What is your understanding of Ashokan edicts? 

How do ‘Bakhars’ help in understanding the past? Explain with examples. 

Elaborate on the Buddhist constructions of the past with reference to the pali
Chronicles from Shri Lanka.

 Discuss the role played by the Indian nationalist movement in emphasizing the principles of
democracy and secularism in independent India. 

. Discuss the manner in which the nationalist leadership tried to integrate the Dalits and
minorities within the mainstream of the national movement. 

What was the role of women in revolutionary movement in India?

. Discuss the response of the workers to the Civil Disobedience Movements and Quit India
Movements. 

Why did the congress accept the partion of India?

Describe the nature of the Princely states in British India. 

Write a note on Swaraj Party. How did Swaraj party contribute to the growth of the national
movement? 

Discuss the nature of the Khilafat movement and its role in formation of the Non-corporation
movement. 

Describe the variety of protest activities undertaken during the course of the Swadeshi
movement. 

What is economic nationalism? Discuss the views of its earliest proponents? 

Give a bring account of Urbanization in Ancient World

Compare the land transport and sea-transport during 16th and 17th centuries

Give an account of the use of various metals in the middle -ages. 

Hour did the British and Dutch companies influence trading activities in Indian Ocean?

Discuss the pattern of trade in medieval Europe. 

 Taoism

 Umayyad Caliphate