IAS Main History Question Paper II-1994

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 - 1994 is given as below:

PAPER-II-1994

Instruction: Same as in Paper-I

SECTION A (Modern)

1. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each:

(a) “ The Window Remarriage Act was, in many ways , a logical sequel to the abolition of Sati.”

(b) “ The new attitude of caution and conservation can detected in almost every sphere of British activity in India after the Revolt of 1857.”

(c)  “ The British Raj had a deeply racist aspect and it ultimately existed to product colonial exploitation.”

(d)  “To glorify the strength of the Congress and deny that of the League is to blind.” (P.C. Joshi, 1945)

2. How did the British establish their control over Maharashtra in the first two decades of the 19 th century?

3. How do you account of the rise and growth of the Business enterprise in India during the first half of the 20th century?

4. Gandhi restrained mass-movements yet he retained his popularity among the masses. How do you explain this paradox?

SECTION B (World History)

5. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each:

(a) “The Renaissance was not a political or religious movement. It was a state of mind.”

(b) “Protestantism Contributed substantially to the rise of capitalism.”

(c) “Asian Nationalism is just a product of Western impact on the Asian intelligentsia in the last decades of the nineteenth century.’

(d) “The countries in the Middle East become, after 1919, the same of constant effervescence and some striking changes.”

6. To what extent was the advance in scientific knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a product of the needs of a changing society?

7. “The perpetuation of the economic malaise was the main cause of the political instability of Europe during the next two decades (1919-39).” Explain.

8. Show how the presence of a weak and helpless China next door brought about the rise of militarism and collapse of democracy in Japan.

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