PSEB SS History case studies
PSEB SS History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) is the state school examination board for Punjab, established through a legislative enactment in November 1969 and granted autonomy by a 1987 amendment of its Act. It conducts board examinations at Classes 8, 10 and 12; the Class 10 paper is the Matriculation examination, the credential a candidate uses to move into Class 11 or into vocational and open-school routes. The PSEB SS History case studies are 5 cases and about 2,819 words.
1Dating a Village Gurdwara with Three Disagreeing Sources
A Class 12 history club at a school in Gurdaspur has three weeks and no budget to prepare a wall display on a small village gurdwara. Three sources are available.
625 words, about 3 min2Curating a Lahore Darbar Gallery on a Zero Budget
The district museum in Patiala is planning a gallery called 'The Lahore Darbar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh' and has six weeks before opening. Four objects have been offered.
585 words, about 3 min3Two Sisters, One Train: Editing Partition Testimony
The editor of a school magazine in Ludhiana has one week to publish a Partition 1947 feature. Two sisters from the same village near Sialkot were interviewed separately.
549 words, about 3 min4Reading a Canal Colony Allotment Register
A Class 12 student is writing an essay on colonial canal colonies using a photocopy of a land allotment register from a colony in Lyallpur district, dated 1905. It lists 60 allotments: 38 to 'Jat Sikh', 12 to 'Muhammadan Jat', 6 to 'Khatri', and 4 to 'Brahmin'.
509 words, about 3 min5Using a Qissa and a Colonial Ethnography for Women's History
A Class 11 student wants to write about the lives of rural women in nineteenth-century Punjab using two sources: a printed Punjabi version of the qissa of Heer Ranjha, and a chapter from a colonial census ethnography of 1883 that describes 'the customs of the Jat tribes'. The teacher says both are historical sources but neither is a report of what actually happened.
551 words, about 3 min