CBSE Class 10 Social Science (SST) Syllabus for 2024-25: Download PDF – CBSE Guidance

SOCIAL SCIENCE (Code No. 087)

CLASS – X (2024-25)

• Theory: 80 Marks
• Internal Assessment: 20 Marks

Unit 1: India and the Contemporary World – II (HISTORY)

1. The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

2. Nationalism in India

3. The Making of a Global World

• Subtopics: 1 to 1.3 (Pre-Modern World to Conquest, Disease, and Trade)

5. Print Culture and the Modern World

Unit 2: Contemporary India – II (GEOGRAPHY)

1. Resources and Development

2. Forest and Wildlife

3. Water Resources

4. Agriculture

5. Minerals and Energy Resources

6. Manufacturing Industries

7. Life Lines of National Economy (Only Map pointing will be evaluated in the Board Examination)

Unit 3: Democratic Politics – II (POLITICAL SCIENCE)

1. Power Sharing

2. Federalism

3. Gender, Religion, and Caste

4. Political Parties

5. Outcomes of Democracy 

Unit 4: Understanding Economic Development (ECONOMICS)

1. Development

2. Sectors of the Indian Economy

3. Money and Credit

4. Globalization and the Indian Economy

• What is Globalization?
• Factors that have enabled Globalization

LIST OF MAP ITEMS CLASS X (2024-25)

A. HISTORY (Outline Political Map of India)

Chapter – 2 Nationalism in India – (1918 – 1930) for locating and labeling / Identification

1. Indian National Congress Sessions:

1. Calcutta (Sep. 1920)
2. Nagpur (Dec. 1920)
3. Madras (1927)

2. Important Centres of the Indian National Movement

1. Champaran (Bihar) – Movement of Indigo Planters
2. Kheda (Gujarat) – Peasant Satyagraha
3. Ahmedabad (Gujarat) – Cotton Mill Workers Satyagraha
4. Amritsar (Punjab) – Jallianwala Bagh Incident
5. Dandi (Gujarat) – Civil Disobedience Movement

B. GEOGRAPHY (Outline Political Map of India)

Resources and Development (Identification only)

Water Resources (Locating and Labelling)

• Dams:
  • Salal
  • Bhakra Nangal
  • Tehri
  • Rana Pratap Sagar
  • Sardar Sarovar
  • Hirakud
  • Nagarjuna Sagar
  • Tungabhadra

Agriculture (Identification only)

• Major areas of Rice and Wheat
• Largest / Major producer states of Sugarcane, Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cotton, and Jute

Minerals and Energy Resources Minerals (Identification only)

• Iron Ore mines
  • Mayurbhanj
  • Durg
  • Bailadila
  • Bellary
  • Kudremukh
• Coal Mines
  • Raniganj
  • Bokaro
  • Talcher
  • Neyveli
• Oil Fields
  • Digboi
  • Naharkatia
  • Mumbai High
  • Bassien
  • Kalol
  • Ankaleshwar
• Power Plants (Locating and Labelling only)
  • Thermal
    • Namrup
    • Singrauli
    • Ramagundam
  • Nuclear
    • Narora
    • Kakrapara
    • Tarapur
    • Kalpakkam

Manufacturing Industries (Locating and Labelling Only)

• Cotton Textile Industries:
  • Mumbai
  • Indore
  • Surat
  • Kanpur
  • Coimbatore
• Iron and Steel Plants:
  • Durgapur
  • Bokaro
  • Jamshedpur
  • Bhilai
  • Vijayanagar
  • Salem
• Software Technology Parks:
  • Noida
  • Gandhinagar
  • Mumbai
  • Pune
  • Hyderabad
  • Bengaluru
  • Chennai
  • Thiruvananthapuram

Lifelines of National Economy Major Ports: (Locating and Labelling)

• Major Sea Ports
  • Kandla
  • Mumbai
  • Marmagao
  • New Mangalore
  • Kochi
  • Tuticorin
  • Chennai
  • Vishakhapatnam
  • Paradip
  • Haldia
• International Airports
  • Amritsar (Raja Sansi – Sri Guru Ram Dass jee)
  • Delhi (Indira Gandhi)
  • Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji)
  • Chennai (Meenam Bakkam)
  • Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose)
  • Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi)

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