To what extent has the urban planning and culture of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs to the present-day urbanization? Discuss.
Show answerGandhara sculpture owed as much to the Romans as to the Greeks. Explain.
Show answerTaxila university was one of the oldest universities of the world with which were associated a number of renowned learned personalities of different disciplines. Its strategic location caused its fame to flourish, but unlike Nalanda, it is not considered as a university in the modern sense. Discuss.
Show answerThe third battle of Panipat was fought in 1761. Why were so many empire-shaking battles fought at Panipat?
Show answerSufis and medieval mystic saints failed to modify either the religious ideas and practices or the outward structure of Hindu / Muslim societies to any appreciable extent. Comment.
Show answerExamine critically the various facets of economic policies of the British in India from the mid-eighteenth century till independence.
Show answerWhat ways did the naval mutiny prove to be the last nail in the coffin of British colonial aspirations in India?
Show answerWhat were the major political, economic, and social developments in the world which motivated the anti-colonial struggle in India?
Show answerWhat were the events that led to the Suez Crisis in 1956? How did it deal a final blow to Britain’s self-image as a world power?
Show answerThe New Economic Policy – 1921 of Lenin had influenced the policies adopted by India soon after independence. Evaluate.
Show answerHow does patriarchy impact the position of a middle-class working woman in India?
Show answerWhy do some of the most prosperous regions of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
Show answerThe life cycle of a joint family depends on economic factors rather than social values. Discuss.
Show answerDiscuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India.
Show answerHow do the Indian debates on secularism differ from the debates in the West?
Show answerMost of the unusual climatic happenings are explained as an outcome of the El-Nino effect. Do you agree?
Show answerWhy are the world’s fold mountain systems located along the margins of continents? Bring out the association between the global distribution of fold mountains and the earthquakes and volcanoes.
Show answerExplain the formation of thousands of islands in Indonesian and Philippines archipelagos.
Show answerTropical cyclones are largely confined to the South China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mexico. Why?
Show answerBring out the relationship between the shrinking Himalayan glaciers and the symptoms of climate change in the Indian subcontinent.
Show answerWhereas the British planters had developed tea gardens all along the Shivaliks and Lesser Himalayas from Assam to Himachal Pradesh, in effect they did not succeed beyond the Darjeeling area. Explain.
Show answerWhy did the Green Revolution in India virtually by-pass the eastern region despite fertile soil and good availability of water?
Show answerAccount for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world.
Show answerCritically evaluate the various resources of the oceans which can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world.
Show answerHow does India see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource rich Africa?
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