ambition of building a territorial empire in India.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The Battle of Plassey that decided the fate of Bengal was won by Clive through intrigues.” Explain.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Plassey did not complete the British conquest of India. Had the English been convincingly defeated in any subsequent battle in India, then (the battle of) Plassey would have remained as a minor episode in the history of India.” Critically examine in 150 words.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How will you view the Maratha policy of expansion? Delineate.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The political disintegration was responsible for the socio-economic decline in India during the 18th century.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Dupleix made a cardinal blunder in looking for the key of India in Madras: Clive sought and found it in Bengal.” Critically examine in 150 words.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Is it true that the court intrigues and weak revenue system led to the collapse of the Maratha empire? Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Compared to their English counterpart, the French East India Company enjoyed little discretionary power and had to always look up to Paris for all major decisions. This partly explains the failure of the French in India.” Critically examine in 150 words.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Was it the weakening of the Mughal empire or the rise of regional power that led to British conquest of India? Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Neither Alexander the Great nor Napoleon could have won the empire of India by starting from Pondicherry as a base and contending with a power which held Bengal and the command of the Sea.” Comment.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Do you think that the agrarian crisis of the 17th century led to the disintegration of the Mughal empire? Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The battle of Plassey was “not a great battle but a great betrayal.” Comment.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Compare the Peshwas’ bureaucratic management with that of the Imperial Mughal administration.
Medieval History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How was the Afghan nobility responsible for the decline of the Afghan empires? Discuss.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution After 1757 there grew up a State of Bengal which was a “sponsored state” as well as a “plundered state”. Comment.
