Q.1) The third battle of Panipat was fought in 1761. Why were so many empire-shaking battles fought at Panipat? (10 marks, 150 words)
Q.2) Clarify how mid-eighteenth-century India was beset with the spectre of a fragmented polity. (10 marks, 150 words)
Q.3) The 1857 Uprising was the culmination the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate. (10 marks, 150 words)
Q.4) The Anglo-French Rivalry in India was a part of their global rivalry aiming supremacy. Examine. (10 marks, 150 words)