CLASS 10 SOCIAL STUDIES: ALL CHAPTERS

 History Syllabus

1. The Rise of Nationalism in Europe:
   • The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation
   • The Making of Nationalism in Europe
   • The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848
   • The Making of Germany and Italy
   • Visualizing the Nation
   • Nationalism and Imperialism
2. Nationalism in India:

• The First World War, Khilafat and Non -Cooperation
• Differing Strands within the Movement
• Towards Civil Disobedience
• The Sense of Collective Belonging

4. The Making of a Global World:
   • The Pre-modern world
   • The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914)
   • The Inter war Economy
   • Rebuilding a World Economy: The Post-War Era
5. The Age of Industrialization:
   • Before the Industrial Revolution
   • Hand Labour and Steam Power
   • Industrialization in the colonies
   • Factories Come Up
   • The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth
   • Market for Goods
6. Print Culture and the Modern World:

• The First Printed Books
• Print Comes to Europe
• The Print Revolution and its Impact
• The Reading Mania
• The Nineteenth Century
• India and the World of Print
• Religious Reform and Public Debates
• New Forms of Publication
• Print and Censorship

 Geography Syllabus

1. Resources and Development:

• Development of Resources
• Resource Planning in India
• Land Resources
• Land Utilization
• Land Use Pattern in India
• Land Degradation and Conservation

• Soil as a Resource
• Classification of Soils
• Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation

2. Forest and Wildlife
   • Biodiversity or Biological Diversity
   • Flora and Fauna in India
   • Vanishing Forests
   • Asiatic Cheetah: Where did they go?
   • The Himalayan Yew in trouble
   • Conservation of forest and wildlife in India
   • Project Tiger
   • Types and distribution of forests and wildlife resources
   • Community and Conservation

3. Water Resources:
   • Water Scarcity and The Need for Water Conservation and Management
   • Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resources Management
   • Rainwater Harvesting

4. Agriculture:
   • Types of farming
   • Cropping Pattern
   • Major Crops
   • Technological and Institutional Reforms
   • Impact of Globalization on Agriculture

5. Minerals and Energy Resources
   What is a mineral?
   • Mode of occurrence of Minerals
   • Ferron’s and Non-Ferrous Minerals
   • Non-Metallic Minerals
   • Rock Minerals
   • Conservation of Minerals
   • Energy Resources
   • Conventional and Non-Conventional
   • Conservation of Energy Resources

6. Manufacturing Industries:
   • Importance of manufacturing
   • Contribution of Industry to National Economy
   • Industrial Location
   • Classification of Industries
   • Spatial distribution
   • Industrial pollution and environmental
   • Control of Environmental Degradation

7. Life Lines of National Economy:

• Transport – Roadways, Railways, Pipelines, Waterways, Airways
• Communication
• International Trade
• Tourism as a Trade

 Democratic Politics Syllabus

1. Power Sharing:
   • Case Studies of Belgium and Sri Lanka
   • Why power sharing is desirable?
   • Forms of Power Sharing

2. Federalism:
   • What is Federalism?
   • What make India a Federal Country?
   • How is Federalism practised?
   • Decentralization in India

3. Democracy and Diversity:
   • Case Studies of Mexico
   • Differences, similarities and divisions
   • Politics of social divisions

4. Gender, Religion and Caste:
   • Gender and Politics
   • Religion, Communalism and Politics
   • Caste and Politics

5. Popular Struggles and Movements:
   • Popular Struggles in Nepal and Bolivia
   • Mobilization and Organization
   • Pressure Groups and Movements

6. Political Parties:
   • Why do we need Political Parties?
   • How many Parties should we have?
   • National Political Parties
   • State Parties
   • Challenges to Political Parties
   • How can Parties be reformed?

7. Outcomes of Democracy:
   How do we assess democracy’s outcomes?
   • Accountable, responsive and legitimate government
   • Economic growth and development
   • Reduction of inequality and poverty
   • Accommodation of social diversity
   • Dignity and freedom of the citizens

8. Challenges to Democracy:
   • Thinking about challenges
   • Thinking about Political Reforms
   • Redefining democracy

 Economics Syllabus

1. Development:
   • What Development  Promises – Different people different goals
   • Income and other goals
   • National Development
   • How to compare different countries or states?
   • Income and other criteria
   • Public Facilities
   • Sustainability of development

2. Sectors of the Indian Economy:
   Sectors of Economic Activities
   • Comparing the three sectors
   • Primary, Secondary  and Tertiary Sectors in India
   • Division of sectors as organized and unorganized
   • Sectors in terms of ownership: Public and Private Sectors

3. Money and Credit:
   • Money as a medium of exchange
   • Modern forms of money
   • Loan activities of Banks
   • Two different credit situations
   • Terms of credit
   • Formal sector credit in India
   • Self Help Groups for the Poor

4. Globalization and the Indian Economy:
   Production across countries
   • Interlinking production across countries
   • World Trade Organisation
   • Impact of Globalization on India
   • The Struggle for a fair GlobalisationForeign Trade and integration of markets Globalisation
   • Factors that     have   enabled
   • What is globalization?
5.  Consumer Rights:
   • Note: Chapter 5 ‘Consumer Rights’ to be done as Project Work.            

Project Work

1. Every student has to compulsorily undertake any one project on the following topics:

• Consumer Awareness
• OR
• Social Issues
• OR
• Sustainable Development

2. Objective: The overall objective of the project work is to help students gain insight and pragmatic understanding of the theme and see all the Social Science disciplines from an interdisciplinary perspective. It should also help in enhancing the Life Skills of the students. Students are expected to apply the Social Science concepts that they have learnt over the years in order to prepare the project report. If required, students may go out for collecting data and use different primary and secondary resources to prepare the project. If possible, various forms of art may be integrated into the project work.