Discuss the impact of Western education on Indian Middle Class, highlighting the latter’s role in reforming and regenerating Indian Society.

To what extent the repressive and racist policy measures of the British were responsible for the national awakening in India.

Evaluate the contributions of Lal-Bal-Pal triumvirate to Indian National Movement.

Highlight the important provisions of Lucknow Pact.

Discuss the causes and the tragic outcome of outbreak of Mappillai revolts in Malabar.

Discuss Bhagat Singh’s radical strand of nationalism, and his revolutionary activitsm that led to his hanging.

Write an account of the industrial development in colonial India during 1919-1939.

Trace the origin and growth of communalism in British India.

Hindu nationalism, Muslim nationalism and Indian nationalism were equally responsible for the partition of the country. How?

Discuss the course of the Quit India Movement.

How far was the INA Trial instrumental in intensifying the freedom struggle?

Why is the Royal Indian Revolt considered a glorious chapter in the history of Indian National Movement?

What were the problems in the merger of princely states with the Indian Union and how they were ably handled by Patel and Nehru.

What were the basic principles of India’s foreign policy? What role did Prime minister Nehru in organizing the Afro-Asian countries into a non-aligned movement.

Assess the achievements of the first two Five-Year plans.

Analyse the contributions of Florentines to Italian Renaissance.

Explain the initiatives of Portugal and Spain in the discovery of new sea routes to the East and point out why it is considered as an important event in the economic history of modern world.

What are the causes of Protestant Reformation? How did Martin Luther organise the movement in Germany?

Discuss the causes, course and results of the American War of Independence

American Revolution and French Revolution inspired the revolution in Haiti. Substantiate.

Why did Industrial revolution start in England first? What impact did it make on modern society?

How was the unification of Italy achieved?

“Marx supplied sparks and Lenin lit the fire”- Elucidate.

Describe the circumstances that favoured Mussolini and Hitler to establish fascist governments in Italy and Germany respectively.

Sketch the political career of Boris Yeltsin, focusing on his role in the collapse of Soviet Union.