CBSE Class 12 Home Science (Punjabi) Question Paper 2019 with Answer Key (April 1)

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.

  Aashree and Manvi were partners in a firm and their capitals were ₹ 6,00,000 and ₹ 4,00,000 respectively. Normal rate of return in a similar business was 15% and the goodwill of the firm was valued at ₹ 3,00,000. If goodwill was calculated at three years purchase of super profits, the average profits of the firm were :

  • ₹ 1,00,000
    
  • ₹ 45,000
    
  • ₹ 2,50,000
    
  • ₹ 1,50,000
    
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• 3.

  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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  Framing the Constitution
  The Indian Constitution, which came into effect on 26 January, 1950, has the dubious distinction of being the longest in the world. But its length and complexity are perhaps understandable when one considers the country’s size and diversity. At Independence, India was not merely large and diverse, but also deeply divided. A Constitution designed to keep the country together, and to take it forward, had necessarily to be an elaborate, carefully-worked-out, and painstakingly drafted document. For one thing, it sought to heal wounds of the past and the present, to make Indians of different classes, castes and communities come together in a shared political experiment. For another, it sought to nurture democratic institutions in what had long been a culture of hierarchy and deference. 
  The Constitution of India was framed between December 1946 and November 1949. During this time, its drafts were discussed clause-by-clause in the Constituent Assembly of India.

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  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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  Declining a Royal Gift

  This excerpt from a Sufi text describes the proceedings at Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya’s hospice in 1313:

  I (the author, Amir Hasan Sijzi) has the good fortune of kissing his (Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya’s) feet... At this time a local ruler had sent him the deed of ownership to two gardens and much land, along with the provisions and tools for their maintenance. The ruler had also made it clear that he was relinquishing all his rights to both the gardens and land. The master...had not accepted that gift. Instead, he had lamented: “What have I to do with gardens and fields and lands?... None of .... our spiritual masters had engaged in such activity.”

  Then he told an appropriate story: “.... Sultan Ghiyasuddin, who at that time was still known as Ulugh Khan, came to visit Shaikh Fariduddin (and) offered some money and ownership deeds for four villages to the Shaikh, the money being for the benefit of the dervishes (Sufis), and the land of his use. Smiling, Shaikh al Islam (Fariduddin) said: Give me the money. I will dispense it to the dervishes. But as for those land deeds, keep them. There are many who long for them. Give them away to such persons.”