BPSC GS-1 Previous Year Questions Analysis

BPSC GS-1 Previous Year Questions Topic wise

Modern History of India and Art & Culture

A. Art and Culture

1. Examine the salient features of Patna Kalam Painting Style.
2. Throw light on Mauryan Art and analyze its impact in Bihar.
3. Bring out the salient features of the Patna Kalam Paintings.
4. Discuss the salient features of Mauryan Art.
5. Discuss the salient features of Patna Kalam & Painting style.
6. Analyse the salient features of Mauryan art and architecture.
7. Describe the salient features of Pala architecture and sculpture.
8. Discuss the chief characteristics of the Patna Kalam painting.
9. Critical examine the chief characteristics of the Mauryan Art.
10. Critically examine the salient features of Pal Art.
11. Identify the main features of the Mauryan Art as found from Bihar.
12. Give a description of the main features of Pala art in Bihar.
13. What are the distinctive features of Mauryan Sculpture?
14. Write an essay on the art and paintings of Bihar.

B. Tribal Revolts

1. Explain the characteristics of Tribal protest in the 19th Century with suitable examples. Give reasons for their failure.
2. Evaluate the causes and results of the Revolt of Santhal (1885-56) in Bihar.
3. Briefly examine the tribal movements of Bihar with special reference to the Bihar.
4. Discuss the main causes of the Santhal Uprising. What were its consequences?
5. “The underlying object of Birsa Movement was internal purification and desire to remo alien government.” Explain.
6. Discuss the causes and results of the revolt of Santhals (1855-56) in Bihar.
7. Santhal Uprising provides a model of popular armed resistance against British colonial India”. Explain.

8. ‘Birsa Provided a new religious leadership to the tribal struggles against the British’. Explain.
9. ‘The Santhal Uprising was the first fierce reaction of the tribals against British colonial India’. Elucidate.
10. Write a critique of the Birsa Movement with special reference to its nature and the lesson it left on tribal administration.

11. Briefly examine the tribal movements of Bihar with special reference to the Birsa movement.

C. Revolt of 1857

1. Discuss the contribution of Bihar to the Uprising of 1857 AD.
2. Critically examine the significance of the Revolt of 1857 with special reference to Bihar.
3. Critically examine the role of Kunwar Singh in the revolt of 1857.
4. Discuss the causes of the Outbreak of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar and account for its failure.
5. Evaluate the role of Kunwar Singh in the revolt of 1857.
6. “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the so-called first national war of India.
7. 1857 is neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence.” Comment

D. Indian Freedom Struggle

1. “Champaran Satyagraha is a watershed in the freedom struggle”. Elucidate.
2. Critically examine the evolution of Indian nationalism since the late 19th century.
3. What were the reasons behind overseas immigration in the 19th-century British India? Discuss in the light of the indenture system with special reference to Bihar. (64 BPSC/2019)
4. Write short notes on any two of the following

(a) Working class and National Movement

(b) Impact of census of 1881 on caste and religious identities

(c) Nehru and secularism

5. Describe the significance of Gandhiji’s social and cultural thoughts.
6. Describe the causes and results of Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar (1917).
7. Describe the people’s participation in Bihar during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
8. “Gandhi’s mystique consisted of a union of original ideas with a remarkable flair for tact and an uncanny insight in the mass mind.” Elucidate.
9. Evaluate the contribution of Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature and music.
10. Examine the main features of Foreign Policy of Jawaharlal Nehru.
11. What was the significance of Champaran Satyagraha for Peasant Uprisings?
12. Define Nationalism. How was it addressed by Rabindranath Tagore?
13. Discuss the relevance of Nehru in the making of modern India.
14. Describe the contribution of Bihar in the individual satyagraha of 1940-41.
15. Describe the social and cultural significance of the ideas of Rabindranath Tagore.
16. Describe the contribution of Bihar to the Quit India movement of 1942.
17. Do you agree with the view that the Champaran Satyagraha was a turning point in the freedom struggle in India?

18. Throw light on the separation of Bihar from Bengal and the rise of modern Bihar.
19. Analyze the role of Gandhiji in the Mass Movement of Bihar.
20. Assess the role of different social classes of Bihar in the civil disobedience movement.
21. Analyze the nature and extent of Quit India movement with special reference to Bihar.
22. Write a critical note on peasant movements in Bihar with special reference to Swami Sharajanand.
23. The Champaran Satyagraha is an important milestone in the history of freedom movement of India. Elucidate.
24. Discuss the impact of the Quit India Movement on Bihar.
25. Critically evaluate the views of Gandhi on “Varna-Jati” system. Were they compatible with his activism against untouchability?

26. How did the partition of Bengal influence the course of India’s freedom struggle? Discuss.
27. What role did the ‘Azad Dasta’ play in Bihar during the Quit India movement?
28. What message Gandhiji sought to convey through his insistence on Swadeshi?
29. Discuss the present movements of Bihar in general and the intervention of Gandiji particularly in the Champaran movement.
30. Describe the role of Rabindranath Tagore in the Indian national movement. How was it different from Congress.

E. Education Development in Bihar

1. Discuss the development of Western education in Bihar from 1857 AD to 1947 AD.
2. Discuss the development of Western education in Bihar from 1813 to 1947.
3. Describe the development of technical education in Bihar during the period of your study.
4. Describe the growth of education and press in modern Bihar and also, describe the role of education and press in the National movement.

5. What changes were brought about in the socio-economic scenario of Bihar during the British rule? (45 BPSC/2002)
6. Give a critical account of the development of western education in Bihar during the British rule.

7. Trace the course of Western education in Bihar from 1890 to 1947 with particular reference to technical education. (42 BPSC/1999)
8. Critically discuss the role played by western technical education in the economy of Bihar. (39 BPSC/1993)