CBSE 12th Arts Syllabus 2018 Topic wise Unit of Syllabus PDF Download @ cbse.nic.in

The total length of the two passages will be between 1100 – 1200 words. The passage will include two of the following:

Factual passages, e.g., instructions, descriptions, reports.
Descriptive passages involving opinion, e.g., argumentative, persuasive or interpretative text.
Literary passages, e.g., extract from fiction, drama, poetry, essay or biography. A poem could be of 28-35 lines.

The passages can be literary, factual or discursive to test comprehensions. The length of one passage should be between 600-700 words.

A third passage of 400-500 words for note-making and abstraction.

Short Answer Questions, e.g., advertisement and notices, designing or drafting posters, writing formal and informal invitations and replies.

Long Answer Questions: Letters based on verbal / visual input.

Letter types include

• Business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies)
• Letters to the editor (giving suggestions or opinion on issues of public interest
• Application for a job

Very Long Answer Questions: Two compositions based on visual and/or verbal Input may be descriptive or argumentative in nature such as an article, a debate or a speech.

Very Short Answer Questions – Based on an extract from poetry to test comprehension and appreciation.
Short Answer Questions – Based on prose / drama / poetry from both the texts.
Long Answer Question – Based on texts to test global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the texts to bring out the key messages and values.
Long Answer Question – Based on texts to test global comprehension along with analysis and extrapolation.
Long Answer Question – Based on theme, plot and incidents from the prescribed novels.
Long Answer Question – Based on understanding appreciation, analysis and interpretation of the character sketch.

Early urban centres.

2. Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story

Political and economic history from the Mauryan to the Gupta period.

3. Social Histories: Using the Mahabharata

Issues in social history, including caste, class, kinship and gender.

4. A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa

1. A brief review of religious histories of Vedic religion, Jainism, Vaisnavism, Saivism.
2. Focus on Buddhism

1. Structure of agrarian relations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. Patterns of change over the period.

6. The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles

1. Outline of political history 15th-17th centuries.
2. Discussion of the Mughal court and politics.

7. New Architecture: Hampi

1. Outline of new buildings during Vijayanagar period-temples, forts, irrigation facilities.
2. Relationship between architecture and the political system.

8. Religious Histories: The Bhakti-Sufi tradition

1. Outline of religious developments during this period.
2. Ideas and practices of the Bhakti-Sufi saints.

9. Medieval Society Through Travelers’ Accounts

Outline of social and cultural life as they appear in travelers’ accounts.

1. Life of zamindars, peasants and artisans in the late 18th century
2. East India Company, revenue settlements and surveys.
3. Changes over the nineteenth century.

11. Representations of 1857

1. The events of 1857-58.
2. How these events were recorded and narrated.

12. Colonialism and Indian Towns: Town Plans and Municipal Reports

The growth of Mumbai, Chennai, hill stations and cantonments in the 18th and 19th centuries.

13. Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Eyes

1. The Nationalist Movement 1918 – 48.
2. The nature of Gandhian politics and leadership.

14. Partition through Oral Sources

1. The history of the 1940s.
2. Nationalism, Communalism and Partition.

15. The Making of the Constitution

1. Independence and the new nation state.
2. The making of the Constitution.

• Theories and concepts in demography
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System

•  Sociological perspectives on markets and the economy.
• Globalization – Interlinking of Local, Regional, National and International Markets.

• Caste Prejudice, Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes
• Marginalization of Tribal Communities
• The Struggle for Women’s Equality
• The struggles of the Differently Abled

• Cultural communities and the nation state
• Problems of Communalism, Regionalism and Casteism
• The Nation state, religion related issues and identities
• Communalism, secularism and the nation state
• State and Civil Society

• Modernization, Westernization, Sanskritisation, Secularization
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
• Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation

• Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
• Agrarian Structure : Caste & class in Rural India
• Land Reforms
• Green revolution and its social consequencess
• Transformation in Rural Society
• Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society

• From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
• Getting a Job
• Work Processes

• Dimensions of Globalization

• Types of Mass Media: Radio, Television and Print Media
• Changing Nature of Mass Media

• Theories and Classification of Social Movements
• Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
• Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses
• Women’s Movements in Independent India
• Tribal Movements
• Environmental Movements