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Class 7

Social Science: Exploring Society Part 1

103 lessons in 12 chapters, explained in plain words.

Geographical Diversity of India

  1. India and the subcontinent
  2. The Himalayas
  3. Three ranges, and a cold desert
  4. The Gangetic Plains
  5. The Thar Desert
  6. The Aravalli Hills
  7. The Peninsular Plateau
  8. India's coastlines
  9. The Indian Islands
  10. The Sundarbans and the Northeast

Understanding the Weather

  1. What weather is
  2. Why we measure the weather
  3. Measuring temperature
  4. Measuring rainfall
  5. Atmospheric pressure
  6. Wind
  7. Humidity
  8. Weather stations and forecasts

Climates of India

  1. Weather, seasons and climate
  2. The climates of India
  3. Latitude
  4. Altitude and the sea
  5. Winds, topography and microclimates
  6. How a monsoon works
  7. India's two monsoons
  8. Climate and our lives
  9. Climates and disasters
  10. Climate change

New Beginnings: Cities and States

  1. The thousand-year gap
  2. Janapadas and mahājanapadas
  3. The fortified capital
  4. The sabhā and the samiti
  5. Monarchies and early republics
  6. Iron, ideas and the first coins
  7. Varṇa and jāti
  8. Roads, ports and the south

The Rise of Empires

  1. Ira's Pāṭaliputra
  2. What is an empire?
  3. Why build an empire?
  4. Trade, trade routes and guilds
  5. The rise of Magadha
  6. The arrival of the Greeks
  7. Chandragupta Maurya
  8. Kauṭilya's saptānga
  9. Aśhoka, the king who chose peace
  10. Life in the Mauryan period
  11. The fragile nature of empires

The Age of Reorganisation

  1. Why 'reorganisation'?
  2. The Śhungas
  3. The Sātavāhanas
  4. Life under the Sātavāhanas
  5. The Chedis of Kalinga
  6. The Sangam Age
  7. The Cholas and Kaṇṇagi
  8. The Cheras and the Pānḍyas
  9. The Indo-Greeks and the Śhakas
  10. The Kuṣhāṇas and two schools of art

The Gupta Era: An Age of Tireless Creativity

  1. The Iron Pillar of Delhi
  2. A new power emerges
  3. Samudragupta, the warrior king
  4. Faxian's account
  5. Governing the Gupta empire
  6. Trade and the classical age
  7. Āryabhaṭa, Varāhamihira and Kālidāsa
  8. Gupta art and the empire's decline
  9. The South and the Northeast

How the Land Becomes Sacred

  1. What is sacredness?
  2. Pilgrimage
  3. Nature as sacred
  4. A sacred geography
  5. Sacred rivers
  6. Mountains, trees and the epics
  7. Sacred groves
  8. Sacred geography today

From the Rulers to the Ruled: Types of Governments

  1. The student committee
  2. The three functions, and four questions
  3. The principles of democracy
  4. Kinds of democracy
  5. Early republics
  6. Kingship and rājadharma
  7. Monarchy and theocracy
  8. Dictatorship and oligarchy
  9. Why democracy matters

The Constitution of India — An Introduction

  1. What is a constitution?
  2. Writing the Constitution
  3. What shaped the Constitution
  4. Rights, duties and directive principles
  5. A living document
  6. The Preamble

From Barter to Money

  1. The barter system
  2. The farmer with one ox
  3. Barter today
  4. What money does
  5. Coinage
  6. Paper money and digital money

Understanding Markets

  1. What is a market?
  2. How a price is found
  3. Kinds of market
  4. From producer to consumer
  5. The Surat textile market
  6. What markets do for people
  7. The government in the market
  8. Judging what you buy