History Paper-2 PYQs: 2023

1. "The so-called Orientalist-Anglicist controversy was little more than using different cloaks to cover up British control over India." Comment.
2. "Communal conflict in colonial India was the consequence of existing under a colonial yoke and was not throwback to the past." Comment.
3. Would it be correct to say that the Mutiny of 1857 was the First War of Independence against the British?
4. What was the drain of wealth from colonial India?
5. How did the Gadajats of Odisha merge with the Indian Union?
6. Examine the causes for the Kandha Movement and its place in history.
7. What was the Renaissance in Europe?
8. What were the reasons for the growth of the industrial revolution first in England and then in Europe but not in the more prosperous lands of Asia?
9. Revolutions in Europe in the 18th and 19th century set back the increasing democratization of the world. Comment.
10. The Five-Year Plans forcibly transformed the USSR into an industrial society at great human costs. Comment.
11. The United Nations has ensured peace in the world and improved the living condition of people across the world. Comment.
12. Briefly discuss how Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC).
13. In what ways did Indians resist the imposition of British rule in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and how did the Revolt of 1857 change the nature of British domination over India?
14. British efforts to fracture the sovereignty of India were foiled by the efforts by Indians to create a Union. Explain with reference to the integration of the different regions of India with the Indian Union.
15. What, in your opinion, were the reasons for the British to exit India?
16. Would it be right to say that the decolonization of the world in the second half of the 20th century merely meant the end of imperialism but not of the domination of the globalized world by west?
17. "A result of modernization has been that every country and culture claims to have renaissance." Explain specifically with respect to the experience of the so-called India Renaissance of the 19th century.
18. What were the causes for the two World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and why similar all-encompassing wars has not happened subsequently?