Ever wonder where all your school books went off? That very nice Geography text book of class seven which talked about "Tropical Forest" in depth? I hated books when I was in school because I felt they were thrust on me. Mathematics was the only exception since I had genuine interest in the subject and I read other books just so that I can get on with the game called education.
Many years have passed ever since and at some point I started craving for those history books. Those history lessons that were missed in teenage because it was thrust. Those lessons that we skipped so we could watch Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble bash up South Africans in the Titan Cup Final in 1996 after being beaten for 6 times in a row before that. Seriously, I used to wonder why so much Cecil Rhodes, Imperialism in Africa, Fascism, Nazism was being thrust on a 15 year old lad. For the record, I cleared class X with decent grades and did not stop until I graduated in Engineering.
A few years before, my desire to learn history (both Indian and world) from a grass root level started itching me. I thought the right place to start would be the Class X History book (Matriculation board, Not the CBSE or the Stateboard one) since it would complete a circle (Craving now for what you hated like 12 years before). The idea stuck me today to check if the history book was online. I started googling and the obvious search terms like "class x matric", "history class x book", "tamil nadu history syllabus" did not do the trick. Finally I discovered what I wanted the most,
The Tamilnadu Syllabus Blueprint and the
My joy knew no bounds, when I saw that the Tamilnadu State Government's NIC (National Informatics Centre) website had the complete books online for reference purposes*. I went through the subjects and I could see equivalent books from Matric board. All..all..all....except for the History subject for Matriculation.....
So near yet so far....
So if anyone can hack around or guess the url of the history book let me know!!!! (I tried putting history instead of geography in the url to see if the file was hidden in the server somewhere, but that did not help!!!)
10£ for someone who gives me "Class X-Matriculation-History Coursework" book :)
