General Instructions:
(i) Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D 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 should 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 test items. Attach the map with the answer book.
(vi) There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal
choice has been provided
in few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions have to be
attempted.
(viii) In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section
and question, wherever
necessary.
Section A
Q.1. Who issued the first coins bearing the names of rulers ?
(a) Mauryas
(b) Indo- Greeks
(c) Guptas
(d) Satavahanas
Q.2. ‘The Great Bath’ & ‘The Great Granary’ belong to which site?
a) Mohenjo-daro
b) Bhirrana
c) Kalibangan
d) Lothal
Q.3. Which is the biggest Harappan Civilization site?
a) Ropar
b) Rakhigarhi
c) Kalibangan
d) Lothal
Q.4. In which of the following sites was found the seated male
Sculpture of the ‘Priest King’?
a) Amri
b) Kot diji
c) Mohenjo-daro
d) Kalibangan
Q.5. Who among the following is also known as the father of Indian
Archaeology?
(a) John Marshall
(b)b) Alexander Cunningham
(c) (c) REM Wheeler
(d)(d) RS Bisht
Q.6. Who founded the Mauryan Empire ?
(a) Chandragupta maurya
(b)Bindusar
(c) Asoka
(d)Ajatashatu
Q.7. Match the following
List I List II
A. Shortughai 1. Pakistan
B. Khetri 2. Afghanistan
C. Meluhha 3. Rajasthan
D. Kot Diji 4. Mesopotamia
(a) 1 234
(b)4 132
(c) 2 341
(d)1 342
Q.8. The local merchants of the Vijayanagar empire who participated
In the trade of horses were called-----------------:
(a) Gajapati
(b)Mahanayakas
(c) Kudirai Chettis
(d)Narapati
Q.9. Which of these was the most powerful Mahajanapada from 6th to
4th century BCE ?
(a) Kuru
(b) Magadha
(c) Panehala
(d) Ciandhra
Q.10. Harisena was a court poet of:
(a) Asoka
(b) Samudragupta
(c) Chandragupta Maurya
(d) Chandragupta II
Q.11. Which was the first capital of Magadha?
(a) Rajagrah
(b)Kalinga
(a) Pataliputra
(c) None of the above
Q.12. Who among the following had issued the first gold coins in the first
century CE?
(a) The Yaudheyas
(b) The Parthians
(c) The Guptas
(d) The Kushanas
Q.13. Who among the following was the composer of Prayaga
Prashasti?
(a) Banbhatta
(b) Charak
(c) Harisena
(d) Surdas
Q.14. Which one among the following dynasties built the Hiriya canal?
(a) Sangama dynasty
(b) Tuluva dynasty
(c) Saluva dynasty
(d) Aravidu dynasty
Q.15. Complete the following with the correct option
Kitab ul Hind : Al-Biruni , Rihla :………………. :
(a) Ibn Hawqal
(b)Ibn Jubayr
(c) Ibn Qalaqis
(d)Ibn Battuta
Q.16. Who among the following deciphered Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts?
a.Collin Mackenzie
b.John Marshall
c.James Prinsep
d.Asoka
Q.17. Arthashastra is an internal literary source of which dynasty?
a.Guptas
b.Maurya
c.Kushan
d.Tulava
Q.18. Duryodhana and his brothers were known as
(a) Kauravas
(b)Pandavas
(c) Malechhes
(d)Nishada
Q.19. Which source depicts that the paternal estate was to be divided
equally amongst sons after the death of parents?
a. Dharmashastras
b. Dharmasutras
c. Manusmriti
d. Upanishads
Q.20. Who among the following was the first woman to be ordained as a
bhikkhuni?
(A)Mahapajapati Gotami
(B)Yasodharā
(C)Mahamaya
(D) Shalabhanjika
Q.21. Who was the author of Ain-l-Akbari?
a.Al-Biruni
b.Abul Fazl
c.E Rahim
d. Fakir Azian-Din
Section B
Q.22. Why was the Objective resolution a historic resolution?
Q.23. Why did Gandhiji start Non-cooperation Movement? Why was it
withdrawn?
Q.24. Write the significance of ‘Virupaksha temple’.
Q.25. Mention two earliest Bhakti movements of Tamil Nadu, giving the
main differences between them.
Q.26. What were three strategies adopted by the Brahmins for enforcing
social norms?
Q.27. Who was the first ruler who inscribed his messages to his people on
stone? What are the principles of Dhamma?
Section C
Q.28. Discuss the major features of Mughal provincial administration.
Or
Discuss the development of Mughal painting and its unique features.
Q.29. Describe how Buddha’s teachings have been reconstructed from the
stories of Sutta Pitaka?
Or
The Salt March of 1930 was the first event that brought Mahatma Gandhi
to world attention.” Explain the significance of this movement for Swaraj.
Q.30. How is the architect of Virupaksha Temple different from the Vitthala
Temple? Explain.
Or
What is meant by Mansabdari system? Discuss it main features.
Section D
Q.31.
This is an excerpt from the Sutta Pitaka, and contains the advice given by
the Buddha to a wealthy householder named Sigala. In five ways should a
master look after his servants and employees… by assigning them work
according to their strength, by supplying them with food. And wages, by
tending them in sickness; by sharing delicacies with them and by granting
leave at times … In five ways should the clansmen look after the needs of
Samanas (those who have renounced the world) and Brahmanas; by
affection in act and speech and mind, by keeping open house to them and
supplying their worldly needs. There are similar instructions to Sigala
about how to behave with his parents, teacher and wife.
1.In what ways should a master look after his servants and employees?
2. In what ways should the clansmen look after the needs of Samanas?
3.Explain the main aspects of Buddhist philosophy.
Q.32.
The Harashacharita is a biography of Harshavardhana , the ruler of
Kannauj ,composed in Sanskrit by his court poet;Banabhatta this is an
expert from the text an extremely rare representation of life in a
settlement of outskirts of a forest int the Vindhyas. The outskirts being for
the most part forest , many parcels ofm rice-land ,threshing ground and
arable land were being apportioned by small farmers . it was mainly spade
culture…. Owing to difficulty of ploughing the sparsely scattered fields
covered with grass with their few clear spaces, their black soil stiff as
black iron…. There were people moving alone with bundles of bark …
Countless sacks of plucked flowers ,loads of falx and hemp
bundles ,quantities of honey,peacock tail, feathers ,wreaths of wax,logs
and grass.Village wives hastenes on route for neighbouring villages, all
intent on thoughts of sale and bearing on their heads baskets filled with
various fruits gathered from forests.
1. Who was the author of Harshachatita?
2. Describe the outskirts of forest in the vidhyas?
3. Describe the acitivities of the people of that area.
Q.33.
Shah Mal lived in a large village in pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh. He
belonged to a clan of Jat cultivators whose kinship ties extended over
chaurasee des (eighty-four villages). The lands in the region were irrigated
and fertile, with rich dark loam soil. Many of the villagers were prosperous
and saw the British land revenue system as oppressive: the revenue
demand was high and its collection inflexible. Consequently cultivators
were losing land to outsiders, to traders and moneylenders who were
coming into the area. Shah Mal mobilised the headmen and cultivators of
chaurasee des, moving at night from village to village, urging people to
rebel against the British. As in many other places, the revolt against the
British turned into a general rebellion against all signs of oppression and
injustice. Cultivators left their fields and plundered the houses of
moneylenders and traders. Displaced proprietors took possession of the
lands they had lost. Shah Mal’s men attacked government buildings,
destroyed the bridge over the river, and dug up metalled roads – partly to
prevent government forces from coming into the area, and partly because
bridges and roads were seen as symbols of British rule. They sent supplies
to the sepoys who had mutinied in Delhi and stopped all official
communication between British headquarters and Meerut. Locally
acknowledged as the Raja, Shah Mal took over the bungalow of an English
officer, turned it into a “hall of justice”, settling disputes and dispensing
judgments. He also set up an amazingly effective network of intelligence.
For a period the people of the area felt that firangi raj was over, and their
raj had come.Shah Mal was killed in battle in July 1857.
1.When Shah Mal was killed?
2.How Shah Mal operated his revolt against the Britishers?
3.Who was Shah Mal? How his disconnected Britishers communication?
Section E
Q.34. On the Political map of India label and locate;
a. Lothal
b. Madran
c. Harappa
d.kotdiji
e. Balakot
