NCERT Class 10 History Women and the Novel

  Women and the Novel Many people got worried about the effects of the novel on readers who were taken away from their real surroundings into an imaginary world where anything could happen. Some of them wrote in newspapers and magazines, advising people…

NCERT Class 10 History Visualising the Nation

  Visualising the Nation While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a statue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation. In other…

NCERT Class 10 History Towards Civil Disobedience

  Towards Civil Disobedience In February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement. He felt the movement was turning violent in many places and satyagrahis needed to be properly trained before they would be ready for mass…

NCERT Class 10 History The Vision of Modernisation

    The Vision of Modernisation French colonialism was resisted at many levels and in various forms. But all nationalists had to grapple with one set of questions: What was it to be Modern? What was it to be Nationalist? In order to be modern, was…

NCERT Class 10 History The Sense of Collective Belonging

  The Sense of Collective Belonging Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same nation, when they discover some unity that binds them together. But how did the nation become a reality in the minds of people? How did…

NCERT Class 10 History The Rise of the Novel

  The Rise of the Novel The novel is a modern form of literature. It is born from print, a mechanical invention. We cannot think of the novel without the printed book. In ancient times, as you have seen (Chapter 7), manuscripts were handwritten. …

NCERT Class 10 History The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

  The Rise of Nationalism in Europe In 1848, Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’, as he called them. The first print (Fig. 1) of the series,…

NCERT Class 10 History The Reading Mania

  The Reading Mania Through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries literacy rates went up in most parts of Europe. Churches of different denominations set up schools in villages, carrying literacy to peasants and artisans. By the end of the eighteenth…

NCERT Class 10 History The Print Revolution and Its Impact

  The Print Revolution and Its Impact What was the print revolution? It was not just a development, a new way of producing books; it transformed the lives of people, changing their relationship to information and knowledge, and with institutions and…

NCERT Class 10 History The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth

  The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were interested in certain kinds of products. They established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at cheap rates from the colonial…

NCERT Class 10 History The Novel Comes to India

  The Novel Comes to India Stories in prose were not new to India. Banabhatta’s Kadambari, written in Sanskrit in the seventh century, is an early example. The Panchatantra is another. There was also a long tradition of prose tales of adventure and…

NCERT Class 10 History The Nineteenth Century1

    The Nineteenth Century The nineteenth century saw vast leaps in mass literacy in Europe, bringing in large numbers of new readers among children, women and workers. 5.1 Children, Women and Workers As primary education became compulsory from the…

NCERT Class 10 History The Nineteenth Century

  The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914) The world changed profoundly in the nineteenth century. Economic, political, social, cultural and technological factors interacted in complex ways to transform societies and reshape external relations. Economists…

NCERT Class 10 History The Nationalist Movement in Indo China

  The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China Vietnam gained formal independence in 1945, before India, but it took another three decades of fighting before the Republic of Vietnam was formed. This chapter on Indo-China will introduce you to one of the…

NCERT Class 10 History The Nation and its History

  The Nation and its History The history written by colonial historians tended to depict Indians as weak, divided, and dependent on the British. These histories could not satisfy the tastes of the new Indian administrators and intellectuals. Nor did the…