Personalities: Others-2 ( UPSC Mains)

  1. UPSC. Answer the following: (i) Aryabhatta (ii) D. K. Karve (iii) J. Krishnamurthy (iv) Jamnalal Bajaj (v) Banabhatta (vi) Gopi Kishna (vii) Pupul Jaykar (viii) Mohammad Iqbal (ix) Jaydeva (x) T. Prakasam (xi) Ali Brothers (UPSC 2001, 2 Marks )
  2. UPSC. Answer the following: (i) Brahmagupta (ii) Amir Khusro (iii) William Jones (iv) C. F. Andrews (v) Narayan Guru (vi) Tantia Tope (vii) Sayyid Ahmad (viii) Margaret Noble (ix) Lala Amarnath (UPSC 2000, 2 Marks )
  3. UPSC. Describe briefly the impact of the following on India (about 40 words each): (i) Leo Tolstoy (ii) Kemal Ataturk (iii) Karl Marx (UPSC 1979, 4 Marks )
  4. UPSC. Describe the contribution of any seven to the life and thought of modern India: (a) Vivekananda (b) Sri Aurobindo (c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (d) Dayanand Saraswati (e) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (f) Mirza Ghalib (g) Homi Bhabha (h) Sarojini Naidu (i) C.V. Raman (j) Lala Lajpat Rai (UPSC 1979, 28 Marks )
  5. UPSC. Describe the main contributions of Jai Prakash Narayan to Indian society & politics (UPSC 1979, 30 Marks )
  6. UPSC. Explain the contributions of the following to the social life of India (One sentence each): (i) Ela Bhatt (ii) M. G. Ranade (iii) Acharya Narendra Dev (iv) Madan Mohan Malaviya (v) Narayana Guru (vi) Birsa Munda (vii) Baba Amte (viii) Malati Devi Chowdhury (ix) Dr. Zakir Hussain (x) C. N. Annadurai (UPSC 1988, 10 Marks )
  7. UPSC. What is the contribution of the following to the cultural life of India? (One sentence each): (i) Ramanuj (ii) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti (iii) Shyagiuaja (iv) Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (v) Raja Ravi Verma (vi) Amrita Shergill (vii) Ram Kinker Vaij (viii) Sonal Man Singh (ix) Sanyukta Panigrahi (x) Prithvi Raj Kapoor (UPSC 1987, 10 Marks )
  8. UPSC. Who are the following and what is their contribution to the life and thought of India? (i) Thyagaraja (ii) Vallathal Narayana Menon (iii) Nand Lal Bose (iv) Purushottam Das Tandon (v) Sir Syed Ahmad (UPSC 1982, 10 Marks )
  9. UPSC. Who were the following and why were they so well known? (Not more than two sentences on each): (i) Henry Vivian Derozio (ii) Bhulabhai Desai (iii) Jyotiba Phule (iv) V. D. Savarkar (v) Rashbehari Ghose (UPSC 1986, 10 Marks )
  10. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Bhai Parmanand (ii) Dr. Satyapal (iii) Vasudeo Balwant Phadke (iv) George Yule (v) N.C. Kelkar (vi) C.F. Andrews (UPSC 1995, 12 Marks )
  11. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) C. Ilbert (ii) John Simon (iii) Ramsay Macdonald (iv) Wavell (UPSC 1993, 8 Marks )
  12. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (ii) Seth Jamnalal Bajaj (iii) S. Satyamurti (iv) Udham Singh (v) Sarojini Naidu (UPSC 1998, 10 Marks )
  13. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Kunwar Singh (ii) S. H. Slocum (iii) P. Ananda Cham (iv) K. M. Munshi (v) Muzaffar Ahmed (UPSC 1990, 10 Marks )
  14. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) M. A. Ansari (ii) P.C. Joshi (iii) Indulal Yagnik (iv) Lord Pethwick Lawrence (v) Sree Narayan Guru (vi) Nand Lal Bose (UPSC 1992, 12 Marks )
  15. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Rammanohar Lohia (ii) C. Y. Chintamani (iii) Henry Cotton (iv) Tej Bahadur Sapru (v) Veeresalingam R K (vi) Bhulabhai Desai (vii) Kamladevi Chattopadhyay (UPSC 1999, 2 Marks )
  16. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) S. A. Dange (ii) C. Sankaran Nair (iii) Titu Mir (iv) Theodore Beck (v) Edwin Lutyens (UPSC 1991, 10 Marks )
  17. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Shyamji Krishnavarma (ii) Rani Gaidinliu (iii) Saifuddin Kitchlew (iv) Dr. Nivedita Bhasin (UPSC 1997, 8 Marks )
  18. UPSC. Why have the following become famous? (i) Subrahmania Bharati (ii) M. A. Ansari (iii) Chapekar Brothers (iv) Panna Lal Patel (v) Khudiram Bose (UPSC 1989, 10 Marks )
  19. UPSC. Why have the following been famous? (i) Bhartendu Harish Chandra (ii) C. Rajagopalachari (iii) A.O. Hume (iv) Birsa Munda (UPSC 1996, 3 Marks )
  20. UPSC. Write about in about 20 words: (a) Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi (b) Lala Hardayal (c) Megasthenes (d) Allasani Peddana (UPSC 2008, 2 Marks )
  21. UPSC. Write about the following (20 words each): (i) Sajjad Zahir (ii) HarDayal (iii) Indu Lal Yajnik (iv) Achhut Patwardhan (v) Sir William Jones (vi) James Wilson (UPSC 2003, 2 Marks )
  22. UPSC. Write about the following: (i) Baba Amte (ii) Ali Sardar Jafri (iii) Aruna Roy (UPSC 2000, 2 Marks )
  23. UPSC. Write about the following: (i) Bismillah Khan (ii) Christ Evert (iii) Keshab Chandra Sen (iv) Nivedita (v) Raidasa (UPSC 2002, 2 Marks )
  24. UPSC. Write about: (a) Megasthenes (b) R.C. Dutt (c) Nagarjunakonda (d) Rudramadevi (e) Ramanuja (UPSC 2007, 2 Marks )
  25. UPSC. Write about: (a) Nizamuddin Auliya (b) Raidas (c) Jagat Seth (d) Baba Ram Chandra (e) Pandita Ramabai (f) Sir Thomas Roe (g) Tavernier (UPSC 2005, 2 Marks )
  26. UPSC. Write about: Kiang Nongbah and Taji Mideren (UPSC 2009, 4 Marks )
  27. UPSC. Write brief note on Bhai Maharaj Singh as a freedom fighter (UPSC 2010, 2 Marks )
  28. UPSC. Write brief note on Contributions of Latika Ghosh to the freedom struggle (UPSC 2010, 2 Marks )