Attempt all the questions in about 500 words each. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’
SECTION A
Question1) Analyse the nature of chiefdoms that evolved in Tamilakam in the early historic period.
Question2) Write the significant note on different approaches to the study of early medieval polity.
Question3) Describe the political processes between 6th to 8th centuries A.D. in peninsular India.
Question4) Give the account of textual sources on statecraft under Delhi Sultanate.
Question5) Critically examine the imperial ideology under Akbar.
SECTION B
Question6) Discuss the main instruments of control used by the colonial state.
Question7) Analyse administrative system developed by the Mauryan rulers.
Question8) Write a note on the administrative structure under the Vijayanagar rulers.
Question9) Discuss administrative system developed by Murshid Quli Khan in Bengal.
Question10) Write short notes on the following:
i) Mahalwari Settlement
ii) Downward Filtration Theory