History Optional: Topic Wise Question Bank of Modern India ...

1 S IAS Modern Indian History Optional Mains Previous Years Questions [1979-2019] History OPTIONAL: Topic WISE Question BANK OF Modern India [1979-2019] Question bank is the most important for History optional preparation as most of the questions asked in UPSC History Optional Main Exam is directly or indirectly from previous years papers. It is also very important for General Studies Paper I. Email ID: Mobile Number: 9718593510, 8210076034, 9717510106 History OPTIONAL IAS MAINS Question PAPERS [1979-2019] Email ID: Mobile Number: 9718593510, 8210076034, 9717510106 Page 1 Contents Penetration into India .

2 5 The Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and the Dutch .. 5 The English and the French East India Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic Wars .. 5 Bengal -The conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English; The Battle of Plassey; Significance of Plassey .. 5 2. British Expansion in India .. 7 Bengal Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; The Battle of Buxar .. 7 Mysore .. 7 The Marathas; The three Anglo-Maratha Wars .. 8 Punjab .. 8 Sind .. 9 Others .. 9 3. Early Structure of the British Raj .. 11 The early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control.

3 11 The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt s India Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); .. 11 The English utilitarian and India .. 11 4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule .. 13 Land revenue settlements .. 13 Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless agrarian labourers; Impoverishment of the rural society .. 14 Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; Deindustrialisation; Decline of traditional crafts .. 15 Drain of wealth .. 16 Economic transformation of India , Railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services.

4 17 Famine and poverty in the rural interior .. 17 European business enterprise and its limitations.. 18 5. Social and Cultural Developments .. 19 The state of indigenous education, its dislocation; Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, The introduction of western education in India .. 19 The rise of press, literature and public opinion; The rise of Modern vernacular literature .. 19 History OPTIONAL IAS MAINS Question PAPERS [1979-2019] Email ID: Mobile Number: 9718593510, 8210076034, 9717510106 Page 2 Progress of science .. 20 Christian missionary activities in India .

5 20 Others .. 20 6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas .. 22 Ram Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement, Devendranath Tagore, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar .. 22 The Young Bengal Movement .. 22 Dayanada Saraswati .. 22 The social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage etc.; The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of Modern India .. 23 Caste Movements .. 24 Islamic revivalism the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements .. 25 7. Indian Response to British Rule .. 26 Peasant movements and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries.

6 26 The Great Revolt of 1857, - Origin, character, causes of failure, the consequences . 27 The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period .. 28 The peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s .. 28 8. Early Indian Nationalism .. 30 Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism .. 30 Politics of Association; The Foundation of the Indian National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; .. 30 Programme and objectives of Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists.

7 31 The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement; .. 31 The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India .. 32 9. Nationalism under Gandhi's leadership .. 33 Rise of Gandhi; Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi s popular appeal .. 33 Rowlatt Satyagraha; the Khilafat Movement; the Non-cooperation 33 National politics from the end of the Noncooperation movement to the beginning of the Civil Disobedience movement; Simon Commission; The Nehru Report; the Round Table Conferences; the two phases of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

8 34 History OPTIONAL IAS MAINS Question PAPERS [1979-2019] Email ID: Mobile Number: 9718593510, 8210076034, 9717510106 Page 3 Nationalism and the Peasant Movements; Nationalism and Working class movements .. 34 The election of 1937 and the formation of ministries .. 35 The Cripps Mission .. 35 Quit India Movement .. 35 The Wavell Plan; The Cabinet Mission .. 35 Others .. 36 Women and Indian youth and students in Indian politics (1885-1947) .. 36 10. Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935 .. 37 The government of India Act 1858.

9 37 The Indian Councils Act 1909 (The Minto-Morley Reforms).. 37 The government of India Act, 1919 (Montague-Chelmsford reform) .. 37 The government of India Act of 1935 .. 38 Relationship between British Crown and Princes .. 38 11. Other strands in the National Movement .. 39 The Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, , the Madras Presidency, Outside India .. 39 The Left; The Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist Party; the Communist Party of India , other left parties.. 39 The people s movement in Indian States.

10 40 Others .. 40 12. Politics of Separatism and Independence .. 41 13. Consolidation as a Nation .. 43 Nehru s Foreign Policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964) .. 43 The linguistic reorganisation of States (1935-1947); Regionalism and regional inequality .. 43 The Question of National Language .. 43 Integration of Princely States .. 44 Princes in electoral politics .. 44 Others .. 44 14. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947 .. 45 Backward castes in post-colonial electoral politics .. 45 Tribes in post-colonial electoral politics .. 45 History OPTIONAL IAS MAINS Question PAPERS [1979-2019] Email ID: Mobile Number: 9718593510, 8210076034, 9717510106 Page 4 Dalit movements.