IGNOU MHI-009 Important Questions with answers – MHI-009 refers to the “Indian National Movement” course code used in the Master of Arts (History) program at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). It’s a core course for this program and delves into the various aspects of India’s struggle for independence from British rule.
- Course Title: Indian National Movement
- Course Code: MHI-009
- Credits: 8
Course Content
- Emergence of nationalism in India
- Rise of key leaders and their ideologies
- Different phases of the movement, including the Sepoy Mutiny, Civil Disobedience, Quit India Movement, etc.
- Role of social groups like peasants, women, and Dalits in the struggle
- Impact of the movement on Indian society and culture
- Legacies of the Indian National Movement
Course Structure
- Block 1: Introduction to the Indian National Movement
- Block 2: The Formative Phase (Early 19th to Mid-20th Century)
- Block 3: National Movement – The Mass Phase-I (Mid-20th Century)
- Block 4: National Movement – The Mass Phase-II (Late 20th Century)
- Block 5: Quit India and its Aftermath
- Block 6: National Movement and Social Groups-I (Focus on specific groups like women, peasants, and minorities)
- Block 7: National Movement and Social Groups-II (Continuation of Block 6)
- Block 8: National Movement: Legacies
Q1. The Question of Nationalism ?
IGNOU MHI-009 Important Questions with answers – When we speak of nationalism, we speak of a period between eighteenth and twentieth century. It was during this period that a large number of small, local communities began to be transformed into (a relatively smaller number of) large and homogenous communities.
To put it simply, a large number of small communities began to be transformed into a small number of large communities. The largeness of numbers was replaced by the largeness of size. The new communities were marked by new ties and solidarities. New solidarities began to develop that were somewhat impersonal in nature and yet very powerful. Groups and individuals, not familiar with one another, began to look upon themselves as members of this newly created large invisible community called the Nation.
IGNOU MHI-009 Important Questions with answers – What was involved in this process was a new type of imagination. New communities were getting created above all through an “imagination”. The new communities were not constituted by reciprocity, common sharing of resources, or familiarity. Most communities in history (village communities, speech communities or other local groups) had been based on familiarity.
The new national communities, on the contrary, were based on unfamiliarity and anonymity. The new communities were brought together, not so much by common everyday experiences, but by a certain kind of imagination. It was precisely in this sense that Benedict Anderson, a leading theorist on nationalism, referred to nations as “imagined communities”.
IGNOU MHI-009 Important Questions with answers – What is more, these new groups and communities also began to insist that they should have their own representative state. In other words, state systems should not be external and alien to groups and communities (as was the case through most of human history), but should emanate from the communities and should be representative of them. This was really a novel situation. This congruence or identification between the state and society was something quite novel and unusual.
IGNOU MHI-009 Important Questions with answers – These new features of the condition also became the defining features of nation, nationalism and nation-state. Ernest Gellner, another important theorist of nationalism, defined these terms in the opening paragraph of his book: “Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent. Nationalism as a sentiment, or as a movement, can best be defined in terms of this principle. Nationalist sentiment is the feeling of anger aroused by the violation of the principle, or the feeling of satisfaction aroused by its fulfilment. A nationalist movement is one actuated by a sentiment of this kind” (Ernest Gellner 1983.
Q2.WHAT IS CHALLENGES BEFORE A THEORY OF
NATIONALISM ?
Q3.HOW IS INDIAN NATIONALISM ?
Q4.WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING ?
Q5.HOW IS THE IMPACT OF THE WAR ON INDIA ?
Q6 .WHAT IS MAKING OF THE GANDHIAN STRATEGY ?
Q7.WHAT IS THE NATURE OF COLONIAL STATE ?
Q8.DID THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT HAVE A STRATEGY?
Q9 .WHAT IS MOBILISATION OF WOMEN IN THE GANDHIAN
PHASE ?
Q10. WHY WOMEN LEADERS OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT ?
Q11.WHAT IS PEASANTS AND THE EARLY NATIONALISM ?
Q12.HOW IS DEBATE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND THE PEASANTRY ?
Q13 WHAT IS POLITICAL SITUATION IN INDIA 1930-39 – A
BACKGROUND ?
Q14 .WHAT ARE THE SPREAD OF THE MOVEMENT: POPULAR
RESPONSE AND REGIONAL PATTERN ?
Q15 .WHAT IS THE LAHORE SESSION ?
Q16 .WHAT IS CHAMPARAN SATYAGRAHA ?