CBSE Class 12 Psychology Question Paper 2019 with Answer Key (March 29)

CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  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.”

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• 2.

  Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
  The Revolt of 1857
  Late in the afternoon of 10 May 1857, the sepoys in the cantonment of Meerut broke out in mutiny. It began in the lines of the tive infantry, spread very swiftly to the cavalry and then to the city. The ordiry people of the town and surrounding villages joined the sepoys. The sepoys captured the bell of arms where the arms and ammunition were kept and proceeded to attack white people, and to ransack and burn their bungalows and property. Government buildings — the record office, jail, court, post office, treasury, etc. — were destroyed and plundered. The telegraph line to Delhi was cut. As darkness descended, a group of sepoys rode off towards Delhi.
  The sepoys arrived at the gates of the Red Fort early in the morning on 11 May. It was the month of Ramzan, the Muslim holy month of prayer and fasting. The old Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, had just finished his prayers and meal before the sun rose and the fast began. He heard the commotion at the gates. The sepoys who had gathered under his window told him: “We have come from Meerut after killing all the Englishmen there, because they asked us to bite bullets that were coated with the fat of cows and pigs with our teeth. This has corrupted the faith of Hindus and Muslims alike.” Another group of sepoys also entered Delhi, and the ordiry people of the city joined them. Europeans were killed in large numbers; the rich of Delhi were attacked and looted. It was clear that Delhi had gone out of British control. Some sepoys rode into the Red Fort, without observing the elaborate court etiquette expected of them. They demanded that the emperor give them his blessings. Surrounded by the sepoys, Bahadur Shah had no other option but to comply. The revolt thus acquired a kind of legitimacy because it could now be carried on in the me of the Mughal emperor.
  

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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.

  (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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• 5.

  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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• 6.

  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.