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BRITAIN AND INDIA: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS 1700-1947 (PX2003)

Choose any two questions.

1          How far does 'Clive of India' deserve that title?

2.         What issues were at stake in the 'Orientalist' and 'Anglicanist' controversies of the nineteenth century?

3.         In what senses was 1857 a turning point for relations between Britain and India?

4.         In what ways was India really the 'Jewel in the Crown' for Britain?

5.         Discuss the political impact of the Theosophical Society in India

6.         How far did Gandhi's approach represent a more effective way of dealing with British colonialism than had the methods advocated by the 'Moderate' (Gokhale) and 'Extremist' (Tilak) wings of Indian nationalism?

7.         British imperialism in India was fatally undermined by British liberalism and 'Imperial Overstretch' (Kennedy)". Discuss.

8.         Compare and contrast the responses of Hinduism and Islam to the challenge of British control in India.

9.         "British political control in India depended on internal divisions and local collaboration". Discuss.

10.       Why was British control across the whole sub-continent not replaced by a similar single successor state in 1947?

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