IMPACT OF COLONIAL RULE ON INDIAN SOCIETY

1. IMPACT OF COLONIAL RULE ON INDIAN SOCIETY 

A. Socio-Religious & Reform Movements

1. Highlight the major contributions of the reform movements in pre-independent India. (2024)
2. Banning Practice of ‘Sati’ is attributed to annihilation of a major social evil in colonial India. Comment. (2020)
3. The main objectives of socio-religious movements during colonial rule were reforming and synthesizing Hinduism. Write on any two such important movements. (2017)
4. Write short note: Anti-Brahmanical movements during the colonial period. (2016)

B. Modernisation of Indian Tradition – Yogendra Singh

1. Justify that the Indian traditions are modernizing. Also discuss its contributing factors. (2025)
2. Discuss in detail the major contribution of Prof. Yogendra Singh in theorizing India’s modernization. (2021)
3. Discuss Yogendra Singh’s thesis on Modernisation of Indian Tradition, and evaluate its applicability in the present-day context. (2017)
4. Discuss the paradigm of modernization of Indian tradition in analyzing social change in India. (2015)
5. Short note: Modernisation of Indian traditions. (2014)

C. Colonialism, Nationalism & Social Change

1. Do you think that new economic reforms of British rule have disrupted the old economic system of India? Substantiate your answer with suitable examples. (20 marks) (2025)
2. How did Colonial Policies for the tribes affect their socio-economic conditions in India? Discuss (2025)
3. Colonial administrators helped to construct the very traditionalism which marked the Indian society as ‘backward’. Comment critically. (2020)
4. Examine sociological dynamics of Champaran Peasant Movement in colonial India. (2018)
5. Analyse Gandhi as a moralist, ascetic and man of action through his Hind Swaraj. (2015)
6. Discuss the social background of Indian nationalism. (2014)