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EXPHUB 9th & 10th 2

HISTORY
Rise of Nationalism in Europe:
• First painting
• Role of Napoleon and his fall
• Role of France in spreading nationalism
• Conservatives’ vs Revolutionary
• Why is Greece called cradle of Civilisation
• Metternich about FRANCE & MAZZINI
• What is Romanticism? Role of culture and
language.
• Economic Hardship- Reasons
• What was Revolution of Liberals and its fall
• Unification of Italy, Germany, Britain
• Define Allegory and its features
• Balkan conflict
Nationalism in India:
• Meaning of satyagraha
• WWI and Changes in India
• Non-cooperation
• Swaraj? Plantation workers and Swaraj
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• NCM VS CDM
• What was Simon Commission
• Salt March. Why salt?
• Who participated and who didn't in CDM?
• Methods of unification and nationalism
• Poona pact,
• Khilafat movement
Age of Industrialisation:
• First two paintings
• What was Proto industrialization? How did it
work?
• Why was pace of industrialization slow in
Britain?
• Problems faced by workers in Victorian Britain
• Changes brought by Manchester clothes in
India
• How did Britishers establish supremacy in
Indian trade
• WWI and changes in Indian trade
• Who were jobbers? Why were they
important?
• Who were early entrepreneurs? How did they
get money?
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• 19th century marketing tactics in India

Making of Global World:
• What was silk route? How were India and
China involved in it?
• Food: Life and Death |
• El Dorado |Spanish conquerors and USA
• Corn laws meaning and consequences
• Canal colonies:
• Role of technology in globalisation
• How did Europeans colonised Africa?
• Who were Indentured laborers? How did they
survive in colonies?
• Opium trade
• WWI and its implications on:
1. Women in Europe
2. America
3. Britain as an economy
Print Culture and The Modern World:
• Growth of Print in Imperial China
• How did print come to Europe?
• Gutenberg Printing press
• Print Revolution
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• 'Tremble, therefore, tyrants of the world!'

• Role of print in French Revolution
• Print and Children/women/workers
• All the technological changes in print
• Indian manuscripts pros and cons
• Print and religious debates (Hindus and
Muslims)
• Print and women from conservative families
• Print and workers & poors in India
• Vernacular Press Act

POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Power Sharing:
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• Accommodation in Belgium
• Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka
• Vertical vs Horizontal Power Sharing
• Why is power sharing necessary
Federalism:
• Unitary vs Federalism
• Holding together vs coming together
• How is India federal?
• Decentralisation
Gender, Religion and Caste:
• Sexual division of labour?
• Define Feminism, communalism, casteism,
secular nation
• How is India secular?
• How is caste expressed in politics?
• How is politics expressed in caste?
Political Parties:
• Components of Pol. parties
• Functions of Pol. parties
• Necessity of Pol. parties
• Criteria for National and state party
• Features of national parties
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• Challenges and solutions

Outcomes of democracy:
• Why is democracy better?
• How is democracy
Accountable/legitimate/responsive?
• How is dictatorship better than democracy
in economic growth?
• How does democracy secure dignity of
citizens

GEOGRAPHY
Resources and Development:
• Types of soils and soil erosions
• Steps of Resource development
• Definition of Resources
• Earth summit and Agenda 21
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Forest & Wildlife:

• Wildlife Protection Act
• Map work
• Reasons for reduction of forests and wildlife
Water Resources:
• What are Multipurpose projects?
• Causes of water pollution
• Pros and Cons of Dams
• Rain water harvesting
Agriculture:
• Definition of different types of farming
• Types of cropping patterns
• Crops and their climatic requirements
• Agriculture reforms made in India
• Effect of globalisation
Minerals and Energy Resources:
• Modes of occurrence of minerals
• Conventional vs unconventional minerals
• Types of iron ores and coal
• Map work
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Manufacturing Industries
• Types of industries
• Importance of Industries
• Location of Industries
• Concentration of cotton and jute industry
• Importance of Steel industry
Lifelines of National Economy:
• Importance of transport and communication
• Roadways Railways
• Distribution of Railways
• Pros and cons of waterways and airways
• International trade as economic barometer

ECONOMICS
Development:
• Why are goals conflicting and mixed?
• National Income and Other parameters
• What and why of public facilities
• HDI vs Average income
• What and why Sustainable development
Money and Credit:
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• Barter system & double coincidence of wants

• Role of RBI
• Definition of collateral, cheque, DD, SHG
• Why loans in formal sector expand
• Functioning of SHGs.
Sectors of Indian Economy:
• Interdependence of 3 sectors
• Definition GDP, seasonal and disguised
unemployment
• Public vs private |
• Organised vs unorganised
• NREGA & employment generation in villages
• Growing Importance of Tertiary sector
Globalisation and the Indian Economy:
• Define Globalisation, MNCs, SEZs, Foreign
Trade, Foreign Investment
• How MNCs integrate production
• Pros and cons of Globalisation
• Negative Impact of Globalisation
• How can we make trade fairer
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