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  • KEY PERSONALITIES IN HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA

    • Personalities: Gandhi
      • Explain briefly the main contribution of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore & Jawaharlal Nehru to the making of modern India.
      • Mahatma Gandhi wrote in 1928 to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: “the differences between you and me appear to be so vast and radical that there seems to be no meeting ground between us.” State briefly the difference in approach of Gandhiji and Pandit Nehru to the following two issues and indicate the impact of their views on our Constitution and Government Policy: (a) Socialism as a goal of National Policy; (b) Place of Industries in Indian Economy.
      • Explain briefly Mahatma Gandhi's views on religion and its relation to politics. Were these views shared by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru?
      • Explain briefly how the ideas and experiments of the Soviet Government in USSR influenced Poet Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru.
      • Point out clearly the contributions of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore to the social and cultural life of India.
      • Both Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru were interested in India's economic development, but there were some basic differences in their approach to this problem. Point out clearly those basic differences.
      • Relation between Religion and Politics has been a subject of controversy since long. What are the views of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru on this issue?
      • What was Mahatma Gandhi's concept of Socialism? How did it differ from Marxian socialism?
      • “The foreign power will be withdrawn but for me real freedom will come only when we free ourselves of the dominance of western education, western culture and the western way of living which have been ingrained in us." Critically analyse in about 150 words.
      • ‘The mainstay of Mahatma Gandhi's movements was the rural India.’ Elucidate.
      • How different would have been the achievement of Indian independence without Mahatma Gandhi? Discuss.
      • Throw light on the significance of the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the present times.
      • Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
    • Gandhi on Education
      • Discuss Mahatma Gandhi's concept of Basic Education. How did Tagore differ from it?
      • Discuss Mahatma Gandhi's concept of ‘Basic Education’. How far was it a departure from conventional system of education?
      • What was the difference between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in their approach towards education and nationalism?
    • Personalities: Nehru
      • Explain Nehru's main theme in his Discovery of India.
      • Describe Nehru's attitude towards Russia in the pre-1947 period.
      • How was Jawaharlal Nehru influenced by socialist ideas? How did the Socialist thinking of Nehru and other leaders influence the Congress before 1942?
      • Analyse Jawaharlal Nehru's views on Independence and Dominion Status. How far were these reflected in the policy enunciated by the Lahore Congress?
      • Short Notes: Mass Contact Programme of Nehru.
      • In what way did the international events in the late twenties of the present century influence Jawaharlal Nehru's radical views?
      • Why has Nehru in his Autobiography been so critical of the liberals?
      • Did Jawaharlal Nehru really ‘speak’ the ‘language’ of Gandhi? Locate the points of their agreements and departures.
      • Was Jawaharlal Nehru justified in adopting the principle of non-alignment as the corner-stone of India's foreign policy?
      • Regardless of distance in time, there were lots of similarities between Lord Curzon and Jawaharlal Nehru. Discuss.
    • Personalities: Tagore
      • What were the basic differences between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Internationalism and Rabindranath Tagore's Internationalism? Why was Tagore called ‘a Spiritual Ambassador’?
      • ‘Tagore’s humanism is a blending of his faith in god and man.’ Comment. (About 50 words each)
      • ‘If Aurobindo was the high priest, Rabindranath was the great poet of the Swadeshi Movement.’ Elucidate.
      • How far was Rabindranath Tagore a poet of Mankind?
      • Discuss Tagore's concept on education. How far was it a departure from conventional system of education? (About 50 words each)
      • Explain Rabindranath Tagore’s Plan of village reconstruction. (About 50 words each)
      • Why did Tagore emphasize on the primacy of the social over the political order? (About 75 words each)
      • How far was Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s concept of religion wedded to his love of nature?
      • Tagore's emphasis on internationalism and humanism was ahead of his times. Explain.
      • Examine the ideas of Rabindranath Tagore on democracy.
      • ‘Tagore's poetry is a written record of his religious experience.’ Elucidate.
    • Personalities: Bose
      • Evaluate Subhas Chandra Bose’s contribution to India’s freedom.
      • Highlight the differences in the approach of Subhash Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for freedom.
    • Personalities: Ambedkar
      • ‘Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s versatile career went through various phases.’ State various facets of his life.
      • Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, despite having divergent approaches and strategies, had a common goal of amelioration of the downtrodden. Elucidate.
    • Personalities: Others-1
      • How did Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak champion the cause of militant nationalism in India?
      • Analyse the main differences between the approaches of Tilak and Gokhale on social and political issues.
      • What was Tilak's contribution towards shaping the course of the nationalist movement in India?
      • Critically assess Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru’s views on Indian Nationalism.
      • ‘Benoy-Badal-Dinesh' martyrdom.
      • Discuss the contributions of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to pre and post-independent India. (200 words)
    • Personalities: Others-2
      • Describe the contribution of any seven to the life and thought of modern India: (a) Vivekananda (b) Sri Aurobindo (c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (d) Dayanand Saraswati (e) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (f) Mirza Ghalib (g) Homi Bhabha (h) Sarojini Naidu (i) C.V. Raman (j) Lala Lajpat Rai
      • Describe briefly the impact of the following on India (about 40 words each): (i) Leo Tolstoy (ii) Kemal Ataturk (iii) Karl Marx
      • Describe the main contributions of Jai Prakash Narayan to Indian society & politics
      • Who are the following and what is their contribution to the life and thought of India? (i) Thyagaraja (ii) Vallathal Narayana Menon (iii) Nand Lal Bose (iv) Purushottam Das Tandon (v) Sir Syed Ahmad
      • Who were the following and why were they so well known? (Not more than two sentences on each): (i) Henry Vivian Derozio (ii) Bhulabhai Desai (iii) Jyotiba Phule (iv) V. D. Savarkar (v) Rashbehari Ghose
      • What is the contribution of the following to the cultural life of India? (One sentence each): (i) Ramanuj (ii) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti (iii) Shyagiuaja (iv) Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (v) Raja Ravi Verma (vi) Amrita Shergill (vii) Ram Kinker Vaij (viii) Sonal Man Singh (ix) Sanyukta Panigrahi (x) Prithvi Raj Kapoor
      • Explain the contributions of the following to the social life of India (One sentence each): (i) Ela Bhatt (ii) M. G. Ranade (iii) Acharya Narendra Dev (iv) Madan Mohan Malaviya (v) Narayana Guru (vi) Birsa Munda (vii) Baba Amte (viii) Malati Devi Chowdhury (ix) Dr. Zakir Hussain (x) C. N. Annadurai
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Subrahmania Bharati (ii) M. A. Ansari (iii) Chapekar Brothers (iv) Panna Lal Patel (v) Khudiram Bose
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Kunwar Singh (ii) S. H. Slocum (iii) P. Ananda Cham (iv) K. M. Munshi (v) Muzaffar Ahmed
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) S. A. Dange (ii) C. Sankaran Nair (iii) Titu Mir (iv) Theodore Beck (v) Edwin Lutyens
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) M. A. Ansari (ii) P.C. Joshi (iii) Indulal Yagnik (iv) Lord Pethwick Lawrence (v) Sree Narayan Guru (vi) Nand Lal Bose
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) C. Ilbert (ii) John Simon (iii) Ramsay Macdonald (iv) Wavell
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Bhai Parmanand (ii) Dr. Satyapal (iii) Vasudeo Balwant Phadke (iv) George Yule (v) N.C. Kelkar (vi) C.F. Andrews
      • Why have the following been famous? (i) Bhartendu Harish Chandra (ii) C. Rajagopalachari (iii) A.O. Hume (iv) Birsa Munda
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Shyamji Krishnavarma (ii) Rani Gaidinliu (iii) Saifuddin Kitchlew (iv) Dr. Nivedita Bhasin
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (ii) Seth Jamnalal Bajaj (iii) S. Satyamurti (iv) Udham Singh (v) Sarojini Naidu
      • Why have the following become famous? (i) Rammanohar Lohia (ii) C. Y. Chintamani (iii) Henry Cotton (iv) Tej Bahadur Sapru (v) Veeresalingam R K (vi) Bhulabhai Desai (vii) Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
      • Answer the following: (i) Brahmagupta (ii) Amir Khusro (iii) William Jones (iv) C. F. Andrews (v) Narayan Guru (vi) Tantia Tope (vii) Sayyid Ahmad (viii) Margaret Noble (ix) Lala Amarnath
      • Write about the following: (i) Baba Amte (ii) Ali Sardar Jafri (iii) Aruna Roy
      • Answer the following: (i) Aryabhatta (ii) D. K. Karve (iii) J. Krishnamurthy (iv) Jamnalal Bajaj (v) Banabhatta (vi) Gopi Kishna (vii) Pupul Jaykar (viii) Mohammad Iqbal (ix) Jaydeva (x) T. Prakasam (xi) Ali Brothers
      • Write about the following: (i) Bismillah Khan (ii) Christ Evert (iii) Keshab Chandra Sen (iv) Nivedita (v) Raidasa
      • Write about the following (20 words each): (i) Sajjad Zahir (ii) HarDayal (iii) Indu Lal Yajnik (iv) Achhut Patwardhan (v) Sir William Jones (vi) James Wilson
      • Write about: (a) Nizamuddin Auliya (b) Raidas (c) Jagat Seth (d) Baba Ram Chandra (e) Pandita Ramabai (f) Sir Thomas Roe (g) Tavernier
      • Write about: (a) Megasthenes (b) R.C. Dutt (c) Nagarjunakonda (d) Rudramadevi (e) Ramanuja
      • Write about in about 20 words: (a) Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi (b) Lala Hardayal (c) Megasthenes (d) Allasani Peddana
      • Write about: Kiang Nongbah and Taji Mideren
      • Write brief note on Contributions of Latika Ghosh to the freedom struggle
      • Write brief note on Bhai Maharaj Singh as a freedom fighter
  1. UPSC IAS (CSE)
  2. UPSC Mains
  3. MODERN HISTORY OF INDIA
  4. KEY PERSONALITIES IN HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA
  5. Personalities: Bose

Personalities: Bose

Evaluate Subhas Chandra Bose’s contribution to India’s freedom. (UPSC 2015, 15 Marks, )

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Highlight the differences in the approach of Subhash Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for freedom. (UPSC 2016, 13 Marks, )

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