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Hindu Code Bills (1955–56) were Ambedkar’s unfinished social-democratic project carried out under Nehru’s first government. Examine their content and limitations.
Dadabhai Naoroji’s Drain Theory remains the foundational economic critique of colonialism. Trace its evolution and its influence on the moderate phase of Indian nationalism.
Chauri Chaura was both a tactical failure and a strategic insight. Examine why Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 and its long-term consequences.
Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was a textbook of disciplined peasant mobilisation under colonial rule. Discuss the methods and the leadership that made it possible.
The Sufi silsilas were as much a sociological intervention as a spiritual movement in medieval India. Examine with reference to the Chishti and Suhrawardi orders.
The collapse of the Marathas at Panipat in 1761 was less a defeat in battle than a failure of political imagination. Critically analyse.
Colonial land revenue settlements in the 19th century rewrote agrarian relations across India in three distinct moulds. Compare the Permanent Settlement, the Ryotwari and the Mahalwari systems.
The Santhal Hool of 1855 was a peasant insurrection against the joint regime of moneylender, landlord and colonial state. Examine its causes, course and historical significance.
The 1905 partition of Bengal converted Curzon’s administrative argument into a mass political movement. Examine the methods of the Swadeshi movement and its enduring legacies.
The Gupta period has been called India’s ‘Golden Age’ more for its cultural synthesis than its political reach. Critically analyse.
The Sangam polity of early Tamilakam was structured around three crowned kings and an elaborate code of patronage. Discuss with reference to Chera, Chola and Pandya kingdoms.
Chola maritime expansion under Rajaraja I and Rajendra I converted the Bay of Bengal into a Chola lake. Examine the political economy and architectural footprint of this expansion.
The Delhi Sultanate’s institutional core lay in its iqta system and standing army rather than in Persianate court culture. Examine with reference to the Khalji and Tughlaq experiments.
Vijayanagara was a Hindu rampart against Bahmani expansion, but its longevity depended on a Persianate military and a market-driven economy. Discuss.
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Manual scavenging is the unfinished sentence of the Republic
The Rigvedic economy was pastoral in idiom but agrarian in practice. Examine with reference to irrigation, the kshetra and the role of women in early Vedic agriculture.
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