About the Book

Core Social Science — History for Class 9 has been revised strictly according to the latest syllabus and examination pattern prescribed by the C.BS.E. and the latest NCERT book (India and the Contemporary World-I).

Students are innately curious. They ask all sorts of questions : 'How did people build these monuments? or *How can I make a difference in the world? One place they can find answer is in Social Science, The essential component Of Social Science — History — gives us a glimpse and encourages this inherent curiosity of young people. It helps young people to better understand the past, present and future.

Salient Features of this Book :

• The text matter is narrative as well as critical and extensively cover all the topics.
• Simple. lucid, learner-friendly approach has been adopted to make the lessons interesting and easy to understand.
• The lessons are designed to help the learners to develop skills of comprehension, evaluation and an ability to analyse the matter given.
• In discussing the themes, the text has been supplemented by pictures, photographs. cartoons. maps, case studies and extracts from a variety of original sources, official reports, etc.
• Interesting and extra information have been added in the form of Excerpts and Did You Know.
• Each topic in the lesson is followed by Let'S Recapitulate (for quick revision of important points), Glossary (important terms and concepts have been explained), Check Your Understanding (questions for evaluation).
• Exercises at the end of every chapter have been designed as per the latest pattern Of questions prescribed by the CBSE. These contain Objective Type Questions (MCQ fill in the blanks. matching, arranging in correct sequence, picture based questions, etc.), and Subjective Type Questions (very short, short and long answer type questions).

It is hoped that the teachers and students would find this book useful and that the presentation of the content would stimulate their minds to probe into the past to understand the present and future better.

Constructive suggestions from parents, pupil, teachers and educationists are welcome.

— The Publishers