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Social Science: Understanding Society: India and Beyond Part 1

44 lessons in 9 chapters, explained in plain words.

Understanding Social Science

  1. What is Social Science?
  2. Geography and History
  3. Political Science, Economics and why it all matters

Shaping of the Earth’s Surface

  1. Inside the Earth and its plates
  2. Plate boundaries, earthquakes and volcanoes
  3. Weathering, erosion and the agents of gradation
  4. Rivers and coasts
  5. Glaciers, wind and underground water
  6. Landforms and disasters

Atmosphere and Climate

  1. The atmosphere and its layers
  2. Weather, climate and their elements
  3. Seasons and the monsoon
  4. Reading the climate of ten cities
  5. Climate change, carbon footprints and the Punjab floods

Early Humans and Beginning of Civilisation

  1. Before writing: our earliest ancestors
  2. The Stone Age in India
  3. The Neolithic Revolution
  4. Towards the Sindhu–Sarasvatī civilisation
  5. Mesopotamia
  6. Egypt
  7. China, and what the civilisations shared

State and Society up to 1000 CE

  1. Society, the State and the Vedic beginnings
  2. From janapadas to empires
  3. Kings, ministers and the idea of one land
  4. How empires were run
  5. Ethics, varna, jati and family
  6. Women, Bhakti and the quest for knowledge
  7. Farming, trade and guilds

Democracy

  1. Roots of democracy and the Constitution
  2. Principles that hold a democracy up
  3. Kinds of democracy around the world
  4. India's living democracy
  5. Challenges, the Emergency, and you

Elections

  1. Why elections matter, and how votes become seats
  2. Laws, delimitation and the Election Commission
  3. Political parties
  4. Keeping elections free and fair

Building Blocks in Economics: The Problem of Choice

  1. Needs, wants and opportunity cost
  2. What economics studies, and its three questions
  3. Economic systems

The Price Puzzle: What Drives the Market

  1. Demand
  2. Supply
  3. Market equilibrium
  4. The government and the market