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 II – 2000 is given as below:
PAPER –II-2000
Time Allowed: Three Hours
Maximum Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt Question 1 and 5 which are compulsory and any THREE of the remaining question, selecting at least ONE question from each Section.
SECTION A (Modern India)
1. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each :
(a) The battle of Plessey was” not a great battle but a great betrayal.”
(b) Towards the Princes, Canning ‘adopted a policy of “punishing resistance and rewarding obedience.”
(c) Sir Charles Napier said,” We have no right to seize Sind, yet we shall do so, and a very advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be.”
(d) The 1921 Moplah rebellion was “in essence an expression of long-standing agrarian discontent which was intensified by the religious and ethnic identify”.
2. Discuss the view that the British rule brought about economic changes in India to serve the needs of the imperial economic and establish a dependent form of underdevelopment in this country.
3. Discuss the important social reform legislation passed in the 19 Th centuries, and elucidate the reaction of Indian leader to the measures adopted.
4. To what extent was the emergence of the Congress in 1885 the culmination of a process of political awakening that has its beginning in the 1870s?
SECTION B (World History)
5. Comment on any three of the following statement in about 200 words each:
(a) “Of all forms assumed by the Protestant Reformation, Calvinish has been the most far-reaching in its scope and the most profound in its influence.”
(b) “The Crimean War was the most useless war ever waged.”
(c) “United December 1941 the battlefield of the Second World War was exclusively European and Atlantic, thereafter it become also Asiatic and Pacific.”
(d) The simultaneous expansion of European powers overseas during the last quarter of the 19th century brought them into frequent collisions at remote points all over Africa and Asia.”
6. How did Napolean Bonaparte heal the wounds of France inflicted by the Revolution and correct the errors perpetrated by its leaders?
7. To what extent did the Western powers bring china under their domination without annexation?
8. Analyse the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 and examine the validity Germany’s objections to the treaty.
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