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Indian Heritage:

Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. 

 Modern Indian History:

• Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues. 
• The Freedom Struggle its various stages and important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country. 
• Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country

 World History: 

History of the world will include events from 18th century such as 

• industrial revolution, world wars
• redrawal of national boundaries
• colonization
• decolonization
• political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.— their forms and effect on the society

Indian Society:

• Salient features of Indian Society
• Diversity of India
• Role of women and women’s organization
• population and associated issues
• poverty and developmental issues
• urbanization, their problems and their remedies
• Effects of globalization on Indian society
• Social empowerment
• communalism, 
• regionalism & secularism

Geography: 

• Salient features of world’s physical geography
• Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent)
• factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India)
• Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., 
• geographical features and their location-changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna 
• and the effects of such changes