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History Class - XII
1999(CBSE)
You are on questions of Set I
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Maximum marks: 100
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MODERN
INDIA
Q.1. Mention any two social
legislation's introduced by the British in India before 1857(2
marks)
Q.2. Describe the causes of the
rivalries and conflicts among the European countries in India in the
Eighteenth Century. How were they finally resolved? (5 marks)
OR
Q. Describe the measures adopted
by the British Government in the field of education. What was their impact
on Indian society?
Q.3.
Describe the developments that led to the battle of Buxar. What were its
consequences?(8 marks)
OR
Q. Mention the British economic
policy, which led to the impoverishment of the Indian peasantry.
Q.4. The revolt of 1857 marked
the closing of an era and the beginning of a new one in the history of
British rule in India. Give two examples to support your
answer.(2 marks)
Q.5. Give the main reasons for
the backwardness of the Muslim Community and also state the role played by
Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan in modernising the community.(5 marks)
OR
Point out, with reasons, the
changes in the British policy towards Indian states after1857.
Q.6. How did the British rule hamper the growth of
modern industries in India? (5 marks)
OR
Q. Explain the main issues of
women's emancipation which were raised by the social reformers in the
19th century.
Q.7. Examine the main causes for the
unrest in India before the first half of the 19th century,
which were at the root of the revolt of 1857. (5 marks)
OR
Q. Did the revolt of 1857 have a
popular character? Give arguments to support your answer.
Q.8. Mention any two unpopular
measures of Lord Lytton which led to an agitation against the British
rule. (2 marks)
Q.9. "It is said that the idea of
socialism brought about changes in the nature of National Movement". Do
you agree with this Movement? Substantiate your answer with arguments.(5
marks)
OR
Q. What were the causes of
frequent occurrence of famines India in the 19th century?
Q.10.Explain the forces that
weakened the caste system in India under the British rule.(5 marks)
OR
Q. Explain the conditions of
people living in the princely states and how they were brought in the
mainstream of India's freedom struggle.
Q.11. Read the following
questions carefully and answer the questions that follow:
"The earlier movements had been in the nature of
preparatory training for the final struggle. The movement of 1942,
however, was intended to be the last stage in the struggle and there the
supreme sacrifice of one's life was required to attain independence. The
call was "do or die".(Quit India Movement ,
Dr. R. Prasad.)
Q 11(a)How did the earlier movements launched
by Gandhiji impart preparatory training for the final stage? (2 marks)
Q 11(b) Why did the Congress ask the British to
"Quit India"? (2 marks)
Q 11(c) Give the main features of the "Quit
India " movement. (4 marks)
OR
Give the main features of the
Indian Council Acts of 1909. Why did it fail to satisfy the aspirations of
the people?
Q .12. On the given outline map
of India, mark and show the following:
Any five major Indian states in 1947.
OR
On the given outline map of
India, mark and show the following:Expert
of the Maratha territory in 1805 with any four of its important centres.(6 marks)
CONTEMPORARY
WORLD
Q.13. What was the Atlantic
Charter?(2 marks)
Q.14. What were the causes behind
the out break of the First World War?
(5
marks)
Q.15. List any four points
suggested by Wilson for maintaining peace after the First World
War.(2 marks)
Q.16. Trace the rise of the
United States of America as major industrial and imperialist power by the
end of the 19th century.(8
marks)
OR
Q. What was the impact of the
Russian Revolution of 1917 on the World countries.
Q.17. What was the Operation
Barbarossa? Why did it fail?(2 marks)
Q.18. When was the United States
of America drawn into the Second World War? What was its effect on the
course of the War?(5 marks)
OR
Q. Explain the main features of
Japan's role in the World affairs between 1919 to 1939.
Q.19. Analyze the factors
responsible for the rapid collapse of Imperialism after the Second World
War. (5 marks)
OR
Q. Explain the reasons which
prompted America to interfere inWest Asia.
Q.20. Give any four revolutionary
changes in the Chinese literature between 1917 and 1937.(2 marks)
OR
Q. What was the basic reason of
the Economic crisis in 1929 in USA.
Q. 21. Assess the contribution of
Raja Ravi Verma in the field of art.(2
marks)
OR
Q. What was the Renaissance
movement? In which countries was it started ?
Q 22. How has the developments in
communications led to changes in the spread of information?(2 marks)
Q.23. On a given outline map of
Europe, mark and show the following with their names. Two countries annexed by Germany before 1939 and three
countries annexed after 1939.
OR
Any five newly independent
countries formed after the First World War.
(5 marks)
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