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Critically examine the following statements in about 150 words each: (10x5=50 marks, 150 words each)

(a) The introduction of Western education transformed India in unforeseen ways. (10 marks, 150 words)

(b) Tipu Sultan had little success in setting forth a course of change significantly different from the general experience of 18th century crisis of Indian politics and society where public life tended over and over to become a system of plundering. (10 marks, 150 words)

(c) The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was designed for better control of the vernacular press and to empower the government with more effective means of punishing and repressing seditious writings. (10 marks, 150 words)

(d) The rise of the Communist Movement in India in the 1920s lent a militant and revolutionary content to the Trade Union Movement. (10 marks, 150 words)

(e) In the first decade of the 20th century, the atmosphere was ripe for the emergence of revolutionary groups to fill up the vacant space in the political map of the country. (10 marks, 150 words)