Evaluate the literary and artistic achievements in the Gupta period.
How did technologies brought about by the Turks cause social changes in medieval period
Examine the major shifts in the historiography of Indian Nationalism.
Analyse India-China relations in the ancient period.
Evaluate the role of brokers and merchants in the medieval Indian economy.
Would you argue that commercialization of agriculture in colonial India led to a situation of growth without development
3. Evaluate the various theories on the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization.
4. Discuss in detail the architectural development of Chaityas in ancient India.
5. Discuss the village administration of the Chola period.
3. How Gulbadan Begum's Humayunnama is important in understanding gender relations in medieval India
4. Describe the role played by Christian missionaries in South India.
5. Highlight the development of fine art in the Mughal period.
3. Comment on the nature of the mass participation in the Revolt of 1857.
4. Would you relate the recurrence of famine in the nineteenth century India to British land revenue administration
5. Explain Gandhiji's transition from an outsider in Indian politics to the national leader.
6. State the main principles of Buddhism.
7. Examine Ashoka's policy of Dhamma.
8. Analyse the cultural achievements of Harsha Vardhana.
9. Explain the importance of Wahadat-ul-wajud in the Indian context.
10. Explain the significance of the words taqlid and aql used by Abul Fazl.
11. Define the term altamgha or altuntamgha Jagir.
13. Why did Muslim leaders of North India support the Khilafat movement more than
their Bombay counterparts
14. How did Nehru confront the problem of free India's backwardness in science and technology

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions (15 to 19) that follow, based on your understanding of the passage.

The Taj Mahal has become one of the world's best known monuments. This domed white marble structure is situated on a high plinth at the southern end of a four-quartered garden, evoking the gardens of paradise, enclosed within walls measuring 305 by 549 metres. Outside the walls, in an area known as Mumtazabad, were living quarters for attendants, markets, serais and other structures built by local merchants and nobles. The tomb complex and the other imperial structures of Mumtazabad were maintained by the income of thirty villages given specifically for the tomb's support. The name Taj Mahal is unknown in Mughal chronicles, but it is used by contemporary Europeans in India, suggesting that this was the tomb's popular name. In contemporary texts, it is generally called simply the Illuminated Tomb (Rauza-i Munavvara). Mumtaz Mahal died shortly after delivering her fourteenth child in 1631. The Mughal court was then residing in Burhanpur. Her remains were temporarily buried by the grief-stricken emperor in a spacious garden known as Zainabad on the bank of the river Tapti. Six months later her body was transported to Agra, where it was interred in land chosen for the mausoleum. This land, situated south of the Mughal city on the bank of the Jumna, had belonged to the Kachhwaha rajas since the time of Raja Man Singh and was purchased from the then current raja, Jai Singh. Although contemporary chronicles indicate Jai Singh's willing cooperation in this exchange, extant farmans (imperial commands) indicate that the final price was not settled until almost two years after the mausoleum's commencement. Jai Singh's further cooperation was insured by imperial orders issued between 1632 and 1637 demanding that he provide stone masons and carts to transport marble from the mines at Makrana, within his "ancestral domain", to Agra where both the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan's additions to the Agra fort were constructed concurrently.

15. Why Rauza-i Munavvara is known as one of the best monuments in the world

16. From which funds the maintenance of Taj Mahal was carried out

17. In the Persian chronicles, Taj Mahal was known by the name of Rauza-i Munavvara (Illuminated Tomb) but how it became known popularly as Taj Mahal

18. From whom the land where the Taj Mahal was built, was acquired

19. Was there any opposition or cooperation in building the Taj Mahal