Sunday, April 24, 2011

History Main Exam Paper Two

Civil Service History Main Exam Paper Two Syllabus
SECTION-A
European Penetration into India: the Early European Settlements: The Portuguese and the Dutch; The English and French East India Companies; Their for Supremacy;Carnatic Wars; Bengal-The conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal;Siraj and the English; The Battle of Plassey;Significance of Plassey.
 2. British Expansion in India: Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim;The Battle of Buxar;Mysore; The Maraths;The three Anglo-Maratha Wars; The Punjab.
 3. Early Structure of the British Raj: The early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control; The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt’s India Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); The voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule; The English utilitarian ad Indian of free trade and the changing of British colonial rule; The English utilitarian and India.
 4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule:
(a) Land revenue settlements in British India: the Permanent Settlement;Ryotwari Settlement Mahalwari Settlement; Economic impact of the revenue arrangements; Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless agrarian labourers;Impoverishment of the rural society.
(b) Dislocation of traditional trade ad commerce;De-industrialisation;Decline of traditional crafts; Drain of wealth; Economic transformation of India; Railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services; Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations.
5. Social and cultural Developments; The state of indigenous education, its dislocation;Orientalist- Anglicist controversy, The introduction of western education in India; The rise of press, Literature and public opinon;The rise of modern vernacular literature; Progress of science; Christian missionary activities in India
6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas: Raja Ram Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement;Devendranath Tagore;Iswarchandra Vidyasagar;The Young Bengal Movement Dayanada Saraswati;The social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage etc; The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.
7.Indian Response to British Rule: Peasant movements and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783),the Kol Rebellion (1832), the Mopla Rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920),the Santal Hul(1855),Indigo Rebellion(1859-60);Deccan Uprising(1875) and the Munda  Ulgulan (1899-1900); The great Revolt of 1857-Origin,character ,causes of failure, the consequences; The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s.
8 Factors leading tom the birth of Indian Nation alism;Pollitics of Association: The Foundation of the Indian National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress;Programme and objectives of Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; Moderates and Extremists; The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspect of Swadeshi Movement; The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India
9 Rise of Gandhi ;Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi’s popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha the Khilafat Movement; the Non-cooperation Movement; National politics from the end of the Non-cooperation movement to the beginning of the Civil Disobedience movement; the two phases of the Civil Disobedience Movement; Simon Commission; The Nehru Report; the Round Table Conferences;Nationallism and the Peasant Movements; Nationalism and Working class movements Women and Indian youth and students in Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the formation of ministries; Cripps Mission; the Quit India Movement; the Wavell Plan; The Cabinet Mission.
 10 Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
11. Other strands in the Natio0nal Movement
The Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, U.P, the Madras Presidency, and Outside India. The Left; the Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist Party; the Communist Party of India, other left parties.
12.Politics of Separatism; the Muslim League; the Hindu Mahasabha;Communalism and the politics of partition; Transfer of power ;Independence
13. Consolidation as a Nation; Nehru’s Foreign Policy; India and her neighbors (1947-1964); The linguistic reorganization of States (1935-1947); Regionalism and regional inequality; Integration of Princely States; Princes in electoral politics; the Question of National Language.
 14 Caste and Ethnicity after 1947; Backward castes and tribes in post-colonial electoral politics; alit movements.
15 Economic development and political change; Land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; Ecology and environmental policy in post-colonial India; Progress of science.
Section-B
 16 Enlightenment and Modern ideas: (i) Major ideas of Enlightenment: Kant ,Rousseau
(ii) Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies
(iii) Rise of socialist ideas(up to Marx) ;spread of Marxian Socialism.
 17 .Origins of Modern Politics
(i) European States System
(ii) American Revolution and the Constitution
(iii) French revolution and aftermath, 1789-1815
(iv) American Civil War with reference to Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery
(v) British Democratic Politics,1815-1850;Parliamentary Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists.
18 Industrialization
(i) English Industrial Revolution: Causes and Impact on Society
(ii) Industrialization in other countries:USA,Germany,Russia,Japan
(iii) Industrialization and Globalization
19 Nation-State System
(i) Rise of Nationalism:State-nuilding in Germany and Italy
(iii) Disintegration of Emprises in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the world.
20. Imperialism and Colonialism:
 (i)South and South-East Asia
(ii) Latian America and South Africa
 (iii) Australia
Imperialism and Free Trade: Rise of Neo-imperialism
21. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
(i) 19th Century European revolutions
(ii) The Russian Revolution of 1917-1921
(iii) Fascist Counter-Revolution ,Italy and Germany
(iv) The Chinese Revolution of 1949
22 .World Wars:
 (i) 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: societal implications
(ii) World War 1:Causes and consequences
(iii) World War II:Causes and consequence
23.The World after  World War II:
 (i) Emergence of two power blocs
(ii)Emergence of Third World and non-alignment
(iii) UNO and the global disputes
24. Liberation from Colonial Rule
(i) Latian America-Bolivar
(ii) Arab World-Egypt
(iii) Africa-Apartheid to Democracy
(iv) South-East Asia-Vietnam
25 Decolonization and Under-development:
(i) Factors constraining development: Latian America, Africa
26 Unification of Europe:
 (i) Post War Foundation :NATO and European Community
(ii) Consolidation and Expansion of European Community
(iii) European Union
27 Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
 (i) Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union,1985-19991
(ii) Political Changes in Eastern Europe 1989-2001
(iii) End of the cold war and US ascendancy in the World as the lone superpowers

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