MA HISTORY TERM END EXAMINATION DECEMBER-2011

MHI-05:  HISTORY OF INDIAN ECONOMY

Suggestion For Term End Examination December-2011

Sample Question

Note: Answer any five questions in about 500 words each. Attempt at least two questions from each Section

SECTION -I

1. Discuss briefly the relationship between changing seasons and crop patterns in India.

2. Examine the nature of Neolithic and chalcolithic communities in India in the pre-Harappan period.

3. Discuss the form of Brahmdeya grants in the Tamil region from 6^th to 9^th century AD.

4. Discuss the organization of craft production during the medieval period.

5. Examine the agrarian structure of south India during the medieval period.

6. Account for the historiography of economic history of ancient India.

7. Examine the growth of crafts, industries and trade during the Satavahana period.

8. Discuss various forms of peasant resistance during the medieval period.

9. Give an account of the irrigation techniques used during the Mughal period.

10. Analyze the factors that determined the agrarian environment of Indian subcontinent.

11. Discuss the major economic activities of Harappan cities.

12. Discuss the debates among the historians over the issue of urban decay. In your opinion which argument stands out more convincing and why?

13. How was the craft production organized during the medieval period?

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

(i) Ahar culture

(ii) Khud Kashta peasants

(iii) Indigo production during the Mughal period

(iv) Roman and Local Coins in Tamilakam

(v).Canals during the medieval period

(vi).Revenue forming (ijara)

(vii).Chanth and Sardeshmukhi

(viii).Chiefdoms: Second and first millennium B.C.

SECTION –II

1. Write an essay on the basic tools and precision instruments in medieval period.

2. Describe the key features of communication routes in north India in the medieval period.

3. Give an overview of India’s trading economy in the 17^th and early 18^th centuries.

4. Discuss the pattern of commercialization of economy in India in the early colonial period.

5. Critically evaluate the Indian response to European technology.

6. Discuss the impact of European interventions on Indian merchants and trade during the eighteenth century.

7. Discuss the impact of early colonial forest policy'

8. Analyze the changes that took place in the Indian small scale industries during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

9. Examine the nature of Indian economic growth under the Five Year Plans. 20

10. Give a historiographical assessment of the Asian trade. Evaluate Van Leur’s hypothesis of ‘peddling trade`.

11. Analyze the chief features of permanent settlement to temporary settlements.

12. Discuss the nature and pattern of tribal economy in the pre-colonial period?

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

(a) Decline of Surat

(b) Bird Heilgers and Co.

(c) Sarraf

(d) Economic Reforms of 1991- 2000

(e).Postal communication during the medieval period.

(f).Paper and printing technology

(g).Chettiar Merchants

(h).Economic reforms of 1990s.