World Geography10 Marks
Q1.How does India see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource-rich Africa?
Directive: Discuss
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UPSC Mains 2014
25 questions · 250 marks · Indian Heritage & Culture, History, Geography of the World and Society
Physical Geography10 Marks
Q2.Critically evaluate the various resources of the oceans that can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world.
Directive: Critically evaluate
World Geography10 Marks
Q3.Account for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world.
Directive: Account for
Indian Geography10 Marks
Q4.Why did the Green Revolution in India virtually bypass the eastern region despite fertile soil and good availability of water?
Directive: Explain
Indian Geography10 Marks
Q5.Whereas 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.
Directive: Explain
Indian Geography10 Marks
Q6.Bring out the relationship between the shrinking Himalayan glaciers and the symptoms of climate change in the Indian sub-continent.
Directive: Bring out
World Geography10 Marks
Q7.Tropical cyclones are largely confined to the South China Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Mexico. Why?
Directive: Why
World Geography10 Marks
Q8.Explain the formation of thousands of islands in the Indonesian and Philippines archipelagos.
Directive: Explain
Physical Geography10 Marks
Q9.Why 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.
Directive: Explain
Physical Geography10 Marks
Q10.Most of the unusual climatic happenings are explained as an outcome of the El-Nino effect. Do you agree?
Directive: Examine
Indian Society10 Marks
Q11.How do the Indian debates on secularism differ from the debates in the West?
Directive: Discuss
Indian Society10 Marks
Q12.Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving the increasing feminization of agriculture in India.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Society10 Marks
Q13.The life cycle of a joint family depends on economic factors rather than social values. Discuss.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Society10 Marks
Q14.Why do some of the most prosperous regions of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
Directive: Explain
Indian Society10 Marks
Q15.How does patriarchy impact the position of a middle-class working woman in India?
Directive: Discuss
World History10 Marks
Q16.The New Economic Policy – 1921 of Lenin influenced the policies adopted by India soon after independence. Evaluate.
Directive: Evaluate
World History10 Marks
Q17.What 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?
Directive: Explain
Modern History10 Marks
Q18.What were the major political, economic and social developments in the world which motivated the anti-colonial struggle in India?
Directive: Explain
Modern History10 Marks
Q19.In what ways did the naval mutiny prove to be the last nail in the coffin of British colonial aspirations in India?
Modern History10 Marks
Q20.Examine critically the various facets of economic policies of the British in India from the mid-eighteenth century till independence.
Directive: Examine
Art & Culture10 Marks
Q21.Sufis 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.
Directive: Comment
Modern History10 Marks
Q22.The third battle of Panipat was fought in 1761. Why were so many empire-shaking battles fought at Panipat?
Directive: Why
Art & Culture10 Marks
Q23.Taxila University was one of the oldest universities in the world with which were associated several renowned learned personalities of different disciplines. Its strategic location caused its fame to flourish, but unlike Nalanda, it is not considered a university in the modern sense. Discuss.
Directive: Discuss
Art & Culture10 Marks
Q24.Gandhara sculpture owed as much to the Romans as to the Greeks. Explain.
Directive: Explain
Art & Culture10 Marks
Q25.To what extent has the urban planning and culture of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs to present-day urbanisation? Discuss.
Directive: Discuss