GRADE X
REVISED HAND BOOK
2014
TERM I
Prepared by
NARAYANAN MANNANDI
The Indian School Bahrain
CONTENT
Chapters
No.
Page No.
TERM I
HISTORY
Chapter 4
The Age of Industrialization
2-10
Chapter 5
Work Life and Leisure
11-19
Chapter 7
Print Culture and Modern World
20-32
OR
GEOGRAPHY
Chapter 1
Resources and Development
34-42
Chapter 2
Forest & Wild life
43-45
Chapter 3
Water Resources
46-48
Chapter 4
Agriculture
49-56
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
Chapter 1
Power Sharing
58--60
Chapter 2
Federalism
61-66
Chapter 3
Democracy and Diversity
67-69
Chapter 4
Gender, Religion and Caste
70-74
ECONOMICS
Chapter 1
Development
76-79
Chapter 2
Sectors of Indian Economy
80-86
SAMPLE PAPERS
PRACTICE PAPERS
NM
ISB
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Chapter 5 THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
1. Explain what is meant by proto-industrialization.
Even before factories began to mark the landscape in England and Europe, there was largescale industrial production for an international market. This was not based on factories.
Many historians refer to this phase of industrialization as proto-industrialization.
2. Describe the proto-industrial system.
i. Within this system, a close relationship is developed between the town and the countryside. Merchants remained in towns but the work was done mostly in the countryside. ii. A merchant clothier in England purchased wool from a wool stapler, and carried it to the spinners; the yarn (thread) that was spun was taken in subsequent stages of production to weavers, fullers, and then to dyers. iii. The finishing was done in London before the export merchant sold the cloth in the international market. London in fact came to be known as a finishing centre. iv. This system was thus a part of a network of commercial exchange. It was controlled by merchants and goods were produced by a vast number of