Insights Secure Test - 2

13 February 2017

Marks: 200 uration: 2.5 Hours

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Answer ALL of the following questions in about 200 Words each.

1. Reform in secondary education became the focus of policymakers soon after Independence. What
reforms were introduced? Do you think the recent re-introduction of board exams as a
reformatory measure in secondary education? Critically comment.
2. What is Agenda 2063? Discuss its benefits for India and the world.
3. It is said that the opposition to womens participation in decision-making bodies and processes is
centuries-old in Naga society. Critically examine how economics and globalization have
exacerbated this attitude against women.
4. Critically evaluate the impact of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on access to healthcare and
financial risk protection.
5. Do you think, at this juncture, e-commerce and investment issues should be included under WTO
agenda? Should developing countries welcome these issues under WTO? Critically comment.
6. Critically examine what lessons in disaster management should be learnt from the experience of
cleaning up of recent oil spill off Chennai coast.
7. How does Americas recent H1-B visa policy affect both Indian and American economy? Critically
examine.
8. India needs an all-encompassing healthcare model that is truly able to achieve the objective of
improving access to quality healthcare. Do you think controlling drug prices achieves this
objective? What other measures are needed to provide quality and affordable healthcare to
citizens? Examine.
9. Despite expansion in the use of the public distribution system (PDS), there has not been much
decline in child malnutrition. Why is there such a disconnect? What other options are there to
improve child nutrition? Analyse.
10. Critically analyse the ethical issues involved in conflict between Israel and Palestine.
11. The active participation of Aruna Asaf Ali in 1942 movement symbolized the role of women in
Indias freedom struggle Discuss.
12. The Regulating Act (1773), the Pitts India Act (1784) and eventually the Charter Act of 1833 left
the East India Company as a mere shadow of its earlier political and economic power in India.
Examine.
13. Swami Dayanands philosophy represents both elements of extremism and social radicalism
Substantiate.
14. Analyze the nature of peasant movements during the nationalist phase and bring out their
shortcomings.
15. What role did economic ideas play in the early phase of the British rule in the shaping of land
tenure policy? Examine.
16. Explain the circumstances leading to the alliance between the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation
Movements. Was it a politically wise step on the part of the Congress?
17. Discuss the extent to which the Indian Renaissance movement contributed towards the rise of
nationalist consciousness.
18. Account for the emergence of the left-wing within the congress. How far did it influence the
programme and policy of the congress?
19. Examine the essential principles of the Subsidiary Alliance system. How far did it contribute in
making the British Company the supreme sovereign authority in India?
20. Examine the impact of British rule on Indian Society in the 19th Century