CBSE Class 12 History Question Paper 2004 Code 61/1/1

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  Examine the causes and events of the Quit India Movement.

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• 2.

  ‘‘The temple architecture of the Vijayanagara empire was distinctive and unique.’’ Explain the statement with examples.

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• 3.

  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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• 4.

  Examine the causes and events of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

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• 5.

  Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow :
  What the sepoys thought
  This is one of the arzis (petition or application) of rebel sepoys that have survived :
  A century ago the British arrived in Hindostan and gradually entertained troops in their service, and became masters of every state. Our forefathers have always served them, and we also entered their service ... By the mercy of God and with our assistance the British also conquered every place they liked, in which thousands of us, Hindostani men were sacrificed, but we never made any excuses or pretences nor revolted ... But in the year eighteen fifty seven the British issued an order that new cartridges and muskets which had arrived from England were to be issued; in the former of which the fats of cows and pigs were mixed; and also that attah of wheat mixed with powdered bones was to be eaten; and even distributed them in every Regiment of infantry, cavalry and artillery ...
  They gave these cartridges to the sowars (mounted soldiers) of the 3
  rd Light Cavalry, and ordered them to bite them; the troopers objected to it, and said that they would never bite them, for if they did, their religion and faith would be destroyed ... upon this the British officers paraded the men of the 3 Regiments and having prepared 1,400 English soldiers, and other Battalions of European troops and Horse Artillery, surrounded them, and placing six guns before each of the infantry regiments, loaded the guns with grape and made 84 new troopers prisoners, and put them in jail with irons on them ... The reason that the sowars of the Cantonment were put into jail was that we should be frightened into biting the new cartridges. On this account we and all our country-men having united together, have fought the British for the preservation of our faith ... we have been compelled to make war for two years and the Rajahs and Chiefs who are with us in faith and religion, are still so, and have undergone all sorts of trouble; we have fought for two years in order that our faith and religion may not be polluted. If the religion of a Hindoo or Mussalman is lost, what remains in the world ?

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• 6.

  Describe the process undertaken by V.S. Sukthankar and his team in preparing the critical edition of the Mahabharata.

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