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Flashcards for CBSE Class 12 History (code 027), split by the three Themes in Indian History books and then by theme in the order the 2026-27 curriculum lists them, with a small Map work subdeck for the listed places. Themes with many cards are split by topic. Follows the CBSE curriculum for the 2027 board examination.

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What is inside (58 subdecks)

  • Map work71 cards
    • Part I places39 cards
    • Part II places12 cards
    • Part III places20 cards
  • Themes in Indian History Part I221 cards
    • 1. Bricks, Beads and Bones: The Harappan Civilisation57 cards
      • Belief, rule and decline8 cards
      • Discovery, dates and extent20 cards
      • Economy, crafts and trade16 cards
      • Towns, houses and drainage13 cards
    • 2. Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies (c. 600 BCE–600 CE)52 cards
      • Inscriptions, coins and the sixteen states16 cards
      • Kings after the Mauryas10 cards
      • The Mauryan empire14 cards
      • Villages, land and trade12 cards
    • 3. Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies (c. 600 BCE–600 CE)56 cards
      • Kinship and marriage13 cards
      • Sources and how the Mahabharata grew9 cards
      • The Mahabharata and its editing19 cards
      • Varna, caste and society15 cards
    • 4. Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments (c. 600 BCE–600 CE)56 cards
      • Buddhism and Jainism20 cards
      • Hindu traditions, temples and rock-cut caves17 cards
      • Sanchi and the stupa19 cards
  • Themes in Indian History Part II205 cards
    • 5. Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society (c. tenth to seventeenth centuries)52 cards
      • Al-Biruni13 cards
      • Bernier, Tavernier and other travellers18 cards
      • Ibn Battuta12 cards
      • Perceptions of society and women9 cards
    • 6. Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth centuries)56 cards
      • Alvars, Nayanars and Virashaivas13 cards
      • Kabir, Nanak and other saints25 cards
      • Sufi traditions18 cards
    • 7. An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara (c. fourteenth to sixteenth centuries)45 cards
      • Rulers, politics and sources25 cards
      • The city, water and buildings20 cards
    • 8. Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth–seventeenth centuries)52 cards
      • Peasants and villages14 cards
      • The Ain-i-Akbari and revenue20 cards
      • Zamindars, women and trade18 cards
  • Themes in Indian History Part III198 cards
    • 9. Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives51 cards
      • Bengal and the Permanent Settlement15 cards
      • Reading official archives11 cards
      • Ryotwari, Mahalwari and the Deccan16 cards
      • The Rajmahal hills and the Santals9 cards
    • 10. Rebels and the Raj: 1857 Revolt and its Representations49 cards
      • Aftermath and representations14 cards
      • Causes and outbreak17 cards
      • Leaders and centres of the revolt18 cards
    • 11. Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond48 cards
      • Civil Disobedience16 cards
      • Early campaigns18 cards
      • Quit India, partition and Gandhi's ideas14 cards
    • 12. Framing the Constitution: The Beginning of a New Era50 cards
      • Debates and provisions26 cards
      • The Constituent Assembly24 cards

Some of its cards

  • In which year did Gandhi return to India from South Africa?
    1915
  • Roughly from which century BCE did the Mahabharata's main story begin to be composed?
    The fifth century BCE
  • Which scholar led the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune?
    V. S. Sukthankar
  • Under which plan of 1946 were the members of the Constituent Assembly elected?
    The Cabinet Mission Plan
  • Which commission of 1927 was boycotted because it had no Indian members?
    The Simon Commission
  • Which saint's compositions appear in the Bijak and the Kabir Granthavali?
    Kabir
  • On what date in 1857 did the sepoys of Meerut revolt and march to Delhi?
    10 May
  • Who led the revolt at Kanpur, the adopted son of the last Peshwa?
    Nana Sahib
  • Who wrote the Ain-i-Akbari?
    Abu'l Fazl
  • Where is Bidar, in modern terms?
    In north-eastern Karnataka

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