AHSEC| CLASS 12| HISTORY| QUESTION PAPER - 2021| H.S. 2ND YEAR
2021
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: 1x12=12
(a) Where was the Indian Valley Civilization discovered first? 1
(b) What was ‘Tamilakam’? 1
(c) What is the meaning of the term ‘Tipitaka’? 1
(d) Who is the writer of the ‘Fathiyah-i-Ibriah’? 1
(e) Who was Jean-Baptiste Tavernier? 1
(f) What do you mean by ‘Silsila’? 1
(g) What is ‘Gopuram’? 1
(h) Who wrote ‘Ain-i-Akbari’? 1
(i) Who Introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal? 1
(j) In which year was Railway service started in India? 1
(k) Who killed Mahatma Gandhi? 1
(l) Who coined the term ‘Pakistan’? 1
2. Answer the following questions in
brief: 2x12=24
(a) Write briefly about the religious beliefs of the Harappan
Culture. 2
(b) What do you mean by exogamy and endogamy? 2
(c) What were ‘Brahmottar’ and ‘Dharmottar’ land? 2
(d) What is ‘Buranji’? Mention the name of a Buranji written in the
Ahom period. 2
(e) Name the two rebels of Assam hanged by the British in 1858. 2
(f) Who were the ‘Alvars’ and ‘the Nayanars’? 2
(g) What was ‘Milkiyat’? 2
(h) What do you understand by ‘Kitabkhana’? 2
(i) Mention two women leaders of the Revolt of 1857. 2
(j) Why was the Lahore Session of Congress 1929 important in Indian
history? 2
(k) Describe how did women experience the partition of India. 2
(l) Mention two measures recommended by the Constituent Assembly for
the abolition of untouchability in India. 2
3. Answer the following questions: (any
eight) 5x8=40
(a) Give a description of the town planning of the Harappan
Civilization. 5
(b) What were, according to ‘Manusmriti’, the means of acquiring
wealth for men and women? Do you think that these means differentiate men and
women? 3+2=5
(c) Summaries the central teachings of Buddhism. 5
(d) Give a description of the Ahom capital Garhgaon as described by
Shihabuddin Talish. 5
(e) Discuss the role of women in the agrarian society of medieval
India. 5
(f) Give a description of the defence arrangements of Vijayanagar. Why
did it enclose the agricultural tracts? 4+1=5
(g) How was land classified under emperor Akbar? How was land
revenue assessed? 3+2=5
(h) How did the American Civil War affect the lives of ryots in
India? 5
(i) What were the concerns that influenced the British in their town
planning in India in the 19th century? 5
(j) Mention the arguments raised by some members in the debates of
the Constituent Assembly against separate electorate system. 5
4. Read the given passages carefully and
answer the questions that follow:
(a) Evidence of an “invasion”
The Rigveda mentions pur meaning rampart, fort, or stronghold. Indra,
the Aryan war-god is called puramdara the fort-destroyer.’
Where are-or were – these citadels? It has the past been supposed
that they were mythical…. The recent excavation of Harappa may be thought to
have changed the picture. Here were have a highly evolved civilization of
essentially non-Aryan type, now known to have employed massive fortifications… What
destroyed this firmly settled civilization? Climatic, economic or political deterioration
may have weakened it, but its ultimate extinction is more likely to have been
completed by deliberate and large-scale destruction. It may be no more chance
that at a late period of Mohenjodaro men, women, and children, appear to have
been massacred there. On circumstantial evidence, Indra stands accused.
From R. E. M. WHEELER, “Harappa 1946”, Ancient India, 1947.
(i) What is the meaning of the word ‘pur’? 1
(ii) Who is Indra? Why is he called ‘puramdara’? 2
(iii) What might be the causes of destruction of the Harappan
civilization? 3
Or
Languages 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.
(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
(b) Widespread poverty
Pelsaert, a Dutch traveller, visited the subcontinent during the
early decades of the seventeenth century. Like Bernier, he was shocked to see
the widespread poverty, “Poverty so great and miserable that the life of the
people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want
and the dwelling place of bitter woe”. Holding the state responsible, he says: “So
much is wrung from the peasants that even dry bread is scarcely left to fill
their stomachs.”
(i) Who was Pelsaert? Which country did he visit? 2
(ii) Why was the shocked? 2
(iii) Why were the people, according to him, poverty stricken? 2
Or
Travels of the ‘Badshah Nama’
Gifting of precious manuscripts was a 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 1977 for the
first time, the Badshah Nama paintings were shown in exhibitions in New Delhi, London,
and Washington.
(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) Why did the Mughals present such manuscripts as gifts? 1
(c) The Azamgarh Proclamation, 25 August, 1857
Section III – Regarding Public Servants. It is not a secret thing,
that under the British Government, natives employed in the civil and military
services have little respect, low pay, and no manner of influence; and all the
posts of dignity and emolument in both the departments are exclusively bestowed
on Englishmen, … Therefore, all the natives in the British service ought to be
alive to their religion and interest, and abjuring their loyalty to the English,
side with the Badshahi Government, and obtain salaries of 200 and 300 rupees a
month for the present, and be entitled to high post in the future…
(i) Who issued this proclamation and to whom? 2
(ii) What was the Badshahi Government referred to here? 1
(iii) Why were the public servants asked to join them? 3
Or
“Without a shot being fired”
This is what Moon wrote:
For over twenty-four hours riotous mobs were allowed to rage through
this great commercial city unchallenged and unchecked. The finest bazaars were
burnt to the ground without a shot being fired to disperse the incendiaries
(i.e. those who stirred up conflict). The …… District Magistrate marched his (large
police) force into the city and marched it out again without making any
effective use of it at all….
(i) What was the cause of this riot? 2
(ii) Why could not the riotous mob be challenged? 2
(iii) What measures the police and the administrators should have
taken against the wrongdoers? 2
5. Draw a map of India and mark the
following places: 3+3=6
Guwahati, Jorhat, Benares, Delhi, Kanpur, and Mumbai.
Or
In what way did Mahatma Gandhi transform the nature of the national
movement? 6
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