2018
HISTORY PAPER - II
Time Allowed - 3 Hours Full Marks : 200
If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions attempted first up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining ones ignored.
Answers may be given either in English or in Bengali or in Nepali but all answer must be in one and the same language
GROUP-A
Answer Question No. 1 and any two from the rest.
1. Answer any one Question :-
a) Write a note on Dual System of Administration of Bengal. How did it affect the political economy of early colonial Bengal ? 20
b) Define economic nationalism in colonial India with reference to a few concrete issues in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 20
c) Write a note on Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj and Ramakrishna Mission. 20
2. To what extent India's first war of independence in 1857 was result of popular discontent against the British rule ? How would you explain the features of the movement ? 40
3. Identify the factors responsible for growth of Indian National Congress in 1885. Discuss M.K. Gandhi's Nationalist movement within Congress. 40
4. Write a note on framing of Indian constitution after 1947 with special reference to the issue of integration of princely states.
GROUP-B
Answer Question No.5 and any two from the rest.
5. Answer any one Question :-
a) Identify the causes behind French Revolution of 1789. 20
b) Discuss nature and impact of Industrial revolution in England. 20
c) Discuss the rise of fascism in inter war Italy. 20
6. Write a note on the making of Russian revolution leading to foundation of a socialist state. 40
7. Identify the causes and consequences of second world war. 40
8. What were the causes behind disintegration of Soviet Union ? How collapse of Soviet Union brought political changes in Eastern Europe. 40
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