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Cyclone tracks in the Bay of Bengal cause more death and damage than Arabian Sea cyclones despite the latter’s growing intensity. Comment on the physical and human reasons.
The Chota Nagpur Plateau is India’s mineral storehouse and its tribal heartland; this overlap explains both its development potential and its conflicts. Discuss.
India’s female labour-force participation rate rose from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 41.7% in 2023-24, but job quality has not improved at the same pace. Examine the role of unpaid care work and policy choices.
The Dandi March was a piece of political theatre as much as an act of civil disobedience. Examine its symbolic, strategic and international dimensions.
Why did the Quit India Movement of 1942 turn into a leaderless mass uprising, and what does that tell us about the maturity of Indian nationalism on the eve of independence? Discuss.
Sardar Patel’s integration of the princely states between 1947 and 1949 was a quieter revolution than Partition itself. Examine.
The linguistic reorganisation of states in 1956 was both a democratic concession and a strategic risk. Critically analyse with reference to the Dar Commission, JVP Committee and Fazl Ali Commission.
The Himalayan and Peninsular drainage systems differ not just in age and origin but in their hydrology and economic value to India. Examine.
Akbar’s Mansabdari system and his religious policy together built a more stable Mughal polity than military conquest alone could have produced. Critically analyse.
The Revolt of 1857 was the last gasp of an old order rather than the first war of national independence. Evaluate.
Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagraha (1917), Ahmedabad mill strike (1918) and Kheda Satyagraha (1918) together formed a method, not three separate experiments. Discuss.
The distribution of Indian soils is the silent geographer of Indian agriculture. Discuss with reference to alluvial, black, red and laterite soils.
The Bhakti movement was not a single stream but a series of regional responses, each shaped by its linguistic and social context. Examine with reference to Nirguna and Saguna traditions.
The gig economy promises freedom but demands the architecture of fairness
The wealth of a nation is the wellbeing of its weakest
The Harappan civilisation was as much a hydraulic and town-planning achievement as a craft economy. Examine the archaeological evidence from Mohenjodaro, Dholavira and Lothal in support of this view.
Ashoka’s Dhamma was less a religion and more a political-ethical code for a vast empire. Discuss with reference to the Major Rock Edicts.
Federalism is the genius of holding-together a continent-civilisation
Public ethics is the conscience of governance