1.Early India: From the Beginnings to the Indus Civilisation
1. Pre-historic India
2. Early Neolithic Cultures and the Beginning of Agriculture
3. The Indus Civilisation
2.Early India: The Chalcolithic, Megalithic, Iron Age and Vedic Cultures
1. Pre-Aryan, Late Harappan and Chalcolithic Cultures of India
2. Iron Age in North India
3. Megalithic Iron Age in Tamilnadu
4. Megalithic Sites in Tamilnadu
5. The Aryans and Rig Vedic Society
6. Rig Vedic Culture
7. Later Vedic Culture
3.Rise of Territorial Kingdoms and New Religious Sects
1. Developments in the Gangetic Plain
2. Janapadas to Mahajanapadas
3. Emergence of Heterodox Thinkers
4. Ajivikas
5. Jainism
6. Buddhism
4.Emergence of State and Empire
1. Rise of Magadha under the Haryanka Dynasty
2. Nandas: The First Empire Builders of India
3. Persian and Macedonian Invasions
4. Alexander s Invasion
5. Mauryan Empire
6. The Mauryan State and Polity
7. Economy and Society - Emergence of State and Empire
5. Evolution of Society in South India
1. South India during Mauryan times
2. South India under the Satavahanas
3. Sangam Age
4. Social Formation in Tamil Eco-zones
5. Tamil Polity
6. Society and Economy - Evolution of Society in South India
7. Ideology and Religion - Evolution of Society in South India
8. Age of Kalabhras - Post Sangam Period
6. Polity and Society in Post-Mauryan Period
1. Indo-Greek Relations
2. Sakas, Parthians and Kushanas
3. The Tamil Kingdoms
4. Trade Between Tamizhagam and Rome
7. The Guptas
1. Chandragupata I and Empire Building
2. Samudragupta
3. Chandragupta II
4. Gupta s Administrative System
5. Guptas Economic Condition
6. Gupta s Cultural Florescence
7. Decline of the Gupta Empire
8. Harsha and Rise of Regional Kingdoms
1. Pushyabhutis
2. Harsha s Military Conquests
3. The Palas - Harsha and Rise of Regional Kingdoms
4. Establishment of Pala Rule in Bengal
5. The Rashtrakutas
6. Rise of the Dynasty - The Rashtrakutas
9. Cultural Development in South India
1. Chalukyas
2. Pallavas
3. Ellora - Ajanta and Mamallapuram
4. Ellora
5. Ajanta
6. Mamallapuram
7. Tamil Devotionalism
8. Azhwars and Nayanmars
9. Adi Sankara (788-820)
10. Sri Ramanujar(1017-1138)
10. Advent of Arabs and turks
1. The Arab Conquest of Sind
2. The Slave Dynasty - Foundation of Delhi Sultanate
3. The Khaljis (1290-1320)
4. The Tughlaq Dynasty
5. Sayyid Dynasty (1414 1451)
6. Lodi Dynasty (1451-1526 )
7. Administration of the Sultanate
11. Later Cholas and Pandyas
1. Cholas
2. Pandyas
12. Bahmani and Vijayanagar Kingdoms
1. Bahmani Kingdom
2. Vijayanagar Empire
3. Administration of Vijayanagar Kingdoms
4. Society and Economy of Vijayanagar Kingdoms
13. Cultural Syncretism: Bhakti Movement in India
1. Bhakti Movement in the South
2. Spread of Bhakti Movement to the North
3. Impact of Sufism
4. Salient Features of Bhakti Movement
5. Proponents of Bhakti Movement
6. Impact of the Bhakti Movement
14. The Mughal Empire
1. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1526 1530)
2. Humayun (1530-1540 1555-1556)
3. Sher Shah and Sur Dynasty
4. Humayun s Return from Exile
5. Emperor Akbar (1556-1605)
6. Jahangir (1605 1627)
7. Shah Jahan (1627-1658)
8. Aurangzeb (1658 1707)
9. Mughal Society
10. Economy
11. Religion
12. Science and Technology
15. The Marathas
1. Causes of the Rise of the Marathas
2. Shivaji (1627 1680)
3. Marathas after Shivaji
4. Maratha Administration
5. Rule of the Peshwas (1713-1818)
6. The Anglo-Maratha Wars
7. Maratha Administration under Peshwas (1714-1818)
8. Maratha Rule in Tamilnadu
16. The Coming of the Europeans
1. Political Affairs
2. The Economy
3. Advent of Europeans
4. Collaboration with Indian Merchants
5. Portuguese in India
6. The Dutch
7. The French
8. The Danes
9. Advent of the British
10. Carnatic Wars
17. Effects of British Rule
1. Establishment of British Raj
2. Land Tenures: Permanent Settlement and Ryotwari Settlement
3. Subsidiary Alliance and Doctrine of Lapse
4. Native States and British Paramountcy
5. Reforms in Civil and Judicial Administration
6. Education and Development under Company Rule
7. Efforts at Safety and Developmental Measures
8. Deindustrialization and Drain of Wealth
9. Famines and Indentured labour
18. Early Resistance to British Rule
1. Mysore Sultans and their Resistance
2. Early Resistance of Southern Palayakkarars against the British
3. South Indian Rebellion 1801
4. Peasant and Tribal Revolts
5. Great Rebellion 1857
19. Towards Modernity
1. Emergence of Reform Movements
2. Satya Shodhak Samaj (1873)
3. Islamic Reform Movements
4. Parsi Reform Movements
5. Sikh Reform Movement
6. Reform Movements in Tamilnadu
7. Christian Missionaries
8. Significance of the Reform Movements
20.Rise of Nationalism in India
1. Socio-economic Background
2. Western Education and its Impact
3. Social and Religious Reforms
4. Other Decisive Factors for the Rise of Nationalism
5. Birth of Indian Associations
6. Naoroji and his Drain Theory
21. Rise of Nationalism in India
1. Socio-economic Background
2. Western Education and its Impact
3. Social and Religious Reforms
4. Other Decisive Factors for the Rise of Nationalism
5. Birth of Indian Associations
6. Naoroji and his Drain Theory
22. Rise of Extremism and Swadeshi Movement
1. Partition of Bengal
2. Anti-Partition Movement
3. Boycott and Swadeshi Movements in Bengal (1905-1911)
4. Militant Nationalism
5. Revolutionary Extremism
6. Swadeshi Campaign in Tamil Nadu
23. Impact of World War I on Indian Freedom Movement
1. All India Home Rule League
2. Impact of World War I on Indian Freedom Movement in India
3. Provisions of the Lucknow Pact
4. Repressive Measures of the Colonial State
5. The Defence of India Act, 1915
6. Khilafat Movement
7. Rise of Labour Movement
24. Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation
1. Gandhi s Experiments of Satyagraha
2. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
3. The Non-Brahmin Movement
4. Non-cooperation Movement
5. Swarajist Party and its Activities
6. Simon Commission-Nehru Report - Lahore Congress
7. The Round Table Conferences
8. Emergence of Dr B R Ambedkar and the Separate Electorates
25. Period of Radicalism in Anti-imperialist Struggles
1. Kanpur Conspiracy Case, 1924
2. Meerut Conspiracy Case, 1929
3. Bhagat Singh and Kalpana Dutt
4. Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress, 1931
5. The Great Depression and its Impact on India
6. Industrial Development in India
26. Communalism in Nationalist Politics
1. Origin and Growth of Communalism in British India
2. Formation of All India Muslim League
3. Emergence of the All India Hindu Mahasabha
4. First Congress Ministries
5. Observation of Day of Deliverance
6. Direct Action Day
27. Last Phase of Indian National Movement
1. Cripps Mission
2. Quit India Movement
3. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the INA
4. The Royal Indian Navy Revolt
5. Rajaji Proposals and the Wavell Plan
6. Cabinet Mission and Mountbatten Plan
28. Reconstruction of Post-colonial India
1. Consequences of Partition
