BHUPENDRA SINGH RAGHAV HISTORY/ SOCIAL SCIENCE

 NOMADIC EMPIRE Class-xi    SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS 1. Where did historians get information about Mongols? Ans. Historians got information about mongols mainly from chronicles, travelogues and documents produced by city based scholars. 2.Name two Russian historians who did excellent research on Mongols. Ans. Boris Yakovlevich Vladimirtsov and Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold were the two historians who produced some good quality work on Mongol's history. 3. Why was Bartold work on Mongols censored?  Ans.Bartold sympathetic and positive view on the achievements of the Mongols under the Genghis Khan and his successors were against the view point of Stalin regime. So his works were censored and curtailed from circulation. 4.Who were Mongols? Ans. The Mongols were a diverse body of people, linked by similarities of language to the Tatars, Khitan and Manchus to the East and the Turkic tribes to the West. 5. What did Mongols do for living?  Ans. Some of the Mongols were pastoralists and

 

 

 Sample Question Paper-1 (Issued by Board dated 16th Sep. 2022) HISTORY Class- XII Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80 four varnas General Instructions: (i) Question paper comprises five Sections - ABCD and E. There are 34 questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory. (ii) Section A-Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each (iii) Section B-Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 60-80 words. (iv) Section C-Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type Questions, carrying 8 marks each.Answer to each  question not exceed 300-350 words.  (v) Section D-Question no. 31 to 33 are Source based questions with three sub questions and are of 4 marks each (vi) Section E-Question no 34 is Map based carrying 5 marks that includes the identification and location of significant and location of significant test items.Attach the map with the answer book .  (vii)There is no overall choice in the question pape

 CASE BASED QUESTION 1.Read the source given below carefully and answer the questions that follow: "We are not going just to copy' This is what Jawahar Lal Nehru said in his famous speech of 13 December, 1946: We say that it is our firm and solemn resolve to have an independent sovereign republic. India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it is bound to be a republic... Now, some friends have raised the question: "Why have you not put in the word 'democratic' here?" Well, I told them that it is conceivable, of course, that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously we are aiming at democracy and nothing less than a democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and elsewhere, have played a great part in the world's progress. Yet it may be doubtful if

CASE BASED QUESTIONS(ANSWER)  ANS.1.(i) Politically, sovereignty refers to a dominant power or supreme authority. Sovereignty can be defined as the independent authority of the State, unaffected by any other State or outside power (ii) During its first year as an independent nation, the Constituent Assembly of India drafted the Constitution of India. Members of the British Cabinet Mission and the leaders of the Indian independence movement negotiated its establishment. (iii) Democracies cannot be copied by democratic means in a supposedly democratic country. On the contrary, democracy improves with time. Any government set up here must be compatible with the temperament of the people. ANS.2.(i) As Govind Ballabh Pant argued, people need to stop focusing exclusively on themselves and their communities in order to become loyal citizens. In order to succeed in democracy, one must learn self- discipline. (ii) For the success of democracy, one should have loyalty to static. There should be