CHSE Odisha Elective History case studies
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The CHSE Odisha Elective History paper is the history option within the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha's +2 (higher secondary) Arts curriculum. Candidates usually sit it as one elective among several, and the mark feeds into the aggregate used for higher secondary certification and for admission to degree courses, so it matters both as a stand-alone subject and as a grade-bearing paper. The CHSE Odisha Elective History case studies are 5 cases and about 4,432 words.
1The Kottapalli Report: Dating Three Periods from Mixed Contexts
An excavation at Kottapalli on the Godavari has produced three occupation periods. Period I contained coarse red ware and microliths; three radiocarbon dates on charcoal from that layer calibrate to 1200–800 BCE, with wide and overlapping ranges.
920 words, about 5 min2The Disputed Farman: Diplomatics, Forgery and the Claim to Inam Land
In 1954 a Deshastha Brahmin family in a Deccan village deposited three documents with a university to support its claim to revenue-free land. Document (a) is a Persian farman attributed to Aurangzeb, bearing an impression of the imperial seal and the Hijri date 1085 AH, but with the regnal-year formula written as sana 30.
844 words, about 4 min3The March 1922 Crowd: Estimating Numbers and Weighing Violence
In March 1922, in a Bihar district, a crowd gathered at a market to protest an enhancement of rent. The Collector's fortnightly report calls it 'a mob of some 20,000, chiefly low-caste cultivators incited by a Brahmin pleader', and reports the looting of three shops and one death in police firing.
872 words, about 4 min4Six Months on 1971: Archival Gaps and the Timing of Intervention
A final-year student has six months to write a dissertation on when and why India decided to intervene in East Pakistan. She may use: the Ministry of External Affairs Annual Report for 1971–72; Indira Gandhi's public speeches; the United States Foreign Relations of the Series volume on the 1971 South Asia crisis; a published collection of Bangladeshi oral histories; and a Pakistani official history.
909 words, about 5 min5The 1866 Famine: Rival Mortality Figures and a Nationalist Newspaper
Official and unofficial papers on the 1866 Orissa famine give figures that will not agree. The Famine Commission report of 1867 computes roughly one million deaths in a population of about nine million.
887 words, about 4 min