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15.Displacing indigenous People. (12)

Sensitize students to the processesFocus on North America and Australia, of displacements that accompanied

I8th-20th century, the development of America and

(a) European colonists in North America Australia.

and Australia. (b) Formation of white Understand the implications of

settler societies. (c) Displacement and such processes for the displaced

repression of local people, populations.

(d) Historians view points on the impact

of European settlement on indigenous

population.

16.Paths to Modernization. (14)

Make students aware that.Focus on East Asia. Late 19th and 20th transformation in the modern

century. world takes many different forms.

(a) Militarization and economic growth in Show how notions like

Japan. (b) China and the Communist ‘modernization’ need to be

alternative. critically assessed.

(d) Historians' Debate on meaning of

modernization

17. Map Work on Units 1-15 (10)

Themes Objectives

Class XII

Time: 3 hours

Paper One Theory

Units Periods (180) Marks

Themes in Indian History Part-I 45 17

Units 1 - 4

Themes in Indian History Part-II 55 22

Units 5 - 9

Themes in Indian History Part-III 70 21

Units 10 - 15

Two Long Answer Questions 20

from Books I, II/II, III/I, III) 80

Project Work 20

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Class XII: Themes in Indian History

Themes Period (45) ObjectivesPART - I

1. The Story of the First Cities: Harappan Familiarize the learner with early Archaeology. (11) urban centres as economic and

social institutions.Broad overview: Early urban centres. Introduce the ways in which newStory of discovery: Harappan civilization data can lead to a revision of Excerpt: Archaeological report on a major site. existing notions of history.Discussion: how it has been utilized by Illustrate how archaeologicalarchaeologists/historians. reports are analyzed and

interpreted by scholars.

2. Political and Economic History: How (11) Inscriptions tell a story.

Familiarize the learner withBroad overview: Political and economic history major trends in the political andfrom the Mauryan to the Gupta period. economic history of theStory of discovery: Inscriptions and the subcontinent.decipherment of the script. Shifts in the under-standing of political and economic history.Excerpt:Asokan inscription and Gupta Introduce inscriptional analysis

period land grant. and the ways in which these

Discussion: Interpretation of inscriptions by have shaped the understanding of historians. political and economic processes.

3. Social Histories: Using the Mahabharata(12)Broad overview: Issues in social history, Familiarize the learner withincluding caste, class, kinship and gender. issues in social history.Story of discovery: Transmission and Introduce strategies of textual

publications of the Mahabharat. analysis and their use inExcerpt: from the Mahabharata, illustrating reconstructing social history.how it has been used by historians.Discussion: Other sources for reconstructingsocial history.

4. A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa (11)

Broad overview: (a) A brief review of religious Discuss the major religioushistories of Vedic religion, Jainism, Vaisnavism, developments in early India.Saivism. (b) Focus on Buddhism. Introduce strategies of visualStory of discovery: Sanchi stupa analysis and their use inExcerpt:Reproduction of sculptures from reconstructing histories of Sanchi. religion.Discussion: Ways in which sculpture has beeninterpreted by historians, other sources for reconstructing the history of Buddhism.



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Themes Periods Objectives

9. Medieval Society Through Travellers' (11)

AccountsBroad Overview: Outline of social and cultural Familiarize the learner with thelife as they appear in travellers’ accounts. salie nt features of s ocial

Story of their writings: A discussion of where histories described by thethey travelled, why they travelled, what they travellers.wrote, and for whom they wrote. Discuss how travellers’

Excerpts: from Alberuni, Ibn Batuta, Bernier. accounts can be used as sources

Discussion: What these travel accounts can tell of social history.us and how they have been interpreted byhistorians.

PART - III (70)10. Colonialism and-Rural Society: Evidence

from Official Reports (11)

Broad overview : (a). Life of zamindars, Discuss how colonialism peasants and artisans in the late 18 century (b) affected Zamindars, peasantsEast India Company, revenue settlements and and artisans.surveys. (c) Changes over the nineteenthcentury. Understand the problems and

Story of official records: An account of why limits of using official sourcesofficial investigations into rural societies were for understanding the lives of under taken and the types of records and reports people.

produced.

Excerpts: From Firminger's Fifth Report,Accounts of Frances Buchanan-Hamilton, andDeccan Riots Report,

Discussion: What the official records tell and donot tell, and how they have been used byhistorians.

11. Representations of 1857 (11)

Broad Overview: (a) The events of 1857-58. Discuss how the events of 1857(b) How these events were recorded and are being reinterpreted.

narrated. Discuss how visual materialFocus: Lucknow. can be used by historians

Excerpts: Pictures of 1857. Extracts fromcontemporary accounts.

Discussion: How the pictures of 1857 shapedBritish opinion of what had happened.

12. Colonialism and Indian Towns: (11)

Town Plans and Municipal Reports

Broad Overview: The growth of Mumbai, Familiarize the learner with theChennai, hill stations and cantonments in the h is to ry o f modern

18th and 19th century. urban centres.



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Themes Periods Objectives

Excerpts: Photographs and paintings. Plans of

Discuss how urban historiescities. Extract from town plan reports. can be written by drawing on

Focus on Kolkata town planning. different types of sources.

Discussion: How the above sources can be

used to reconstruct the history of towns. What

these sources do not reveal.

13. Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Familiarize the learner with

Eyes (13) significant elements of the

nationalist movement and the

Broad Overview: (a) The nationalist movement nature of Gandhian leadership.

1918 - 48, (b) The nature of Gandhian politics Discuss how Gandhi was

and leadership. perceived by different groups.Focus: Mahatma Gandhi in 1931. Discuss how historians need to

Excerpts:Reports from English and Indian read and interpret newspapers,

language newspapers and other contemporary diaries and letters as historical

writings. source.

Discussion: How newspapers can be a source

of history.

14. Partition through Oral Sources (12) Discuss the last decade of the

national movement, the growth

Broad Overview: (a) The history of the 1940s; of communalism and the story

(b) Nationalism. Communalism and Partition. of Partition.Focus: Punjab and Bengal. Understand the events through

Excerpts: Oral testimonies of those who the experience of those who

experienced partition. lived through these years of

Discussion:Ways in which these have been communal violence.

analyzed to reconstruct the history of the event. Show the possibilities and

limits of oral sources.

15. The Making of the Constitution (12) Familiarize students with the

history of the early years after

Broad Overview: (a) Independence and the independence.

new nation state. (b) The making of the Discuss how the founding

constitution. . ideals of the new nation state

Focus: The Constitutional Assembly debates. were debated and formulated.

Excerpts: from the debates. Understand how such debates

Discussion: What such debates reveal and how and discussions can be read by

they can be analyzed. historians.

16. Map Work on Units 1-15 (10)



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Recommended text books :

1. Themes in World History, Class XI, Published by NCERT2. Themes in Indian History, Part I, Class XII, Published by NCERT

2. Themes in Indian History Part-II, Class XII, Published by NCERT

3. Themes in Indian History Part-III, Class XII, Published by NCERT

Note : The above textbooks are also available in Hindi medium.

class 12 cbse history syllabus 2014

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