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-2010 is given as below:
PAPER-II-2009
Instructions: Same as in Paper-I
Section-A (Modern India)
7. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: 20×3=60
(a) “Though the Permanent Settlement had serious defects, it gave tranquility to the countryside and stability to the government.”
(b) “The Arya Samaj may quite logically be pronounced as the outcome of conditions imported into India by the west.”(Lala Lajpat Rai)
(c) “Please remember, in granting separate electorates we are sowing the dragon’s teeth and the harvest will be bitter.” (Morley)
(d) “ The annexation of Awadh shook the loyalty of the Sepoys,as it was for them an ultimate proof of untrustworthiness of the British.”
2. (a) Why was Mysore- considered a threat by the British to their possessions and mercantile interests in the south. Do you think that Tipu Sultan’s posturing become his undoing? 30
(b) How did the East Indian Company become the dejure power in India? 30
3. (a) How did social legislation in the nineteenth century improve the condition of women in India ? 30
4. (a) Discuss as to why the Congress accepted the partition of Indian in 1947. 30
(b) Do you think that the quit Indian movement was a Spontaneous Revolution? 30
Section-B (World History)
5. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: 20×3=60
(a) “The capitalism which gave the European empires their apparent solidarity and permanence also hastened their downfall.”
(b) “In all the long annals of Imperialism, the partition of Africa is a remarkable freak.”
(c) “Hitler did not really want a world war. His intention was only a short war with Poland.” (A.J.P.Taylor)
(d) “Arab nationalism and oil-there were the principal factors in complicating the relations of Middle Eastern countries with the outside world.”
6. (a) Discuss the emergence of neo-imperialism in the late nineteenth century. 30
(b) What was the extent of industrialization in Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century? 30
7. (a) How did Napoleon Bonaparte fuse the old France with the new ? 30
(b) Why did Vietnam go through thirty years of war after the Second World War?
8. (a) Account for the overthrow of the Tsarist regime in Russia. 30
(b) Examine the peace-keeping efforts of the United Nations Organization.
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