APC | Indian History World Developments and Civics | ICSE | Class 9 |

The last edition of the book was published some five years ago. Since then many significant Constitutional changes have occurred. Moreover, the syllabus and the paper-pattern have also been rationalised. The book now contains the Assertion-Reason and Competency-Focused questions as well. Therefore, the revised 2025 edition of the book incorporates many significant changes.

SECTION- A deals with the Civics portion that contains the following changes:

• Chapter 1 highlights the fact that the 106th Amendment to the Constitution (2023) reserved 33 per cent seats for Women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. The change, however, shall be implemented only after the next Census was carried out and the Delimitation exercise was over, so that it was decided as to which of the seats would be reserved for women.
• Chapter 2 is clear about the fact that a few of the Fundamental Rights, especially those that deal with the protection of life and personal liberty cannot be suspended even during an Emergency.
• Chapter 3 tells us that elections to the 18th Lok Sabha were stretched over six weeks (between April 19 and June 1, 2024). Shri Narendra Modi became the second Prime Minister since Independence to secure a third successive term in 2024. The first was Shri Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.