Question 1 # Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art. Question 2 # The 1857 uprising was the culmination of the recurrent, big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate. Question 3 # Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century's 'Indian Renaissance' and the emergence of national identity. Question 4 # Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples. Question 5 # Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology. Question 6 # Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India? Question 7 # Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India. Question 8 # What makes the Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss. Question 9 # "Empowering women is the key to control population growth." Discuss. Question 10 # What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism? Question 11 # Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate. Question 12 # Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s. Question 13 # Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions. Question 14 # What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India? Question 15 # How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism? Question 16 # How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development in India? Question 17 # How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples. Question 18 # Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples. Question 19 # What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space? Question 20 # Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.