BSEH SS History case studies
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The BSEH Senior Secondary History exam is the Class 12 history paper set by the Board of School Education Haryana, taken by candidates completing senior secondary schooling in Haryana and by private or repeat candidates who register with the board. It is a school-leaving credential used for higher education admission and for eligibility in many public-sector recruitment processes, not a professional certification. The BSEH SS History case studies are 5 cases and about 3,482 words.
1Labelling a Harappan Seal: Description, Identification and Religious Claim
A Class XII group in a Hisar school is preparing a fifteen-panel exhibition on Mohenjodaro for the board's project file. Their three chosen objects are a photograph of the bronze 'Dancing Girl', a steatite seal showing a seated figure surrounded by animals, and a set of chert weights.
734 words, about 4 min2Was the Mughal Demand Heavy? Three Sources and One Number
A student in a Rohtak school is writing a thousand-word essay on agrarian taxation under Akbar. She has three sources: a translated extract from the Ain-i-Akbari listing the jama of a pargana in the Bari Doab; a Persian sanad preserved by a local family and photocopied in a district history; and an excerpt from a European traveller's account describing peasants as 'oppressed beyond belief'.
752 words, about 4 min3Dating a Partition Photograph: Provenance, Numbers and Missing Pages
A student's project on Partition uses three items: a photograph captioned in a 1990s coffee-table book as 'Refugees arriving at a camp near Kurukshetra, August 1947'; a typed copy of her great-grandmother's diary, written after crossing in September 1947, of whose four pages two are missing; and a 2019 recorded interview with her grandmother, who places the arrival 'the day after Diwali'. A district press note dated 12 September 1947 records 14,000 arrivals but adds that 'figures are being revised daily'.
658 words, about 3 min4Defending an Opening Sentence on 1857 in a Mock Viva
In a mock viva, a candidate must defend the first paragraph of her extended essay: 'The Revolt of 1857 was the First War of Indian Independence, as every Indian historian agrees.' She has read three accounts: an official British narrative of 1860 describing 'the mutiny' and stressing the greased cartridges; a history published in 1957 emphasising planning, the Delhi proclamation and the breadth of participation; and a 1980s study arguing that sepoys' grievances over pay and service conditions, rather than nationalism, explain the initial risings. Her reading list also includes two textbook chapters and a documentary film.
670 words, about 3 min5Village History Project: An Uncitable Date, Oral Interviews and a Demolished Well
A group in a Jind village has chosen 'The history of our town, 1800–1950' for the board project. Their evidence is a broken stone slab with about twenty legible characters in a local script, reused as a temple step; three interviews with residents aged 88, 79 and 71; a photocopied page of the district gazetteer of 1883 giving a population figure; and a photograph of a 1930s well demolished last year.
668 words, about 3 min