Thinker

M. K. Gandhi

M. K. Gandhi is central to 7 previous-year questions, spanning 2013 to 2025 across Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.

7Questions

2013–25Years tested

IIPaper

4Syllabus topics

Concepts asked alongside M. K. Gandhi

What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.

annihilation of caste 3untouchability 2ahimsaartisan livelihoodscaste and religioncolonial deindustrialisationcommunal harmonyconstitutional abolitioncritique of modern civilisationcritique of the chaturvarnadalit self-representationendogamy as the mechanism of castegraded inequalityhandicraft declineharijan upliftharijan upliftmentmarket competitionnationalism

Where M. K. Gandhi appears in the syllabus

Social Movements in Modern India4
Caste System1
Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society1
Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India1

Every question on M. K. Gandhi

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2025

Bring out various factors responsible for declining of village Industries in India.Paper II · 10 marks · Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

2017

How have the struggles against untouchability changed their forms and perspectives from Gandhian to Ambedkarite positions?Paper II · 10 marks · Social Movements in Modern India

2015

2014

2013

What are the main features of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's views on annihilation of caste?Paper II · 20 marks · Caste System

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