Assam Higher Secondary History case studies
Assam Higher Secondary History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Final Examination is the higher secondary school-leaving examination of Assam, delivered in written form and covering the Higher Secondary course content prescribed by ASSEB Division-II. It is taken by candidates who have completed the two-year Higher Secondary programme in Assam institutions, and results from it feed directly into higher education admission through the DARPAN portal. The Assam Higher Secondary History case studies are 5 cases and about 2,372 words.
1Two Copper-Plate Grants and a Shifted River
A student is comparing two copper-plate land grants for a study of medieval Kamarupa. Grant A, issued in Saka 1240, records 12 puras of land in a village on the east bank of the Kalang to a Brahmin named Vishnu Sharma.
545 words, about 3 min2Three Accounts of a 1942 Firing
A district history project on Quit India in Assam has three sources about a protest on 10 August 1942. The Deputy Commissioner's report says 'about 4,000 persons assembled; police opened fire after warning; 3 killed'.
475 words, about 2 min3The Garden Register and the Arkatti
A student is examining a garden register from a tea estate in Upper Assam for 1882. The recruiter's ledger records 1,200 labourers 'engaged' in Chota Nagpur and dispatched to the garden.
470 words, about 2 min4When Does Modern Assam Begin?
A textbook committee for the new Higher Secondary course must choose the starting point of a unit called 'Modern Assam'. Three dates are proposed: 1824, the First Anglo-Burmese War; 1826, the Treaty of Yandabo; and 1838, the end of Purandar Singha's rule and the extension of fuller British administration.
429 words, about 2 min5A Reparations Compromise in 1919
A simulated peace conference in 1919 has to settle German reparations. The French delegate demands a Rhine frontier and 200 billion gold marks, arguing that only a weakened Germany can guarantee French security.
453 words, about 2 min