2025

• Justify that the Indian traditions are modernizing. Also discuss its contributing factors. 10
• According to you, which social reform movement has played the most effective role in uplifting the status of women? Explain. 10
• Do you think that new economic reforms of British rule have disrupted the old economic system of India? Substantiate your answer with suitable examples. 20 || AR Desai, Karl Marx, ||

2024

• Highlight the major contributions of the reform movements in pre-independent India. 20 Marks

2023

• Are tradition and modernity antithetical to each other? Comment. (2023)

2022

• Critically examine Yogendra Singh thesis on Modernization of Indian tradition.
• Examine the social background of growth of Indian nationalism.

2021

• Discuss in detail the major contribution of Prof. Yogendra Singh in theorising India Modernization.

2020

• Banning practice of sati is attributed to annihilation of a major social evils in colonial India. Comment
• Colonial administration helped to construct the very traditionism which marked the Indian society as backward. Comment critically.

2019

• Illustrate the contribution of the Tebhaga movement to the peasants struggle.
• Do you think that the Indian saints have brought about social reform and awareness in Indian society? Explain.

2018