Geography
2019 51. What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India? (Answer in 250 words) 15 52. How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism? (Answer in 250 words)
Indian Society
2019 30. What makes the Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss. 31. “Empowering women is the key to control the population growth.” Discuss. 32. What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of Secularism? 33.
World History
2019 11. Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French revolutions. 2017 1. What problems were germane to the decolonization process in the Malay Peninsula? 2016 2. The anti-colonial struggles in West Africa
Post Independent India
2018 1. Discuss whether formation of new states in recent times is beneficial or not for the economy of India? 2016 2. Has the formation of linguistic states strengthened the cause of Indian unity? 2013 3. Write a critical note
Modern History
2019 22. 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. 23. Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s Indian Renaissance and the
Art and Culture
2019 15. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art. 10 Marks (Answer in 150 words) 2018 1. Safeguarding the Indian art heritage is the need of the moment. Discuss. 2. The Bhakti movement received a remarkable