TREND ANALYSIS – LAST 5 YEARS (2021–2025)
🔹 Chapter 1: Rise of Nationalism in Europe
📌 Frequently Asked Areas:
- French Revolution & nationalism
- Treaty of Vienna (1815)
- German Unification (very repeated 5 marker)
- Role of Bismarck
- Romanticism
- Frankfurt Parliament (source based)
- Symbolism (Germania, Marianne)
📈 Trend:
✔ Every year at least 1 question (3 or 5 marks)
✔ Frequently appears in case study
✔ German Unification asked multiple times in different forms
🔥 HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:
- Role of culture in nationalism (Romanticism + symbols)
- Frankfurt Parliament – failure reasons
- Comparison: Italy vs Germany unification
- Role of Bismarck (as competency question)
🔹 Chapter 2: Nationalism in India
📌 Frequently Asked Areas:
- Rowlatt Act
- Jallianwala Bagh
- Non-Cooperation Movement (withdrawal reason)
- Civil Disobedience Movement
- Salt March
- Role of different groups (peasants, women, business class)
- Gandhi-Irwin Pact
- Simon Commission (less but possible)
📈 Trend:
✔ Most weightage chapter
✔ Almost every year 5-mark question
✔ Civil Disobedience asked more than Non-Cooperation in recent years
✔ Case study very common
🔥 VERY HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:
- Civil Disobedience Movement – features & significance
- Participation of different social groups
- Why Congress failed to achieve Hindu-Muslim unity
- Why Non-Cooperation was withdrawn
- Salt as symbol (competency based)
👉 This is the MOST IMPORTANT chapter.
🔹 Chapter 3: Making of a Global World
Pre-Modern World (VERY IMPORTANT)
📌 Important Areas:
- Silk Routes
- Role of food travel (noodles, potatoes, etc.)
- Cultural exchange
- Spread of religion
- Early trade networks
✅ Most Expected Questions:
Q1. Explain how the Silk Routes linked the world. (3 or 5 marks)
Q2. How did food travel across countries? Explain with examples.
Q3. How did pre-modern trade help in cultural exchange?
🔹 2️⃣ Conquest, Disease and Trade (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)
This section is now the MOST IMPORTANT because later topics are deleted.
📌 Key Areas:
- Discovery of America
- Role of Columbus
- European conquest
- Smallpox impact
- Slave trade
- Plantation system
🔹 Chapter 4: Print Culture
📌 Frequently Asked Areas:
- Gutenberg press
- Print & Reformation
- Vernacular Press Act
- Print & women
- Print & nationalism
- Censorship by British
📈 Trend:
✔ Appears in case study often
✔ 3 mark common
✔ 5 mark occasionally
✔ Women and print repeated in new pattern
🔥 HIGH PROBABILITY 2026:
- Print culture & growth of nationalism
- Role of women in print
- Vernacular Press Act
- How print created public opinion
🎯 OVERALL MOST EXPECTED 5 MARK QUESTIONS 2026
Print & Nationalism
Civil Disobedience Movement
Role of social groups in national movement
German Unification
Salt March significance
Impact of Globalisation
Print Culture & Nationalism
