CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2024

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

The orders of the king

Thus speaks king Devanampiya Piyadassi:

In the past, there were no arrangements for disposing affairs, nor for receiving regular reports. But I have made the following (arrangement). Pativedakas should report to me about the affairs of the people at all times, anywhere, whether I am eating, in the inner apartment, in the bedroom, in the cow pen, being carried (possibly in a palanquin), or in the garden. And I will dispose of the affairs of the people everywhere.

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The One Lord

Here is a composition attributed to Kabir :

Tell me, brother, how can there be

No one lord of the world but two?

Who led you so astray? God is called by many names:

Names like Allah, Ram, Karim, Keshav, Hari, and Hazrat.

Gold may be shaped into rings and bangles.

Isn’t it gold all the same?

Distinctions are only words we invent...

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charkha

Charkha Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly critical of the modern age in which machines enslaved humans and displaced labour. He saw the charkha as a symbol of a human society that would not glorify machines and technology. The spinning wheel, moreover, could provide the poor with supplementary income and make them self-reliant.

What I object to, is the craze for machinery as such. The craze is for what they call labour-saving machinery. Men go on “saving labour”, till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of few, but in the hands of all.

YOUNG INDIA, 13 NOVEMBER1924

Khaddar does not seek to destroy all machinery but it does regulate its use and check its weedy growth. It uses machinery for the service of the poorest in their own cottages. The wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery.

YOUNG INDIA, 17 MARCH 1927

On the given political outline map of India, locate and label the following with appropriate signs :

Match Column-I with Column-II and choose the correct option from the following:

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

I. Beginning of Gupta rule

II. End of Mauryan Empire

III. Rise of Pallavas in Tamil Nadu

IV. Rise of Harshavardhana as a king of Kannauj

Who among the following ancient scholar belonged to Greece ?

Write the appropriate option from the given in your answer sheet. The first Sermon of the Buddha was delivered at ______.

Identify the character of Mahabharata with the help of following information :

• He was the son of Bheema.

• He belonged to Rakshasa clan from maternal

Assertion (A) : The sixth century BCE is often regarded as a major turning point in early Indian history.

Reason (R) : This was an era associated with early states, cities, use of iron, development of coinage and growth of Buddhism and Jainism.

Identify the name of a woman devotee of early Bhakti tradition with the help of information given below :

• She was a devotee of Lord Shiva.

• She adopted a path of extreme asceticism to attain her goal.

Which one of the following option is NOT correct regarding the contemporaries of Vijayanagara empire ?

Choose the correct statement from the following options with reference to Vijayanagara empire :

Match Column-I with Column-II regarding Vijayanagara empire and choose the correct option :

Which one of the following was not a major factor that accounted for the constant expansion of agriculture in the Mughal state ?

With reference to the land revenue system of the Mughals, match Column-I with that of Column-II :

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ? 1 Sufi teachers Location of Dargah

Who among the following proposed a ‘Policy of Pacification’ with the Paharias in 1770 in Bhagalpur ?

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

I. Limitation Law passed by the British

II. Starting of Permanent Settlement in Bengal

III. Santhal Rebellion

IV. Ryotwari settlement in Bombay Deccan

Select the significance of 26 November, 1949 in relation to the Constituent Assembly from the following options :

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

Which of the following terms is used to describe Gandhiji’s philosophy of ‘Non-violence’ ?

Identify the name of a British official from the information given below.

• He adopted policies of reforming Indian society by introducing western education.

• He established laws to abolish Sati system.

• He permitted remarriage of Hindu widows

On whose advice among the following did Gandhiji attempt to visit British India and learn about the land and its people ?