India and the Contemporary World — II is the Class 10 History NCERT, tracing how nationalism, industrialisation, and the spread of print reshaped the modern world. These Class 10 History NCERT notes for UPSC offer a compact foundation for the world-history and modern-India strands of the GS1 syllabus.

The book groups naturally into three themes:

  • Rise of nationalism: the growth of nationalist ideas and movements in Europe, and the anti-colonial struggle in Indo-China against French rule.
  • Nationalism in India: the Civil Disobedience Movement and the broader mobilisation of Indians against British rule.
  • Economy and society: the Age of Industrialisation and its social consequences, and the emergence of print culture in shaping the modern world.

Together these chapters underpin GS1 (world history, modern Indian history, and the freedom struggle), with conceptual links useful for both Prelims and Mains answer-building.