SECTION-A

1. How will you define nature and environment? Comment on how man adapted to environment.

2. Do patterns of settlements in India reflect the ecological diversity of  its landscape? Discuss?

3. Discuss the advances made by different Indian historians in writing the history of environment of the colonial and post colonial period.

4. Comment on the nature of evidence for the hunting gathering societies in India. 

5. How do archaeology and literature help us to understand the ecological concerns of the megalithic people?

SECTION-B

6. Discuss how water rights came to be constituted as an important area of use of water as a resource.

7. How do you view the importance of conservation in the context of  degradation of environment? Discuss.

8. Highlight the major developments in the forest policies in independent India. 

9. What do you understand by the term bio-diversity? Discuss its significance. 

10. Discuss the question of patents in the context of environmental resources.