AHSEC| CLASS 12| HISTORY| QUESTION PAPER - 2022| H.S. 2ND YEAR
2022
HISTORY
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: Three hours
The figures in the margin indicate
full marks for the questions.
1. Answer the following questions: (any twelve) 1x12=12
(a) Where was the
Indus Valley Civilization discovered first?
(b) Name the
first Mahajanapada.
(c) Name one of
the grains found at the Harappan sites.
(d) Who authored
‘Chakaripheti Buranji’?
(e) During whose
reign was the Umananda temple at Guwahati built?
(f) Who was the
first woman Bhikkhuni?
(g) Who was the
first woman ruler of the Ahom Kingdom?
(h) Who was the
author of ‘Rihla’?
(i) Who was the
physician of Mughal Prince Dara Shukoh?
(j) Name the
favourite calligraphy of Akbar.
(k) Name the
first British colony in India.
(l) In which year
did the British government abolish the sati system in India?
(m) Who termed
the Revolt of 1857 as the first war of Indian Independence?
(n) In which year
was the capital of India shifted to Delhi from Calcutta?
(o) Who was the first
editor of ‘Junaki’?
(p) When was the
first railway started in India?
2. Answer the following questions in brief: (any
twelve) 2x12=12
(a) Mention any
two characteristics of the Harappan Civilization.
(b) Name any two
important sites of the Harappan Civilization.
(c) What metals
did the Harappans procure from Khetri region of Rajasthan and Kolar of
Karnataka?
(d) Where and
when did the peasant revolt first take place in Assam?
(e) What is
Mahayana?
(f) When did
Mirjumla invade Assam? Which author accompanied him?
(g) What were
the right occupations of the Kshayatriyas?
(h) Write any
two limitations of inscriptional evidence.
(i) Why did Abul
Fazal describe painting as magical art?
(j) What do you
understand by ‘Kitabkhana’?
(k) Name any two
Sufi saints of Medieval India.
(l) What were ‘zimma’
and ‘jizya’?
(m) Who
established the Vijaynagar Empire and when?
(n) What were
White Town and Black Town?
(o) Why did
Mahatma Gandhi consider Hindustani to be national language of India?
(p) Mention two
women leaders of the Revolt of 1857.
(q) Who called
for ‘Direct Action’ and which day was chosen for it?
3. Answer the following questions: (any ten) 4x10=40
(a) Give a description
of the town planning of the Harappan Civilization.
(b) Give a brief
description of the administrative system of the Ahoms.
(c) How could
men and women acquire wealth according to ‘Manusmriti’?
(d) Make a note
on the social system seen in the Mahabharata.
(e) Mention the causes
of the rise of Magadha.
(f) Make a note
on the teaching of the Buddha.
(g) Discuss
about the fortification of Vijaynagar.
(h) Make a note
on the sources to reconstruct the Sufi tradition.
(i) Who coined
the term ‘great’ and ‘little’ traditions and why? What do ‘great’ and ‘little’
traditions mean? 1+3=4
(j) Discuss
about the role of the zamindars in the Mughal period.
(k) How did the
Paharias use the forests for their livelihood?
(l) What were
the concerns that influenced the British in their town planning in India in the
19th century?
(m) How did the Indians
carry out the programme of the Quit India Movement?
(n) What was
Permanent Settlement? Why did the zamindars fail to meet the revenue demand?
(o) What do you
mean by Oral Source? How does it help in writing history of the partition of
India?
(p) Discuss the
role of women in Mughal Royal family.
4. Read the given passage carefully and answer the
questions that follow: 6x3=18
(a) How could
men and women acquire wealth?
For men, the
Manusmriti declares, there are seven means of acquiring wealth: inheritance,
finding, purchase, conquest, investment, work, and acceptance of gifts from
good people.
For women, there
are six means of acquiring wealth: What was given in front of the fire
(marriage) or the bridal procession, or as a token of affection, and what she
got from her brother, mother or father. She could also acquire wealth through
any subsequent gift and whatever her’ affectionate’ husband might give her.
Questions:
(i) What were
the means of acquiring wealth for men and women? 4
(ii) Do you
think that means of acquiring wealth differentiated men and women? If so,
how? 2
Or
(b) Language
and Scripts:
Most Asokan
inscriptions were in the Prakrit language while those in the northwest of the
subcontinent were in Aramaic and Greek. Most Prakrit inscriptions were written
in the Brahmi script; however, some, in the northwest, were written in Kharosthi.
The Aramaic and Greek scripts were used for inscriptions in Afghanistan.
Questions:
(i) To which source
of history do the inscription belong? 1
(ii) In which
languages the Asokan inscriptions were written? 2
(iii) What were
the scripts used to inscribe the Asokan inscriptions? 3
(c) Land
Revenue:
Cash or Kind
The Ain-i-Akbari
on land revenue collection:
Let him (the
Amil-guzar) not make it a practice of taking only in cash but also in kind. The
latter is affected several ways. First, Kankut in Hindi language ‘kan’
signifies grain, and ‘kut’ estimates….. if any doubts arise, the crops should
be cut and estimated in three lots, the good, the middling, and the inferior,
and the hesitation removed. Often too, the land taken by appraisement, gives a
sufficiently accurate return. Secondly, batai, also called bhaoli, the crops
are reaped and stacked and divided by agreement in the presence of the parties.
But in this case several intelligent inspectors are required otherwise, the
evil minded and false are given to deception. Thirdly khetbatai, when they divide
the fields after they are sown. Fourthly, lang batai, after cutting the grains,
they form it in heaps and divide it among themselves, and each takes his share
home and turns it to profit.
Questions:
(i) Who were the
amil-guzars? 1
(ii) What was
the medium of land revenue collection? 1
(iii) What were
the methods of collecting land revenue in kind?
4.
Or
(d) Travels
of the ‘Badsha Nama’:
Gifting of precious
manuscripts was an established diplomatic custom under the Mughals. In emulation
of this, the Nawab of Awadh gifted the illustrated Badshah Nama to king George
III in 1799. Since then, it has been preserved in the English Royal collections,
now at Windsor Castle.
In 1994,
conservation work required the bound manuscript to be taken apart. This made it
possible to exhibit the paintings, and in 1997 for the first time, the Badshah
Nama paintings were shown in exhibitions in New Delhi, London and Washington.
Questions:
(i) Who wrote
the Badshah Nama and why? 2
(ii) Who gifted
the Badshah Nama in 1799 and to whom? Why did he do so? 3
(iii) In which
place the Badshah Nama paintings were exhibited? 1
(e) “The real
minorities are the masses of this country”
Welcoming the
Objective Resolution introduced by Jawaharlal Nehru, N. G. Ranga said:
Sir, there is a
lot of talk about minorities. Who are the real minorities? Not the Hindus in
the so-called Pakistan provinces, not the Sikhs, not even the Muslims. No, the
real minorities are the masses of this country. These people are so depressed
and oppressed and suppressed till now that they are not able to take advantage
of the ordinary civil rights. What is the position? You go to the tribal areas.
According to law, their own traditional law, their tribal law, their lands can not
be alienated. Yet our merchants go there, and in the so-called free market they
are able to snatching away to their lands. Thus, even though the law goes
against this snatching away of their lands, still the merchants are able to turn
the tribal people into veritable slaves by various kinds of bonds, and make
them hereditary bondslaves. Let us go to the ordinary villagers. There goes the
money-lender with his money and he is able to get the villagers in his pocket. There
is a landlord himself, the zamindar, and the malguzar and there are various
other people who are able to exploit these people. These are the real
minorities that need protection and assurance of protection. In order to give
them the necessary protection, we will need much more than this Resolution.
Questions:
(i) Who are,
according to N. G. Ranga, the real minorities?
1
(ii) Why are
they the real minorities? 3
(iii) Why do
they need protection? 2
Or
(f) From the
mid eighteenth century, there was a new phase of change. Commercial centers
such as Surat, Masulipatanam and Dhaka, which had grown in the seventeenth century,
declined when trade shifted to other places. As the British gradually acquired
political control after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, and the trade of the
English East India Company expanded, colonial port cities such as Madras,
Calcutta and Bombay rapidly emerged as the new economic capitals. They also
became centers of colonial administration and military power. New buildings and
institutions developed, and urban spaces were ordered in new ways. New occupations
developed and people flocked to these colonial cities. By about 1800, they were
the biggest cities in terms of population.
Questions:
(i) Why did the commercial
centers decline which grew in the 17th century? 1
(ii) What were
the causes of the emergence of the new economic capitals? 2
(iii) What were
the characters of the newly emerged cities?
3
5. (i) Draw a map of India and identify the following
places: 3+3=6
Or
(ii) Draw a map
of India and locate any three important great Mahajanapadas. 3+3=6
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