1. Synchronous with the latest CBSE Syllabus. 2. The concepts, ideas, and facts of NCERT have been clearly described in this textbook. 3. Important Events help students to solve case studies. 4. Competency Focused Questions: [Multiple Choice Questions, Assertion-Reason and Passage/Case-based Questions]—a typology of questions most frequented in examination papers of the recent past. 5. Previous Years’ Board Exam Questions are inserted chapterwise. 6. Keeping in mind the CBSE exam pattern, the book consists of Picture/ Cartoon-based and Map-based Questions. 7. CBSE Sample Question Paper–2024 (Solved) and Glossary are inserted at the end of the book.