JKBOSE Class 8th Social Science Syllabus 2024-2025 PDF:- Download Online

Name of the Board

JKBOSE

Name of the Grade

8

Subjects

Social Science

Year

2024-2025

Format

PDF/DOC

Provider

hsslive.co.in

Official Website

jkbose.nic.in

• Which dates?
• How do we periodise?
• What is colonial?

How Do We Know?

• Administration produces records
• Surveys become important
• What official records do not tell

• East India Company begins trade in Bengal
• How trade led to battles
• The Battle of Plassey
• Company officials become “nabobs”

Company Rule Expands

• Tipu Sultan – The “Tiger of Mysore”
• War with the Marathas
• The claim to paramountcy
• The Doctrine of Lapse

Setting up a New Administration

• The Company army

• Revenue for the Company
• The need to improve agriculture
• The problem
• A new system is devised
• The Munro system
• All was not well

Crops for Europe

• Does colour have a history?
• Why the demand for Indian indigo?
• Britain turns to India
• How was indigo cultivated?
• The problem with nij cultivation
• Indigo on the land of ryots

The “Blue Rebellion” and After

• Some were jhum cultivators
• Some were hunters and gatherers
• Some herded animals
• Some took to settled cultivation

How Did Colonial Rule Affect Tribal Lives?

• What happened to tribal chiefs?
• What happened to the shifting cultivators?
• Forest laws and their impact
• The problem with trade

A Closer Look

• Birsa Munda

• Nawabs lose their power
• The peasants and the sepoys
• Responses to reforms

Through the Eyes of the People, A Mutiny Becomes a Popular Rebellion

• From Meerut to Delhi
• The rebellion spreads

The Company Fights BackAftermath 

• Words tell us histories
• Indian textiles in European markets
• Who were the weavers?
• The decline of Indian textiles
• Cotton mills come up

The sword of Tipu Sultan and Wootz steel

• Abandoned furnaces in villages
• Iron and steel factories come up in India

• The tradition of Orientalism
• “Grave errors of the East”
• Education for commerce
• The demand for moral education

What Happened to the Local Schools?

• The report of William Adam
• New routines, new rules

The Agenda for a National Education

• “English education has enslaved us”
• Tagore’s “abode of peace”
•  Education as a civilising mission

• Changing the lives of widows 
• Girls begin going to school
• Women write about women
• Law against child marriage

Caste and Social Reform

• Demands for equality and justice
• Gulamgiri
• Who could enter temples?
• The Non-Brahman movement

Organising for reform

• The Brahmo Samaj
• Derozio and Young Bengal
• The Ramakrishna Mission and Swami Vivekananda
• The Prarthana Samaj
• The Veda Samaj
• The Aligarh Movement
• The Singh Sabha Movement

Black slaves and white planters

• A nation in the making
• “Freedom is our birthright”

The Growth of Mass Nationalism

• The advent of Mahatma Gandhi
• The Rowlatt Satyagraha
• Khilafat agitation and the Non-Cooperation Movement
• People’s initiatives 
• The people’s Mahatma
• The happenings of 1922 -1929

The March to Dandi

Women in the freedom struggle: Ambabai from Karnataka

Veer Lakhan Nayak was hanged

Quit India and Later

Towards Independence and Partition

A New and Divided Nation

A Constitution is Written

How were States to be Formed?

Planning for Development

Nehru on the Five Year Plans 

The search for an independent foreign policy

The Nation, Sixty Years on

• Education for All
• Female Education
• Women in Everyday Life
• From Hunger & Hardship to Reform: A Trajectory
• Reform in Land Revenue System
• Removal of Untouchability

Public Welfare Measures

• Establishment of Local Self Government
• Roads and Railways 
• Irrigation
• Public Health care
• Sericulture and Horticulture

Cultural Highlights

• Natural Resources
• Human Made Resources
• Human Resources

Conserving Resources

Land

Land Use

Conservation of Land Resource

Soil

Factors of Soil Formation

Degradation of Soil and Conservation Measures

Water

Problems of Water Availability

Conservation of Water Resources

Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

Distribution of Natural Vegetation

Conservation of Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

Types of Minerals

Distribution of Minerals

• Asia
• Europe
• North America
• South America
• Africa
• Australia
• Antarctica

Uses of Minerals

Conservation of Minerals

Power Resources

Conventional Sources

• Firewood
• Coal
• Petroleum
• Natural Gas 
• Hydel Power

Non-conventional Sources of Energy

• Solar energy
• Wind Energy
• Nuclear Power
• Geothermal Energy
• Tidal Energy
• Biogas

Farm System

Types of Farming

• Subsistence Farming
• Commercial Farming

Major Crops

Agricultural Development

A Farm in India

A Farm in the USA

Classification of Industries

Factors Affecting Location of Industries

Industrial System

Industrial Regions

Distribution of Major Industries

Iron and Steel Industry

Cotton Textile Industry

Distribution of Population

Density of Population

Factors Affecting Distribution of Population

• Geographical Factors
• Social, Cultural and Economic Factors

Population Change

Patterns of Population Change

Population Composition

Introduction

A. Special Industries

• I. Handlooms
• II.Handicrafts
• III. Carpet Making Industry
• IV. Kangri Making
• V. Paper Mache
• VI, Pashmina Shawl Industry
• VII. SilverWare and Imitation Jewellery
• VIII. Silk Industry

B. Forest-Based Industry

C. Agro-Based Industries

D. Mineral-Based Industry

E. Tourism Industry