CBSE Class 12 Air Conditioning And Refrigeration - IV Question Paper 2019 with Answer Key (February 16)

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  (For Visually Impaired Candidates)
  Name any two important capitals of the early states.
  Name one area which was under the rule of Aurangzeb.
  me the capital of Vijayagara Empire.
  Mention any two main centres of Indian tiol Movement.
  

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• 2.

  A Mother’s Advice

  The Mahabharata describes how, when war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas became almost inevitable, Gandhari made one last appeal to her eldest son Duryodhana.

  By making peace you honour your father and me, as well as your well-wishers... it is the wise man in control of his senses who guards his kingdom. Greed and anger drag a man away from his profits; by defeating these two enemies a king conquers the earth.... You will happily enjoy the earth, my son, along with the wise and heroic Pandavas.... There is no good in a war, no law (dharma) and profit (artha), let alone happiness; nor is there (necessarily) victory in the end – don’t set your mind on war...

  Duryodhana did not listen to this advice and fought and lost the war.

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  What taluqdars thought

  The attitude of the taluqdars was best expressed by Hanwant Singh, the Raja of Kalakankar, near Rae Bareli. During the mutiny, Hanwant Singh had given shelter to a British officer, and conveyed him to safety. While taking leave of the officer, Hanwant Singh told him:

  Sahib, your countrymen came into this country. You sent your officers round the districts to examine the titles to the estates. At one blow you took from me lands which from time immemorial had been in my family. I submitted. Suddenly misfortune fell upon you. The people of the land rose against you. You came to me whom you had despoiled. I have saved you. But now – now I march at the head of my retainers to Lucknow to try and drive you from the country.

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• 4.

  Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
  Here are the first, fourth, fifth and sixth forms of marriage from the Manusmriti :
  First: The gift of a daughter, after dressing her in costly clothes and honouring her with presents of jewels, to a man learned in the Veda whom the father himself invites.
  Fourth: The gift of a daughter by the father after he has addressed the couple with the text, “May both of you perform your duties together,” and has shown honour to the bridegroom.
  Fifth: When the bridegroom receives a maiden, after having given as much wealth as he can afford to the kinsmen and to the bride herself, according to his own will.
  Sixth: The voluntary union of a maiden and her lover … which springs from desire …
  

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• 5.

  Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
  
  A demon ?
  This is an excerpt from a poem by Karaikkal Ammaiyar in which she describes herself :
  The female Pey (demoness)
  with … bulging veins,
  protruding eyes, white teeth and shrunken stomach,
  red haired and jutting teeth
  lengthy shins extending till the ankles,
  shouts and wails
  while wandering in the forest.
  This is the forest of Alankatu,
  which is the home of our father (Shiva)
  who dances … with his matted hair
  thrown in all eight directions, and with cool limbs.
  

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  Trade between the hill tribes and the plains, c. 1595

  This is how Abu’l Fazl describes the transactions between the hill tribes and the plains in the suba of Awadh (part of present-day Uttar Pradesh):

  From the northern mountains quantities of goods are carried on the backs of men, of stout ponies and of goats, such as gold, copper, lead, musk, tails of the kutas cow (the yak), honey, chuk (an acid composed of orange juice and lemon boiled together), pomegranate seed, ginger, long pepper, majith (a plant producing a red dye) root, borax, zedoary (a root resembling turmeric), wax, woollen stuffs, wooden ware, hawks, falcons, black falcons, merlins (a kind of bird), and other articles. In exchange they carry back white and coloured clothes, amber, salt, asafoetida, ornaments, glass and earthen ware.