Question Papers
2021
HISTORY — HONOURS
Paper : CC12
Full Marks : 65
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
1. Answer the following questions : 1×15
(a) Name the Nawab of Bengal who shifted his capital to Monghyr.
(b) In which year was the Treaty of Seringapatam signed?
(c) Who were the signatories of the Treaty of Amritsar?
(d) In which year was the Pitt’s India Act passed?
(e) Mention the name of one administrator who supported the cause of Utilitarianism.
(f) Who was the first Chief Justice of Bengal?
(g) Who introduced the Ryotwari system in South India?
(h) By which treaty was the first Anglo-Maratha war ended?
(i) Who established the Fort William College?
(j) Who wrote ‘Tuhfat-ul-Muwahiddin’?
(k) Who was the leader of the Fakir rebellion?
(l) What is meant by ‘Damin-i-Koh’?
(m) Name one leader of the great Uprising of 1857.
(n) Who is the author of the book ‘Eighteen Fifty-seven’?
(o) Write the name of any one native state which participated in the great Uprising of 1857.
2. Answer any four questions : 5×4
(a) Why is Hyderabad considered to be a ‘successor state’?
(b) What were the implications of the subsidiary alliance?
(c) How did the Famine of 1770 affect Bengal’s economy?
(d) What do you understand by Cornwallis Code?
(e) Analyse the application and the reaction to the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ of Lord Dalhousie.
(f) Explain the significance of the Third Battle of Panipat.
(g) What was the significance of the Macaulay Minute?
(h) What were the contributions of the Derozians to the cultural history of Bengal?
3. Answer any three questions : 10×3
(a) The eighteenth century was a period of dynamism. Do you agree with this view?
(b) How did the ideas of orientalism and utilitarianism shape colonial policies of India? 10×3
(c) How did Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan pose a threat to the English in South India?
(d) Why was the Permanent Settlement introduced? Did it achieve its objectives?
(e) Who were the Wahabis? Give a brief discription of their movement.
(f) Analyse the role of peasantry in the revolt of 1857.
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