Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year History case studies
Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Second Year History paper is the Class XII history examination taken by students in the Tamil Nadu state board stream, and it also serves private candidates and repeaters who need the subject for higher education eligibility. It is a written, essay-oriented paper: candidates answer short-answer, paragraph and long-essay questions and work with a map, so recall of dates, names and places matters, but so does the ability to organise an argument across a few paragraphs. The Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year History case studies are 5 cases and about 4,653 words.
1The Nagpur Vote: A Delegate from a Mill Town, December 1920
A history club at a college in Tiruchirappalli is re-staging the Nagpur session of December 1920, at which the Congress ratified non-cooperation. Each student is assigned a delegate.
921 words, about 5 min2Ten Objects, Six Cases: Curating 1917–1945
The district museum in Chennai is installing a gallery, '1917–1945: Revolution, Repression, War', with six display cases and a school-visit slot of 25 minutes. Thirteen objects are offered: (1) a 1919 map of Germany's losses under Versailles; (2) a 1917 Petrograd soviet ballot paper; (3) a 1923 Weimar banknote for 100,000 marks; (4) a 1929 Wall Street ticker-tape photograph; (5) a 1931 Soviet tractor photograph; (6) a 1936 Berlin Olympics photograph; (7) a 1937 Italian Fascist youth membership card; (8) a 1938 cartoon of British and French leaders sheltering under one umbrella; (9) a 1941 Japanese school atlas of 'Greater East Asia'; (10) a 1942 poster urging Indian recruitment; (11) a 1943 Bengal famine relief poster; (12) a 1945 photograph of the Nuremberg courtroom; (13) a 1919 ILO pamphlet on factory hours.
921 words, about 5 min3The Speaker's List: Fifteen MLAs and an Anti-Defection Ruling
A college in Coimbatore runs a mock Assembly of 234 members, and your panel advises the Speaker. A party returned 42 MLAs.
978 words, about 5 min4The 1891 Label: Consent, Criticism and the 60-Word Limit
The Thanjavur district heritage society is mounting a single panel on the Age of Consent controversy of 1891, when a bill raised the age of consent for girls from ten to twelve. The panel has a strict 60-word label, three objects - a photograph of the Poona debate, a Madras newspaper editorial of 1891, and a petition from a women's association (undated, with no signatories listed) - and will be read by school groups.
916 words, about 5 min5Two Accounts of February 1939: Writing the Source-Based Answer
Two sources sit on your desk for a Class XII source-based question on the anti-Hindi agitation of 1938–39 in the Madras Presidency. Source A is a CID report dated 4 March 1939: 'The agitation is the work of a handful of political agitators; attendance in government schools is 92 per cent of normal; 41 students have been expelled for picketing.' Source B is a memoir recorded in 1978 by a woman who was nineteen in 1939: 'Thousands of us took the road every morning; the police charged us near the college gate; my brother was expelled and never returned to his studies.' A college register confirms 41 expulsions by March 1939, and a newspaper of 6 February 1939 reports processions in three towns.
917 words, about 5 min