ISC Class 12 History Syllabus
The history syllabus is about knowing the importance of events and personalities. It helps candidates to understand the facts and evidence upon which the discussions and judgements are found during the particular period. It develops an understanding of the problems and the importance of proof with explanations.
ISC Class 12 History Syllabus encourages a reduction of prejudices and creates awareness of the international approach to world history. It ensures and familiarises candidates with various forms of historical proof and gives an understanding of the issues involved in understanding different forms of source materials.
Students may access the latest ISC Class 12 History Syllabus on Extramarks, which will enable them to prepare for the upcoming academic year. In addition to History syllabus class 12, students may also access various study materials on Extramarks.
ISC Class 12 History Syllabus 2023-24 – Semester (1 & 2)
The 12th History Syllabus is represented in the table below:
| Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
| Unit No. |
Name of Unit |
Unit No. |
Name of Unit |
| 1. |
Towards Independence & Partition: the Last Phase (1935-1947). |
7. |
World War – II |
| 2. |
Establishment & development of Indian Democracy (1947 – 1984)
|
8. |
De-Colonisation – in Asia (China) |
| 3. |
Challenges to Indian Democracy(1964 – 1977) |
9. |
Cold War 1945 -91 – Origin Course end and Impact |
| 4. |
Changing Face of Indian Democracy (1977-1986) |
10. |
Protest Movements |
| 5. |
Indian Foreign Policy |
11. |
Middle East: Israeli Palestine Conflict (1916-1993) |
| 6. |
Movements for Women’s Right |
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Given below is a brief of ISC Class 12 History Syllabus.
SECTION A: INDIAN HISTORY
- Towards Independence and Partition: Phase (1935-1947).
- Political developments
- Working of provincial autonomy: Ministries & Congress.
- National Movement activity during World War II
- The INA & Subhash Chandra Bose. Shall discuss SC Bose’s role in the national Movement and his differences with Gandhi.
- Transfer of powers (1945-1947): changed attitude of British Governments; Congress and League reaction; the Mountbatten Plan; partition and independence.
- Establishment & development of Indian Democracy (1947 – 1984)
- The refugee problem, river waters dispute and the transfer of assets.
- Origin of the Kashmir problem.
- The foundation of Indian Democracy: role of political parties,
- The dialectic reorganization of states.
- Challenges to Indian Democracy: (1964 – 1977)
- The role of the Syndicate.
- The appointment of Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1964 & Indira Gandhi in the year 1966 as prime minister.
- Importance of election of 1967: the controversy in the Congress leading to its differences during 1969.
- Naxal Movement: Reasons for its rise; government directions towards it; causes for its rejection and impact in the 1970s.
- JP Movement (1974-75): Jai Prakash Narayan’s conflict with Mrs Gandhi
- Emergency (1975-76): reasons for conflict; main features of the rejection of democratic rights. A
- Changing face of the Indian Democracy:(1977– 1986)
- The Janata Government (1977 – 1979). Mending of Democracy and its formation, reasons for its downfall/programme and implementation.
- Congress came to power: (1979 – 1986).
- (a) Punjab: separatist demands and the Center’s response.
- (b) Demands in the North-East:
- Nagaland’s demand for autonomy and the Resolution: (1947-80)
- Assam’s agitation against foreigners and the Center’s response (1947-85)
- Mizoram Movement (1959-1986) to be touched upon.
- India’s Foreign Policy
- Non-Aligned Movement in the Cold War to be discussed.
- Pakistan (1948-49, 1965, 1971)
- Indo-Pak wars: their causes and consequences are done separately.
- Sino-Indian War Background: the Republic of China, Initial relations with the Peoples’.
- Tibet issue: Dalai Lama in India and Chinese had a takeover.
- Border issues. Sino-Indian War (1962): immediate consequences and causes.
- Movements for Women’s Rights
The importance Towards Equality Report (1974) concerning women’s issues. Progress in the anti-dowry Movement and struggle against domestic violence in the 1970s and 1980s
SECTION B: WORLD HISTORY
- World War II
- Factors leading to the War
- Anglo-French appeasement policies.
- The course of the War
- Causes for the Axis power’s defeat.
- De-colonisation – in Africa (Ghana & Kenya) & Asia (China)
- China: the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the civil War
- Ghana: Democracy, dictatorship and military government (1957-69).
- Kenya: conflict and independence (1947 – 1969)
- Cold War 1945-91 – its course, origin & causes.
- Origin of the Cold War & End of wartime unity;
- The Cold War Expands
- Changes in Eastern Europe & Breakup of the USSR
- Protest Movements Civil Rights Movement
- Civil rights in the USA in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and Racial problems, Racial discrimination, campaign for rights (Dr. Martin Luther King’s role), change in the government’s attitude.
- Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa (1948-1994)
- 2nd Wave Feminist Movement in the USA (the early 1960s – early 1980’s)
- Middle East: Israeli-Palestine conflict during (1916-1993)
- Post War differences in Palestine after World War I, till the formation of the state of Israel. Impact of World War I: the adverse promises made by the British to the Arabs and the Jews
- The Arab: Israeli Wars from 1948 to Camp David Accord (1979). Events are covered briefly.
- Oslo Peace Accords (1993).
ISC Class 12 History Syllabus Examination Pattern
The ISC Class 12 History syllabus has two papers.
Part-I: Theory 3 hours -( 80 marks)
Part-II: Project Work –(20 marks)
Part I, the theory paper, is further divided into two.
Paper-I (20 marks) consists of mandatory short answer questions that test the entire syllabus’s understanding and knowledge.
Paper-II (60 marks) will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B, each consisting of five questions. Each question shall carry 12 marks. Candidates are supposed to attempt two questions from each Section and one question from either Section A or B. A total of 5 questions are to be attempted from Part II.
Under part II, candidates are supposed to undertake one project, which may be any one of the following:
- A case study.
- A field visit/ investigation.
- Interview/oral evidence.
- A local history.
- Book review/ posters/ film review/ newspapers/ advertisements/ cartoons and art.
ISC Class 12 History Syllabus and study material 2023-2024
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