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- 2009 is given as below:
PAPER-II- 2008
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt Question Nos.1 and 5 which are compulary, 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: 20×3=60
(a) “Sprung from paternalism, the English Utilitarian philosophy as introduced in India rejected its human warmth between rules and the ruled.”
(b) “The vernacular press in the nineteenth century was both newspaper as well as ‘newspaper’ that enlightened the dormant masses”.
(c) “Is moral law, the law of conscience, higher than the law of the state, which is oppressive?”(Mahatma Gandhi, 1922)
(d) “In exercising its exclusive power the Parliament additionally enacted the Untouchability (Offences) Act in 1955.”
2. Critically examine the impact of the famine policy on rural India. Describe the official remdical measure undertaken. 60
3. Write a critique on the impact of the Drain Theory of Dadabhai Nauroji in the growth of economic nationalism. 60
4. Describe the changing on the nature of revolutionary activities in India between 1905-1946. 60
Section-B (World History)
5. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: 20×3=60
(a) “France was more fertile than Britain in producing new socialist theories and movements, though they bore less concrete results in France than in Britain”.
(b) “Most of the European Revolutions of 1848 were nationalist as well as popular insurrections against foreign rule and repressive policy of Metternich.”
(c) “In the long run, the Locarno Treaty (December 1925) was destructive both of the Treaty of Versailles and of the Convenant.”
(d) “After World War II, the strategy of the West towards Soviet bloc crystallized as a ‘policy of containment.’
6. “The Enlightenment represented alternative approaches to modernity, alternative habits of mind and heart, of conscience and sensibility.” Discuss 60
7. Account for the factors that brought about the end of the Cold War. 60
8. Asses the significance of the political developments that took place in Eastern Europe during 1989-2001. 60
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