This is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science political science textbook for Class IX, Democratic Politics I. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, exercises, cartoons and captions are in English, and there is no Hindi content in it. It is the prescribed political science component of the Class 9 social science course for CBSE schools and for state boards that follow the NCERT curriculum.
The book takes democracy apart and examines it piece by piece rather than defining it once and moving on. It opens by asking what democracy actually is and what its arguments for and against are, using examples from Chile, Poland, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. It then turns to constitutional design — how South Africa and India each arrived at a constitution, and what the Indian Constituent Assembly settled on. The chapter on electoral politics explains why elections are held the way they are, what constituencies and reserved seats mean, and what the Election Commission does. The chapter on the working of institutions walks through Parliament, the political executive, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the President and the judiciary. The last chapter covers the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the ways they can be enforced.
This is the standard first reading on Indian polity for competitive-exam candidates. The polity section of the UPSC, RPSC and RSSB syllabi is built on exactly this material — the structure of Parliament, the separation of powers, fundamental rights, the role of the Election Commission — and the NCERT explanation is clearer and better sequenced than most reference works. Aspirants are routinely advised to work through the NCERT political science books from Class 9 through Class 12 before starting on any standard polity text, and this is where that sequence begins.
The chapters are supported by political cartoons and caricatures, photographs, boxed case studies and newspaper extracts, with in-chapter activities and full exercise sets at the end of each chapter.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script), no Hindi content
Published by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training)
Social Science — Democratic Politics I, Textbook in Political Science for Class IX (Class 9)
Prescribed for CBSE schools and state boards following the NCERT curriculum
Covers What is Democracy? Why Democracy?
Covers Constitutional Design — South Africa and the making of the Indian Constitution
Covers Electoral Politics — constituencies, reserved seats and the Election Commission
Covers Working of Institutions — Parliament, political executive, judiciary
Covers Democratic Rights — fundamental rights and their enforcement
Political cartoons, photographs, case studies and newspaper extracts throughout
In-chapter activities and full chapter-end exercises
Base textbook for the CBSE Class 9 social science examination
Standard first reading on Indian polity for competitive-exam preparation
Also widely used as foundation reading for UPSC, RPSC, RSSB and other competitive examinations
Standard NCERT text — the base book before any reference or guide
यह पुस्तक राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद (NCERT) द्वारा कक्षा IX (कक्षा 9) के लिए निर्धारित सामाजिक विज्ञान — राजनीति विज्ञान की पाठ्यपुस्तक Democratic Politics I है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। इसमें लोकतंत्र क्या है और क्यों, संविधान निर्माण, चुनावी राजनीति, संस्थाओं का कामकाज (संसद, कार्यपालिका, न्यायपालिका) तथा लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार — ये अध्याय सम्मिलित हैं। राजनीतिक कार्टून, चित्र, केस स्टडी तथा अध्यायांत अभ्यास प्रश्न दिए गए हैं। UPSC, RPSC एवं RSSB की तैयारी में भारतीय राजव्यवस्था का आधार यही सामग्री है, और अभ्यर्थियों को किसी भी मानक पॉलिटी पुस्तक से पूर्व कक्षा 9 से 12 तक की NCERT राजनीति विज्ञान पुस्तकें पढ़ने की सलाह दी जाती है — यह पुस्तक उसी क्रम का प्रारंभ है।
