Mentors Comments: Modern Indian History by BIPIN CHANDRA PAL (NCERT TEXTBOOK OLD) The question wants us to look into the social and economic conditions of the people in India, in the eighteenth century. In the introduction write a few introductory lines about the eighteenth-century India. E.g India of the 18th century, failed to make sufficient … Continue reading Social life and culture in the 18th century were marked by stagnation and dependence on the past. Comment. (15 Marks)