NCERT History notes

Ancient India

• Studying Indian History: Sources, Dating and Historiography — method chapter (all periods)
• India, That Is Bharat: Names of India and Unity in Diversity — Rig Veda to 1950
• Prehistory: Human Origins and Stone Age Cultures — c. 3.3 mya - c. 2600 BCE
• Harappan (Sindhu-Sarasvati) Civilisation — c. 3500-1300 BCE (mature 2600-1900 BCE)
• The Vedic Age — c. 2nd millennium - 600 BCE
• Buddhism, Jainism and Heterodox Traditions — c. 6th century BCE onward
• Janapadas, Mahajanapadas and the Second Urbanisation — c. 1000-300 BCE
• The Mauryan Empire — c. 6th century - 185 BCE
• Post-Mauryan India: Shungas to Kushanas — c. 185 BCE - 300 CE
• Sangam Age and Early South India — c. 300 BCE - 300 CE
• Gupta Empire and the Classical Age — c. 300-600 CE
• Society in Early India: Kinship, Varna-Jati, Women — c. 600 BCE - 600 CE
• Economy of Early India: Agriculture, Trade, Guilds, Coinage — c. 600 BCE - 1000 CE
• Early Indian Art and Architecture: Stupas, Rock-cut Caves, Temples — c. 200 BCE - 700 CE

Medieval India

• Early Medieval North India: Harsha to the Rajputs — c. 600-1200 CE
• Southern Dynasties: Chalukyas, Pallavas, Cholas — c. 600-1300 CE
• Turkic Invasions and the Delhi Sultanate — c. 1000-1526
• Vijayanagara and the Deccan — 1336-1646
• The Mughal Empire: Babur to Aurangzeb — 1526-1707
• Mughal Agrarian Society and Economy — 16th-17th centuries
• Regional Resistance: Rajputs, Ahoms, Sikhs — 16th - early 19th centuries
• The Marathas — c. 1630-1818
• Bhakti and Sufi Traditions — c. 8th-18th centuries
• Medieval India through Travellers' Eyes — 11th-17th centuries
• India, a Home to Many: Diasporas and Refuge — c. 175 BCE - 20th century

Modern India

• Europeans in India and the Rise of Company Rule — 1498-1857
• Colonial Economy: Land Revenue, Drain, Deindustrialisation — 1765-1947
• Peasant and Tribal Resistance under Company Rule — 1770s-1875
• The Revolt of 1857 — 1857-58
• The National Movement: Gandhian Era — 1915-1948
• Print Culture and the Modern World — 594 CE - 20th century
• Framing the Indian Constitution — 1946-1950

World History

• Bronze Age Civilisations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, China — c. 5000-500 BCE
• The Roman Empire — 27 BCE - 7th century CE
• Nomadic Empires: The Mongols — 13th-14th centuries
• Medieval Europe: Feudalism and the Three Orders — 9th-16th centuries
• Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution — 14th-17th centuries
• Settler Colonialism: Native Peoples of America and Australia — 18th-20th centuries
• Paths to Modernisation: Japan, China, Korea — 17th-20th centuries
• The Rise of Nationalism in Europe — 1789-1914
• The Making of a Global World — pre-modern - c. 2000
• The Age of Industrialisation — 17th century - 1940s