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
- Unit 1 · Company Administration and the Revolt of 1857 — Module 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
- Unit 2 · Social and Religious Reform — Module 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
- Unit 3 · The Freedom Struggle and Constitutional Developments, 1885–1935 — Module 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
- Unit 4 · Partition and Post-Independence India — Module 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