MA HISTORY SAMPLE QUESTION -DECEMBER-2011

Suggestion For Term End Examination December-2011

SAMPLE QUESTION 

Master of Arts (History)

MHI-02: Modern World.

Note: Answer any five questions in about 500 words each. Attempt at least two questions from each section.  All questions carry equal marks.

Section I

1. Write a note on the major ideas of the enlightenment.

Or Write an analytical note on the critique of enlightenment.

2. What was the socialist critique of capitalist economy?

Or Write an essay on commercial capitalism.

3. How do you define nation and nationalism?

Or Define nation. What is the process through which nations have emerged in the world?

Or. Write a note on the nationalism and the emergence of the nation -state.

4. What do you understand by the welfare state? Explain the measures taken by Japanese state toward it citizens.

5. Critically discuss the process of industrialization in British, France and Germany

6. Why is it necessary to study the Renaissance in order to understand the modern world?

7. What are the main features of modern social structure?

8. Define underdevelopment with reference to any one underdeveloped country.

Or what is the meaning of underdevelopment? Substantiate your answer by taking the example of any one country. 

9. What do you understand by the state? Write a note on the major theories of the state.

10. What is Bureaucratization? Why is it such an essential component of modern world?

Section II

1. What is colonialism? Explain the deferent stages of colonialism.

2. How did the nation state develop in 19^th century Europe?

3. What led to the Russian Revolution of 1917? What was it legacy?

4. How has modern economic developed affected environment?

5. In what ways are imperialism and colonialism related to each other?

6. Write an essay on the nature of international relations during the post-World War period.

7. What is the legacy of the French Revolution for the modern world?

8. What are the ways in which our environment has been affected by modern economic development?

9. What is decolonization? Write with reference to decolonization in India.

10. Write an essay on the nature of international rivalries in 20^th century

11. In what ways has the world been transformed by the technological revolution.

12. What is consumerism? Write a note on the consumer movement as it developed in Europe.

10. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each           10+10

(a).total war.

(b). Non-alignment movement.

(c). Mercantilism.

(d). Print technology and the knowledge development.

 (e).The Welfare State

 (f).Demographic trends in the modern world

(g).. The Romantics.