GS-1 · Freedom Struggle (various stages, important contributors from different parts of the country)
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In many ways, Lord Dalhousie was the founder of modern India. Elaborate.
Examine critically the various facets of economic policies of the British in India from mid-eighteenth century till independence.
Examine how the decline of traditional artisanal industry in colonial India crippled the rural economy.
Why did the armies of the British East India Company – mostly comprising of Indian soldiers – win consistently against the more numerous and better equipped armies of the then Indian rulers? Give reasons.
Highlight the Central Asian and Greco-Bactrian elements in Gandhara art.
Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
Examine the linkages between the 19th century ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.
The 1857 Uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.
Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French revolutions.
What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?