CBSE Class 10 Social Science Syllabus 2023-24 PDF

• 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

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: Any one theme of the following:

• 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
• 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 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 nationalisms.
• 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
• ideals 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 labour 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.

• 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

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.

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 theoretical aspect of chapter ‘Water Resources’ to be assessed in the Periodic Tests only and will not be evaluated in Board Examination. However, the map items of this chapter as given in the Map List will be evaluated in Board Examination.

Agriculture

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

Minerals and Energy Resources

What is a mineral?

• Mode of occurrence of Minerals
• Ferrons and Non-Ferrons Minerals
• Non-Metallic Minerals
• Rock Minerals
• Conservation of Minerals

Energy Resources

• Conventional and Non-Conventional
• Conservation of Energy Resources

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

 Life Lines of National Economy

Transport       –          Roadways,    Railways, Pipelines, Waterways, Airways

Communication

International Trade

Tourism as a Trade

2. Understand the working of spatial and social power sharing mechanisms.

3. Analyse federal provisions and institutions.

4. Explain decentralization in rural and urban areas.

5. Analyse party systems in democracies.
Introduction to major political parties, challenges faced by them and reforms in the country.

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

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

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

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

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

4. Identify major employment generating sectors.
Reason out the government investment in different sectors of the economy.

5. Understand money as an economic concept.

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

7. Explain the working of the Global Econo