9. What constructive policy had Mr. Gladstone to oppose to that of Lord Beaconsfield in the Eastern Question, 187678? Can you answer the Liberal argument from the Tory point of view?

defects in the Gladstonian

10. Discuss what seem to you practice of politics, drawing your illustrations strictly from the years 1880-1885.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY.

PRELIMINARY HONOURS-COLONIAL.

(Candidates

1.

are recommended to answer not less than four, or more than six questions).

The chief sufferers by the result of the American Revolution were the West Indian Islands." Discuss this state

ment.

2. What were the chief causes of the Boer trek of 1836-8?

3.

Illustrate from the history of Australia the merits and defects of penal colonies.

4.

Discuss the importance of the services to the British Empire of either Lord Sydenham or Sir George Grey.

5.

What were the views of E. G. Wakefield on systematic

colonisation? How far have they been carried into effect, and with what success?

6.

Mr.

7.

What was the position of affairs in South Africa when Gladstone came into power in 1880?

as a method of government in the 19th century.

Account for the recrudescence of Chartered Companies

8. Give an account of the negotiations which led up to either (a) The Ashburton Treaty, or (b) The Oregon

Treaty,

9.

or (c) The Treaty of Washington (1871).

"There has been no effort so continuous, so subtle, supported by so much energy, and carried on with so much ability and acumen, as the attempt of Liberalism to effect the disintegration of the British Empire." (Disraeli in 1872). Explain this statement, and discuss its justice.

10. What has been the effect on British Colonial policy of the entrance of Germany into world-politics?

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY.

PRELIMINARY HONOURS-INDIA.

(Candidates are requested to attempt not less than four or more than six questions, and to include questions from both parts of the paper).

A.

1. Sketch either the history and organisation of the Dutch East India Co. to 1795, or of the Hudson's Bay Co. to 1713.

2.

The success of England in the East is largely due to the mistakes of France and the misfortunes of Holland in the West." (Lyall). Discuss this statement with reference to the period from 1660 to 1713.

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The breaking up of the Mughal Empire compelled it [i.e. the East India Co.] to choose between being driven out of India, or ruling over India." (Sir W. Hunter). Discuss

this statement.

4. Plassey; Panipát; Buxar (Baksar). spective importance of these battles?

What is the re

5. Clive, one of the mightiest of Englishmen." (G. Smith).

Discuss this estimate.

B.

6. Discuss the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773. How far were they responsible for the difficulties under Warren Hastings' régime?

Illustrate from

7. Estimate the part played by the Marathas in AngloIndian history between 1757 and 1818. Wellesley's Maratha policy the characteristics of that statesman's methods in Indian government.

8. Institute a comparison between Warren Hastings and any of the "Lawrence group," to illustrate changes in AngloIndian administrative morality between 1773 and 1857.

9. Enumerate the varieties of relation possible between England and the native states. What was 'annexation by lapse'; and how far was Dalhousie justified in his use of the doctrine?

10. Discriminate between the preventible and the inevitable causes which combined to produce the Mutiny. Το what extent was that event a practical criticism of the existing English administration?