Social Science CBSE Class 10

• Social Science for CBSE Class 10 covers History, Geography, Political Science (Civics), and Economics.
• Each discipline provides a unique perspective on understanding society, development, and governance.

History: India and the Contemporary World II

• Focuses on the rise of nationalism in Europe and its impact.
• Examines the Nationalist Movement in Indo-China.
• Analyzes nationalism in India, with detailed discussions on the First World War, the Rowlatt Act, and the Non-Cooperation Movement.
• Studies the making of the global world, including the pre-modern world, the 19th century global economy, and the interwar economy.
• Explores the Age of Industrialization, covering early factories, industrial growth, and market dynamics.
• Discusses print culture and the modern world, looking at the early printing press, religious reforms, debates, and the impact on different sections of society.

Geography: Contemporary India II

• Resource and Development: Types of resources, resource planning, land resources, soil as a resource, soil types and distribution, soil erosion and conservation.
• Forest and Wildlife Resources: Types and distribution of forests, deforestation, conservation efforts, endangered species.
• Water Resources: Water scarcity, water conservation and management, rainwater harvesting, irrigation methods, multipurpose river projects.
• Agriculture: Types of farming, cropping patterns, major crops, technological and institutional reforms in agriculture, and the impact of globalization.
• Mineral and Energy Resources: Types of minerals, distribution of minerals in India, conservation of minerals, conventional and non-conventional energy resources.
• Manufacturing Industries: Importance of manufacturing, location factors, classification of industries, industrial pollution and its control.
• Lifelines of National Economy: Transportation, communication, and international trade.

Political Science (Civics): Democratic Politics II

• Power-sharing: Different forms of power-sharing, case studies of Belgium and Sri Lanka.
• Federalism: What is federalism, features, types of federations, federalism in India, decentralization.
• Democracy and Diversity: How democracies accommodate social divisions, case studies.
• Gender, Religion and Caste: Role of gender, religion and caste in politics, challenges and reforms.
• Popular Struggles and Movements: People's movements, pressure groups and their impact on politics.
• Political Parties: Types of party systems, national political parties in India, challenges to political parties, how parties can be reformed.
• Outcomes of Democracy: How democracy produces accountable, responsive and legitimate governments.
• Challenges to Democracy: Thinking about the challenges to democracy, reforming political institutions and actors

Economics: Understanding Economic Development

• Development: What development promises, different people, different goals, income and other goals, national development, how to compare different countries or states, public facilities, sustainability of development.
• Sectors of the Indian Economy: Sectors of economic activities, comparing the three sectors, division of sectors as organized and unorganized, sectors in terms of ownership- public and private sectors.
• 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.
• Globalization and the Indian Economy: Production across countries, interlinking production across countries, what is globalization, factors that have enabled globalization, impact of globalization on India, the struggle for a fair globalization.
• Consumer Rights: The consumer in the marketplace, consumer movement, consumer rights, consumer organizations.

Comprehensive overview of Social Science for CBSE Class 10, including History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics. Explores nationalism, industrialization, resource development, and political structures. An interdisciplinary study of society.