CBSE Class 12 History Question Paper 2010 Code 61/1

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

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

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• 2.

  Read the given source and answer the question :
  Verses from the Upanishads
  Here are two verses from the Chhandogya Upanishad, a text composed in Sanskrit c. sixth century BCE :
  The nature of the self
  This self of mine within the heart, is smaller than paddy or barley or mustard or millet or the kernel of a seed of millet. This self of mine within the heart is greater than the earth, greater than the intermediate space, greater than heaven, greater than these worlds.
  The true sacrifice
  This one (the wind) that blows, this is surely a sacrifice ... While moving, it sanctifies all this; therefore it is indeed a sacrifice.

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  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 Quit India Movement.

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• 5.

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

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  Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow :
  How Silver Came to India:
  This excerpt from Giovanni Careri’s account (based on Bernier’s account) gives an idea of the enormous amount of wealth that found its way into the Mughal Empire :
  That the Reader may form some idea of the Wealth of this (Mughal) Empire, he is to observe that all the Gold and Silver, which circulates throughout the World at last Centres here. It is well known that as much of it comes out of America, after running through several Kingdoms of Europe, goes partly into Turky (Turkey), for several sorts of Commodities; and part into Persia, by the way of Smirna for Silk. Now the Turks not being able to abstain from Coffee, which comes from Hyeman (Oman), and Arabia ... nor Persia, Arabia, and the Turks themselves to go without the commodities of India, send vast quantities of Mony (money) to Moka (Mocha) on the Red Sea, near Babel Mandel; to Bassora (Basra) at the bottom of the Persian Gulgh (Gulf); ... which is afterwards sent over in Ships to Indostan (Hindustan). Besides the Indian, Dutch, English, and Portuguese Ships, that every Year carry the Commodities of Indostan to Pegu, Tanasserri (parts of Myanmar), Siam (Thailand), Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ... the Maldive Islands, Mozambique and other Places, must of necessity convey much Gold and Silver thither, from those Countries. All that the Dutch fetch from the Mines in Japan, sooner or later, goes to Indostan; and the goods carry’d hence into Europe, whether to France, England, or Portugal, are all purchas’d for ready Mony, which remains there.