CONTENTS

MODULE 1

ANCIENT INDIA

Lesson 1

Understanding Indian History

Lesson 2

The Geographical Setting and pre-historic cultures of India

10

Lesson 3

The Harappan Civilization

30

Lesson 4

The Vedic Age (1500 BC600BC)

48

Lesson 5

From Janapadas to Empire

63

Lesson 6

Post Mauryan Developments

82

Lesson 7

The Guptas And Their Successors (A.D.300750)

101

Lesson 8

India Between AD 7501200

120

MODULE 2

MEDIEVAL INDIA

Lesson 9

Establishment and Expansion of the Delhi Sultanate

133

Lesson 10

Establishment of the Mughal Rule

155

Lesson 11

Emergence of Regional States in India:

Twelfth to Eighteenth Century

175

Lesson 12

Administrative System and Institutions

189

Lesson 13

Economy

207

Lesson 14

Cultural Developments in Medieval India

224

Lesson 15

Understanding Eighteenth Century India

249

Curriculum

267

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273

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MODULE 3

MODERN INDIA

Lesson 16

Establishment of British rule in India till 1857

Lesson 17

Economic changes

17

Lesson 18

Social changes

28

Lesson 19

Popular resistance to company rule

43

MODULE 4

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT & CONTEMPORARY INDIA

Lesson 20

Nationalism

52

Lesson 21

National Movement & Indian Democracy

62

MODULE 5

20th CENTURY WORLD

Lesson 22

Legacy of 19th Century

83

Lesson 23

World War I and the Russian Revolution

95

Lesson 24

The Inter War Period and the Second World War

106

Lesson 25

Cold war and its effects

127

Lesson 26

National Liberation Movements

142

Lesson 27

Social Transformation in the Twentieth Century

155

Lesson 28

Changes in the Twentieth Century

164

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MODULE 6A

EVOLUTION OF STATE IN INDIA

Lesson 29

Towards Formation of State

Lesson 30

Early States

11

Lesson 31

Medievel States

24

Lesson 32

Colonial State

37

MODULE 6B

CULTURE IN INDIA

Lesson 29

Contemporary Cultural Situation

48

Lesson 30

Cultural Production

62

Lesson 31

Cultural Communication

71

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