This is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science history textbook for Class IX, India and the Contemporary World I. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, exercises, maps and captions are in English, and there is no Hindi content in it. It is the prescribed history component of the Class 9 social science course for CBSE schools and for state boards that follow the NCERT curriculum.
The book pairs world history with social history. The first three chapters cover the political upheavals that shaped the modern world: the French Revolution — the old regime, the events of 1789, the Jacobins and the Terror, the rise of Napoleon and the legacy of liberty and equality; socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution — the February and October revolutions, Lenin, the civil war and the making of the Soviet state; and Nazism and the rise of Hitler — the Weimar Republic, the depression, Nazi ideology, the Holocaust and the machinery of the Nazi state. The remaining chapters shift register to look at how colonial rule reshaped ways of life: forest society and colonialism, covering colonial forest laws, the effect on forest communities and the Bastar and Java rebellions; and pastoralists in the modern world, covering nomadic pastoral communities in India and Africa and how colonial restrictions changed their movements.
For Class 9 this is the school syllabus, and the questions are source-based and cause-and-effect questions drawn from the chapter text. For competitive-exam candidates the first three chapters are the standard first reading on modern world history — the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and Nazism recur every year in the UPSC, RPSC and RSSB world history sections, and the causation here is set out more clearly than in most thicker reference works. The forest and pastoralist chapters are useful for environment and society questions. Aspirants are routinely advised to read the NCERT history books from Class 6 to Class 12 before any standard reference.
The chapters are supported by photographs, political cartoons and posters, maps, and boxed extracts from contemporary writings, with activities through the chapters and full exercise sets at the end.
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 — India and the Contemporary World I, Textbook in History for Class IX (Class 9)
Prescribed for CBSE schools and state boards following the NCERT curriculum
Covers The French Revolution — old regime, 1789, the Jacobins, Napoleon and its legacy
Covers Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution — February and October 1917, Lenin, the Soviet state
Covers Nazism and the Rise of Hitler — Weimar Republic, Nazi ideology and the Holocaust
Covers Forest Society and Colonialism — colonial forest laws, Bastar and Java
Covers Pastoralists in the Modern World — nomadic communities in India and Africa
Photographs, political cartoons, posters, maps and source extracts throughout
In-chapter activities and full chapter-end exercises
Base textbook for the CBSE Class 9 social science examination
Standard first reading on modern world history for competitive examinations
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 — इतिहास की पाठ्यपुस्तक India and the Contemporary World I है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। इसमें फ्रांसीसी क्रांति, यूरोप में समाजवाद एवं रूसी क्रांति, नात्सीवाद और हिटलर का उदय, वन्य समाज एवं उपनिवेशवाद तथा आधुनिक विश्व में चरवाहे — ये अध्याय सम्मिलित हैं। चित्र, राजनीतिक कार्टून एवं पोस्टर, मानचित्र, समकालीन स्रोतों के अंश तथा अध्यायांत अभ्यास प्रश्न दिए गए हैं। बोर्ड एवं विद्यालयी परीक्षा में स्रोत-आधारित प्रश्न इसी पुस्तक से पूछे जाते हैं, तथा UPSC, RPSC एवं RSSB में आधुनिक विश्व इतिहास — फ्रांसीसी क्रांति, रूसी क्रांति एवं नात्सीवाद — का आधार भी यही सामग्री मानी जाती है।
