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Paper -I Section A 1. Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you. Also give brief descriptive notes on the places marked on the map: (i) Aharara (ii) Aihole (iii) Alamgirpur (iv) Amaravati (v) Anuradhapura (vi) Aphsad (vii) Badami (viii) Bhagbanpura (ix) Gimar (x) Jaugada (xi) Kausambi (xii) Khandgiri-Udayagiri (xiii) Kusinagara (xiv) Kot Diji (xv) Lumbini (xvi) Mahabalipuram (xvii) Nalanda (xviii) Pratisthana (xix) Purushapura (xx) Rajagriha (xxi) Ratnagiri (xxii) Sanathi (xxiii) Sittannavasal (xxiv) Sravasti (xxv) Sravanbelgola (xxvi) Sultanganj (xxvii) Surkotda (xxviii)Takshasila (xxix) Valabhi (xxx) Vidisa 2. Analyses the differences and similarities between Indus Valley and Vedic Cultures. 3. Give an account of the republics in the pre-Maurya period. Discuss the factors which contributed to their decline. 4. Analyses the characteristics features of the Gupta art and compare them with those of the Mauryan art.
Section B
5. Comment on any three of the following statements in about 200 words each: (a) The sponsors of the overseas expansion of Europe were national monarchies. (b) Napoleon was the child of the Revolution, but in many ways he reversed the aims and principles of the movement from which he sprang. (c) Thus the League sought to achieve to profoundest of all psychological revolutions to transform the war mentality of man into a peace mentality. (d) Nominally the new Turkey was republican and democratic. 6. From the Thirty Years War finally emerged the modern state system of Europe. Do you agree? 7. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a single revolution which developed two phases. Elucidate. 8. Trace the distinct phases of the Sino-Japanese War. Assess its political economic and cultural impact on China, both occupied and free.