The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded on January 10, 1920, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I. It was established with the aim of promoting international cooperation, resolving disputes, and preventing future conflicts. The League of Nations was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States as one of his Fourteen Points for peace. The League's charter was included in the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed by the victorious Allied powers and Germany. The League's headquarters were located in Geneva, Switzerland. The League of Nations consisted of two main bodies: the Assembly and the Council. The Assembly served as a forum for all member states to discuss and vote on important issues, while the Council was responsible for making decisions and taking action on matters of international concern. The Council consisted of permanent members (the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan) and non-permanent members e...
UPSC (Mains) 2021
1. Trace the rise and growth of
socio-religious reform movements with special reference to Young Bengal and
Brahmo Samaj.
2. To what extinct did the role
of moderates prepare a base for the wider freedom movement? comment
3. Bring out the constructive
programmes of Mahatma Gandhi during Non-Cooperation Movement and Civil
Disobedience Movement.
UPSC (Mains) 2020
1. Evaluate the policies of Lord
Curzon and their long term implications on the national movement. (Answer in
150 words).
2. Since the decade of the 1920s,
the national movement acquired various ideological strands and thereby expanded
its social base. Discuss. (Answer in 250 words).
UPSC (Mains) 2019
1. Assess the role of British
imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the
1940s.
2. 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.
3. Examine the linkages between
the nineteenth century's 'Indian Renaissance' and the emergence of national
identity
4. Many voices had strengthened
and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
UPSC (Mains) 2018
1. Why indentured labour was
taken by British from India to other colonies? Have they been able to preserve
their cultural identity over there?
2. Throw light on the
significance of thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the present times.
UPSC (Mains) 2017
1. Highlight the importance of
new objective that got added to the vision of Indian independence since the
twenties of the last century
2. The women’s questions arose in
modern India as a part of the 19th century social reform movement.What were the
major issues and debates concerning women in that period?
3. Clarify how mid-eighteenth
century India was beset with the spectre of a fragmented polity?
4. Why did the ‘Moderates’ fail
to carry conviction with the nation about their proclaimed ideology and
political goals by the end of the nineteenth century?
5. Examine how the decline of
traditional artisanal industry in colonial India crippled the rural economy.
UPSC (Mains) 2016
1. Highlight the difference in
the approach of Subhash Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for
freedom.
2. Explain how the upraising of
1857 constitutes an important watershed in the evolution of British policies
towards colonial India.
3. Discuss the role of women in
the freedom struggle especially during the Gandhian phase
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