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History Optional DAMP 2.0 starting on 7th November.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
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Forwarded from Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture
History Optional DAMP 2.0 starting on 7th November.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
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Forwarded from Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture
History Optional DAMP 2.0 starting on 7th November.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
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Answer Writing Practice
Henceforth, I will try to be more regular in posting the questions. That is why the timeline given here is now shorter. Next 3 days. Lets revive the activity and have a good amount of writing practice before turning to Prelims preparation fully.
Question 35: Medieval India
How could the local self-government under the Cholas adjust with their centralized administration structure? (10)
PS0: It is not about the features of the local self government, it is also not about the formation of committees, election process and qualification criteria. Therefore, please don't focus on the typical factual data about the LSG that we gather from some inscriptions. Try to think analytically.
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 7th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
Henceforth, I will try to be more regular in posting the questions. That is why the timeline given here is now shorter. Next 3 days. Lets revive the activity and have a good amount of writing practice before turning to Prelims preparation fully.
Question 35: Medieval India
How could the local self-government under the Cholas adjust with their centralized administration structure? (10)
PS0: It is not about the features of the local self government, it is also not about the formation of committees, election process and qualification criteria. Therefore, please don't focus on the typical factual data about the LSG that we gather from some inscriptions. Try to think analytically.
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 7th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
Forwarded from Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture
History Optional DAMP 2.0 starting on 7th November.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
▪️Revise your optional in four months, just before you turn to Prelims preparation.
▪️Improve the answer writing with daily practice under expert guidance
▪️ Sectional papers
▪️Update your notes with latest historiography
For the daily schedule, visit:
https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
Join @nikhilhistoryoptional, a channel dedicated for history optional preparation.
Forwarded from Nikhil
In Unit 13 and Unit 14 of the syllabus of Paper I, which are the specific topics that you find most difficult or need better understanding of?
Also, which are the topics which you are most comfortable with in general?
Also, which are the topics which you are most comfortable with in general?
Got a fair bit of idea now. I will try to produce one video regarding the religious/philosophical development of the era.
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https://youtu.be/a6ScxqI15e0
For the details, visit: https://www.levelupias.com/course/upsc-damp-history-optional/
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YouTube
History Optional DAMP 2.0 | Daily Answer Writing Mentorship Program | By Nikhil Sheth | CSE 2023
#HistoryOptionalDAMP #NikhilSheth #dailyanswerwriting #DailyAnswerWritingMentorshipProgram
Why should you join this program?
👉To hone answer writing skills
👉Guided revision of the complete optional in four months
👉Content enrichment through historiographical…
Why should you join this program?
👉To hone answer writing skills
👉Guided revision of the complete optional in four months
👉Content enrichment through historiographical…
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This is the exercise given in Old NCERT of Medieval India, class 7 written by Romila Thapar. Now, compare them with the questions recently asked by UPSC in GS/Optional:
▪️"The Chola rulers were not only mighty conquerors, efficient administrators but also builders of fine temples." Comment. [2021, 15 Marks]
▪️Chola maritime expansion was driven largely by concerns of overseas commerce. Elucidate. [2022, 20m]
▪️"The Chola rulers were not only mighty conquerors, efficient administrators but also builders of fine temples." Comment. [2021, 15 Marks]
▪️Chola maritime expansion was driven largely by concerns of overseas commerce. Elucidate. [2022, 20m]
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Forwarded from Nikhil Sheth - History and Culture
Mention of Diwali in Al Beruni's Kitab up Hind.
#traveller #literature #earlymedieval
@nikhilhistoryculture
#traveller #literature #earlymedieval
@nikhilhistoryculture
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Tagore in 1903 on the state of history writing in India:
"The History of India that we read and memorize to sit for examinations is only a narrative of nightmares. [It is a tale] of who came from where, ceaselessly fought each other, of which sons and brothers wrestled for the throne, of the disappearance of one group and its replacement by the other. The confusing congeries of the Pathans, the Mughals, the Portuguese, the French and the English have made the nightmare more and more complicated…
Where the Indians are, these histories do not answer. As if, only those who have engaged in battles and assassinations alone exist, Indians do not…. It one's youth, it is history which makes one familiar with his own country. It is exactly the opposite in our case. It is our history which has hidden our country in obscurity."
“On a stormy day, the storm itself is not the only event of the day… For human beings, the events of births and deaths, joy and sadness taking place on that day are more important. But a foreigner sees only the storm, because he is outside the houses, not inside. That’s why, in the history written by foreigners, we only see stories of that dust and storm, not of the homes. When we read that history, it seems there was no India then, the Mughals and Pathans, raising their flags, just marched around from north to south and west to east… It wasn’t like there were only Delhi and Agra then. There were Kashi and Nabadweep (birthplace of 15th century Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) too. The life stream flowing around that time in the real India, the waves of efforts that were rising, the social changes that were happening, we don’t find any description of that in history.
Tagore asserted that Indians are not “branches and shrubs” but “our hundreds and thousands of roots through centuries have occupied prime position in India. But the kind of history we are made to read makes our children forget all this. It seems, we don’t exist in India, only the visitors do,” he wrote.
#Historiography
@nikhilhistoryculture
"The History of India that we read and memorize to sit for examinations is only a narrative of nightmares. [It is a tale] of who came from where, ceaselessly fought each other, of which sons and brothers wrestled for the throne, of the disappearance of one group and its replacement by the other. The confusing congeries of the Pathans, the Mughals, the Portuguese, the French and the English have made the nightmare more and more complicated…
Where the Indians are, these histories do not answer. As if, only those who have engaged in battles and assassinations alone exist, Indians do not…. It one's youth, it is history which makes one familiar with his own country. It is exactly the opposite in our case. It is our history which has hidden our country in obscurity."
“On a stormy day, the storm itself is not the only event of the day… For human beings, the events of births and deaths, joy and sadness taking place on that day are more important. But a foreigner sees only the storm, because he is outside the houses, not inside. That’s why, in the history written by foreigners, we only see stories of that dust and storm, not of the homes. When we read that history, it seems there was no India then, the Mughals and Pathans, raising their flags, just marched around from north to south and west to east… It wasn’t like there were only Delhi and Agra then. There were Kashi and Nabadweep (birthplace of 15th century Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) too. The life stream flowing around that time in the real India, the waves of efforts that were rising, the social changes that were happening, we don’t find any description of that in history.
Tagore asserted that Indians are not “branches and shrubs” but “our hundreds and thousands of roots through centuries have occupied prime position in India. But the kind of history we are made to read makes our children forget all this. It seems, we don’t exist in India, only the visitors do,” he wrote.
#Historiography
@nikhilhistoryculture
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Answer Writing Practice
Question 36: Medieval India
Write a critical note on the role played by the Ulama in the Delhi Sultanate Polity. (10)
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 14th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
Question 36: Medieval India
Write a critical note on the role played by the Ulama in the Delhi Sultanate Polity. (10)
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 14th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
This topic is going to be important in 2023 exam - prepare all its dimensions well.
@nikhilhistoryoptional
@nikhilhistoryoptional
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Forwarded from History Optional (UPSC)
Contribution of KP Jayaswal on the issue of democratic elements in India's ancient past.
The topic is back into limelight this year due to the latest UGC circular and we be better prepared for all dimensions on this, which is posted above.
We recently covered it in two detailed questions in our ongoing Daily Answer Writing Program.
The topic is back into limelight this year due to the latest UGC circular and we be better prepared for all dimensions on this, which is posted above.
We recently covered it in two detailed questions in our ongoing Daily Answer Writing Program.
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Answer Writing Practice
Question 37: Medieval India
To what extent is ‘Segmentary State’ model relevant for defining the Vijayanagar State? Critically examine. (15)
Question 38: Medieval India
What impact did Kabir and Nanak leave on Indian Society and Culture? (15)
Question 39: Medieval India
Describe the role of Sufi saints in influencing the social milieu of Medieval India. (10)
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 26th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
Question 37: Medieval India
To what extent is ‘Segmentary State’ model relevant for defining the Vijayanagar State? Critically examine. (15)
Question 38: Medieval India
What impact did Kabir and Nanak leave on Indian Society and Culture? (15)
Question 39: Medieval India
Describe the role of Sufi saints in influencing the social milieu of Medieval India. (10)
PS1: Submit your answers by the end of 26th November.
PS2: Reply here in the comment section with your answers (scanned image) for evaluation. Or join the discussion group @nikhilhistorydiscussion for commenting and posting.
#AnswerWritingPractice
@nikhilhistoryoptional
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