Syllabus: GS 1 – Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues.
| The third battle of Panipat was fought in 1761. Why were so many empire- shaking battles fought at Panipat | 2014 |
| In what ways did the naval mutiny prove to be the last nail in the coffin of British colonial aspirations in India? | 2014 |
| Explain how the uprising of 1857 constitutes an important watershed in the evolution of British policies towards the colonial India. | 2016 |
| Clarify how mid-eighteenth-century India was beset with the spectre of a fragmented polity | 2017 |
| The 1857 uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate. | 2019 |
| Bring out the constructive programmes of Mahatma Gandhi during Non- Cooperation Movement and Civil Disobedience Movement. | 2021 |
| Why did the armies of the British East India Company – mostly comprising of Indian soldiers – win consistently against the more numerous and better equipped armies of the Indian rulers? Give reasons. | 2022 |
| Why was there a sudden spurt in famines in colonial India since the mid-eighteenth century? Give reasons. | 2022 |
| How did the colonial rule affect the tribals in India and what was the tribal response to the colonial oppression? | 2023 |