RBSE VU History case studies
RBSE VU History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The RBSE Class 12 History (VU) examination is the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education's senior secondary history paper for the vocational-stream code VU. Candidates typically take it to complete a Class 12 qualification recognised for further study in the humanities and for a range of state and central recruitment processes. The RBSE VU History case studies are 5 cases and about 3,557 words.
1The Burnt Band at Ramgarh: Dating a Destruction Layer
Trench 3 at the Ramgarh mound in Hadoti produced a clear sequence. Layer 5 held 212 sherds of Northern Black Polished Ware and 47 punch-marked coins.
762 words, about 4 min2Three Papers and 400 Bighas: A Mughal Revenue Dispute
In the revenue papers of a pargana in eastern Rajasthan, three documents concern the same 400 bighas in one village. A Persian farman of 1658 confirms the land as madad-i-maash to a family of Shaikhs.
713 words, about 4 min3Counting a No-Rent Campaign: Police, Memoir and Memory
In January 1932 a district in the United Provinces reported a no-rent campaign. The magistrate's fortnightly report of 14 January records a gathering of about 1,200 cultivators at one market town, 37 arrests, and refusal to pay in 14 villages.
715 words, about 4 min4Reading a Grain Table: War Communism and the 1921 Famine
A debate in a history seminar turns on a table compiled from Soviet sources. It shows the 1913 grain harvest at about 80 million tons and the 1920 harvest at about 45 million tons; procurement under prodrazvyorstka in 1920-21 is given as roughly 12 million tons, against marketed grain of about 21 per cent of the harvest in 1913.
670 words, about 3 min5Dating the Dausa Stepwell: Inscription, Style and Tradition
A district heritage board must date and label a stepwell near Dausa. Inside the well, on the fourth course below the coping, is a badly weathered inscription whose date reads '…samvat 1?83'; the patron's name is legible but the title is not.
697 words, about 3 min