OPTIMA (Mains) 2020 – Day 2

OPTIMA (Mains) 2020

30 Days Revision and Writing Plan

DAY 2

 Topic: Modern India (Events, Personalities)

Total Marks 125 marks

Time allotted: 1:30 minutes (90 minutes)

1. Who can be held responsible for Partition of India? What was its effect? Is its effect still felt today? 15 MARKS

2. a) Discuss the contribution of E V Periyar. 5 MARKS

   b) Discuss the legacy of Vaikom satyagroaha. 5 MARKS

3. Critically examine the legal reforms introduced by Bristishers in India. 10 MARKS

4. Swami Vivekananda shaped the India secularism. comment. 10 MARKS

5. The year 2020 marks the 150th birth anniversary of ChitaranjanDas. Discuss his contribution to the freedom struggle. 10 MARKS

6. Bal Gangadhar Tilak is the forerunner on the idea of Atmanirbhar Bharat. Discuss. 10 MARKS

7. Bhagat Singh captured the imagination of the youth across class, religion and region. Discuss. 10 MARKS

8. Can Macaulay be called as the Pioneer of India’s Modernization? Discuss the impact of his education reform. 10 MARKS

9. Why is Jyotirao Phule, considered the “father of social revolution in India”.  Also discuss the contribution of SavitribaiPhule and atima Sheikh. 10 MARKS

10. What do you understand by drain of wealth? Examine critically the various facets of economic policies of the British in India from mid eighteenth century till independence. 10 MARKS

11. Discuss the operation flood. In this context, examine the contribution of Verghese Kurien. 10 MARKS

12. Why Battle of Plassey is considered as a Turning Point that established the era of British domination and further conquest of India and South Asia. 10 MARKS