CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2024

Read the given source 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.

Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:

A strange nation?

The travelogue of Abdur Razzaq written in the 1440s is an interesting mixture of emotions and perceptions. On the one hand, he did not appreciate what he saw in the port of Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) in Kerala, which was populated by “a people the likes of whom I had never imagined”, describing them as “a strange nation”. Later in his visit to India, he arrived in Mangalore, and crossed the Western Chats. Here he saw a temple that filled him with admiration : Within three leagues (about nine miles) of Mangalore, I saw an idol-house the likes of which is not to be found in all the world. It was a square, approximately ten yards a side, five yards in height, all covered with cast bronze, with four porticos. In the entrance portico was a statue in the likeness of a human being, full stature, made of gold. It had two red rubies for eyes, so cunningly made that you would say it could see. What craft and artisanship!

Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow: “There cannot be any divided loyalty” Govind Ballabh Pant emphasised to become loyal citizens.

For the success of democracy one must train himself in the art of self-discipline. In democracies one should care less for himself and more for others. All loyalties must exclusively be centred round the State. If in a democracy, you create rival loyalties, or you create a system in which any individual or group, instead of suppressing his extravagance, cares nought for larger or other interests, then democracy is doomed.

Map-Based Questions

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

(i) Banawali, a Harappan site

(ii) Amravati stupa

(iii) (a) Agra (Territory under the Mughals)

OR

(iii) (b) Ajmer (Territory under the Mughals)

On the same outline map, two centres related to the Indian National Movement are marked as A and B. Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them. 2

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

Which of the following was the best source of lapis lazuli in the Harappan sites ?

Identify the ruler of ancient India with the help of the given information and choose the correct option :

Sushruta’s book ‘Sushruta Samhita’ is based on which of the following theme ?

Which of the following clans did Buddha belong to ?

Who among the following was the mentor of Amir Khusrau ?

Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option :

Among the following, whose description of ‘degenerated East’ inspired Western theorists to develop the idea of ‘oriental despotism’ ?

Arrange the following in chronological order and choose the correct option :

(i) Limitation Law

(ii) Sunset Law

(iii) Santhal Rebellion

(iv) Bombay-Deccan Riots

Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option :

Assertion (A) : To broaden the Non-Cooperation Movement, Gandhiji had joined hands with the Khilafat Movement.

Reason (R) : Gandhiji hoped that coupling Non-Cooperation and Khilafat could collectively bring an end to the Colonial rule.

Who among the following members of the Constituent Assembly made a strong plea for Hindi to be used as the language of constitution-making ?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word from the given options : The legislature elected under the Government of India Act, 1935 operated within the framework of _________.