CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2023

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow :

Capturing elephants for the army

The Arthashastra lays down minute details of administrative and military organisation. This is what it says about how to capture elephants:

Guards of elephant forests, assisted by those who rear elephants, those who enchain the legs of elephants, those who guard the boundaries, those who live in forests, as well as by those who nurse elephants, shall, with the help of five or seven female elephants to help in tethering wild ones, trace the whereabouts of herds of elephants by following the course of urine and dung left by elephants.

According to Greek sources, the Mauryan ruler had a standing army of 600,000 foot-soldiers, 30,000 cavalry and 9,000 elephants. Some historians consider these accounts to be exaggerated.

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow :

Cash or Kind ?

The Ain on land revenue collection :

Let him (the amil-guzar) not make it a practice of taking only in cash but also in kind. The latter is effected in several ways. First, kankut: in the Hindi language kan signifies grain, and kut, estimates..... if any doudt arise, the crops should be cut and estimated in three lots, the good, the middling, and the inferior, and the hesitation removed. Often, too, the land taken by appraisement, gives a sufficiently accurate return. Secondly, batai, also called bhaoli, the crops are reaped and stacked and divided by agreement in the presence of the parties. But in this case several intelligent inspectors are required; otherwise, the evil-minded and false are given to deception. Thirdly, khet-batai, when they divide the fields after they are sown. Fourthly, lang batai, after cutting the grain, they form it in heaps and divide it among themselves, and each takes his share home and turns it to profit.

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow :

"The British element is gone, but they have left the mischief behind"

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel said :

It is no use saying that we ask for separate electorates, because it is good for us. We have heard it long enough. We have heard it for years, and as a result of this agitation we are now a separate me one free country where there are separate electorates ? If so, I shall be prepared to accept it. But in this unfortunate country if this separate electorate is going to be persisted in, even after the division of the country, woe betide the country; it is not worth living in. Therefore, I say, it is not for my good alone, it is for your own good that I say it, forget the past. one day, we may be united...... the british element is gone but they have left the mischief behind. We do not want to perpetuate that mischief. (Hear, hear). When the British introduced this element they had not expected that they will have to go so soon. They wanted it for their easy administration. That is all right. But they have left the legacy behind. Are we to get out of it or not ?

On the given political outline map of India (on page 23), locate and label the following with appropriate symbols :

On the given political outline map of India (on page 23), locate and label the following with appropriate symbols :

On the given political outline map of India (on page 23), locate and label the following with appropriate symbols :

Who among the following ruler rebuilt the ' sudarshana lake'

Which of the following statement is not true regarding Ibn Battuta ?

Arrange Sikh Gurus chronologically:

(i) Guru Gobind Singh,

(ii) Guru Arjan Dev,

(iii) Guru Har Kishan Dev,

(iv) Guru Nanak Dev.

The land was classified into four categories under the rule of Akbar. Which of these four categories was considered the best ?

Who among the following introduced ' permanent settlement in bengal'?

Who among the following was called as 'frontier gandhi'

Who among the following demanded justice for women in the Constituent Assembly ?

Select the correct pair from the following options :

Which of the following option is correctly matched ?

Identify the east india company's officer with the help of following information:

" Art and literature high highlighted the importance of Laxmi bai ." support the statement with suitable example.

" The stupa at sanchi among the best preserved monument of the earliest times." explain the statement

Explain the growth of Puranic Hinduism.