Ch 1: Ways of Knowing Our Past:
When, Where and How?
Ch 2: The Earliest Societies:
Hunters and Gatherers
Ch 3: The First Farmers and
Herders: The Neolithic Age
Ch 4: The First Cities: The
Harappan Civilisation
Ch 5: Early States and the Vedic
Age
Ch 6: New Ideas and the
Mahajanapadas
Ch 7: The First Empire: The
Mauryas
Ch 8: Post-Mauryan India:
Contacts with Distant Lands
Ch 9: The Golden Age: The Guptas
and Post-Gupta Polities
Ch 10: New Kings and Kingdoms:
Regional Powers
Ch 11: The Sultans of Delhi: The
Delhi Sultanate
Ch 12: Architecture and Culture:
The Indo-Islamic Synthesis
Ch 13: Creation of an Empire: The
Mughals
Ch 14: Social Change and Regional
Cultures
Ch 15: The Establishment of
Company Power
Ch 16: Rural Life and Society:
Colonial Agrarian Policies
Ch 17: Colonialism and Tribal
Societies
Ch 18: The Revolt of 1857-58: The
First War of Independence
Ch 19: Socio-Religious Reform
Movements: Challenging the Old Order
Ch 20: The Nationalist Movement
(1885-1947)
