UPMSP Intermediate History - Code 128 study materials
UPMSP Intermediate History - Code 128 study resources

UPMSP Intermediate History - Code 128 case studies

UPMSP Intermediate History - Code 128 · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The UPMSP Intermediate History paper (Code 128) is the Class 12 history examination set by the Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (UPMSP, commonly called the UP Board) for students in its intermediate stream. It is a school-leaving and university-entrance credential: results feed directly into board marksheets used for higher education admission in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, and the subject is a common choice for candidates moving toward BA history, law, civil-services preparation, or teaching. The UPMSP Intermediate History - Code 128 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,863 words.

1

The Riverbed Find: Labelling a Mixed Assemblage Before the Gallery Opens

The district museum in a Ganga-plain town is due to open a new gallery in ten days. A farmer dredging a tributary has handed over 47 silver punch-marked coins, a broken terracotta seal and a six-line copper plate in Brahmi.

792 words, about 4 min
2

Rewriting the End of the Harappan Cities for a Class 12 Chapter

A textbook review panel for the Class 12 history course is vetting an 800-word draft chapter on the end of the Harappan cities. The draft's concluding paragraph reads: 'Around 1900 BCE a great flood destroyed Mohenjodaro, and soon afterwards Aryan invaders from Central Asia burnt the remaining cities.' A teacher on the panel reports that her students can recite this sentence but cannot answer a question about regional variation.

721 words, about 4 min
3

Debating Alauddin Khalji's Market Regulations with Two Hostile Sources

A school history club has three days before a debate on the motion: 'Alauddin Khalji's market regulations were a success.' The club's file contains two extracts. The first is from Ziauddin Barani's Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, written in the 1350s at Firuz Shah Tughlaq's court, which describes the four markets of Delhi, the officers (shahna-i-mandi and diwan-i-riyasat) and punishments up to the cutting of a merchant's flesh, while condemning the Sultan's severity and his disregard of the sharia.

786 words, about 4 min
4

A 1942 Outpost Burning: Whose Account Goes on the Wall?

For the 9 August school display on the Quit India movement, a district school has collected five items about a local incident. (1) A police report dated 12 August 1942 describing a crowd of 'about 2,000 goondas' that attacked a police outpost, burned its records and killed a constable; it does not say who fired first.

793 words, about 4 min
5

Fourteen Partition Interviews and One Contradicted Date

A college in a border district is running an oral history project on Partition. Fourteen interviews have been recorded with families who came from Sialkot district.

771 words, about 4 min