British India: 1885-1947
Assess the importance of India to the British Empire
in the period to 1914, and the changes which followed the First World War.
What were the main problems of
an Indian national movement
in the years leading to the First World War?
In what ways and how far did
Gandhi
transform the Indian national movement in the interwar years?
Why did
Hindu-Muslim tensions
become more intense in the inter-war period? [This essay is unavailable due to a corrupted computer file]
Were there any alternatives to Partition in 1947?
How far can Empire be explained as the result of a series of
Orientalist misunderstandings?
What justification is there for Hobson’s view that
‘by far the most important economic factor in Imperialism is the influence relating to investments’
How far did the appeal of colonial nationalism depend upon
its invocation of an imaginary golden past?
