History Board Sample Paper 2023-2024 Commerce (English Medium) Class 12 Question Paper Solution

What was the main demand of khilafat movement?

Dominion status for India 

Self rule to India 

Restoration of Caliphate of Turkey

Revival of orthodox culture of Islam

Which of the following issues did not contribute to the spread of the Revolt of 1857?

Issue of cartridges

Conversion of Indians to Christianity

Mixing of bone dust in flour

Giving due right to the princely states

Who among the following was the best-known ruler of the Satavahana dynasty?

Yagnasri Satakarni

Simuka Satakarni

Gotami-puta Siri-Satakarni

Vasisthaputra Satakarni

Identify the picture from the given options.

Terracotta figure of a sathavahana ruler

Ashoka fighting Kalinga war.

Terracotta figure depicting a scene from Mahabaratha (West Bengal)

A sculpture depicting Krishna advising Arjuna.

Ashoka erected a pillar at ______ to mark that he had visited that place.

Sarnath

Sanchi

Bodh Gaya

Lumbini

Consider the following statements regarding Harappan Culture and choose the correct option.

1. The most unique feature was the development of urban centres.
2. The settlements were divided into two sections i.e. the citadel and the lower town.
3. Drainage system was ordinary and unplanned.
4. Roads were not laid out along a grid pattern.

Only (i) is correct.

Only (i) and (ii) are correct.

Only (ii) and (iii) are correct.

Only (iii) and (iv) are correct.

Assertion (A): Asoka inscribed his messages to his subjects and officials on stone surfaces.

Reason (R): He wanted to proclaim what religion should be followed by all.

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

A is true, but R is false.

A is false, but R is true.

Identify the craft centres related to the Harapan civilization with the help of the given information.

Chanhudaro and Mahenjadaro

Nageshwar and Balakot

Harappa and Lothal

Bharuch and Dholavira

Who wrote the book Kitab-ul-Hind?

Ibn Battuta 

Al-Biruni 

Francois Bernier 

None of these

Abdur Razzaq

Choose the correct option from the following statements with reference to the Magadha empire.

Initially Pataliputra was the capital of Magadha.

Chandra Gupta was one of the early rulers of Magadha who ruled in the 6^th BCE.

Magadha became the most powerful Mahajanapada between 6^th and 4^th BCE.

Ashoka was the founder of Mauryan dynasty.

Read the following statements carefully and identify the place where this Dargah is located from the given options.

Delhi

Mehrauli

Ajmer

Fatehpur Sikri

What was the source of cotton after American Civil War break out?

Australia 

India 

Africa 

Sri Lanka

America

With reference to the role of the British officers in India, match Column-B with column-A, by using the codes given below.

2, 1, 4, 3

3, 1, 2, 4

3, 4, 1, 2

2, 3, 4, 1

Who among the following led the Flag of the Revolt 1857 against the British in Bihar?

Nana Sahib

Maulvi Ahmadullah

Kunwar Singh

Birjis Qadr

The ______ was the amount assessed and ______ was the amount collected by the Mughal Kings as land revenue.

Iqta and Jagir

Jama and Hasil

Naqdi and Iqta

Zabti and Jama

Who among the following travelled in Vijayanagar Empire in the fifteenth century and was greatly impressed by the fortification of the Vijayanagar empire?

Duarte Barbosa

Abdur Razzak

Colin Mackenzie

Domingo Paes

Abu'l Fazl was a court historian of which Mughal emperor?

Humayun 

Babur 

Akbar 

Jahangir

Dussehra festival was held with great prestige and power at ______ the Vijayanagar empire.

Hazara Rama Temple

Virupaksha Temple

Lotus Mahal

Mahanavami Dibba

Why was the task of defining minority rights in the Constituent Assembly difficult? Choose the correct option from the following:

Different groups had different demands regarding rights.

British did not want to include it in the constitutional frame work.

Gandhiji opposed the idea of special rights for some sections.

Rights of people in Princely states were ambiguous.

Identify the name of the person from the information given below.

1. He was born at Tangier in one of the most respectable and educated family.
2. He considered experience gained through travel as a source of knowledge than books.
3. He had travelled extensively in middle east and few trading ports on the coast of East Africa.
4. He wrote a book named Rihia.

Ibn Battuta

Francois Bernier

Al Biruni

Domingo Paes

In which Satyagraha, Gandhiji asked for the remission of taxes for peasants following the failure of their harvest?

Rowlatt Satyagraha

Champaran Satyagraha 

Kheda Satyagraha

Individual Satyagraha

Salt Satyagraha

Describe any three features of the burial sites in Harappa.

Describe any three features of the ‘Great Bath’ used in the Harappan settlements.

Critically examine the limitations of the inscriptional evidence in understanding political and economic history of India.

“India had unique system of communication during the 14^th century” Examine the statement made by Ibn Battuta.

Analyse the main features of Amara nayaka system which was introduced in the Vijayanagar Empire.

“The Burdwan auction had a strange twist and was considered as a big public event in 1797”, explain the statement.

“The relationship of the sepoys with the superior white officers underwent a significant change in the years preceding the uprising of 1857”, support the statement with examples.

“A cherry that will drop into our mouth one day”, who made this remark?

Explain the series of events that eventually led the cherry to fall into the mouth of the British.

“The Mahabharata is an invaluable source available to historians to study social practices and norms in early societies”, Justify the statement.

Analyse the elements examined by historians on Mahabharata as text.

Answer in 100-150 words:

Examine the evidence that suggests that land revenue was important for the Mughal fiscal system.

Examine the condition of zamindars in Mughal agrarian society.

Quit India movement was genuinely a mass movement bringing into its ambit hundreds of thousands of ordinary Indians. Elucidate the statement with suitable examples.

Examine the different kinds of sources from which the political career of Gandhiji and the history of the National movement could be reconstructed.

Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow.

1. Identify the person who persuaded the king to renounce the world.
2. “Oh king, dhamma alone and nothing else will save you”- What does the word “dhamma” signifies and whose teachings was followed by the disciple.
3. Under which context the following statement “unchecked like birds in their flight…….” was told by the disciple of Mahavira?

Read the source carefully and answer the questions that follow:

1. How beauty has been personified by Karaikal Ammaiyar?
2. “Bulging veins, protruding eyes, white teeth and shrunken stomach”, “Shouts and wails” State the reason behind the poet’s condition in the excerpt given.
3. Examine the phrase “With his matted hair thrown in all eight directions”.

Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:

1. ‘They have left a legacy behind “who is referred as’ They’ in this statement.
2. What do you infer from the statement ‘they have left the legacy behind Are we to get out of it or not?
3. Identify the ultimate message stressed by Sardar Valla Bhai Patel in his speech.

1. On the given political map of India, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols:
   1. Kalibangan, a Harappan site
   2. Agra, a territory under Babur, Akbar, and Aurangzeb
   3. Sanchi, a Buddhist site
      OR
   4. Ajanta, a Buddhist site
2. On the same outline map, two places have been marked as A and B, which are centres of the National movement. Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them.