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Theory paper

History

Examined on Indian Constitutional History, Indian History. Sound narrative but UNRELIABLE ON DATES, TITLES AND NAMES. Corrected in place, each against the file’s own contradicting passage: Morley called a Royal Commissioner with Minto; “linguistic constituency” for separate electorates; the Simla Conference dated June 1946; the Constituent Assembly said to have met in December 1956; “by her Majesty” in a His Majesty statute; the Nizam of Hyderabad called a Nawab; 1857 given for 1858.

This page is the map of the paper: every syllabus unit, the leading cases with full summaries, and the exam questions the paper actually sets.

Units

  1. Unit 1 · Company Administration and the Revolt of 1857Module I — the coming of the Company and the growth of its administration; the Regulating and Charter Acts; the causes, course and consequences of the Revolt of 1857; and the passing of the Crown
  2. Unit 2 · Social and Religious ReformModule II — the nineteenth-century social and religious reform movements, the reformers and their organisations, and the legislation on sati, widow remarriage and the age of consent
  3. Unit 3 · The Freedom Struggle and Constitutional Developments, 1885–1935Module III — the founding of the Congress and the Moderate and Extremist phases; the Morley-Minto, Montagu-Chelmsford and 1935 reforms; and the Gandhian mass movements
  4. Unit 4 · Partition and Post-Independence IndiaModule IV — the road to Partition and the Indian Independence Act 1947; the integration of the princely States; the making of the Constitution; and the first years of the Republic