The Class 8 social science book is the first in the new NCERT books to introduce students to the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal period.

Asking them which vocation they would pursue, it has numerous illustrations including that of a woman pilot and photographer juxtaposed along a male chef and florist.

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The book recalls the work of Acharya Kanad, an ancient Indian philosopher, in chapter titled 'Particulate Nature of Matter'.