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CBSE Class 11 History: Chapter-wise Notes and PYQs

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CBSE · Class 11 · 2026-27

CBSE Class 11 History: chapter-wise study guide

All 7 chapters of CBSE Class 11 History for the 2026-27 session. Each chapter page explains the ideas, gives tricks to remember them, shows where students lose marks, and links to practice.

  • 7 chapters
  • 14 topic pages
Start with the first chapter

Exam note: School annual exam: theory 80 marks and project work 20. The syllabus prescribes the Class XI paper by question type: 21 MCQs (1 mark), 6 short answers (3), 3 long answers (8), 3 source-based questions (4) and a 5-mark map question.

Section I: Early Societies

  1. Writing and City Life

Section II: Empires

  1. An Empire Across Three Continents

  2. Nomadic Empires

Section III: Changing Traditions

  1. The Three Orders

  2. Changing Cultural Traditions

Section IV: Towards Modernisation

  1. Displacing Indigenous Peoples

  2. Paths to Modernisation

    CBSE: 'Keeping in view the importance of the themes i.e. Japan, China and Korea; it is advised that all must be taught in the schools.'

Syllabus source: CBSE History syllabus 2026-27 (Classes XI-XII), NCERT textbooks (Reprint 2026-27)