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CBSE CLASS XII Questions

• 1.

  "The Civil Disobedience Movement aimed to undermine British power by resisting their oppressive laws and systems." Examine the statement.
  

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• 2.

  On the Upanishads Here are two verses from the Chhandogya Upanishad, a text composed in Sanskrit c. sixth century BCE:
  The Nature of the Self
  This self of mine within the heart, is smaller than paddy or barley or mustard or millet or the kernel of a seed of millet. This self of mine within the heart is greater than the earth, greater than the intermediate space, greater than heaven, greater than these worlds.
  The True Sacrifice 
  This one (the wind) that blows, this is surely a sacrifice. . . . While moving, it sanctifies all this; therefore it is indeed a sacrifice.

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

  • a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2
    
  • a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
    
  • a-4, b-3, c-2, d-4
    
  • a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
    
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  Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow: 
  Amir Khusrau and the Qaul Amir Khusrau (1253–1325), the great poet, musician and disciple of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, gave a unique form to the Chishti ‘sama’ by introducing the qual (Arabic word meaning “saying”), a hymn sung at the opening or closing of qawwali. This was followed by sufi poetry in Persian, Hindavi or Urdu, and sometimes using words from all of these languages. Qawwals (those who sing these songs) at the shrine of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya always start their recital with the qual. Today qawwali is performed in shrines all over the subcontinent.

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  Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
  Why the Salt Satyagraha?
     Why was salt the symbol of protest? This is what Mahatma Gandhi wrote:
  The volume of information being gained daily shows how wickedly the salttax has been designed. In order to prevent the use of salt that has not paid thetax which is at times even fourteen times its value, the Government destroys
  the salt it cannot sell profitably. Thus it taxes the nation’s vital necessity; itprevents the public from manufacturing it and destroys what nature manu-
  factures without effort. No adjective is strong enough for characterizing this wicked dog-in-the-manger policy. From various sources, I hear tales of such wanton destruction of the nation’s property in all parts of India. Maunds if not tons of salt are said to be destroyed on the Konkan coast. The same tale comes from Dandi. Wherever there is likelihood of natural salt being taken away by
  the people living in the neighbourhood of such areas for their personal use,
  salt officers are posted for the sole purpose of carrying on destruction. Thus valuable national property is destroyed at national expense and salt taken out of the mouths of the people. The salt monopoly is thus a fourfold curse. It deprives the people of a valuable easy village industry, involves wanton destruction of property that nature produces in abundance, the destruction itself means more national expenditure and fourthly, to crown this folly, an unheard of tax of more than 1,000 per cent is exacted from a starving people. This tax
  has remained so long because of the apathy of the general public. Now that it
  is sufficiently roused, the tax has to go. How soon it will be abolished depends upon the strength the people. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG), Vol. 49

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• 6.

  The sculpture of the Bodhisattva statue shown in the image below is influenced by which of the following schools of art?

  • Mathura
    
  • Gandhara
    
  • Amravati
    
  • Nalanda
    
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