NCERT Class 10 Political Science Power Sharing
Power sharing Belgium and Sri Lanka Ethnic: A social division based on shared culture. People belonging to the same ethnic group believe in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of culture or both.…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Popular Struggles and Movements
Popular Struggles and Movements Popular struggles in Nepal and Bolivia Do you remember the story of the triumph of democracy in Poland? We studied it last year in the first chapter of class IX. The story reminded us about the role played by the…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Political Parties
Political Parties Why do we need political parties? Political parties are easily one of the most visible institutions in a democracy. For most ordinary citizens, democracy is equal to political parties. If you travel to remote parts of our…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Outcomes of Democracy
Outcomes of Democracy How do we assess democracy’s outcomes? Do you remember how students in Madam Lyngdoh’s class argued about democracy? This was in Chapter 2 of Class IX textbook. It emerged from that conversation that democracy is a better…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Gender Religion and Caste
Gender, Religion and Caste Gender and politics Let us begin with gender division. This is a form of hierarchical social division seen everywhere, but is rarely recognised in the study of politics. The gender division tends to be understood as…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Federalism
Federalism What is federalism? Let us get back to the contrast between Belgium and Sri Lanka that we saw in the last chapter. You would recall that one of the key changes made in the Constitution of Belgium was to reduce the power of the…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Democracy and Diversity
Democracy and Diversity A Story from Mexico Olympics Civil Rights Movement in the USA (1954-1968) refers to a set of events and reform movements aimed at abolishing legal racial discrimination against African-Americans. Led by…
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Challenges to Democracy
Challenges to Democracy Thinking about challenges Do you remember the first chapter of your Political Science textbook of Class IX? There we tracked the expansion of democracy all over the world in the last hundred years. Our reading thereafter has…