Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Why has the ‘safety valve theory’ related to the foundation of the Indian National Congress been thoroughly discredited by recent researchers? Analyze.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The significant feature of the Indian Councils Act of 1892 was the principle of election which it introduced, though the word ‘election’ was very carefully avoided in it.”
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution The Swadeshi movement of 1905 anticipated many of the tactics that were later developed during the Gandhian mass movement. – Critically examine.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Discuss the policies and programmes of the early nationalists (moderates). To what extent they were able to fulfil the aspirations of the people.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution What were the various ways in which nationalism manifested itself in India during colonial rule?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Critically examine the following statement: In the first decade of the 20th century, the atmosphere was ripe for the emergence of revolutionary groups to fill up the vacant space in the political map of the country.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution In its political behaviour the Indian National Congress in its early career was never a radical organisation, besides the founders of the Congress involved A.O. Hume in their project. Do these facts verify that the Congress was founded as a ‘Safety valve’? Explain.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How would you explain the major trends of the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution How far was the drain theory a focal point of nationalist critique of colonialism?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Can methods and policies of the moderates be referred to as ‘political mendicancy’?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Explain “Constructive Swadeshi” characterised by Atmashakti (self-reliance), which propelled the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The Anti-Partition Agitation (1909) had an economic character in Bengal unlike the Extremist Agitation in Maharashtra which had a religious character.” Examine.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Politics remained for the bulk of the Moderates very much a part-time affair. The Congress was not a political party, but an annual three-day show…” Elucidate.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “The ‘safety-valve thesis’ does not adequately explain the birth of the Indian National Congress in 1885.” Critically examine.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “At the dawn of the twentieth century Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, was full of hostility towards the Indian National Congress and he confidentially reported to the Secretary of State in November 1900: My own belief is that the Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to’ assist it to a peaceful demise.” Examine.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Analyse the social composition of the early Congress leadership.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘Rabindranath Tagore’s nationalism was based on a Catholic internationalism.’ Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Examine the economic and social factors which led to the rise of Indian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution To what extent was the emergence of the Congress in 1885 the culmination of a process of political awakening that had its beginning in the 1870s?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “Curzon’s partition of Bengal gave the unwitting initiative to events of magnitude and returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution “India after 1905 had new interests and objectives and compelled new lines of policy.” Comment.
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘It was in this almost unrecognizable form that the Ilbert Bill was finally enacted… it was primarily a failure of the Viceroy’. Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution Discuss ‘the safety valve’ theory. Does it satisfactorily explain the foundation of the Indian National Congress?
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘Curzon was an unconscious catalyst who did not understand, let alone desire, what the new century was about to bring forth, but who helped it to be born.’ Comment
Modern History PYQs Solution History Opt. PYQs Solution ‘The Ilbert Bill was the most extreme but by no means isolated expression of white racism.’ Comment
