a. “Famine commissions were a hogwash, and famines the reality in British India.”
2b role of press - std - ATS 2016
std qs
5. “The press in India was largely an English institution.” Do you agree?
2 c - annexation of Punjab - std
3a - Ghadar Mov - std
ATS 2017
8. How could the Ghadar movement have been turned into a success? Should Lala Hardayal be held responsible for its apparent failure?
3b 1942-6 - constitutional impasse - solutions failed?
ATS 2017
4C. The Cabinet Mission proposed a two-tiered federal plan, which was expected to maintain national unity while conceding the largest measure of regional autonomy. Do you think this was the best possible solution at that juncture? Did it work?
1c “Against the background of Cripps Mission and the compulsive inclusion of India in the war the political scenario in India had worsened. As such if Congress was to keep its promises for an independent India , the time has come when Congress was to give a final blow to British paramount in India”
3c peasant movs 1920-40
ATS 2017
10. Demonstrate the difference between peasant-based anti-colonial movements of pre and post-1920. Provide special reference to Tebhaga and Telangana movements.
4a - Satyagrahas of Gandhi - very much std
ATS 2017
7. “Gandhian Satyagraha was merely a utopian exercise. In a span of over three decades, Gandhian political methods emasculated a large section of the populace.” Critically opine.
4b - Sc&Tech post-indpt India - non-std qs
ATS 2016
9. “The last decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century witnessed a national awakening in all spheres of creativity. Fired by nationalism, disregarding comforts, and undeterred by severe handicaps, these men did world-class science by indomitable will.” Citing instances of individual scientists, illustrate the contribution of Indian scientists in pre-independent India.
4c - princely states - std qs
ATS 2017
2. Would you agree that post-independence, India dealt with the Princely States with a kid-glove strategy? Can you suggest any alternative model of integrating the recalcitrant Princely states?
WORLD HISTORY
q 5a - was the only difficult qs, yorker
ATS 2017: http://trademark-ias.blogspot.in/2017/09/modern-indian-world-history-question.html
“The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement. Enlightenment thinkers tried to apply reason and the scientific method to laws that shaped human actions.”
5 b - reforms of napoleon
'methods of Bonaparte the general = belief in meritocracy + giving equal opportunity to all + leadership + precision in taking decisions'
5 c - chartist mov in britain - std
ATS 2015
“Rain, poor management, and unwillingness on the
part of many to do battle with the well-armed constabulary put an end to the
Chartists’ campaign.”
5 d - german unification climax & loss in WWI combined
5 e - repeat qs - 2011
hints in pg 11.7 of World History Book [WHB] as under:
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
6a Ind Rev in England first why?? SOcial Consequences of I Rev
pg 3.2 , 3.5, 3.10 of WHB as under:
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
6b - WWI as TOTAL War
fully solved in 7.13 of WHB as under
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
6c - tricky qs - requires application of mind
peterloo massacre - pg 2.18 & 2.19 & coupled with Socialsim before marx
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
7a -german unification
7b - Focus on Stalinism & Cold War, describe bolshevism
pg 6.14 of WHB of https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
7c - Simon BOlivar - for the 1st time in UPSC this Qs asked - we have stressed umpteen no of times that any day this qs can come - finally, we feel vindicated
see pp 9.1 to 9.3 of WHB of
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
failure of bolivar to provide united stand = civil wars, different nationalisties, Chile having a diffrent leader, heavy spanish repression, brazil was under portuguese - had a different liberation path,
nonehtl;ess Bolivar cannot be termed to have failed as such
8a - fascism in Italy
8b - repeat 2007, 2013
fully solved
pg 12.10 of WHB of https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
8c - Dutch imperialism in Indonesia
read pg 5.4 of WHB of
https://www.amazon.in/Modern-World-History-Services-Examination/dp/9386860732
