BHIC 113 Solved Guess Paper for the 2026 Term End Examination is built for one job only, which is getting you through History of India VIII without reading all twenty one units the night before. Fifteen questions, every one of them answered in full, every answer written from the IGNOU textbook and matched against the actual pattern of the last six question papers.
Most students open this course three weeks before the exam and panic, because the syllabus runs from the Revolt of 1857 right up to the making of the republic. That is a lot of ground. What actually gets asked, however, is a much smaller and far more predictable set of themes, and this file is the shortlist.
BHIC 113 Guess Paper 2026: Key Facts at a Glance
- Course code and title: BHIC 113, History of India VIII (c. 1857-1950)
- Programme: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History, programme code BAHIH, Semester VI
- Questions solved in this file: 15 (13 long answers plus 2 short notes)
- Sample solutions on this page: 5 of 15, the remaining 10 are in the paid file
- File length: 18 pages, of which 15 are answer pages
- Syllabus covered: All 6 blocks, 21 units
- Exam duration and marks: 3 hours, 100 marks
- Attempt rule: Any five questions in about 400 words each, at least two from each Section
- Sessions analysed: Six: June 2023, December 2023, June 2024, December 2024, June 2025, December 2025
- Target sessions: June 2026 and December 2026
- Delivery: PDF sent on WhatsApp 9899436384 after paid enquiry
BHIC 113 is a 3 hour, 100 mark Semester VI paper, and this 18 page file solves 15 shortlisted questions across all 6 blocks.
What Is Inside the BHIC 113 Solved Guess Paper 2026
The file is an 18 page PDF holding 15 solved questions that between them cover all six blocks and all 21 units of History of India VIII. Nothing in it is a heading with bullet points underneath. Every question carries a written answer you can memorise and reproduce.
Each question in the file sits on its own page with four things printed above the answer: the priority tag, the block it belongs to, the sessions in which it last appeared, and the mark value. That header is the part students actually use, because it tells you in two seconds whether a topic is worth your last evening or not.
The answers themselves follow one shape throughout. A short definition paragraph with a quotation and a scholar attached, then three or four numbered sub headings, then a two line conclusion that states historical significance. Examiners mark on structure as much as content, and this shape is built for the 400 word window IGNOU gives you.
If you are also collecting material for the other papers of your semester, the wider IGNOU Solved Guess Paper collection follows the same format across codes, so nothing you learn about using this file goes to waste.
5 Sample Questions with Solutions from the BHIC 113 Guess Paper
Five of the fifteen answers are reproduced below in abridged form so you can judge the writing quality before you buy. In the delivered file each of these runs to its full length, roughly 450 words for a 20 mark question and 250 words for a short note.
Critically examine the socio-economic impact of colonialism on India.
Definition line: the impact is best summed up as the transfer of wealth from India to England through plunder, Home charges, and interest and profits on private account. It must be located inside the world system of capitalist imperialism rather than blamed on individual British rulers.
Theories: Hobson in 1902 argued that under consumption and over saving made colonial expansion a logical corollary of capitalism. Hilferding in 1910 analysed finance capitalism, extended by Lenin in 1916 and Rosa Luxemburg in 1913. Naoroji, Ranade and R.C. Dutt built the Indian school of Economic Nationalism.
Effects: drain of wealth; de-industrialisation, with the collapse of the textile export market confirmed by A.K. Bagchi; free trade policy that turned India into the agricultural farm of industrial England; famines costing at least one crore fifty two lakh lives, with per capita food grain availability falling from 0.23 to 0.16 ton on Blyn's figures; commercialisation of agriculture after the Cotton Boom of the 1860s; and the deepening of peasant dependence on the village bania.
Conclusion: colonialism reshaped the Indian economy to serve metropolitan interests, and the nationalist critique of that exploitation became a powerful instrument for building national consciousness.
Discuss the formation of the Indian National Congress and the controversies about its origin.
Definition line: the safety valve description, that the Congress was created for the escape of great and growing forces generated by British rule, is the quotation to open with, because the whole answer is a reply to it.
Founding facts: founded on 28 December 1885 at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay, with seventy two non-official delegates present out of a hundred men, thirty nine of the seventy two being lawyers. W.C. Bonnerjee of Bengal presided.
Background: the English educated middle class emerged as new leadership after 1857; Bankim Chandra's Anandmath of 1882 carried Bande Matram; the Hindu Mela ran from 1867; and papers such as Amrita Bazar Patrika, The Hindu and Indu Prakash built nationalist opinion.
The three controversies: the official conspiracy or safety valve theory, undercut by Hume's private papers; the argument that it merely expressed the ambitions of the English educated intelligentsia; and the genuine felt need for an all India political body.
Conclusion: the Congress was not a British creation but the organisational outcome of a maturing national consciousness, with Hume acting mainly as coordinator.
Why was the call for Non-Cooperation given, and how did it unite the Indian masses?
Immediate causes: the Rowlatt Act of March 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919, and the harsh post war treatment of Turkey. Gandhi fused the Khilafat cause with non-cooperation to bring Hindus and Muslims onto one platform.
The Khilafat issue: Indian Muslims regarded the Sultan of Turkey as their Khalifa, and the Ali brothers, Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, led the agitation after the British removed him.
Programme: boycott of titles, of the civil services, army and police, of government schools, colleges and law courts, of the legislative councils and of foreign goods. The movement was launched on 1 August 1920. Lala Lajpat Rai and C.R. Das initially opposed the council boycott.
Withdrawal: after the violence at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur, the Congress Working Committee at Bardoli condemned it on 12 February 1922, Gandhi suspended the movement, and he was arrested on 10 March 1922.
Conclusion: though withdrawn, it united the masses on an unprecedented scale and established non-violent mass struggle as the main method of the freedom movement.
Discuss the Government of India Act 1935 with special reference to provincial autonomy.
Definition line: the central innovation was the introduction of provincial autonomy, which for the first time recognised provinces as having a separate legal entity.
Earlier reforms to place it against: the Indian Councils Act of 1892, criticised at the Congress sessions of 1892 and 1893; the Morley Minto Reforms of 1909, which brought separate electorates and weightage for Muslims; and the Montagu Chelmsford Reforms of 1919, which introduced dyarchy in the provinces.
Provisions of 1935: provincial autonomy and the abolition of dyarchy in the provinces; a proposed All India Federation of British Indian provinces and princely states that never came into being; the separation of Burma and the creation of Sind and Orissa; bicameral legislatures for several of the eleven provinces including Bombay, Bengal, Madras, the United Provinces, Bihar and Assam; and special executive powers vested in provincial governors.
Conclusion: the most elaborate constitutional measure of the colonial period, yet the federal scheme and the governors' special powers kept real authority with the British.
Write a short note on the Quit India Movement.
Definition line: do or die, karenge ya marenge, the phrase Gandhi gave the country before his arrest.
Background and launch: after the failure of the Cripps Mission in 1942 Gandhi resolved to ask the British to quit India, telling Congressmen at Bombay of the decision in May 1942. The movement began in August 1942, and Gandhi was arrested on 9 August 1942.
Character: with the senior leadership in jail it became a spontaneous mass upsurge marked by strikes and underground activity. Parallel governments were set up at Satara in Maharashtra and as the Tamluk Jatiya Sarkar in Bengal.
Conclusion: though suppressed, it demonstrated the depth of popular determination for freedom in the final phase of the struggle.
That is five of fifteen. The remaining ten answers, including the Civil Disobedience Movement, the Revolutionaries, Gandhian ideology, nationalist literature, and communalism and Partition, are in the complete file.
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WhatsApp 9899436384 for the BHIC 113 Solved Guess PaperFull Index of All 15 Questions in the History of India VIII Guess Paper
Here is the complete question list so you can see exactly what you are paying for before you pay for it. Five carry sample answers above; the other ten are marked as file only.
| No. | Question topic | Block | Priority | Marks | On this page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Socio-economic impact of colonialism | Block 1 | HIGH | 20 | Sample shown |
| Q2 | Socio-religious reform movements of the nineteenth century | Block 1 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q3 | Non-Brahman movements in western and southern India | Block 1 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q4 | Formation and origins of the Indian National Congress | Block 2 | HIGH | 20 | Sample shown |
| Q5 | Moderates and Extremists, ideology and methods | Block 2 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q6 | Swadeshi Movement and the Partition of Bengal | Block 2 | MEDIUM | 20 | In file |
| Q7 | Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements | Block 3 | HIGH | 20 | Sample shown |
| Q8 | Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930 to 1934 | Block 3 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q9 | The Revolutionaries and their ideological development | Block 3 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q10 | Constitutional reforms and the Government of India Act 1935 | Block 4 | HIGH | 20 | Sample shown |
| Q11 | Gandhian ideology and methods | Block 5 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q12 | Growth of trade union and peasant movements | Block 5 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q13 | Nationalist literature and culture | Block 5 | HIGH | 20 | In file |
| Q14 | Communalism and the Partition of India | Block 6 | MEDIUM | 20 | In file |
| Q15 | Short notes: Quit India Movement and Congress Socialist Party | Blocks 4 and 5 | MEDIUM | 10 + 10 | Part sample |
Five answers are open on this page. Ten are inside the paid file. Counting the two halves of Q15 separately, the file solves sixteen distinct writing tasks in eighteen pages.
How This BHIC 113 Guess Paper Was Built from Previous Year Papers
Six consecutive Term End papers were tallied topic by topic, from June 2023 through to December 2025, before any question was shortlisted. The shortlist was then cross checked against the IGNOU study material so that no answer depends on outside reading.
The tallying is the part that does the work. Every question in those six papers was tagged to a unit, and a topic that appeared four or more times was marked HIGH. A topic that appeared two or three times became MEDIUM. Anything appearing once stayed LOW and was deliberately left out of the fifteen.
A second rule was applied on top of frequency, which is the gap rule. A HIGH value topic that has been absent for two or three sessions is statistically due, and those were pulled back in even where the raw count was moderate. Communalism and the Partition of India entered the list for exactly that reason.
Only after the shortlist was fixed did the writing start, and every answer was drafted against the IGNOU textbook rather than a general history book, so the vocabulary and the examples match what the evaluator expects to read. If you want to run the same tally yourself, the raw papers are in our IGNOU Previous Year Question Paper archive, and IGNOU also hosts its own official BHIC 113 question paper for June 2024.
BHIC 113 Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme for History of India VIII
BHIC 113 is a three hour, 100 mark paper in which you attempt any five questions of about 400 words each, taking at least two from each of the two Sections. All questions carry equal marks, which means roughly thirty minutes and one answer each.
The paper is split into Section I and Section II. Questions 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 are full twenty mark questions. Questions 4 and 8 are short note clusters, where four options are offered and you write any two in about 200 words each for ten marks apiece.
That structure has a practical consequence most students miss. Because you must take two from each Section, preparing twelve strong topics unevenly distributed is riskier than preparing ten evenly spread across both halves. The fifteen questions in this file are deliberately balanced across Sections so you always have choice on both sides of the paper.
Word discipline matters too. A 400 word answer that carries six precise dates beats a 700 word answer that carries none, and running long on question one is the most common reason students leave question five half finished.
Block Wise and Unit Wise Syllabus Table for BHIC 113
History of India VIII runs across 21 units grouped into six blocks, and the guess paper draws from every one of those blocks. The table below shows the unit list along with what each block is actually tested on.
| Block | Units | Unit titles | What this block is tested on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block 1 | 1 to 3 | Effects of Imperialism; Social and Religious Reforms in Nineteenth Century India; The Non-Brahman Movements in Western and Southern India | Drain theory and de-industrialisation figures, the Brahmo and Arya Samaj strand, and the Phule to Periyar line including the Justice Party of 1916 |
| Block 2 | 4 to 6 | Formation of Indian National Congress; Moderates and Extremists; The Swadeshi Movement | The safety valve debate and the 1885 founding details, the Surat split of 1907, and the anti-partition agitation of 1905 with its samitis |
| Block 3 | 7 to 9 | Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements 1919-1922; Civil Disobedience Movement 1930-34; The Revolutionaries | Rowlatt to Chauri Chaura, the Dandi March and the Gandhi Irwin truce, and the Ghadar to HRA to HSRA ideological shift towards socialism |
| Block 4 | 10 to 13 | Constitutional Reforms; Quit India Movement; Azad Hind Fauj; Popular Struggles in the Princely States | The 1892 to 1935 reform sequence with provincial autonomy, the August 1942 upsurge and parallel governments, and the INA trials |
| Block 5 | 14 to 18 | Mahatma Gandhi, His Perspectives and Methods; Nationalism and Culture, Nationalist Literature; Left-wing Movements; Growth of Trade Union and Peasant Movements; Indian Capitalist Class and the Freedom Struggle | Satyagraha versus passive resistance, Bankim to Premchand, the Congress Socialist Party of 1934, and AITUC 1920 with the Kisan Sabha of 1936 |
| Block 6 | 19 to 21 | Towards Independence 1945-1947; Communalism and the Partition of India; Emergence of Independent India | The Cabinet Mission and Direct Action Day, the Lahore Resolution of 1940, and the transfer of power with the founding of democratic governance |
Students who want the units themselves rather than the answers can pick up the BHIC 113 Study Material set, and those sitting more than one History paper this semester usually take the full BAHIH Guess Paper bundle instead of buying code by code.
Topic Frequency Analysis for BHIC 113 Across Six Sessions
Fourteen topics account for almost every question asked in BHIC 113 between June 2023 and December 2025. The table records where each one appeared and why it earned its priority tag.
| Topic | Jun 23 | Dec 23 | Jun 24 | Dec 24 | Jun 25 | Dec 25 | Priority and reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Brahman movements | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HIGH. Five appearances in six sessions, the single most reliable topic in the course |
| Constitutional reforms and GoI Act 1935 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | HIGH. Asked as a full question and as a short note, so it pays twice |
| Nationalist literature and culture | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HIGH. Premchand and Bankim recur; the phrasing changes but the content does not |
| Formation and origins of the INC | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | HIGH. Alternates sessions and is due again in 2026 |
| Trade union and peasant movements | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | HIGH. Absent for one session, which by the gap rule makes it likely |
| Moderates and Extremists | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | HIGH. Often set as a short note on the Surat split rather than a full question |
| Revolutionaries, Ghadar and HSRA | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | HIGH. Two session gap now open, and the socialism angle is the examiner favourite |
| Gandhian ideology and methods | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | HIGH. Non-violence and religion is the recurring framing, not biography |
| Non-Cooperation and Khilafat | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | HIGH. Sometimes hidden inside a short note on the Khilafat Movement alone |
| Civil Disobedience Movement | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | HIGH. A clean alternate session pattern that points at June 2026 |
| Socio-economic impact of colonialism | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | HIGH. Appears as drain of wealth or de-industrialisation in disguise |
| Socio-religious reform movements | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | HIGH. Two sessions cold, the longest gap of any core Block 1 theme |
| Swadeshi and Partition of Bengal | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | MEDIUM. Usually a ten mark note rather than a full twenty mark question |
| Communalism and Partition of India | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | MEDIUM. Low count but reappeared in December 2025, so momentum is with it |
Most students who search for BHIC 113 Important Questions are really asking for this table rather than for a longer syllabus list, because a ranked shortlist is what saves time in the last fortnight. Notice what the table does not contain. The Rowlatt Act on its own, Hind Swaraj, Champaran, and the princely state struggles of Hyderabad and Rajkot each turned up once in six sessions. They are worth a glance, never a full evening.
What to Skip and What Examiners Reward in BHIC 113
Skip the single appearance topics and spend that time putting dates and scholar names into the twelve HIGH priority answers instead. Coverage is not the constraint in this paper; precision is.
Safe to leave out, or to keep only as a light backup: princely state struggles in Hyderabad and Rajkot, the Champaran satyagraha as a standalone note, the impact of the Second World War, and the Indian Councils Act of 1892 taken in isolation. That last one is better absorbed into the broader constitutional reforms answer, where it earns marks as context.
What examiners visibly reward is narrower than most students assume. Open with a crisp definition and attach a name to it, so the drain theory arrives with Naoroji and satyagraha with Gandhi. Anchor every claim with a date. Pair each idea with a concrete movement rather than writing in the abstract.
Then close. An evaluative conclusion of two lines that states historical significance is the cheapest mark on the paper and the one most often skipped, because students run out of time on their first answer and never recover it.
Who Should Use This History of India VIII Guess Paper
This file suits a BAHIH student with two to four weeks left who needs a defensible shortlist rather than the whole syllabus. It is a revision instrument, not a replacement for the IGNOU books.
It works well if you are a working student who cannot read 21 units, if you have a backlog in History of India VIII from an earlier session, if English is not your first language and you want model phrasing to copy, or if you are confident on content but keep losing marks on structure and conclusions.
It is a poor fit if you have three months in hand and want deep subject mastery, or if you expect a guarantee that these exact questions will appear. No guess paper can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something else. What the analysis gives you is a strong probability across a well tested pattern.
Students enrolled in IGNOU's Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History (BAHIH) programme take BHIC 113 in Semester VI, and the file is written for that stage of the programme specifically.
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The eight questions students ask most often before buying the BHIC 113 file, answered plainly.
How many questions are in the BHIC 113 guess paper for 2026?
The BHIC 113 file contains fifteen questions with complete written answers, spread over eighteen pages. Thirteen are twenty mark questions and one is a paired short note carrying ten marks for each part. Five of the fifteen are shown as samples on this page, which leaves ten answers available only inside the paid file sent on WhatsApp.
Does the BHIC 113 guess paper cover the full History of India VIII syllabus?
The fifteen questions are drawn from all six blocks and touch every part of the twenty one unit syllabus that has actually been examined recently. It is not a unit by unit summary of the textbook. Topics that appeared only once in six sessions, such as the Champaran satyagraha, are deliberately excluded so that revision time goes to higher probability areas.
Which previous year papers were analysed for the IGNOU BHIC 113 guess paper?
Six consecutive Term End Examination papers were tallied: June 2023, December 2023, June 2024, December 2024, June 2025 and December 2025. Every question in those papers was tagged to a unit, then counted. Topics appearing four or more times were marked HIGH, two or three times MEDIUM, and once only LOW and left out of the shortlist.
Is the BHIC 113 guess paper useful for both June 2026 and December 2026?
Yes. The shortlist is built on a six session pattern rather than on one upcoming paper, so it holds for both 2026 sittings. If a topic is asked in June 2026, the December pattern historically rotates rather than repeats, and the file covers both sides of that rotation because it spans all six blocks and both Sections of the paper.
Are the BHIC 113 answers written from the IGNOU study material?
Every answer is drafted from the IGNOU textbook for History of India VIII rather than from general history writing. That matters because evaluators mark against the terminology in the study material. The scholars quoted, the figures used and the examples chosen all come from the prescribed units, so nothing you write will look unfamiliar to the person marking it.
In what language is the BHIC 113 History of India VIII guess paper available?
The file is prepared in English, and a Hindi medium version can be arranged for BAHIH students who write their paper in Hindi. Mention your medium in the first WhatsApp message on 9899436384 so the correct version is sent. The question shortlist and the priority tags are identical in both, only the answer language changes.
What is the exam pattern for BHIC 113 that this guess paper follows?
BHIC 113 is a three hour paper of 100 marks in which you attempt any five questions of about 400 words each, taking at least two from each of the two Sections. Questions four and eight are short note clusters where you write any two options in about 200 words. Answer lengths in the file match those instructions exactly.
How is the BHIC 113 guess paper delivered after payment?
The file is shared as a PDF on WhatsApp 9899436384 once the paid enquiry is confirmed. There is no download link, no account and no waiting list. Send your course code and session in one message, confirm the payment, and the eighteen page document arrives in the same chat, usually within the same working day rather than overnight.