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Law Students' History Exam

This document is an exam for a History II course covering various topics related to colonial India. It contains instructions for the exam, which allows 3 hours and is worth a maximum of 50 marks. The exam contains two questions - the first asks students to write short notes on 4 of 8 topics, and the second asks students to answer 2 of 5 essay questions. The topics cover various legal, social and political aspects of colonial India, such as legal codification processes, land acts, criminalization of certain groups, religious politics and more.

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Law Students' History Exam

This document is an exam for a History II course covering various topics related to colonial India. It contains instructions for the exam, which allows 3 hours and is worth a maximum of 50 marks. The exam contains two questions - the first asks students to write short notes on 4 of 8 topics, and the second asks students to answer 2 of 5 essay questions. The topics cover various legal, social and political aspects of colonial India, such as legal codification processes, land acts, criminalization of certain groups, religious politics and more.

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JGU Id. No.

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O.P. Jindal Global University


Jindal Global Law School
End-term Examination – Semester A

Course Name : History II


Course Code : L-CA-0009
Programme : B.A., LL.B. 2017
Session : 2018 - 2019
Time Allowed : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks : 50

This question paper has two (2) printed pages (including this page).

Instructions to students:

1. DO NOT write your Name and Student Id. No. anywhere on the answer book except on the space
provided.
2. DO NOT write anything on the question paper except Student Id. No. on the space provided.
3. Start each question on a new page.
4. Use of mobile phone or any electronic storage and access system is prohibited.
5. Students undertaking the examination are requested to adhere to the University norms related to
examinations.

__________________________________________________________________________________________
This is a Closed Book examination. Students are not allowed to bring any material in the Examination Hall.
Warning: Plagiarism in any form is prohibited. Anyone found using unfair means will be penalized
severely.
JGLS [End-term Examination – Semester A, 2018 - 2019] Page 1
Q1) Write Short Notes on any four (4) of the following: (4 × 5 = 20 Marks)

a. Pandits, Maulvis and codification


b. Wajib-ul arz and riwaj-e-am
c. Punjab Alienation of Land Act 1900
d. Andravan
e. W.H. Sleeman
f. Rakmabai Case
g. Concept of the public sphere
h. INA and Congress Secularism

Q2) Answer any two (2) of the following: (2 × 15 = 30 Marks)

a) What schools of thought shaped the process of legal codification from 1757-1857? What were the
similarities and differences in their approaches to the sources of law? Did these different approaches to
codification have very different effects on society?

b) Neither individual property rights nor a ‘rule of law’ were realised by the Company State. Discuss.

c) How did racial stereotypes and British notions of criminality dictate the need for stringent laws dealing
with 'people on the move'? Explain with reference to the Criminal Tribes Act 1871 and Thuggee Act of
1836?

d) Compare and contrast the respective ways in which the sexuality and mobility of middle class and
working class women was controlled in colonial India.

e) In what ways did agitations about religious endowments shape mass politics about religion?

JGLS [End-term Examination – Semester A, 2018 - 2019] Page 2

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