Navigation hub for every HISTORY note in Paper I, ancient to modern India, with the freedom struggle emphasised for Paper I objectives and Paper II essays
From the Portuguese arrival of 1498 to the English East India Company's territorial empire: the Carnatic Wars, Plassey 1757 and Buxar 1764, the dual government, the Anglo-Mysore, Anglo-Maratha, Anglo-Sikh wars, the Subsidiary Alliance, the Doctrine of Lapse, the land-revenue settlements, and the Governors-General who built the Raj
Indian architecture from the Harappan towns through Mauryan pillars, the rock-cut caves and stupas, the temple styles (Nagara, Dravida, Vesara), Indo-Islamic and Mughal building, and the colonial and Indo-Saracenic styles, with the schools of sculpture (Gandhara, Mathura, Amaravati) and the key monuments, in reference tables with authored CAPF practice
The Nirguna and Saguna bhakti saints, the southern Acharyas and Nayanars and Alvars, the Sufi silsilas (Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, Naqshbandi), their doctrines, languages, and social and cultural impact (8th to 17th centuries), with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
Gandhi's return and the satyagrahas of Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad, the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh 1919, the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat movement, Chauri Chaura, the Simon Commission and Nehru Report, Purna Swaraj, the Dandi March and Civil Disobedience, the Gandhi-Irwin and Poona Pacts, the Round Table Conferences, and the Quit India Movement of 1942, with Congress sessions and presidents
The classical music systems (Hindustani and Carnatic), the eight classical dance forms and their States, the folk dances, the schools of miniature and mural painting (Mughal, Rajput, Pahari, Deccan, Tanjore, Madhubani), the major instruments, and the cultural-heritage angle, in reference tables with authored CAPF practice
India's first urban civilisation (c. 2600 to 1900 BCE): sites and rivers, town planning, economy and trade, seals and script, religion, art, and the multi-causal decline, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The sixteen mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha, Mahavira and Jainism, the Buddha and Buddhism, the four Buddhist councils, the heterodox sects, and Jain-Buddhist contrasts (c. 600 to 400 BCE), with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The makers of the freedom movement, the early nationalists and Moderates, the Extremists, the Gandhians, the revolutionaries, the women, the social reformers and the makers of the Republic, with their key contributions, famous slogans, newspapers and books, in reference tables with authored CAPF practice
The integration of the princely States (Sardar Patel and V.P. Menon, the Instrument of Accession, Junagadh, Hyderabad and Operation Polo, Kashmir), the linguistic reorganisation of States (the SRC and the 1956 Act), the liberation of the French and Portuguese pockets (Pondicherry and Goa), the early wars, the framing of the Constitution, and a nation-building and security angle, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
Shungas, Indo-Greeks, Shakas, Kushanas and Satavahanas, then the Gupta empire and the classical golden age: rulers, administration, society, the achievements in science, mathematics, literature and art, and the decline (c. 200 BCE to 600 CE), with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The factors behind Indian nationalism, the founding of the Congress in 1885, the Moderate phase and its leaders and achievements, the partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi and Boycott movement of 1905, the Extremists (Lal-Bal-Pal), the Surat split of 1907, the Muslim League and the Lucknow Pact, and the Home Rule Leagues of 1916, with sessions and presidents
The nineteenth-century Indian Renaissance: the Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Theosophical Society, Young Bengal, the Aligarh and Deoband movements, the anti-caste and Sikh reform movements, the reformers and their signature causes, and the social legislation from the sati ban of 1829 to the Age of Consent Act 1891
The early Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas, the Sangam literature, society and Roman trade, the Pallavas and Chalukyas in brief, and the Imperial Cholas with their local self-government and Dravidian art (c. 300 BCE to 1300 CE), with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The five dynasties (Slave, Khalji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, Lodi) from 1206 to 1526: key rulers and reforms, the iqta and revenue systems, administration, economy, Indo-Islamic architecture and culture, and the decline, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
India's first pan-Indian empire (321 to 185 BCE): Chandragupta and Kautilya, Bindusara, Ashoka and the Dhamma, the Arthashastra and Indika, the edicts, administration, art, society and economy, and the decline, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
Babur to Aurangzeb and the later Mughals (1526 to 1857): the great rulers, the Sur interregnum, the mansabdari and zabti systems, religious policy, art and architecture, the chronicles and travellers, and the eighteenth-century decline, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The causes (political, economic, social-religious, military), the immediate spark of the greased cartridge, Mangal Pandey and the Meerut outbreak, the centres and their leaders, the suppression and why it failed, the Government of India Act 1858 and Queen Victoria's Proclamation, and the reorganisation of the army
Early and Later Vedic periods (c. 1500 to 600 BCE): the four Vedas and the wider Vedic corpus, polity, society, economy and religion, the Aryan question, and the Early-versus-Later contrasts, with reference tables and authored CAPF practice
The constitutional ladder of 1909, 1919 and 1935, the August Offer and Cripps Mission, the Indian National Army and the RIN mutiny, the Cabinet Mission and interim government, Direct Action Day, the Mountbatten Plan and the Indian Independence Act 1947, the Radcliffe Line and partition, the integration of the princely states, and a survey of revolutionary nationalism