Step 1: Understand the question.
The question asks to identify two important centres of the Indian National Movement marked on a political map of India. These places are usually associated with major historical events.
Step 2: Identify common centres.
Such map-based questions commonly refer to places linked with key movements like the Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, or Revolt of 1857.
Step 3: Likely identified locations.
The two major centres often asked are:
- Champaran (Bihar) – associated with the Champaran Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi
- Dandi (Gujarat) – associated with the Salt March (Dandi March) led by Mahatma Gandhi
Step 4: Final identification.
Thus, the correct names of the marked places are:
A – Champaran
B – Dandi
Two statements are given below as Assertion and Reason (R). Read them carefully and choose the correct option.
Assertion : Harappa was a well-planned city.
Reason (R): It had a well-planned drainage system.
Match Column-I with Column-II and choose the correct option: 
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The bird leaves its nest
This is an excerpt from the Rihla:
My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday... I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveller... nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests ... My age at that time was twenty-two years.
Ibn Battuta returned home in 1354, about 30 years after he had set out.
Analyse the symbolism of the bird leaving its nest in the context of Ibn Battuta.
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The bird leaves its nest
This is an excerpt from the Rihla:
My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday... I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveller... nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests ... My age at that time was twenty-two years.
Analyse any one challenge that Ibn Battuta faced during his journey.Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The bird leaves its nest
This is an excerpt from the Rihla:
My departure from Tangier, my birthplace, took place on Thursday... I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveller... nor caravan whose party I might join, but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long-cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries. So I braced my resolution to quit all my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests ... My age at that time was twenty-two years.
Analyse the significance of Ibn Battuta’s journey in the context of culture.Match the following Column I with Column II and choose the correct option :
| Column I (Traveller) | Column II (Country) |
| a. Afanasi Nikitin | i. Spain |
| b. Duarte Barbosa | ii. Turkey |
| c. Antonio Monserrate | iii. Portugal |
| d. Seydi Ali Reis | iv. Russia |