INDIAN NATIONALISM

1. INDIAN NATIONALISM

A. Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle

Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience; militant/revolutionary, peasant and workers’ movements

1. Comment: Anarchism in Gandhi’s philosophy. (1993)
2. Comment: Swadeshi movement. (1996)
3. Comment: Jinnah’s two-nation theory. (1997)
4. Comment: Raja Ram Mohan Roy as a social reformer. (1998)
5. Comment: Ideas of Gokhale and Tilak and their impact on the Indian struggle for freedom. (1999)
6. Comment: ‘Dyarchy’ under Montague-Chelmsford Reforms. (2002)
7. Examine the salient features of the Indian Independence Act (1947) relating to the transfer of power. What specific provisions did this Act make for the lapse of paramountcy? (2002)
8. Comment: Simon Commission. (2003)
9. Comment: Gandhi’s concept of Truth and Non-violence. Why was he opposed to modern civilisation? (2003)
10. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as Nationalist, Internationalist and Humanist. Discuss. (2003)
11. Comment: Surat Split (1907). (2004)
12. Comment: The Government of India Act, 1919. (2004)
13. Highlight Mahatma Gandhi’s role in the Indian National Movement. (2004)
14. Comment: Views of Jaya Prakash Narayan on ‘Total Revolution’. (2005)
15. Explain the ‘federal scheme’ under the Government of India Act, 1935. Why could this scheme not be implemented? (2005)
16. Comment: “Swaraj is the culmination of Swadeshi and Sarvodaya”. (2008)
17. Comment: Indian nationalism in S. N. Banerjea’s A Nation in the Making. (2010)
18. Comment on views of Gandhi and Ambedkar on ‘social justice’. (2011)
19. Comment: Significance of the Civil Disobedience Movement. (2011)
20. Comment on the efficacy of Satyagraha as moral resistance to colonial rule. (2012)
21. Explain how peasant movements promoted nationalist ideas during the struggle for Indian independence. (2014)
22. Comment in 150 words: Satyagraha as a Strategy in the Indian National Movement. (2015)
23. The success of Mahatma Gandhi lay in transforming political and non-political movements into a unified nationalist movement. Comment. (2017)
24. Differentiate Moderate Nationalism from Extremist/Militant Nationalism in objectives and means. (2017)
25. Comment in 150 words: Revolt of 1857 — ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ or ‘First War of Independence’. (2018)
26. National movement in India was anti-imperialist and increasingly radical in its socio-economic and political programmes. Discuss. (2019)
27. Trace the role of militant and revolutionary movements in Indian national movement. (2020)
28. Analyse the workers’ movement in India in the pre-Independence period. (2022)
29. Comment on Satyagraha and Indian Nationalism. (2023)
30. Discuss the contribution of the Dalit struggle to establish egalitarianism in Indian society during freedom movement. (2024)

B. Perspectives on the Indian National Movement

Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical Humanist; Dalit

1. Comment: Dalit perspective on Indian National Movement. (2011)
2. Comment in 150 words: Marxist understanding of India’s freedom movement. (2013)
3. Critically examine the Radical Humanist perspective on Indian National Movement. (2016)
4. Dalit perspective on Indian national movement. Discuss. (2019)
5. Answer in 150 words: Role of Socialists in Indian National Movement. (2020)
6. Analyse the Marxist perspective of the nature of Indian National Movement. (150 words) (2021)