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Education Board for Culture, World History, Ancient,
Medieval, Freedom struggle
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This article will make more sense, after you’ve read the first article on [GS1]
Culture Answerkey-Analysis of Mains-2013 Exam. Click ME.

Given the way Culture portion was asked in that exam, Tamilnadu state education
board books are more useful than the (new) NCERTs, because

1. Two questions in GS(M)-2013 (Sangam and Chola) could be directly solved

through Class 11 TN State edu. book
2. TN board books= GK-descriptive coverage similar to Old NCERT, but with
more eye candy fonts and photos.
3. In (new) NCERTs, the Ancient-Medieval history is covered mostly in a
random case study and sporadic topics here and there. The linearity is absent
(King A after King B…). And hardly anything about the East India company’s
governor generals (Dalhousie etc). Even the 1857-revolt and freedom
struggle is superficially covered.

These TN textbooks are available free of cost on the official site of Tamilnadu state
edu board. But problem: too scattered Because maths-science-history-civics: all
subjects are given in single PDF files term wise. and their very large in size.

So, I’ve consolidated them, and reduced the image qualities for faster download.

Download Link: https://files.secureserver.net/0fnzZYT7SDNuC9

What to read / What to skip?

Class 12
(world history Good read. But if you already have gone through old NCERT or
after Jain and Mathur, then not much useful.
Imperialism)
Class 12 Good read. But if you already have gone through Spectrum’s “A
(Freedom brief history of Modern India” (Rajiv Ahir), then not much
struggle) useful.
class 11
Most useful among the given textbooks. Because contains
(Ancient +
culture, art, Architecture, religion stuff in details- the way we
Medieval
need: 100-200 words worth content.
India)
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Class 10
(World
History + same conditions as class 12
Freedom
struggle)
Hardly useful because it contains world history before the
Class 9 imperialism. At most last chapter on “Industrial revolution”
useful.

1. Initial part not so useful because Mughal, Maratha from

administrative point of view. Not much culture stuff given.
2. Later part useful i.e. Rule of east India company, various
Class 8
governor generals, subsidiary alliance etc. (BUT again, if
you’re going to read class12, then you may ignore this as
well.)

Watered down version of class11, for primary school kids.

Class7 Although some good GK stuff here and here, if you’ve time and
mood otherwise ignore.
class6 Same as above.

So, decide your downloads accordingly.

by the way, here is the brief index:

CLASS 6 CLASS 7

1. Prehistoric Period 1. Kingdoms in Rajasthan, Deccan

2. Indus Valley Civilization and South India, Vijaynagar,
3. The Vedic Period Bahmani
4. Jainism and Buddhism 2. Arab and Turkish invasions
5. Rise of Kingdoms 3. Delhi sultanate
6. Kushana Empire 4. Bhakti, Sufi

CLASS 8 CLASS 9

1. The Great Mughals

2. Rise of Marathas
1. Ancient Civilizations
3. Advent of Europeans
2. Intellectual Awakening in 6th
4. Anglo-French Struggle (Carnatic
Century B.C.
wars)
3. Medieval Age
5. Rule of East India Company:
4. Modern Age
Cornwallis, Hastings, Bentinck and
5. Industrial Revolution
Dalhousie.
6. Revolt of 1857

CLASS 10 CLASS 11

1. World history: imperialism, two Ancient and Medieval Indian history-

world wars, UNO upto the coming of Europeans.
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2. Freedom struggle in India

Class 12

1. Indian History: From East India company to freedom struggle to India After
independence
2. World History: Imperialism, American Revolution, French Revolution,
Nazism, Fascism Two world wars, UNO, Cold war.

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