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Indian History English Medium

Ancient, medieval and modern Indian history and Indian art & culture — chapter-wise notes in Hindi and English, checked against NCERT and standard references.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Stone Age Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic India and the Chalcolithic cultures — tools, ways of life, key sites on the map (Bhimbetka, Bagor, Mehrgarh, Burzahom, Ahar), with flashcards and a quiz. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India Indus Valley Civilisation The Harappan civilisation — extent and farthest sites, Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Dholavira and the excavator table, town planning and drains, society, religion, burials, farming, trade, seals and script, and theories of decline. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Vedic Age Aryans and the Vedas: Boghazkoi and homeland theories, Rig Vedic rivers, polity, economy and society, the later Vedic move into the Ganga plain, varna, ashramas, gods and sacrifices, marriage forms, samskaras, Vedic literature and the six darshanas. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The First Territorial States — Mahajanapadas The sixteen Mahajanapadas with capitals and maps, monarchies and republics, the Haryanka, Shishunaga and Nanda kings of Magadha and why Magadha won, the pre-Mauryan economy and society, and the Persian and Greek invasions. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India Religious Movements — Jainism and Buddhism Why new faiths arose in the 6th century BC and the 62 sects; Jainism — Tirthankaras and their symbols, Mahavira, vows, triratna, syadvada, councils, sects and monuments; Buddhism — the Buddha’s life, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, councils, Hinayana–Mahayana–Vajrayana, texts, mudras, universities; comparison and decline. Open map Chapter 6 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Mauryan Empire Origin of the Mauryas and the sources — Arthashastra, Indica, edicts; Chandragupta, Bindusara and Ashoka; the Kalinga war, Dhamma and all the edicts with maps; saptanga, tirthas, adhyakshas, taxes, justice, army and city boards; society, economy, art and the decline of the empire. Open map Chapter 7 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Sangam Age The three Sangams, the Chola, Chera and Pandya kingdoms (Karikala, Senguttuvan, Nedunjeliyan), Sangam administration, society, religion, performers, economy and taxes, Roman trade, and Sangam literature with the epics. Open map Chapter 8 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India Post-Mauryan Period (200 BC – AD 300) Sungas, Kanvas, Kharavela and the Satavahanas; Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Kushanas (Kanishka); satrap rule and the Saka era; trade with Rome and guilds; society and religion; the Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati schools; scholars of the age. Open map Chapter 9 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Gupta Age (AD 320 – 500) From Srigupta to Skandagupta — Samudragupta’s campaigns, Chandragupta II, the Hunas and the decline; Gupta officials, provinces, taxes and coins; society, women and bhakti; temples, Ajanta and Bagh, Kalidasa and the science of Aryabhata. Open map Chapter 10 Pass English Medium Indian History · Ancient India The Post-Gupta Era (AD 550 – 750) The powers of north India after the Guptas, Harshavardhana, Hiuen Tsang and Nalanda; post-Gupta society and economy; the Vakatakas and Ikshvakus; the Chalukyas of Badami, Vengi and Kalyani; the Pallavas and their long war with the Chalukyas. Open map Chapter 11 Pass English Medium Indian History · Medieval India The Sultanate of Delhi The five dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) — Aibak, Iltutmish, Razia, Balban, Ala-ud-din’s conquests and market control, Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq’s projects, Firoz’s welfare, the Lodis and Panipat; administration, iqta, taxes, literature, music and architecture. Open map Chapter 12 Pass English Medium Indian History · Medieval India Provincial Kingdoms Regional kingdoms after Timur’s invasion — Malwa, Gujarat, Mewar, Marwar, Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Jaunpur; the Vijayanagara empire (four dynasties, Krishnadeva Raya, Talikota, administration, Nayankara and Ayagar systems, society, coins, art); the Bahmani kingdom, Mahmud Gawan and the five Deccan Sultanates. Open map Chapter 13 Pass English Medium Indian History · Medieval India Bhakti and Sufi Movements Medieval religious movements — the meaning, causes and two schools of Bhakti; Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka and Vallabha; Ramananda, Kabir, Dadu; Tulsidas, Surdas, Mirabai, Chaitanya; the saints of Maharashtra and the south; Guru Nanak and the ten Gurus; Sufism, the Chishti order and other silsilas. Open map Chapter 14 English Medium Indian History · Medieval India The Mughal Empire Babur to Aurangzeb (1526–1707) with the Sur interlude — battles and conquests, Sher Shah’s reforms, Akbar’s religious policy and Nine Jewels, the war of succession, mansabdari, jagirs, Zabti–Dahsala revenue, and Mughal architecture, painting, literature and music. Open map Chapter 15 Pass English Medium Indian History · Medieval India The Maratha Empire Rise of the Marathas, Shivaji’s forts, wars, Treaty of Purandar and coronation; Sambhaji, Rajaram, Tarabai and Shahu; the Ashtapradhan, revenue, chauth–sardeshmukhi and army; the Peshwas from Balaji Vishwanath to Baji Rao II, Third Panipat, Peshwa administration and the Maratha confederacy. Open map Chapter 16 Pass English Medium Indian History · Medieval India Mughal Decline and Rise of Regional States The later Mughals from Bahadur Shah I to Bahadur Shah Zafar, causes of decline, Nadir Shah and Abdali, the Koh-i-noor’s journey, and the regional states — Bengal (Plassey, Buxar), Awadh, Hyderabad, Mysore (Haidar, Tipu), Punjab (ten Gurus, Banda, Ranjit Singh), the Jats and the Rajputs (Sawai Jai Singh). Open map Chapter 17 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Emergence of European Powers in India Portuguese, Dutch, English, Danes and French in India; the Carnatic wars, Plassey and Buxar; the Mysore, Maratha and Sikh wars; Nepal, Burma, Afghanistan and Tibet; economic colonialism, land revenue systems and the drain of wealth. Open map Chapter 18 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Tribal and Peasant Uprisings Causes of tribal revolts; Sanyasi, Pagal Panthi, Ahom, Khasi, Kol, Santhal and Munda risings; Khond, Koya, Rampa, Ramosi and Bhil revolts; Polygars, Velu Thampi, Kittur and other chiefs; and peasant movements from the Indigo revolt and Bijolia to Tebhaga and Telangana. Open map Chapter 19 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Governors-General and Viceroys Every Governor-General of Bengal and of India and every Viceroy from Warren Hastings to Mountbatten and Rajaji — wars, Acts, commissions, reforms and events of each tenure, with memory tricks for the order. Open map Chapter 20 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Development of Modern Education and Press Education from the Calcutta Madrasa (1781) through Macaulay, Wood’s Dispatch, the Hunter, Raleigh, Sadler and Hartog commissions, Wardha and Sargent to the Radhakrishnan and Kothari commissions; the press from Hickey’s Bengal Gazette (1780) through every press law to 1951, with newspapers and their founders. Open map Chapter 21 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Revolt of 1857 Earlier mutinies and the political, economic, social, military and immediate causes of 1857; the spark at Berhampore, Barrackpore and Meerut; every centre and leader; British commanders and recapture; views and books on the revolt; why it failed; the Act of 1858 and the Queen’s Proclamation. Open map Chapter 22 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Social and Religious Reform Movements Why the reform movements arose and what they shared; the Brahmo Samaj and its splits, Young Bengal and Vidyasagar; the Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission and Theosophy; reformers of Western India; Narayana Guru, Periyar and Ambedkar; Muslim, Sikh and Parsi movements; and British-era laws on infanticide, Sati, thugi, slavery, widow remarriage and child marriage. Open map Chapter 23 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Growth of Nationalism and Struggle for Independence (1885–1919) Causes of national awakening, Lytton and the Ilbert Bill, pre-Congress associations and the civil services, the founding and sessions of the Congress, moderates and extremists, the Bengal partition and Swadeshi, the Muslim League, Home Rule, the Lucknow Pact, the Montagu Declaration and the revolutionaries at home and abroad. Open map Chapter 24 Pass English Medium Indian History · Modern India Struggle for Independence — Second Phase (1919–1927) Gandhi in South Africa and his first campaigns in India, his ideas, the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh, the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements, Chauri Chaura, the Swaraj Party and the Muddiman Committee, and the satyagrahas, organisations and Butler Committee of 1922–27. Open map