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Key Facts: PSEB SS PHC Exam

80 + 20

PSEB Senior Secondary PHC Theory + Project/INA mark split

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies 2026–27

Code 003

Punjab History and Culture subject code (in lieu of Punjabi 002)

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies 2026–27

33%

Separate pass floor in Theory, INA, and aggregate

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies 2026–27

3 hours

Typical PSEB Senior Secondary PHC theory exam duration

Common Class 12 theory logistics / confirm on pseb.ac.in

4 units

Official PHC theory units from Mughals through legends/literature

PSEB Class XII PHC syllabus 2025–26

5 map themes

Banda, Guru Gobind Singh, Ranjit Singh, First & Second Anglo-Sikh Wars

PSEB Class XII PHC syllabus 2025–26 map list

PSEB Senior Secondary PHC is a Class 12 public-exam subject (code 003, in lieu of compulsory Punjabi) with Theory 80 + Project/INA 20 (about 3 hours theory) and 33% pass separately in theory, INA, and aggregate — not a pure MCQ board paper. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation for Mughals, Gurus, Banda, Misls, Ranjit Singh, Anglo-Sikh wars, legends, and classical literature.

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1Which Mughal ruler’s victory at the First Battle of Panipat (1526) opened the Indo-Gangetic plain and brought the Punjab under early Mughal control?
A.Sher Shah Suri
B.Babur
C.Humayun
D.Akbar
Explanation: Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat in 1526, founding Mughal rule in northern India and making the Punjab a key corridor of the new empire.
2A major Mughal administrative legacy felt in the Punjab was the mansabdari system. What did it primarily organise?
A.Only village panchayats without ranks
B.Ranks and military-civil obligations of imperial officers
C.Only Sikh misl cavalry rolls
D.British district boards after 1849
Explanation: Mansabdari ranked nobles (mansabdars) by zat/sawar and tied them to military and administrative service under the emperor—central to Mughal provincial governance including Punjab.
3Which Mughal capital city in the northwest became a major imperial centre with the Lahore Fort and Shalimar Gardens associated with later Mughal grandeur?
A.Agra only, never Lahore
B.Lahore
C.Delhi’s Shahjahanabad alone with no Lahore role
D.Multan exclusively
Explanation: Lahore was a major Mughal provincial and sometimes imperial centre; monuments such as the Lahore Fort complex and Shalimar Gardens embody Mughal architectural legacy in the Punjab.
4Under which Mughal emperor was Guru Arjan Dev Ji martyred in 1606, marking a sharp turn in Sikh–Mughal relations?
A.Akbar
B.Jahangir
C.Shah Jahan
D.Aurangzeb
Explanation: Guru Arjan Dev Ji was executed in 1606 during Jahangir’s reign, a watershed that pushed the Sikh community toward more defensive organisation under later Gurus.
5Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’s martyrdom at Delhi in 1675 is most closely associated with the reign of which Mughal emperor?
A.Babur
B.Akbar
C.Aurangzeb
D.Bahadur Shah I only
Explanation: Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji was executed in Delhi in 1675 under Aurangzeb, remembered in Sikh tradition for defending freedom of conscience (including Kashmiri Pandits).
6Which land-revenue approach, refined under Akbar with Raja Todar Mal’s association, influenced Mughal agrarian administration in provinces including the Punjab?
A.Permanent Settlement of Cornwallis only
B.Zabt / measurement-based assessment systems of the Mughal era
C.Ryotwari as invented solely by the British East India Company in 1526
D.Jagirdari abolition by Babur in 1526
Explanation: Akbar-era revenue reforms (often linked to Todar Mal) developed measurement and cash assessment practices (zabt and related methods) that structured Mughal agrarian extraction across fertile provinces such as Punjab.
7A cultural legacy of long Mughal presence in the Punjab included the prestige of which court language for administration and high literature?
A.Only Gurmukhi as the sole Mughal court language
B.Persian
C.Only English from Babur’s time
D.Only Sanskrit for all farmans
Explanation: Persian was the Mughal language of administration and high culture; its influence shaped documents, poetry, and elite communication in the Punjab until later shifts under Sikh and British rule.
8How did Mughal rule most significantly affect Punjab’s strategic role in the empire?
A.It made Punjab irrelevant to imperial communications
B.It positioned Punjab as a frontier–corridor province linking Hindustan to Kabul and Central Asian routes
C.It closed all northwest passes permanently after 1526
D.It transferred the entire imperial capital permanently to Multan only
Explanation: The Punjab sat astride routes toward Kabul and the northwest; Mughals treated it as a strategic corridor and recruiting/revenue base, not a peripheral backwater.
9Which statement best captures a lasting Mughal architectural legacy visible in historic Punjab urban landscapes?
A.Only wooden longhouses with no stone forts
B.Garden-palace complexes, forts, and tomb architecture in the Indo-Islamic style
C.Only Greek theatres built by Babur at every tehsil
D.Only Victorian railway stations from 1526
Explanation: Mughal legacy includes forts, gardens (charbagh traditions), mosques, and tombs combining Persianate and Indian features—seen in Lahore and other historic centres.
10Compared with Akbar’s relatively accommodating religious politics, Aurangzeb’s orthodoxy is often linked in Punjab–Sikh history to:
A.Complete disappearance of all Islam from the region
B.Heightened conflict culminating in Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom and later Sikh militarisation pressures
C.Immediate British annexation in 1675
D.Foundation of the Khalsa by Aurangzeb himself
Explanation: Aurangzeb’s stricter religious politics and the 1675 martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur intensified Sikh–Mughal conflict and form a backdrop to the martial turn under Guru Gobind Singh.

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