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Particulars

Topic:

Historical past

Topic Code: 

851

Complete Marks:

100 

Idea Marks:

80

Challenge Marks: 

20

Examination Length:

3 Hours

ISC Class 12 Historical past Language Syllabus 2025- 26

SECTION A INDIAN HISTORY 

1. In direction of Independence and Partition: The Final Part (1939-1947) 

(i) Nationwide Motion in the course of the Second World Battle: Causes behind the August Provide and the Cripps Mission. The proposals and the explanations for his or her rejection main on to the Stop India Decision. A compact account of the motion, its suppression and a short evaluation of its significance. 

(ii) Subhash Chandra Bose and the INA. Bose’s organisation of the INA, a short account of its operations, eventual defeat and significance. 

(iii)Switch of energy (1945-1947): Causes for change within the angle of the British authorities after World Battle II. 

Cupboard Mission: its goals and main provisions. 

1947: Attlee’s Declaration of twentieth February 1947; 

Mountbatten Plan – principal options: causes for acceptance of the Plan by main political events. 

Modifications within the Indian Independence Act. 

2. Institution of Indian democracy (1947 – 1966) The next ought to be mentioned: 

(i) The position of Sardar Patel within the reorganization and integration of princely states. 

(ii) Issues of integrating Junagarh, Hyderabad and Kashmir. 

(iii)First common election (1952): issues of preparation and their options, course of, end result and affect of the elections. 

(iv) The linguistic reorganization of states: Options of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 with explicit reference to Andhra, Bombay and Punjab. 

3. Growth of Indian Democracy (1964 – 1977) The next to be mentioned: 

(i) Lal Bahadur Shastri – his contributions as Prime Minister 

(ii) Significance of the election of 1967 

(iii) Major Opposition political events and their ideologies – Socialist Occasion (SP); Communist Occasion of India (CPI); Communist Occasion of India (Marxist (CPI(M)); Bharatiya Jan Sangh; Shiromani Akali Dal. 

(iv) Naxal Motion: components of its rise; principal leaders (Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal); areas the place they operated (West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh) and the wrestle carried out by peasants and college students.; authorities measures in opposition to it; causes for its decline within the Nineteen Seventies and its affect. 

(v) JP Motion (1974-75): Origin: Jai Prakash Narayan’s disputes with Mrs. Gandhi; principal options of its course. Evaluation of its significance. 

(vi) Emergency (1975-76): causes for imposition; principal options of the suspension of democratic rights. Evaluation of its affect (constructive and detrimental facets).

4. Altering face of the Indian Democracy (1977 – 1986) 

(i) The Janata Authorities (1977 – 1979). Elections of 1977: institution of the Janata Authorities; its insurance policies and their implementation; causes for its downfall. 

(ii) Centre-State relations 

(a) Punjab: Calls for of the Akali Dal; Anandpur Sahib Decision; 1977 elections; formation of Akali authorities; rise of Bhindranwale – his calls for and strategies. Centre’s response: Operation Bluestar – its outcomes and affect. Punjab Accord, 1985. 

(b) Assam: Causes for Assamese discontent; course of Assam’s agitation; the Centre’s response: Assam Accord, 1985. 

(c) Nagaland: The Nagas’ separatist calls for; start of Nagaland state; course of the agitation; Shillong Accord, 1975. 

(d) Mizoram: Mizoram Motion (1959-1986): course and backbone.

5. India’s International Coverage 

(i) Pakistan (1947-49, 1965, 1971) Indo-Pak wars: causes, course and penalties of every to be carried out individually. 

(ii) Sino-Indian Battle (1962) Disputes with the Individuals’ s Republic of China over 

(a) Tibet problem: Chinese language takeover and asylum of the Dalai Lama in India; 

(b) Border points. Sino-Indian Battle (1962): speedy causes and penalties. 

6. Actions for Girls’s Rights 

• In direction of Equality Report (1974) – goals, significance and proposals. 
• Developments within the anti-dowry motion and wrestle in opposition to home violence within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. 
• Measures undertaken by the federal government in response. 

SECTION B WORLD HISTORY

7. World Battle II 

(i) Elements resulting in the Battle: aggressive overseas insurance policies of Germany, Italy and Japan. Must be mentioned to point out how these aggressive insurance policies made warfare extra probably and worldwide in scope. 

(ii) Anglo-French appeasement insurance policies. Appeasement: why Britain and France selected to comply with this coverage and the way it was carried out. 

(iii) Axis invasions in Europe and Asia (1939- 1941). 

(iv) Course of the Battle in Europe, Africa and Far East (1942-45). 

(v) Causes for the defeat of the Axis Powers

8. De-colonisation – in Asia (China) and Africa (Ghana & Kenya) 

(i) China: A brief background of the issues going through the Communists in 1949: in agriculture, the gradual course of from land distribution to collective farms ought to be outlined; in business, the 5 Yr Plan and Soviet assist. 

The Nice Leap Ahead ought to be lined in additional element, significantly the event of commune and evaluation of the GLF. 

(ii) Ghana: democracy and dictatorship (1957- 66). 

Temporary background to independence, Nkrumah’s position, causes for his overthrow. 

(iii) Kenya: battle and independence (1947 – 1964). Battle with whites over independence and position of Kenyatta

9. Chilly Battle (1945-91)– origin, finish and affect 

(i) Origins of the Chilly Battle: Finish of wartime unity; Yalta and Potsdam Conferences; Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan; Molotov Plan, COMECON and Cominform. 

(ii) The rift widens – Soviet enlargement in Japanese Europe (1945-1948) together with the communist coup in Czechoslovakia. 

(iii) Chilly Battle Crises – Berlin Blockade – NATO – division of Germany. Cuban Missile Disaster – causes and results. 

(iv) Détente – causes for it and results on Japanese Europe. 

(v) Downfall of Communism in Poland and East Germany. 

(vi) Breakup of the USSR Causes for collapse of USSR Political modifications; Coup of 1991; Demand for independence by the Soviet republics resulting in the breakup of USSR. 

10. Protest Actions: Civil Rights Motion, anti-Apartheid Motion; Feminist Motion. 

(i) Racial issues and civil rights within the USA within the Nineteen Fifties, Sixties and Nineteen Seventies: Racial discrimination, change within the authorities’s angle, marketing campaign for equal rights (Dr. Martin Luther King’s position). 

(ii) Anti-Apartheid Motion in South Africa (1948-1994): principal options of Apartheid, opposition to Apartheid (Dr Nelson Mandela’s position), transition to black majority rule and the tip of Apartheid. 

(iii) Second Wave Feminist Motion in USA (early Sixties – early 1980’s): causes for its origin (the affect of the Presidential Fee, Betty Friedan’s e book and the Civil Rights Motion; Equal Pay Act of 1963 – its implications for American girls, Measures taken by Johnson (Civil Rights Act of 1964), Function of Nationwide Organisation for Girls (NOW) and its marketing campaign for the Equal Rights Modification (ERA). 

11. Center East: Israeli-Palestine battle (1916-1993) 

(i) Submit Battle battle in Palestine after World Battle I, until the formation of the state of Israel.

Goals of Arab nationalism and Zionism. Influence of World Battle I: the conflicting guarantees made by the British to the Arabs and the Jews: Husain-MacMahon correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Settlement and the Balfour Declaration. 

(ii) The Arab-Israeli Wars from 1948 to Camp David Accord (1979). The next conflicts ought to be studied – First Arab- Israeli Battle (1948-1949), the Suez Disaster (1956), the Six Day Battle (1967), the Yom Kippur Battle (1973), Sadat and the Camp David Accord (1979). For every of those occasions, the causes and outcomes ought to be studied intimately. The origin and formation of the PLO. 

(iii) Oslo Peace Accords (1993 & 1995). Intifada and the change in angle of Israel and the PLO resulting in the Oslo Peace Accords I (1993) and II (1995). Evaluation of the primary options of every. Why it did not carry peace.  

1. Idea Paper

80 marks

2. Challenge Work

20 marks

Inner Evaluation by the Instructor                                                                                

10 Marks

Evaluation Standards

Candidates ought to be capable to:

Course of

The candidate ought to be capable to: Establish the subject. Plan and element a analysis undertaking.

3 Marks

Understanding, utility of data and Evaluation

Candidates ought to be capable to: Clarify points and themes clearly and in context. Interpret, analyse and consider critically the subject.

4 marks

Presentation

General format and referencing, title web page and bibliography.

3 Marks

Exterior Analysis by the Visiting Examiner

10 Marks

Selection of Approach/ Detailed process & Presentation

General format, referencing, title web page and bibliography. 

4

Evaluation and analysis 

Candidates ought to be capable to: Interpret, analyze and consider critically a variety of proof. 

3

Viva

Vary of questions primarily based on the undertaking solely. 

3