Rajasthan Board Class 12 History Syllabus 2024-2025: Download in PDF

RBSE Class 12 History Syllabus 2025: The Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan released the Rajasthandated syllabus of History for Class 12. The syllabus outlines the course content and examination structure for the current academic session 2024-2025. We have provided the detailed syllabus of Rajasthan Board Class 12 History here which students can access in PDF format. The syllabus is provided in English and Hindi medium which ensures accessibility to all students. Check and download the complete syllabus below.

Rajasthan Board Class 12 History Exam Pattern 2024-25 Highlights

Key highlights of the exam pattern to be followed for the Rajasthan Board Class 12 History for the 2025 board exams are as follows:

Rajasthan Board Class 12 History Syllabus 2024-25

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Themes in Indian History Part-I

Theme-one-The Harappan Civilisation-Bricks, Beads and Bones (6 Marks)

1. Beginnings

2. Subsistence Strategies –Agricultural technologies

3. Mohenjodaro-A Planned Urban Centre

4. Tracking Social Differences

5. Finding Out About Craft-Production

6. Strategies for Procuring Materials

7. Seals, Script, Weights

8. Ancient Authority

9. The End of the Civilisation

10. Discovering the Harappan Civilisation

11. Problems of Piecing Together the Past

Theme-Two -Early States and Economies - Kings, Farmers and Towns (C. 600 BCE-600) (6 Marks)

1. Prinsep and Piyadassi

2. The Earliest States

3. An Early Empire

4. New Notions of Kingship

5. A Changing Countryside

6. Towns and Trade

7. Back to basics

8. The Limitations of Inscriptional Evidence.

Theme-Three- Early Societies: Kinship, Caste and Class (C. 600 BCE-600 CE) (6 Marks)

1. The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata

2. Kinship and Marriage Many Rules and Varied Practices

3. Social Differences: Within and Beyond the Framework of Caste

4. Beyond Birth Resources and status

5. Explaining Social Differences: A Social Contract

6. Handling Texts Historians and the Mahabharata

7. A Dynamic Text

Theme-Four -Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments (7 Marks)

1. A Glimpse of Sanchi

2. The Background: Sacrifices and Debates

3. Beyond Worldly Pleasures:The Message of Mahavira

4. The Buddha and the Quest for Enlightenment

5. The Teachings of the Buddha 6.Followers of the Buddha

7. Stupas

8. “Discovering” Stupas The Fate of Amaravati and Sanchi

9. Sculpture

10. New Religious Traditions

11. Can We “See” Everything?

Themes in Indian History Part-II

Theme-Five-Through the Eyes of Travellers, Perceptions of Society (6 Marks)

 (C.Tenth to Seventeenth Century)

1. Al-Biruni and the:Kitab-ul-Hind

2. Ibn Battuta’s Rihla 

3. François Bernier, A Doctor with a Difference

4. Making Sense of an Alien World, Al-Biruni and the SanskriticTradition 

5. Ibn Battuta and the excitement of the Unfamiliar

6. Bernier and the “Degenerate” East

7. Women-Slaves, Sati and Labourers.

Theme-Six- Bhakti - Sufi Traditions, Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional (7 Marks)

Texts (C. Eighth to Eighteenth Century)

1. A Mosaic of Religious Beliefs and Practices

2. Poems of Prayer Early Traditions of Bhakti

3. The Virashaiva Tradition in Karnataka

4. Religious Ferment in North India

5. New Strands in the Fabric- Islamic Traditions

6. The Growth of Sufism

7. The Chishtis in the Subcontinent

8. New Devotional Paths Dialogue and Dissent in Northern India

9. Reconstructing Histories of Religious Traditions.

Theme-Seven-An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara (c. Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century (6 Marks)

1. The Discovery of Hampi

2. Rayas, Nayakas and Sultans

3. Vijayanagara The Capital and its Environs

4. The Royal Centre

5. The Sacred Centre

6. Plotting Palaces, Temples and Bazaars

7. Questions in Search of Answers.

Theme-Eight-Peasants, Zamindars and the State-Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. Sixteenth- Seventeenth Centuries (6 Marks)

1.Peasants and Agricultural Production 

2. The Village Community

3. Women in Agrarian Society

4. Forests and Tribes

5. The Zamindars

6. Land Revenue System

7. The Flow of Silver

8. The Ain-i Akbari of Abu’lFazl Allami

Themes in Indian History Part-III

Theme-Nine -Colonialism and the Countryside-Exploring Official Archives (6 Marks)

1. Bengal and the Zamindars

2. The Hoe and the Plough

3. A Revolt in the Countryside, The Bombay Deccan

4. The Deccan Riots Commission

Theme-Ten Rebels and the Raj- The Revolt of 1857 and Its Representations. (6 Marks)

1. Pattern of the Rebellion

2. Awadh in Revolt

3. What the Rebels Wanted

4. Repression

5. Images of the Revolt.

Theme-Eleven -Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond (6 Marks)

1. A Leader Announces Himself

2. The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation

3. The Salt Satyagraha- A Case Study

4. Quit India

5. The Last Heroic Days

6. Knowing Gandhi

Theme-Twelve -Framing the Constitution -The Beginning of a New Era (6 Marks)

1. A Tumultuous Time

2. The Vision of the Constitution

3. Defining Rights

4. The Powers of the State

5. The Language of the Nation

Unit 13: Map Work - 5 Marks

Prescribed Textbooks:

1.Themes in Indian History, Part I -  NCERT's Book Published under Copyright

2.Themes in Indian History, Part II - NCERT's Book Published under copyright

3.Themes in Indian History, Part III - NCERT's Book Published under Copyright

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