The Seeds School

Mock 2021
Grade X

History and Culture of Pakistan 2059/21

Paper 1 1 hour 30 minutes

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Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper.
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of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet.

Answer three questions.

Section A
Answer Question 1.

Section B
Answer any two questions.

Q. No. 1 2 3 4 5 Total
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 Section A

Answer the following question

This question is about India between 1750 to 1850.

1 Study the sources (Insert) carefully and then answer the questions which follow.

(a) According to Source A, what reasons are suggested for the British victory at the battle of
Plassey in 1757? [3]

(b) What does Source B tell us about the British East India Company in 1825? [5]

(c) Why Haji Shariat Ullah revived Islam in the sub-continent during the eighteenth century. [7]

(d) Was the work of the Christian missionaries the most important reason why the Indians
opposed British attempts to westernize them between 1750 and 1850? Explain your answer.
[10]
 Section B:

Answer 2 questions

Question 2

(a) Who was Mir Qasim? [4]

(b) How did others benefit from the decline of Mughals? Describe. [7]

(c) Was the attempt to achieve a better understanding with the British the most important
contribution that Sir Syed Ahmad Khan made to the Muslim cause during the nineteenth
century? Explain your answer. [14]

Question 3

(a) What was the All India Khilafat Conference? [4]

(b) Explain why there was opposition to the Government of India Act of 1935. [7]

(c) How successful were the three Round Table Conferences of 1930-1932? Explain your answer.
[14]

Question 4

(a) What was the ‘Afghan Miracle’? [4]

(b) Why were the years 1958 to 1969 called the ‘Decade of Progress’? [7]

(c) How successful was Pakistan in its relationship with the U.S.A. between 1947 and 1999?
Explain your answer. [14]

Question 5

(a) What has been the importance of the Siachen Glacier to both India and Pakistan? [4]

(b) Explain why General Musharraf was able to gain power in 1999. [7]

(c) Was the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) the main reason
for the government ending in 1993? Explain your answer. [14]
SOURCE A

Nawab Siraj-ud-Duala opposed the growing British power in Bengal in 1757. Robert Clive,
commander of the British East India Company’s troops that had just retaken Calcutta from the
Nawab, began to re-establish control of Bengal. Clive was heavily outnumbered by the Nawab’s
forces, but persuaded Mir Jafar, the Nawab’s commander, to switch sides and not fight when the
two armies met. The Nawab opened the battle with heavy gunfire which went on until it started to
rain heavily. Clive’s troops covered their cannon and muskets to protect them from the rain, whilst
the Nawab’s troops did not. When the rain cleared, Clive attacked. The Nawab’s troops retreated.
22 of Clive’s soldiers were killed and 500 of the Nawab’s soldiers were killed.

From Seven Years’ War: Battle of Plassey by Kennedy

Hickman SOURCE B

The British East India Company

A painting of a British official of the British East India Company riding in an Indian
procession in 1825.