CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2024

Read the following 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 house holder named Sigala:

In five ways should a master look after his serva ntsand 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 the man dby granting leave at times...

In five ways should the clansmen look after the needs of samanas (those who have renounced the world)andBrahmanas:byaffectioninact 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 source given below and answer the questions that follow:

A language with an enormous range

Al-Biruni described Sanskrit as follows :

If you want to conquer this difficulty (i.e.to learnSanskrit),you will not find it easy,because the language is of an enormous range,both in words and inflections ,something liketheArabic,calling one and the same thing by various names, both original and derivative, and using one and the same word for a variety of subjects, which, in order to be properly understood,must be distinguished from each other by various qualifying epithets.

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

A ryot petition

This is an example of a petition from a ryot of the village of Mirajgaon, Taluka Karjat, to the Collector, Ahmednagar, Deccan Riots Commission:

The sowkars (sahukars)....have of late begun to oppress us.As we cannot earn enough todefray our household expenses,we are actually forced to beg of the to provide us with money ,clothes and grain, which we obtain from them not with out great difficulty, nor with out their compelling us to enter into hard conditions in the bond. Moreover the necessary clothes andgrain are notsold tous at cash rates. Theprices asked from us are generally twenty-five or fifty per cent more than demanded from customer smaking readymoney payments... The produce of our fields is also taken by the sowkars, who at the time of removing it assure us that it will be credited to our account ,but they do not actually make any mention of it in the accounts. They also refuse to pass us any receipts for the

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

Arrange the following in chronological order:

I. Rule of Ashoka,

II. Invasion of Alexander,

III. Rule of Gupta dynasty,

IV. Rise of Chalukyas in Karnataka.

Identify the medieval globe-trotter with the help of the following information :

• Before he set-off for India he made pilgrimage trips to Mecca before1332-33 C.E.

• The Delhi Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughlaq made him Qazi or the judge of Delhi.

Which Mughal rural society term is correctly matched?

Identify the forest tribe during sixteenth and seventeenth century with the help of following information :

• In Assam these Tribal Chiefs became kings.

• They rendered military service in exchange of land.

• They declared their monopoly on catching wild elephants.

Identify the primary purpose of Britishers to implement Permanent Settlement in Bengal. Choose the best suitable option from the following:

Who among the following described the following line for Kingdom of Awadh ? “A cherry that will fall into our mouth one day.”

Who among the following moved the resolution in the Constituent Assembly that the Indian National Flag be horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and dark green in equal proportions with a wheel in navy blue in the centre?

Identify the member of Constituent Assembly with the help of information given below :

(i) He was a member of drafting committee of constitution.

(ii) He was a lawyer.

(iii) He gave crucial inputs in drafting of constitution.

(iv) He belonged to Madras(Chennai).

Which of the following movements was broadened by ‘Lal-Bal-Pal’ and conveyeditastheall-India character of their struggle from1905-1907? 1