pyq/2017/history-optional-ii/6

(a) Explain why England became the harbinger of Industrial Revolution. Also throw light on its social consequences. (20 marks)

(b) Why was the First World War termed as the first ‘total’ war in modern history? (20 marks)

(c) Discuss how agrarian crisis accompanied by severe industrial depression triggered the Revolutions of 1848. (10 marks)