BHDC 113 Question Paper December 2025, IGNOU B.A. (Honours) Hindi हिंदी की साहित्यिक पत्रकारिता

BHDC 113 Question Paper December 2025 is the freshest practice tool you can put in front of yourself before walking into your 2026 Term-End Exam. The solved version unpacks each patrika, era of sahityik patrakarita, and editor-contribution exactly the way an IGNOU evaluator wants to read it at honours level.

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What is the BHDC-113 December 2025 Question Paper?

The BHDC 113 December 2025 question paper is the official IGNOU Term-End Examination paper for Hindi ki Sahityik Patrakarita, conducted in December 2025 for B.A. Honours Hindi and BAG students. It carries 100 marks across ten questions in three hours, you attempt five with Q1 compulsory.

Here's the part that matters: this is the most recent paper IGNOU has released for the course. Question patterns from the latest cycle nearly always echo into the next two sessions. Solving December 2025 thoroughly is the closest you'll get to a live preview of June 2026 or December 2026.

About IGNOU BHDC-113 हिंदी की साहित्यिक पत्रकारिता

BHDC-113 is a core course in the IGNOU BAHDH and BAG programmes that traces the history and contribution of Hindi literary journalism. The syllabus splits across four eras. The earliest phase begins with "Banaras Akhbar" (1845, Govind Raghunath Thatte), Hindi's first journal, and continues through Bhartendu Harishchandra's "Kavivachan Sudha" and "Harishchandra Magazine".

The Dwivedi yug brings Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi's "Saraswati" (from 1900), which standardised Hindi gadya. The Premchand yug includes "Hans", "Madhuri", and "Maryada", along with nationalist papers like Madhavrao Sapre's "Karmaveer" and Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi's "Pratap". The post-Independence phase covers "Dharmyug" under Dharmavir Bharati, "Saptahik Hindustan", "Kalpana" with its cultural-literary focus, and modern literary monthlies. Most students underestimate how many specific dates, editors, and sub-publications this paper expects.

BHDC 113 Question Paper December 2025, Exam Pattern and Marks Breakdown

Five questions in three hours means roughly 36 minutes per question. Use that time to develop each answer with at least one named editor, one publication year, and one quoted line or article-title from the patrika in question.

All Questions in the BHDC 113 Question Paper December 2025 (Complete List)

Topics tested

Dharmyug, Banaras Akhbar, Saraswati aur Hans par tippani; sahityik patrakarita mein anuvaad ki mahatta; sahityik aur sanskritik patrakarita; Bhartendu yug aur Dwivedi yug ki patrakarita; Pratap aur Karmaveer; Bharat Mitra ka yogdan; Premchand yug; Swatantryottar patrakarita; Kalpana patrika ka pradeya.

Syllabus Topics Covered

The solutions in this PDF map directly across the BHDC-113 syllabus. Q1 covers four major patrikas as short notes: Dharmyug (post-Independence Bharati-era), Banaras Akhbar (Hindi's earliest), Saraswati (Dwivedi-era standardiser), and Hans (Premchand-era literary). Q2 covers the role of translation in literary journalism, an essay-style theoretical question.

Q3 covers the broader importance of sahityik aur sanskritik patrakarita. Q4 is the Bhartendu yug essay. Q5 is the Dwivedi yug essay. Q6 covers the value-pattern of "Pratap" (Vidyarthi) and "Karmaveer" (Sapre), both nationalist-literary papers. Q7 covers "Bharat Mitra" of the late nineteenth century. Q8 covers the Premchand yug. Q9 reviews post-Independence Hindi literary journalism through "Kalpana", "Dharmyug", "Dinaman", and modern monthlies. Q10 focuses on "Kalpana" specifically. If you've prepared the four eras, the major patrikas with editors and years, and the role of translation, you've covered the entire mark pool.

Sample Answer Preview: Sahityik Patrakarita Explanation

Take Q1's "Saraswati" tippani, a 10-mark short note. It's the most consistently asked patrika in this paper across recent years.

Here's how those 10 marks actually break down:

Parichay (2 marks): Open with one short paragraph. "Saraswati" was a Hindi monthly magazine launched in January 1900 by Indian Press, Allahabad, under the proprietorship of Babu Chintamani Ghosh. The first editor was Babu Shyam Sundar Das, but its golden era began under Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, who edited it from 1903 to 1920.

Sampadakiya yogdan (2 marks): Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi gave Saraswati its hallmark identity. He standardised Hindi prose, enforced grammatical discipline, encouraged scientific and rational writing alongside literary content, and personally rewrote contributions when grammar failed his standard. The Dwivedi yug of Hindi literature is named after his Saraswati editorship.

Bhasha aur shaili (2 marks): Saraswati promoted shuddh, refined Hindi gadya. It moved Hindi away from the Brajbhasha-influenced loose prose of the Bhartendu era toward Khari Boli with Sanskritised vocabulary and clear grammar. This linguistic project shaped a whole generation of writers.

Vishay-vastu aur lekhak (2 marks): The magazine published a wide range: poetry, short stories, essays, biographies, history, science, geography. Major writers like Maithili Sharan Gupt, Ramchandra Shukla, Premchand, Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay 'Hariaudh', and Sripat Sahay were nurtured by Saraswati's pages.

Sahityik mahatva (2 marks): Saraswati's importance is foundational. It crystallised Hindi as a serious literary language, created the platform for Khari Boli kavita, gave space to women writers like Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, and defined the editorial standard for Hindi magazines. Its decline came after Dwivedi stepped down, but its first two decades shaped Hindi sahitya permanently.

The full solution in your PDF follows exactly this structure for all four short-note options, with editor names, year ranges, and key contributors clearly placed.

How to Write High-Scoring Answers

Time first. 100 marks in 180 minutes works out to roughly 36 minutes per question on average. Q1 needs about 30 minutes for two short notes. The remaining four 20-mark questions get about 35 minutes each. Plan accordingly.

For BHDC-113, factual accuracy is everything. Wrong launch year, wrong editor name, or wrong publication city instantly costs 3 to 4 marks. Saraswati launched in 1900, not 1903. Hans launched in 1930 from Banaras under Premchand's editorship. Dharmyug ran under Dharmavir Bharati from 1960 to 1987. Get these right.

Open every essay with a definitional bhumika that names the era, key patrikas, and the broader role of literary journalism in that period. IGNOU evaluators reward clean openings.

For era-based questions like Q4 (Bhartendu yug) or Q8 (Premchand yug), structure your answer around four or five visheshtaayen, tying each to a specific patrika and editor. Don't write generic prose without dates.

For Q1 short notes, ten marks each, write 350 to 400 words. Parichay, sampadak, vishay-vastu, lekhak, mahatva. Five sub-headings, two marks each. That's the shape.

Who Should Use This Solved Question Paper

This is built for the BAHDH and BAG student whose Term-End Exam falls in 2026 or beyond. June 2026 candidate, December 2026 candidate, or back-paper attempt, the December 2025 release is your sharpest practice resource for this paper.

Two student profiles benefit most. The working professional already employed in journalism, publishing, or content roles, doing IGNOU to formalise the qualification. And the first-time learner with no journalism background who hasn't yet figured out how to memorise editor names, years, and patrika histories.

UGC NET Hindi aspirants and Hindi-medium journalism diploma students will find the structured era-by-era patrika analyses especially useful for parallel preparation.

Why This is Better Than Free PDFs and Telegram Files

Free Hindi PDFs look attractive until you actually open one. Most are old papers with patrika launch years wrong, editor attributions confused (Saraswati's Dwivedi sometimes appears as Hazariprasad Dwivedi by mistake), and answers stitched from random blogs that don't separate eras cleanly.

The actual cost isn't money. It's writing the wrong patrika launch year in your real exam because you trusted a careless file. We've seen students place "Saraswati" under the Bhartendu yug because a free PDF had the timeline jumbled.

This solved paper is checked against the official IGNOU release, written by a NET-qualified Hindi scholar with journalism history background, and corrected when something needs an update. There's also a real human at the other end if you spot anything off.

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If this paper helps, you might also want the previous session solved papers (June 2025, December 2024), the BHDC-113 assignment solutions for the current session, an important questions guide for last-minute revision, and topic-wise notes on the four major eras of Hindi sahityik patrakarita, which most students find the most fact-heavy section. Bundle pricing kicks in if you pick up two or more resources together.