Telangana Class 6 Syllabus Social Studies

Syllabus - Classes 6-10
Class VI

Theme I : Diversity on the Earth

Lesson /
Chapter Lesson Name Key Concepts
No.
• District Map
Reading and • Sketch Map
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Making Maps • Directions, Scale on a Map
• Symbols : Tree, Tank, Temple, Road etc.
• Earth is a Sphere
Globe – A • Oceans and Continents
2 Model of the • Directions on the Globe
Earth • Latitudes
• Longitudes
• Hills
3 Land Forms • Plateau
• Plains, Delta
• Soils
• Rainfall and Irrigation
Penamakuru – • Crops
A Village in the • Irrigation, Market and Changing Crops
Krishna Delta • Houses
• Animal rearing
- Road Transport and Markets
- Availability of Labour
• Deccan Plateau
• Soils
• Climate and Rain fall
Dokur Village • Water Resources
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on the Plateau • Agriculture and Crops
• Market
• Other Sources of Livelihood
• Road and Markets

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• Eastern Ghats
• Podu Cultivation
Penugolu– A • Forest Products
5 Tribal Village in • Drinking Water
the Hills • Bamboo – Products
• Houses and Habitation
• Customs
• The Future of Konda Reddys
• Gathering Food and Hunting
From Gathering • Stone tools (stone-age sites of Telangana)
Food to • Fire
6 Growing Food – • Nomadic Life
The Earliest • Painting, Shared Living
People • Learning to grow Crops and tend Animals
• Domestication, Settled Life
Theme II. Production, Exchange and Livelihoods
• Venkatapuram – Agricultural Labourers in Groundnut
Fields
Agriculture in • Small Formers in Venkatapuram
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Our Times • Contract Farming
• Small Farmers in Telangana
• Agriculture in Telangana
Trade in • Selling Vegetables on street – Case Study of Gouri –
Agricultural A small Vegetable Vendor
8 • Weekly Market (Santha)
Produce – Part
–A • A Case Study of dry Chilly Seller
• Rythu Bazars in Telangana
• Agriculture Market Yard
• Minimum Support Price
Part – B • Selling to a Rice Miller
• Selling through Brokers
• Trading Paddy in Telangana
• Indebtedness and Selling Paddy
Theme: III – Political Systems and Governance
Community • Tribes – Societies Where All People are Equal
Decision • Gond Panch and Patla
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Making in a
• Village Headmen (Patla)
Tribe

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• The Ganges Valley 2700 years ago – from Janapadas
to Mahajanapadas
Emergence of • Villages and Cities and in the times of
10 Kingdoms and Mahajanapadas
Republics • Kings, Army and Tax System
• Magadha – a Powerful Kingdom
• Vajji – a Gana

• Mauryan Empire
• Ashoka, a Unique Ruler
• Ashoka’s War in Kalinga
11 First Empires • Ashoka’s Dharma
• Kingdom and Empires in the Deccan
• Some important empires of the Indian Sub-Continent

• What does a Government do?
• Types of Government
Democratic • Democracy – Democratic Governments
12 • Representative Democracy
Government
• Checks on elected Representatives
• Equality and Democracy
• Government at Different Levels
• Democracy at the Village level
• Gram Sabha
• Formation of Gram Panchayats – Gram Sabha
• Wards
• Reservations in Gram Panchyaths
Village • Elections
13 • Sarpanch, Upa-Sarpanch and Secretary
Panchayats
• Functions of Gram Panchyats
• Funds
• A Case Study of Jangamma, the Surpanch of
Hazipally
• A Case Study – Gangadevipally Panchyat
• Mandal and Zilla Parishad
• Formation of Municipalities – Vemulawada
Local Self – • Functions of Municipalities
14 Government in • Funds for the Municipalities
Urban Areas • Municipal Workers – Chinna and Nazma
• Vemulawada Municipality

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Theme- IV: Social Organization and Inequities
• Diversity in Our Neighbourhood
Diversity in Our • Diversity in India
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Society • Study of Thar Desert and Sikkim
• Unity in Diversity
• Statement Regarding Women
• Statement on the Nature of both Men and Women
• Growing up as Boys and Girls
Towards • Sex Ratio / Fewer girls, Fewer Women
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Gender Equality • Differences in Literacy Levels
• Right to Property
• Employment
• Unrecognized Work of Women
• Things are Changing Now
Theme – V : Religion and Society
• Hunter – Gatherers – Chenchus – Religious Practices
• Early Farmers and Herders
• Religion in the Indus Valley Civilization
• Religion of the Vedas – Hymns
Religion and • Worshiping dead ancestors – The Megaliths of the
17 Society in Early Deccan
Times • New Questions in the age of the Janapadas and Cities
• What happens after death ?
• What is it that will never Perish? (Atma)
• Parivrajakas
• Gautama Budha
• Early Religious Practices and Beliefs
• Hindu Religion
• Bhagawatas and Shaivas
Devotion and • Story Tellers
18 Love towards • Bhakti Movement
God • Alvars and Nayanars
• Christianity
• Islam
• The Belief in a Supreme God.

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Theme VI : Culture and Communication Theme

• What is Language?
• Why are there so many Languages?
• Writing and Script – Different kinds of Scripts
• What did people write on?
Language, • Poems, Songs and Stories
19 Writing and • Vedas
Great Books
• The Great Epics – Ramayana and Mahabharata
• Sangam Literature in Tamil
• Books on Medicine, Surgery, Astronomy and
Mathematics
• Sanskrit literature
• Ancient Stone and Bronze Sculptures
Sculptures and • Harappa cities – The first cities of the Sub-Continent
20 • Mauryan period – Sculptures
Building
• Budhist Stupas and Viharas
• Rock cut Chaityas and Early Temples.

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