AHSEC| CLASS 12| HISTORY| QUESTION PAPER - 2023| H.S. 2ND YEAR
2023
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
(i) Write the
meaning of the word ‘Mohenjo-daro’.
(ii) Who was
known as ‘Devanampiya’?
(iii) Who first
deciphered Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts?
(iv) Who
authored ‘Arthasastra’?
(v) Who was the
founder of the Varman dynasty?
(vi) Who described
painting as a ‘magical art’?
(vii) Name one
major composition of Shrimanta Shankardeva.
(viii) What does
the word ‘Harem’ mean?
(ix) Where was
Guru Nanak born?
(x) What was
Mahanavami Dibba?
(xi) Who was the
last Mughal Emperor?
(xii) Who introduced
Doctrine of Lapse?
(xiii) Who
coined the name ‘Pakistan’?
(xiv) When was
the Indian National Congress formed?
(xv) Where was
the first girls school opened in Assam?
(xvi) Name the
famous work of Ibn Battuta.
2. Answer the following questions in brief: (any twelve)
2x12=24
(i) Write two
causes of the downfall of the Harappan Civilization.
(ii) Who were
the Prativedakas? Mention one duty of the Prativedakas.
(iii) Give two
examples of right occupation.
(iv) Name the
four divisions of Kamrupa as mentioned in the Yogini Tantra.
(v) Give two
examples of Buranjis written in the Ahom period.
(vi) Name two
kinds of postal system in India.
(vii) What were
the two land revenue arrangements under the Mughals?
(viii) Who
discovered the ruins of Hampi and when?
(ix) Mention two
sources used to reconstruct the history of Sufi tradition.
(x) Who were Lal-Bal-Pal?
(xi) Name two
novels based on India’s partition.
(xii) Name two
important crops grown in Awadh.
(xiii) Write two
limitations of oral sources.
(xiv) Name any
two members of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution.
(xv) Write two
characteristics of the India Constitution.
3. Answer the following questions: (any ten) 4x10=40
(i) Explain the
pattern of domestic architecture of Mohenjo-daro.
(ii) What were
the different rules of marriage suggested by the ‘Dharmashastras’ and ‘Dharmasutras’
for the Indian Hindus?
(iii) Write a
note on the administrative system of the Mauryan Empire.
(iv) Write a
brief note on the Renaissance in Assam.
(v) Discuss
about Mir Jumla’s invasion of Assam.
(vi) Discuss the
role of Maniram Dewan in the Revolt of 1857.
(vii) Give a
brief description of the fortification and roads of Vijaynagar.
(viii) Write a
note on Abul Fazal’s ‘Ain-i-Akbari’.
(ix) Discuss the
major teachings of Kabir.
(x) Why did the
Santhal rebel against the British rule?
(xi) Give a description
of the architecture of Bombay.
(xii) Write an
essay on the Quit India Movement.
(xiii) What was
Gandhi-Irwin Pact? Write two terms of the Pact. 2+2=4
(xiv) What were the problems with separate electorate?
4. Read the following passages carefully and answer the
questions that follow: (any three) 6x3=18
(a)
Prabhavati Gupta and the village Danguna.
This is what
Prabhavati Gupta states in her inscription:
Prabhavati Gupta…commands
the gramakutumbinas (house-holders/ peasants living in the village), Brahmanas
and others living in the village of Danguna… “Be it known to you that on the
twelfth (lunar day) of the bright (fortnight) of Karttika, we have, in order to
increase our religious merit donated this village with the pouring out of water,
to the Acharya (Teacher) Chanalasvamin… You should obey all (his) commands…
We confer on
(him) the following exemptions typical of an Agrahara.. (this village is) not
to be entered by soldiers and policemen; (it is) exempt from (the obligation to
provide) grass, (animal) hides as seats, and charcoal (to touring royal
officers): exempt from (the royal prerogative of) purchasing fermenting liquors
and digging (salt); exempt from (the right to) mines and Khadira trees; exempt
from (the obligation to supply) flowers and milk; (it is donated) together with
(the right to) hidden treasures and deposits (and) together with major and
minor taxes…”
(i) What was
Agrahara? 1
(ii) Who
donated the village and to whom? 1+1=2
(iii) What
were the exemptions granted to the Agrahara Danguna? 3
(b) The Buddha
(and other teachers) taught orally-through discussion and debate. Men and women
(perhaps children as well) attended these discourses and discussed what they
heard. After his death (c.fifth-fourth century BCE) his teachings were complied
by his disciples at a council of “elders” or senior monks at Vaishali. These compilations
were known as Tripitakas-literally, three baskets to hold different types of
texts. They were first transmitted orally and then written and classified
according to length as well as subject matter.
The Vinaya
Pitaka included rules and regulations for those who joined the sangha or
monastic order; the Buddha’s teachings were included in the Sutta Pitaka; and
the Abhidhamma Pitaka dealt with philosophical matters. Each Pitaka comprised a
number of individual texts. Later, commentaries were written on these texts by
Buddhist scholars.
(i) What are
Tripitakas? Name them. 2+1=3
(ii) What do
the three Pitakas deal with? 3
(c) Ibn
Battuta’s account of Delhi:
The city of
Delhi covers a wide area and has a large population… The rampart round the city
without parallel.
The breadth of
its wall is eleven cubits; and inside it are houses for night sentry and
gate-keepers. Inside the ramparts, there are store-houses for storing edibles,
magazines, ammunition, ballistas and siege machines. The grains that are stored
(in these ramparts) can last for a long time, without rotting…In the interior
of the rampart, horsemen as well as infantrymen move from one end of the city to
another. The rampart is pierced through by windows which open on the side of
the city, and it is through these windows that light enters inside. The lower
part of the rampart is built of stone; the upper part of bricks. It has many
towers close to one another. There are twenty eight gates of this city which
are called darwaza, of these, the Budaun darwaza is the greatest; inside the
Mandwi darwaza there is a grain market…It (the city of Delhi) has a fine
cemetery in which graves have domes over them, and those that do not have a dome,
have an arch, for sure. In the cemetery they sow flowers such as tuberose,
jasmine, wild rose, etc; and flowers blossom there in all seasons.
(i) How many
gates were there in the city of Delhi? Name the greatest gate. 1+1=2
(ii) Give a
brief description of the ramparts of Delhi as described by Ibn Battuta. 2
(iii) How was
the cemetery of Delhi? 2
(d) “I believe
seperate electorates will be suicidal to the minorities.” During the debate on
27th August, 1947, Govind Ballabh Pant said, “I believe seperate
electorates will be suicidal to the minorities and will do them tremendous harm.
If they are isolated for ever, they can never convert themselves into a
majority and feeling of frustration will cripple them even from the very
beginning. What is it that you desire and what is our ultimate objective? Do
the minorities always want to remain as minorities or do they ever expect to form
an integral part of the great notion and as such to guide and control its
destinies? If they do, can they ever achieve that aspiration and that ideal if
they are isolated from the rest of the community? I think it would be extremely
dangerous for them if they were segregated from the rest of the community and kept
aloof in an air-tight compartment where they would have to rely on others even
for the air they breath… The minorities if they are returned by separate electorates
can never have any effective voice.”
(i) Why did
Govind Ballabh Pant believe that separate electorates would be a suicidal step
to the minorities?3
(ii) Why ,according
to Pant, separate electorates would be dangerous for the minorities? 3
5. (i) Draw a map of India and plot three areas under
the Mughals. 3+3=6
Or
(ii) Draw a map
of India and plot three places where the Revolt of 1857 held. 3+3=6
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