This is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science civics textbook for Class VII, Social and Political Life II. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, exercises, illustrations and captions are in English, and there is no Hindi content in it. It is the prescribed social and political life component of the Class 7 social science course for CBSE schools and for state boards that follow the NCERT curriculum.
The book builds on the Class 6 volume by moving from the local to the state level and from structure to how institutions actually affect people. It opens with equality in Indian democracy — what the Constitution guarantees, and where the gap between the guarantee and daily life lies. The section on state government explains the role of the MLA, how a government is formed in a state, what a legislative assembly does, and how a public issue such as a healthcare failure travels from a village to the assembly floor. The chapters on health cover public and private healthcare and the state's responsibility. Gender takes up how roles are learned, women's work and its valuation, and the struggle for women's rights. The media section explains how news is produced, who owns the media, and what setting an agenda means. The book closes with markets — the weekly market, the shopping complex, the chain from producer to consumer, and a look at where the profit in that chain goes.
For competitive-exam candidates the state government chapters are the useful part: the position of the MLA, the formation of a state government, the working of the legislative assembly and the role of the Chief Minister are standing topics in the RPSC and RSSB syllabi and in the UPSC polity section. The NCERT treatment traces them through an actual case rather than a list of provisions, which is why aspirants are advised to read the social and political life books from Class 6 through Class 8 before any standard polity reference.
The chapters are supported by illustrations, photographs, newspaper extracts and case studies, with in-chapter questions 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 — Social and Political Life II, Textbook for Class VII (Class 7)
Prescribed for CBSE schools and state boards following the NCERT curriculum
Covers On Equality — equality in Indian democracy and the Constitution's guarantee
Covers Role of the Government in Health — public and private healthcare
Covers How the State Government Works — MLA, legislative assembly and Chief Minister
Covers Growing Up as Boys and Girls and Women Change the World
Covers Understanding Media — news production, ownership and setting an agenda
Covers Understanding Advertising and Markets Around Us
Covers A Shirt in the Market — the chain from producer to consumer
Covers Struggles for Equality
Institutions traced through real cases rather than lists of provisions
Illustrations, photographs, newspaper extracts and case studies throughout
In-chapter questions and full chapter-end exercises
Base textbook for the CBSE Class 7 social science examination
State government chapters directly useful 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 VII (कक्षा 7) के लिए निर्धारित सामाजिक विज्ञान — सामाजिक एवं राजनीतिक जीवन की पाठ्यपुस्तक Social and Political Life II है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। इसमें समानता (भारतीय लोकतंत्र में समानता एवं संवैधानिक प्रावधान), स्वास्थ्य में सरकार की भूमिका, राज्य सरकार का कार्य (विधायक, विधानसभा एवं मुख्यमंत्री), लड़के-लड़कियों के रूप में बड़ा होना, औरतों ने बदली दुनिया, मीडिया को समझना (समाचार का निर्माण, स्वामित्व एवं एजेंडा), विज्ञापन की समझ, हमारे आस-पास के बाज़ार, बाज़ार में एक कमीज़ तथा समानता के लिए संघर्ष — ये अध्याय सम्मिलित हैं। चित्र, समाचार-पत्रों के अंश, केस स्टडी तथा अध्यायांत अभ्यास प्रश्न दिए गए हैं। विधायक, विधानसभा एवं राज्य सरकार का गठन RPSC, RSSB एवं UPSC की राजव्यवस्था में नियमित रूप से पूछे जाते हैं, और इनका आधार यहीं वास्तविक उदाहरणों के माध्यम से स्पष्ट किया गया है।
