Class 12 History 2017 Board Exam

Describe the distinctive features of domestic architecture of Mohenjodaro.

Explain the agricultural practices followed by the cultivators to increase productivity from c. 600 BCE to 600 CE.
OR
Explain the main features of the Mauryan administration.

Identify any two strategies evolved by Brahmanas to enforce the norms of Varna Order from c. 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Explain the language and content of Mahabharata.

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Buddhism in practice
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.
(14.1) In what ways should a master look after his servants and employees ?
(14.2) In what ways should the clansmen look after the needs of samanas ?
(14.3) Explain the main aspects of Buddhist philosophy.

Examine the causes that made Al-Biruni visit India.

"India had a unique system of communication during the fourteenth century." Examine the statement of Ibn Batuta.

Examine why Bernier described the Mughal towns as the 'Camp Towns'.

Identify the relationship between the Sufis and the State from the eighth to the eighteenth century.
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Identify the relationship of the Alvars and Nayanars of Tamil Nadu with the State from the eighth to the eighteenth century.

Examine how the amara-nayaka system was a political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire.