BHIC-113 Question Paper December 2025, IGNOU History of India-VIII (c. 1857-1950)

BHIC 113 Question Paper December 2025 is the sharpest practice set for History of India-VIII. It shows how IGNOU frames the moderates and extremists, the Civil Disobedience Movement, the origin of the Congress and the road to Partition. If your exam is in 2026, this is where to start.

What is the BHIC-113 December 2025 Question Paper?

The BHIC 113 December 2025 question paper is the official IGNOU Term-End Examination paper for History of India-VIII, covering c. 1857 to 1950. It is bilingual in English and Hindi, set for 100 marks across a 3 hour duration.

The paper holds eight questions split over two sections. You attempt any five, taking at least two from each section, with every question worth 20 marks. The range runs from the cultural struggle in Maharashtra and the moderate-extremist divide to Civil Disobedience, deindustrialisation, the Congress Socialist Party, communalism and the partition of India.

About IGNOU BHIC-113 History of India-VIII

BHIC-113 is the freedom-struggle course in the IGNOU Bachelor of Arts Honours History (BAHIH) programme. It studies modern India from 1857 to 1950, opening with the cultural and social churn of nineteenth-century Maharashtra and the economic impact of colonial rule, including deindustrialisation.

The heart of the course is the national movement: the ideological and methodological divide between moderates and extremists, the controversies over the origin of the Indian National Congress, the Non-cooperation and Civil Disobedience movements, the Government of India Act 1935, the people's struggles in princely states like Rajkot, the Congress Socialist Party, and the growth of communalism that led to Partition. Figures such as Subhas Chandra Bose and Premchand also feature.

This page was prepared by Prateek Talwar and reviewed by the Unnati Educations academic team with history and social-science content reviewers. It is anchored to the IGNOU Term-End Examination, December 2025. Last updated June 2026.

BHIC-113 Question Paper December 2025 Exam Pattern and Marks

Topics Covered in the BHIC-113 Paper

The cultural struggle in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Maharashtra

The ideological and methodological differences between moderates and extremists

The Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930-31

Deindustrialisation under colonial rule

Controversies over the origin of the Indian National Congress

The causes of the withdrawal of the Non-cooperation Movement

The Government of India Act of 1935

The people's struggle in the princely state of Rajkot

The formation and impact of the Congress Socialist Party

The growth of communalism and the partition of India

Subhas Chandra Bose

The Champaran Movement

Premchand's contribution to Hindi literature

The Revolt of the Royal Indian Navy

How to Use BHIC 113 Question Paper to Score in the 2026 Exam

Plan your spread before writing. The rule that at least two answers must come from each section is where careless students slip, so confirm you have two solid options in Section A (Maharashtra, moderates and extremists, Civil Disobedience) and two in Section B (Rajkot, the Congress Socialist Party, communalism and Partition) before you commit.

National-movement answers reward chronology and named evidence. For the moderate-extremist question, contrast the methods clearly with figures like Gokhale and Tilak and the 1907 Surat split. For Civil Disobedience, fix the Dandi March of 1930 and the Gandhi-Irwin Pact as anchors. Most students notice that dated events and named leaders score far better than vague description.

The IGNOU December 2025 TEE keeps returning to Civil Disobedience, the moderates and extremists, and communalism leading to Partition, so weight those when time is short.

Sample Answer Approach (not a full answer)

Take Q7, how the growth of communalism led to the partition of India. Here is the shape of a 20-mark answer, not the answer itself.

Context: open by tracing communalism from late nineteenth-century separate identities to organised politics.

Points to cover: the role of colonial divide-and-rule and separate electorates, the rise of the Muslim League and the two-nation theory, the failure of unity efforts like the Lucknow Pact, the 1940 Lahore Resolution, and the events of 1946 to 1947.

Worked example: use the Lahore Resolution of 1940 as your concrete turning point.

Conclusion: a short analytical line on why Partition became hard to avoid.

Four or five dated points with one anchoring example is what earns the full twenty.

Frequently Asked Questions about the BHIC-113 Question Paper December 2025

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