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Answers must be written in the medium specified in the admission Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover o f the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answers written in the medium other than that specified in the Admission Certificate. Candidates should attempt Question Numbers 1 and 5 which are com pulsory, and any three o f the remaining questions by selecting at least one question from each section All questions carry equal marks.

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SECTIO N -A Q .l Critically evaluate the following statements in about 200 words each: (a) "If the battle of Plassey had made the English a powerful factor in the politics o f Bengal, the victory o f Buxar made them a great power of India". (B) Trained by us to happiness and independence, and endowed with our learning and political institutions, India will remain the proudest monument o f British benevolence. (c) "Treaty o f Salbai was hardly honourable for British but it paved the way for the consolidation o f the British cm pi^

Q.2 (a) The English Utilitarianism had manifested in India as well but its form and content were entirely Colonial. Elucidate.

(b) The Subsidiary Alliance System was the British Trojan horse tactics in Empire building. Substantiate.

Q.3 (a) The British social control was buttressed by an illusion created by ideological influences which always remained the central concern of Impe rial educational enterprises in India.Comment.

(b) Although Indian modernisers looked towards the colonial state for sup port and direction, they could neither leave their tradition nor forget their Indian identity. Comment.

Q.4 1858 is the Great Divide in modem Indian history, as the policy, prac tice and ideas of the government that followed differed fundamentally from the government o f the Company which it displaced. Discuss.

SEC T IO N -B Q.5 Critically evaluate t^ie following statements in about 200 words each: (a) "The commercialization of agriculture, instead o f benefitting the peas ants, proved to be another instrument of British colonial exploitation in In dia".

(b) "After the pacification of the revolt o f 1857, the classical colonial eco nomic relationship between Britain and India gradually emerged".
(c) "The complex power struggle going on in India had played an important role in the establ ishment of British Indian Empire".

Q.6 (a) Far from planning the industrialization o f India, the imperial rulers deliberately followed policies to de-industrialize India. Elaborate.

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(b) The poverty o f Indian people was the consequence o f the British land revenue and taxation policy Comment.

Q.7 (a) The peasant and tribal revolts o f 19th century were against the composite appratus o f dominance over the masses emerged as result of the establishment o f British rule in India. Comment.

(b) British conquest o f Sind was both a political and moral sequel to the first Afghan war. Comment.

Q.8. The recurring famines in the 19^ century were the inevitable conse quence o f the British policy and expose the real character of the paternal solicitude for the peasantry on the part o f the British administration. Exam ine this statement critically.