IAS Main History Question Paper I - 2008

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) holds the Civil Services Examination every year in two parts, i.e. Preliminary Test and Main Examination; the Main Examination comprises a written Test and a Personality Test. The Question paper of the IAS Main History Paper I – 2008 is given as below:

HISTORY-2008

PAPER-I

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Maximum Marks: 300

Candidate should attempt Question Nos. 1 and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining question selecting at least one question from each Section.

Section-A

1.Mark any FIFTEEN of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on the place marked by you:   15×4=60

(i)  Burzahom       

(ii) Banawali

(iii) Ahar         

(iv) Girnar

(v)  Chandraketugrah  

(vi) Brahmagiri

(vii) Bayana        

(viii) Gangai Kondacholapuram

(ix)  Tamralipti   

(x) Muziris

(xi) Ambari     

(xii) Modhrea

(xiii) Devni Mori       

(xiv) Bhadreshwar

(xv) Bundi                     

(xvi) Gingee (Jinjee)

(xvii) Antichak     

(xviii) Gaur

(xix) Sasaram     

(xx) Mahasthamgarh

2. Discuss the distribution and significance of farming cultures outside the Indus system.   60

3. How Justified are we in characterizing the post-Mauryan five centure as the “Dark Period” of Indian History? Give centures as the “Dark period” of Indian History? Give reasons in support of your answer.   60

4. How do recent archaeological finding and Sagam literary text enlighten as about the early state and society in South Indian? 60

Section-B

5.  Write short essays in not more than 200 words each on any THREE  of the following:  3×20=60

(a) The Ahom Kingdom

(b) Significance of the arrival of the Portuguese in Indian

(c)  The ‘Corps  Forty’ and its relations with the Sultan

(d) Evolution of the Khalsa Panth.

6. What are the manifestations of Tamil devotional cults? How do you account for their growth between C.750 and C.1200 CE? 60

7. Delineate the striking feature of agricultural and craft production during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in India. How did they impact the social fabric of the country?   60

8. What are the distinguishing components of the debate on “The Eighteenth Century”?  60

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