NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Social Science | 10th Social Science

Themes

Learning Objectives

Section 1: Events and Processes:
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

Section 2: Livelihoods, Economies, and Societies: Anyone theme of the following:

3. The Making of a Global World:

· The Pre-modern world

· The Nineteenth Century global economy, colonialism)

· The Interwar Economy (Great Depression)

· Rebuilding the World Economy

4. 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

Section 3: Everyday Life, Culture, and Politics:

5. 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

· Enable the learners to identify and comprehend the forms in which nationalism developed along with the formation of nation-states in Europe in the post-1830 period.

· Establish the relationship and bring out the difference between European nationalism and anti-colonial nationalism.

· Understand the way the idea of nationalism emerged and led to the formation of nation-states in Europe and elsewhere.

· Recognize the characteristics of Indian nationalism through a case study of Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience Movement.

· Analyze the nature of the diverse social movements of the time.

· Familiarize with the writings and ideas of different political groups and individuals.

· Appreciate the ideas promoting Pan Indian belongingness.

· Show that globalization has a long history and point to the shifts within the process.

· Analyze the implication of globalization for local economies.

· Discuss how globalization is experienced differently by different social groups.

· Familiarize with the Pro- to-Industrial phase and Early – factory system.

· Familiarize with the process of industrialization and its impact on labor class.

· Enable them to understand industrialization in the colonies with reference to Textile industries.

· Identify the link between print culture and the circulation of ideas.

· Familiarize with pictures, cartoons, extracts from propaganda literature, and newspaper debates on important events and issues in the past.

· Understand that forms of writing have a specific history and that they reflect historical changes within society and shape the forces of change.

Themes

Learning Objectives

1. Resources and Development:

· Types of Resources

· Development of Resources

· Resource Planning in India

· Land Resources

· Land Utilization

· Land Use Pattern in India

· Land Degradation and Conservation Measures

· 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

Note: The chapter ‘Forest and Wildlife’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in Board Examination.

3. Water Resources:

· Water Scarcity and The Need for Water Conservation and Management

· Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resources Management

· Rainwater Harvesting

Note: The chapter ‘Water Resources’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in the Board Examination.

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

· Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Minerals

· Non-Metallic Minerals

· Rock Minerals

· Conservation of Minerals

· Energy Resources

o Conventional and Non-Conventional
o 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 degradation

· Control of Environmental Degradation

7. Life Lines of National Economy:

· Transport – Roadways, Railways, Pipelines, Waterways, Airways

· Communication

· International Trade

· Tourism as a Trade

· Understand the importance of forests and wild life in one environment as well as develop a concept towards the depletion of resources.

· Comprehend the importance of water as a resource as well as develop awareness towards its judicious use and conservation.

· Explain the importance of agriculture in the national economy.

· Identify various types of farming, and discuss the various farming methods; describe the spatial distribution of major crops as well as understand the relationship between rainfall regimes and cropping pattern.

· Explain various government policies for institutional as well as technological reforms since independence.

· Identify different types of minerals and energy resources and places of their availability

· Feel the need for their judicious utilization

· Bring out the importance of industries in the national economy as well as understand the regional disparities, which resulted due to the concentration of industries in some areas.

· Discuss the need for planned industrial development and debate over the role of government towards sustainable development.

· Explain the importance of transport and communication in the ever-shrinking world.

· Understand the role of trade and tourism in the economic development of a country.

Themes

Learning Objectives

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 makes India a Federal Country?

· How is Federalism practiced?

· Decentralization in India

Democracy and Diversity:

· Case Studies of Mexico

· Differences, similarities, and divisions

· Politics of social divisions

Note: The chapter ‘Democracy and Diversity’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in the Board Examination.

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

Note: The chapter ‘Popular Struggles and Movements’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in the Board Examination.

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

Note: The chapter ‘Challenges to Democracy’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in Board Examination.

· Familiarize with the centrality of power-sharing in a democracy.

· Understand the working of spatial and social power-sharing mechanisms.

· Analyse federal provisions and institutions.

· Explain decentralization in rural and urban areas.

· Analyse the relationship between social cleavages and political competition with reference to the Indian situation.

· Identify and analyze the challenges posed by communalism to Indian democracy.

· Recognise the enabling and disabling effects of caste and ethnicity in politics.

· Develop a gender perspective on politics.

· Understand the vital role of people’s struggle in the expansion of democracy.

· Analyse party systems in democracies.

· Introduction to major political parties, challenges faced by them, and reforms in the country.

· Evaluate the functioning of democracies in comparison to alternative forms of government.

· Understand the causes for the continuation of democracy in India.

· Distinguish between sources of strengths and weaknesses of Indian democracy.

· Reflect on the different kinds of measures possible to deepen democracy.

· Promote active and participatory citizenship.

Themes

Learning Objectives

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

· Foreign Trade and the integration of markets

· What is globalization?

· Factors that have enabled Globalisation

· World Trade Organisation

· Impact of Globalization on India

· The Struggle for a Fair Globalisation

5. Consumer Rights:

Note: Chapter 5 ‘Consumer Rights’ to be done as Project Work.

· Familiarize yourself with concepts of macroeconomics.

· Understand the rationale for overall human development in our country, which includes the rise of income, improvements in health, and education rather than income.

· Understand the importance of quality of life and sustainable development.

· Identify major employment generating sectors.

· Reason out government investment in different sectors of the economy.

· Understand money as an economic concept.

· Understand the role of financial institutions from the point of view of day-to-day life.

· Explain the working of the Global Economic phenomenon.

· Gets familiarized with the rights and duties as a consumer, and legal measures available to protect from being exploited in markets.