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Cbse syllabus for class 9 social science 2017-18

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Course Structure for Social Science Class IX (2017-18)

No. Unit Name Marks
I India and the Contemporary World – I 20
II Contemporary India – I 20
III Democratic Politics- I 20
IV Economics 20
Total 80
Unit 1: India and the Contemporary World – I

Themes Objectives
Three themes in the first sub-unit and one each from the second sub unit could be studied.
Sub-unit 1.1: Events and processes: (All the three themes are compulsory)
In this unit the focus is on three events and processes that have in major ways shaped the identity of the modern world. Each represents a different form of politics, and a specific combination of forces. One event is (inked to the growth of liberalism and democracy, one with socialism, and one with a negation of both democracy and socialism.
I. The French Revolution:
(a) The Ancient Regime and its crises.
(b) The social forces that led to the revolution.
(c) The different revolutionary groups and ideas of the time.
(d) The legacy. (Compulsory Chapter-i)
II. Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution:
(a) The crises of Tzarism.
(b) The nature of social movements between 1905 and 1917.
(c) The First World War and foundation of Soviet state.
(d) The Legacy. (Chapter 2)
III. Nazism and the Rise of Hitler:
(a) The growth of social democracy
(b) The crises in Germany.
(b) The basis of Hitler’s rise to power.
(c) The ideology of Nazism.
(d) The impact of Nazism. (Chapter 3)
Sub-unit 1.2: Livelihoods, Economies and Societies:
The themes in this section will focus on how different social groups grapple with the changes in the contemporary world and how these changes affect their Lives.
Any one theme of the following:
IV. Forest Society and Colonialism:
(a) Relationship between forests and livelihoods.
(b) Changes in forest societies under colonialism.Case studies: Focus on two forest movements one in colonial India (Bastar) and one in Indonesia. (Chapter 4)
V. Pastoralists in the Modern World:
(a) Pastoralism as a way of life.
(b) Different forms of pastoralism.
(c) What happens to pastoralism under colonialism and modern states?Case studies: Focus on two pastoral groups, one from Africa and one from India. (Chapter 5)
VI. Peasants and Farmers:
(a) Histories of the emergence of different forms of farming and peasant societies.
(b) Changes within rural economies in the modern world.Case studies: focus on contrasting forms of rural change and different forms of rural societies (expansion of large-scale wheat and cotton farming in USA, rural economy and the Agricultural Revolution in England, and small peasant production in colonial India) (Chapter 6)
Map Work Based on theme 4/5/6. (Internal choice will be provided)
In each of the themes in this unit students would be made familiar with extracts of speeches, political declarations, as well as the politics of caricatures, posters and engravings. Students would learn how to interpret these kinds of historical evidences.
Familiarize students with the names of people involved, the different types of ideas that inspired the revolution, the wider forces that shaped it.
Show how written, oral and visual material can be used to recover the history of revolutions.
Explore the history of socialism through a study of the Russian revolution.
Familiarize students with the names of people involved, the different types of ideas that inspired the revolution.
Discuss the critical significance of Nazism in shaping the politics of modern world.
Familiarize students with the speeches and writings of Nazi leaders.
Discuss the social and cultural world of forest communities through the study of specific revolts.
Understand how oral traditions can be used to explore tribal revolts.
Point to the varying patterns of developments within pastoral societies in different places.
Look at the impact of colonialism on forest societies, and the implication of scientific forestry.
Show the different processes through which agrarian transformation may occur in the modern world.
Consider what