WEST BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION (Main) - 2006
(Optional Papers)
History Paper I
Time Allowed-3 Hours Full Marks-100
All questions carry equal marks
Group - A
Answer any three questions
1. How do you account for the rise of Magadha as an imperial power in ancient India ?
2. “Kaniska's fame rests not so much On his conquests, as on his patronage of the religion of Sakyamuni”—Do you agree ?
3. In what ways was Sher Shah a precursor of Akbar as a ruler ?
4. Do you agree with the view that the region of Shah Jahan “marks the climax of the Mughal dynasty and empire’ ?
5. Discuss the Orientalist-Anglicist controversy on education in the first-half of the 19th century and analyse the effects of the triumph of Anglicism.
6. “Haider Ali was born to create an empire and Tipu to lose one”—Comment.
Group-B
Answer any two questions.
7. Give a critical account of the tripartite struggle among the Palas, Gurjara-Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas.
8. Was Firuz Tughlak really “the Akbar of the Sultanate” ?
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