Previous year questions

"So Long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who having been educated at their expense, pay not the least need to them." Comment.

"The impact of government on the people meant essentially the impact of government on the village." Comment.

Trace the development of the famine policy of the British in India 1876 and 1921. Did it provide relief to the people?

"Permanent Settlement disappointed many expectations and introduced there results that were not anticipated." Comment.

"Absentee landlordism was a consequential feature of Bengal's Permanent land settlement." Comment.

What was the impact of early British land policy in the village communities of North India?

"India underwent suffering and mortality in the wake of recurring famines in the later half of the 19th century." Comment.

"The recurring famines in the 19th century were the inevitable consequence of the British policy and expose the real character of the paternal solicitude for the peasantry on the part of the British administration." Examine this statement critically.

Discuss the main features of the 'Raiyatwari Settlement' in South India. Did it satisfy the aspirations of the peasantry?

"The British industrial policy in the nineteenth century ruined the Indian handicrafts." Comment.