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Critically examine the following statements in about 150 words each (10 marks, 150 words):

(a) “The Maratha polity disintegrated through internal stress.”

(b) “The chief value of Raja’s (Raja Rammohan Roy) labours seems to lie in his fight against the forces of medievalism in India.”

(c) “The British railway construction policy in India benefitted British economy in the nineteenth century.”

(d) “The Arya Samaj may quite logically be pronounced as the outcome of conditions imported into India from the West.”

(e) “Sri Narayana Guru’s was a major intervention in the social reform movement from a subaltern perspective.”