1979-2015 History Mains Optional All Questions
UPSC Repeats Questions From Previous Year , Below are a few examples
Repeated Question in History Optional
>>“France was even more fertile than Britain in producing new socialist theories and movements, though bore less concrete results in France than Britain.(2015)
>>“The impact of the French Revolution (1789) was initially confined to Europe, but, that of the Russian Revolution (1917) was global.” — Critically review.(2012)
“The connection between the philosophers’ ideas and the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) is somewhat remote and indirect.” (2012)
“The writings of the philosophers had a tremendous influence on the minds of the people and created a revolutionary awakening in their minds and formed the intellectual creed of the French Revolution”(1983)
‘The writings of the philosophers had a tremendous influence on the minds of the people and created a revolutionary awakening in their minds and formed the intellectual creed of the French Revolution.’(2005) ( Question lifted as it is)
;“If monarchical misrule ignited the French revolution, lofty ideas both inspired and sustained it.”(1992) ;‘If monarchical misrule ignited the French Revolution, lofty ideas both inspired and sustained it.’(2002) ;“If monarchical misrule ignited the French revolution, lofty ideas both inspired and sustained it.”(1997)
;‘The French Revolution attacked privileges and not property.’(2003) ;The French Revolution (1789) really achieved far less than what it intended to effect. Do you agree? (1989 ) (Question rephrased)
c. Compare the Peshwas’ bureaucratic management with that of the Imperial Mughal administration.(2015)
;“No event, as encompassing as the French Revolution occurs in an intellectual vacuum.”(2007)