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CBSE Study Material, Class 5–12
StudyOS
CBSE Study Material, Class 5–12
Every item on the official CBSE 2026-27 map list for Class 10 Social Science, chapter by chapter: where it is, one line to remember from the NCERT book, and the board years (2022–2026) it was asked. Practise on a blank outline map from a Government of India website, as CBSE advises.
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Practise Class 10 Social Science →| Place | Where | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Dandi (6 April 1930) · Satyagraha movements, Jallianwala Bagh and Dandi | Gujarat coast (Navsari district) | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Tarapur (nuclear) · Power plants | Maharashtra | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| Champaran (1917) · Satyagraha movements, Jallianwala Bagh and Dandi | Bihar | 2024, 2026 |
| Amritsar (Raja Sansi – Sri Guru Ram Das Ji) · International airports | Punjab | 2025, 2026 |
| Calcutta (September 1920) · Congress sessions | Kolkata, West Bengal | 2024, 2025 |
| Nagpur (December 1920) · Congress sessions | Maharashtra | 2024, 2025 |
| Bailadila · Iron ore mines | Chhattisgarh (Bastar / Dantewada) | 2023, 2024 |
| Narora (nuclear) · Power plants | Uttar Pradesh | 2022, 2024 |
| Noida · Software technology parks | Uttar Pradesh | 2023, 2024 |
| Tuticorin (V.O. Chidambaranar) · Major sea ports | Tamil Nadu | 2023, 2024 |
| Haldia · Major sea ports | West Bengal | 2023, 2024 |
| Salal · Dams | Jammu and Kashmir | 2026 |
| Chennai · Software technology parks | Tamil Nadu | 2026 |
| Jute · Crops: major areas and leading states | West Bengal (largest), Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Meghalaya | 2025 |
| Kakrapara (nuclear) · Power plants | Gujarat | 2025 |
| Bokaro · Iron and steel plants | Jharkhand | 2025 |
| Jamshedpur · Iron and steel plants | Jharkhand | 2025 |
| Bhakra Nangal · Dams | Himachal Pradesh (Bhakra) and Punjab (Nangal) | 2024 |
| Talcher · Coal mines | Odisha | 2024 |
| Naharkatia · Oil fields | Assam | 2024 |
| Namrup (thermal) · Power plants | Assam | 2024 |
| Kandla (Deendayal Port) · Major sea ports | Gujarat (Gulf of Kachchh) | 2024 |
| Chennai (Meenambakkam) · International airports | Tamil Nadu | 2024 |
| Tehri · Dams | Uttarakhand | 2023 |
| Bokaro · Coal mines | Jharkhand | 2023 |
| Pune · Software technology parks | Maharashtra | 2023 |
| Jallianwala Bagh (13 April 1919) · Satyagraha movements, Jallianwala Bagh and Dandi | Amritsar, Punjab | 2022 |
| Singrauli (thermal) · Power plants | Madhya Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh border | 2022 |
| Mumbai · Software technology parks | Maharashtra | 2022 |
| Bengaluru · Software technology parks | Karnataka | 2022 |
| Delhi (Indira Gandhi) · International airports | Delhi | 2022 |
| Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose) · International airports | West Bengal | 2022 |
History · Nationalism in India · Locate / identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calcutta (September 1920) | Kolkata, West Bengal | Special session: Gandhiji convinced leaders to start Non-Cooperation in support of Khilafat and swaraj. | 2024, 2025 |
| 2 | Nagpur (December 1920) | Maharashtra | A compromise was worked out and the Non-Cooperation programme was adopted. | 2024, 2025 |
| 3 | Madras (1927) | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Annual session held just before the Simon Commission arrived (1928). Mark Chennai on the east coast. |
Board papers ask for “the place where the Congress session was held in 1920”. Calcutta (Sept) and Nagpur (Dec) were both 1920 sessions, so know both.
History · Nationalism in India · Locate / identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Champaran (1917) | Bihar | Gandhiji's satyagraha for peasants against the oppressive (indigo) plantation system. | 2024, 2026 |
| 2 | Kheda (1918) | Gujarat | Peasants hit by crop failure and plague could not pay revenue and demanded relaxation. | |
| 3 | Ahmedabad (1918) | Gujarat | Satyagraha among cotton mill workers. | |
| 4 | Jallianwala Bagh (13 April 1919) | Amritsar, Punjab | General Dyer fired on a crowd in an enclosed ground; it followed the Rowlatt Act protests. | 2022 |
| 5 | Dandi (6 April 1930) | Gujarat coast (Navsari district) | Gandhiji broke the salt law here after a 240-mile, 24-day march from Sabarmati Ashram; start of Civil Disobedience. Asked where the march started? Sabarmati (Ahmedabad). | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
Geography · Resources and Development · Identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alluvial soil | Northern plains; Rajasthan/Gujarat corridor; Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri deltas | Most widespread soil; laid down by the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra. | |
| 2 | Black (regur) soil | Plateaus of Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh | Deccan trap (basalt); ideal for cotton, so called black cotton soil. | |
| 3 | Red and yellow soil | Eastern and southern Deccan; Odisha, Chhattisgarh; Western Ghats piedmont | Red from iron in crystalline rocks; yellow when hydrated. | |
| 4 | Laterite soil | Southern states, Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Odisha, parts of West Bengal, North-east | Intense leaching under heavy rain; acidic, poor in nutrients. | |
| 5 | Arid soil | Western Rajasthan | Sandy and saline; kankar layer below; cultivable with irrigation. | |
| 6 | Forest soil | Hilly and mountainous areas (Himalaya) | Loamy in valleys, coarse on upper slopes. |
Geography · Water Resources · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salal | Jammu and Kashmir | On the Chenab. | 2026 |
| 2 | Bhakra Nangal | Himachal Pradesh (Bhakra) and Punjab (Nangal) | Sutlej–Beas basin; used for both hydel power and irrigation. | 2024 |
| 3 | Tehri | Uttarakhand | On the Bhagirathi. | 2023 |
| 4 | Rana Pratap Sagar | Rajasthan | On the Chambal. | |
| 5 | Sardar Sarovar | Gujarat | On the Narmada; project covers Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. | |
| 6 | Hirakud | Odisha | On the Mahanadi; combines water conservation with flood control. | |
| 7 | Nagarjuna Sagar | Telangana–Andhra Pradesh border | On the Krishna. | |
| 8 | Tungabhadra | Karnataka | On the Tungabhadra (a tributary of the Krishna). |
Geography · Agriculture · Identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rice | Plains of north and north-east India, coastal areas, deltas | Kharif; above 100 cm rain. With irrigation also in Punjab, Haryana, western UP. Leading state: West Bengal. | |
| 2 | Wheat | Ganga–Satluj plains (north-west) and the Deccan black-soil region | Punjab, Haryana, UP, MP, Bihar, Rajasthan. Leading state: Uttar Pradesh. | |
| 3 | Sugarcane | Uttar Pradesh (largest), Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, AP, Telangana | Also Bihar, Punjab, Haryana. UP grows about two-fifths of India's sugarcane. | |
| 4 | Tea | Assam (largest); Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri (West Bengal); Tamil Nadu; Kerala | Assam gives more than half of India's tea. | |
| 5 | Coffee | Karnataka (largest), Kerala, Tamil Nadu | Arabica; first grown on the Baba Budan Hills. Karnataka gives over two-thirds. | |
| 6 | Rubber | Kerala (largest), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andaman and Nicobar, Garo hills (Meghalaya) | Equatorial crop; needs over 200 cm rain. | |
| 7 | Cotton | Gujarat (leading), Maharashtra, Telangana; also MP, Karnataka, AP, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana | Drier parts of the Deccan black soil; 210 frost-free days. | |
| 8 | Jute | West Bengal (largest), Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Meghalaya | Golden fibre; flood plains. West Bengal grows about three-fourths. | 2025 |
Leading states follow the NCERT Class 12 book (India: People and Economy), which ranks them; the Class 10 book lists the producing states.
Geography · Minerals and Energy Resources · Identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayurbhanj | Odisha | High-grade hematite at Badampahar mines (Odisha–Jharkhand belt). | |
| 2 | Durg | Chhattisgarh | Durg–Bastar–Chandrapur belt. | |
| 3 | Bailadila | Chhattisgarh (Bastar / Dantewada) | Super high-grade hematite; hills look like an ox's hump; ore exported via Visakhapatnam. | 2023, 2024 |
| 4 | Bellary (Ballari) | Karnataka | Ballari–Chitradurga–Chikkamagaluru–Tumakuru belt. | |
| 5 | Kudremukh | Karnataka (Western Ghats) | 100% export unit; ore sent as slurry by pipeline to a port near Mangaluru. |
Geography · Minerals and Energy Resources · Identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raniganj | West Bengal | Damodar valley coalfield. | |
| 2 | Bokaro | Jharkhand | Damodar valley coalfield. | 2023 |
| 3 | Talcher | Odisha | Mahanadi valley coalfield. | 2024 |
| 4 | Neyveli | Tamil Nadu | Lignite (low-grade brown coal), used to generate electricity. |
Geography · Minerals and Energy Resources · Identify
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digboi | Assam | Assam is India's oldest oil-producing state. | |
| 2 | Naharkatia | Assam | Important Assam oil field. | 2024 |
| 3 | Mumbai High | Offshore, Maharashtra coast | Major offshore oil and gas field. | |
| 4 | Bassein | Offshore, Maharashtra coast | Offshore field south of Mumbai High. | |
| 5 | Kalol | Gujarat | Cambay basin, near Ahmedabad. | |
| 6 | Ankaleshwar | Gujarat | The most important oil field of Gujarat. |
Geography · Minerals and Energy Resources · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namrup (thermal) | Assam | Thermal plant in upper Assam. | 2024 |
| 2 | Singrauli (thermal) | Madhya Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh border | Pithead plant on the Singrauli coalfield; mark it in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh. | 2022 |
| 3 | Ramagundam (thermal) | Telangana | NTPC plant on the Godavari. | |
| 4 | Narora (nuclear) | Uttar Pradesh | On the Ganga, Bulandshahr district. | 2022, 2024 |
| 5 | Kakrapara (nuclear) | Gujarat | Near Surat. Asked as “atomic power plant in Gujarat”. | 2025 |
| 6 | Tarapur (nuclear) | Maharashtra | Coast north of Mumbai; India's first nuclear plant. Asked as “nuclear plant in Maharashtra”. | 2023, 2024, 2026 |
| 7 | Kalpakkam (nuclear) | Tamil Nadu | Coast south of Chennai. |
Geography · Manufacturing Industries · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | Early mills near cotton-growing areas and the port. | |
| 2 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | Malwa plateau, black-soil cotton area. | |
| 3 | Surat | Gujarat | Textile hub of south Gujarat. | |
| 4 | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | Industrial city on the Ganga. | |
| 5 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | Textile centre of the south. |
Geography · Manufacturing Industries · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durgapur | West Bengal | Damodar valley. | |
| 2 | Bokaro | Jharkhand | Damodar valley. | 2025 |
| 3 | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | TISCO; asked as “iron and steel plant in Jharkhand” (Bokaro also fits). | 2025 |
| 4 | Bhilai | Chhattisgarh | Near the Durg iron ore belt. | |
| 5 | Vijayanagar | Karnataka | Ballari district, near the iron ore belt. | |
| 6 | Salem | Tamil Nadu | Steel plant in the south. |
Geography · Manufacturing Industries · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noida | Uttar Pradesh | Next to Delhi. | 2023, 2024 |
| 2 | Gandhinagar | Gujarat | State capital, next to Ahmedabad. | |
| 3 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | West coast. | 2022 |
| 4 | Pune | Maharashtra | Inland from Mumbai. | 2023 |
| 5 | Hyderabad | Telangana | Deccan plateau. | |
| 6 | Bengaluru | Karnataka | Deccan plateau. | 2022 |
| 7 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Asked as “software technology park in Tamil Nadu”. | 2026 |
| 8 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | Southern tip of the west coast. |
Geography · Lifelines of National Economy · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kandla (Deendayal Port) | Gujarat (Gulf of Kachchh) | First port developed after Independence, after Karachi went to Pakistan. | 2024 |
| 2 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | Biggest port; spacious natural, well-sheltered harbour. | |
| 3 | Marmagao | Goa | Premier iron ore exporting port (about half of India's iron ore exports). | |
| 4 | New Mangalore | Karnataka | Exports iron ore concentrates from Kudremukh. | |
| 5 | Kochi | Kerala | Extreme south-western port, at the entrance of a lagoon; natural harbour. | |
| 6 | Tuticorin (V.O. Chidambaranar) | Tamil Nadu | Extreme south-eastern port; natural harbour. | 2023, 2024 |
| 7 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | One of the oldest artificial ports; second to Mumbai in trade volume. | |
| 8 | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | Deepest landlocked and well-protected port. | |
| 9 | Paradip | Odisha | Mahanadi delta; exports iron ore. | |
| 10 | Haldia | West Bengal | Subsidiary port of Kolkata, downstream on the Hugli. | 2023, 2024 |
Only map pointing from this chapter is examined in the board paper.
Geography · Lifelines of National Economy · Locate and label
| # | Place | Where | Remember | Asked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amritsar (Raja Sansi – Sri Guru Ram Das Ji) | Punjab | Asked as “international airport in Punjab”. | 2025, 2026 |
| 2 | Delhi (Indira Gandhi) | Delhi | National capital. | 2022 |
| 3 | Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji) | Maharashtra | West coast. | |
| 4 | Chennai (Meenambakkam) | Tamil Nadu | East coast. | 2024 |
| 5 | Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose) | West Bengal | East. | 2022 |
| 6 | Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi) | Telangana | Deccan plateau. |
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