The Bihar Board 12th History syllabus 2025-26 contains three parts, including chapters such as Harappan Civilisation. Early States and Economies, Early Societies, Cultural Developments, Traveller Accounts, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions, Vijayanagara Capital, and more. Candidates can download the syllabus PDF from the official website. The Bihar Board Class 12 History exam is tentatively scheduled for February 2026. Students pursuing the Humanities/Arts stream under the BSEB can view the complete syllabus contents here. Before beginning their preparations, they should be familiar with the syllabus for all topics and the distribution of marks.
Bihar Board Class 12 History Syllabus 2025-26 Themes
The table below consists of various themes in BSEB Class 12 History Syllabus 2025-26.
Themes in Indian History Part—I 24 Marks
Theme No.
Theme Title
Marks
1
Harappan Archaeology
24
2
Political and Economic History: How inscriptions tell a story
3
Social Histories: using the Mahabharta
4
A history of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa
Themes in Indian History Part—II 25 Marks
5
Medieval Society through Travellers Accounts
25
6
Religious Histories: The Bhakti- Sufi tradition
7
New Architecture: Hampi
8
Agrarian Relations: The Ain-i-Akbari
9
The Mughal court: Reconstructing histories through chronicles
Themes in Indian History Part—III 25 Marks
10
Colonialism and Rural Society
25
11
Representations of 1857
12
Colonialism and Indian Towns
13
Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Eyes
14
Partition through oral sources
15.
The Making of the Constitution
Including Map work of the related Themes
06
Theory Total
80
Project Work
20
Total
100
Bihar Board Class 12 History Syllabus 2025-26 Theme Wise Syllabus
The table below consists of theme wise syllabus of BSEB Class 12 History syllabus 2025-26.
Theme No. and Title
Learning outcome with specific competencies
Themes in Indian History Part—I
The Story of the First Cities: Harappan Archaeology
Introduce the learner to the economic and social institutions of early urban centers.
Describe the manner in which new data can cause historical concepts to be reexamined.
Explain how to write an archaeological report with examples.
Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story.
Introduce the student to the main trajectories of the subcontinent's political and economic history.
Describe inscriptional analysis and how it has influenced how political and economic processes are understood.
Introduce strategies of textual analysis and their use in reconstructing social history.
Social Histories: Using the Mahabharta
Familiarize the learner with issues in social history.
Introduce strategies of textual analysis and their use in reconstructing social history.
A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa
.Discuss the major religious developments in early India.
Describe how to utilize visual analysis techniques to rebuild religious histories.
To create a picture album of the Buddhist sculpture
Themes in Indian History Part—II
Medieval Society through Travellers Accounts
Introduce the learner to the key elements of the social histories that the explorers have documented.
Discuss the value of using traveler's reports as sources for social history.
BHAKTI –SUFI TRADITIONS Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth centuries)
Understand the religious developments.
Summarize the philosophies of different Bhakti and SufI saints to understand the religious developments during medieval period.
Comprehend the religious movement to establish unity, peace harmony and brotherhood in society
New Architecture: Hampi
Familiarize the learner with the new buildings that were built during the time.
Discuss how architecture can be analyzed to reconstruct history.
Agrarian Relations: The Ain-i-Akbari
Discuss developments in agrarian relations.
Discuss how to supplement official documents with other sources.
The Mughal Court
Introduce the learner to the key moments in political history.
Describe the methods used to recreate the histories of political institutions using chronicles and other sources.
Themes in Indian History Part—III
COLONIALISM AND THE COUNTRYSIDE Exploring Official Archives
Evaluate the revenue systems introduced by the British to understand the economic aspects of colonization in India.
Analyze the colonial official records & reports to understand the divergent interest of British and Indians.
Find solution to be taken to protect the peasants and artisans in this century
REBELS AND THE RAJ: 1857 Revolt and its Representations
To examine the events of 1857.
Correlate the Planning and coordination of the rebels of 1857 to infer its domains and nature.
Examine the momentum of the revolt to understand its spread.
Analyse how revolt created vision of unity amongst Indians.
Interpret visual images to understand the emotions portrayed by the nationalist and British.
MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT Civil Disobedience and Beyond
Understand the nationalist movement in chronological order.
Correlate the significant elements of the nationalist movement and the nature of ideas, individuals, and institutions under the Gandhian leadership.
Debate on the significant contributions of Gandhi to understand his mass appeal for nationalism.
Explore the ways of interpreting historical source such as newspapers, biographies and auto- biographies diaries and letters
Framing of the Constitution
Highlight the role of Constituent Assembly to understand functionaries in framing the constitution of India.
Analyse how debates and discussions around important issues in the Constituent Assembly shaped our Constitution
