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Class 10

Social Science: India and the Contemporary World II

25 lessons in 5 chapters, explained in plain words.

The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

  1. The French Revolution and the idea of the nation
  2. Liberals, conservatives and revolutionaries
  3. The age of revolutions, 1830-1848
  4. Making Germany and Italy; the case of Britain
  5. Visualising the nation; nationalism and imperialism

Nationalism in India

  1. War, satyagraha and the Rowlatt Act
  2. Differing strands of Non-Cooperation
  3. Towards Civil Disobedience
  4. Who joined, and the limits of Civil Disobedience
  5. A sense of collective belonging

The Making of a Global World

  1. The pre-modern world
  2. The nineteenth-century world economy
  3. Indian workers, bankers and trade
  4. The inter-war economy and the Great Depression
  5. Rebuilding the world economy

The Age of Industrialisation

  1. Before factories: proto-industry and the first mills
  2. The pace of change and workers' lives
  3. India's textiles under colonial rule
  4. Factories come up in India
  5. Peculiarities of Indian industry and the market for goods

Print Culture and the Modern World

  1. The first printed books
  2. Print comes to Europe
  3. The print revolution and its impact
  4. Print in the nineteenth century and in India
  5. New forms, new readers and censorship in India