BA LLB (BLS LLB) 5 Years Sem 2 History Solved Question Papers with Answers 2017 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

History in the second B.L.S. LL.B. semester runs from the East India Company to the Constitution, and the fourteen papers solved here put one event ahead of every other: the Revolt of 1857. It is set in twelve of the fourteen papers. Only the 2023-24 regular paper leaves it out, and the 2022-23 ATKT paper mentions it in a stray sentence of a passage on the Act of 1935. Nine papers set it as a long answer, and six of those ask for its causes in some form: the causes, the causes and effects, the political, economic and immediate causes, or the causes with the reasons for its failure. The other three ask whether it failed, whether it was a conspiracy, and what Savarkar made of it. Learn the causes in four groups with the greased cartridge as the immediate cause, then the reasons for failure, the consequences and the debate on its nature, and you have prepared the most reliable long answer in the subject.

The constitutional Acts are the second spine of the paper. The Regulating Act of 1773 is set in eight papers, and five of them want it at length: its provisions with their merits and demerits, its drawbacks, its importance, or why it is called a landmark. The Indian Independence Act 1947 is set in six papers, and every time as a long or descriptive answer, once with the question whether partition was inevitable and once on how it ended paramountcy. The Charter Acts come up in ten papers, mostly as short questions on the Acts of 1813 and 1833. The questions keep changing the angle but not the Act, so these Acts are worth learning section by section.

The paper ends at the Constitution, and that end is examined more than students expect. The features of the Constitution are set in six papers: as a 12 or 13 mark answer in the two 2025-26 papers and in 2018-19, as a short note in three, and as part of a situational question in November 2017. Articles 14 and 19 come as short questions. Sardar Patel and the integration of the princely States are a long answer in six papers, once with special reference to Hyderabad (2019-20) and once asking who the Iron Man of India was (May 2017).

The situational section reuses its passages with new questions under them, so read the parts carefully. The passage on revolutionary and terrorist movements is set in May 2017, 2018-19 and 2019-20, and the first part asks about the Savarkar brothers twice and the Extremists once, while the second asks about the Ghadar party each time from a different side: its trials, its activities and its influence. The passage on the federal structure of the Act of 1935 is set in 2019-20 and in the 2022-23 ATKT paper with different parts. Answer the parts that are printed, not the passage.

This paper repeats itself, and the same question gets the same answer here every time. The fourteen papers print 323 questions, and they need 258 distinct answers. The 2025-26 regular paper and the 2025-26 ATKT 75:25 paper share 20 of their 21 questions. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact is a short note in four papers, and eleven other stems are printed three times each, among them the features of the Constitution, the Civil Disobedience movement, the Partition of Bengal, Lord Cornwallis's land revenue system and the Hunter Commission.

The papers carry misprints that should not throw you. Charter act of 1857, in both 2025-26 papers, names an Act that does not exist, and the answer explains the Charter Act of 1853 and the Act of 1858 instead. Woods Dispatch of 1884 is the Despatch of 1854, Ilbert bill (1988) is the Bill of 1883, Permanent Statement is the Permanent Settlement, and Sir John Sergeant is Sir John Sargent. The November 2017 paper says the draft of the Constitution was prepared on 26 January 1950, which is the day the Constitution came into force; it was adopted on 26 November 1949.

Check which pattern you are sitting. Up to 2019-20 this was a 100 mark paper in three hours, with short notes at 5 marks and four long answers of 12. The 2021 sitting was an online examination of twenty multiple choice and ten descriptive questions, with no marks printed. Since then code 35861 is the 75 mark paper, ending with long answers of 13 marks, and code 38111 the 60 mark paper, ending with long answers of 12. Three facts about the files will save you confusion: the file listed as 2017-18 holds two papers, May 2017 numbered 1 to 25 and the November 2017 ATKT paper numbered 26 to 50; the files listed as 2021-22 and 2022-23 are the same online paper, answered identically; and the 2018-19 and 2019-20 scans hold only the two English pages.

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