South Asia A Historical Narrative

1. Evolution of the term ‘India”. 2. The Beginning: discovery of the Indus civilization, Society and life in the Indus age, Trade and Commerce, the people ofhte Indus valley, end ofhte Indus age. 3. the Dawn of the Indian Civilization: The Vedic Era, the Early Vedic Period (1500-800 Bc) The Later Vedic Period (800-500 Bc) The States ofhte Ganges Valley (500-324 Bc), Jainism and Buddhism Revival of the Brahmans, The rise of Magadha, kautilya’s Arthasastra (doctrine of Material Gain) The Mauryan Empire (323-185 Bc), The first Imperial Unification of the Subcontinent, Ashoka the Great (273-232 Bc) The Shunga dynasty (185-73 Bc). 4. Political Fragmentation of the Subcontinent: North-western Kingdoms, indo-Greeks, The Shakas, The kushanas, Mountainous, States between the Indus and Ganges Valleys, the Eastern Kingdoms, the Shunga Kindom, The Kalinga Kingdom, The Southern Kingdoms, The Andhra Kingdom or the Satavahana Dynasty, Tamilakam. 5. The Classical age of Hinduism: The Gupta Era (320-540) The Second Imperial Unification of the Subcontinent, Chandra Gupta I (320-330), Samudra Gupta (330-380) Chandra Gupta II (380-415), Kumara Gupta I Mahendraditya (415-455), Sakanda Gupta (455-467), Decline of the Guptas, Harshavardhana (606-647). 6. The Arabs and The Rajputs: The Arabs, The Rajputs. 7. The Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526): Mahmud of Ghazna (998-1030) Muhammad Ghouri (1173-1206), The So-called slave dynasty (1206-1240), Qutb-ud-din Aybeck (1206-1210), The Institution of Slavery’ in Central Asia, Shams-ud-din Iltutumush (1211-1236) Razia (1236-1240), Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (1246-1266), Ghiyas-ud-din Balban (1266-1286), Kaiqubad (1287-1289), The Khalji Dynasty (1290-1320), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1290-1296), Ala-ud-din Khalji (1296-1216), Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah (1316-1320), The Tughluq Dynasty (1320-1325), Muhammad bin Tughluq (1325-1351), Firuz Shah Tughluq (1351-1388), Nasir-ud-din Muhmud tughluq (1392-1412), Sayyid and Lodi dynasties (1412-1526), Ibrahim Khan Lodi (1517-1526). 8. The Peninsular Kingdoms (1336-1646): South India, The Vijayanagar Empire (1336-1646), The Bahmani Sultanate (1347-1538), The Pinnacle and the End of the Vijayanagar Empire. 9. The Mughal Empuire: (1526-1857): The Subcontinent in the Sixteenth Century, Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur (1526-1530), Nashin-ud-din Muhammad Humayun (1530-1540), Sher Shah Suri’s Dynasty (1540-1555), Return of Humayun (1555-1556), Abul-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (1556-1605), Noor-ud-din Muhammad jahagir (1605-1627) The Internal Dimension of Jahangir’s Reign, the External dimension of Jahangir’s Reign, Abul Muzaffar Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Shahib Qaran-i-Sani, Shah Jahan Padshan ghazi (1628-1658) The Internal dimension of Shah Jahan’s Reign, the External Dimension of Shah Jahan’s Reign, The War of Succession ( 1657-1659), Aurangzeb Alamgir (1658-1707) The Internal Dimension of aurangzeb’s Reign, The External dimension of Aurangzeb’s Reign, Decline of the Mughal Empire (1707-1818), Weak Successors, Rise of The Nobles and Wars of Succession, Nadir shah’s invasion (1739) Ahmad Shah Abdali (1747-1772) Sikh Kingdom in the Punjab (1799-1849). 10. The British Advent in Maritime trade in the Indian Ocean (1600-1740). 11. The Rise of the British East India company (1740-1857): Struggle with other European companies in India, Anglo-Dutch Struggle, Anglo-French Indian Princes, Bengal: The Plassey War (1757) Avadh: The Buxar War (174) Lord Robert Clive, Westernization of the company Raj, Warren Hastings, (1772-1785), Political Developments during Hastings’ Rule. 12. Evolution of British Paramountcy in India: Lord Charles Cornwallis (1786-1793), The third Anglo-Mysore War (1789-1791), The Cornwallis Code (1793) sir John Shore (1793-1797, Lord Richard Colley Wellesley (1798-1805), The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799), Annexation of Avadh’s Territories (1801), The Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803), Sir George Barlow (1805-1807) Lord Gilbert Elliot Minto (1807-1813), Lord Francis Rawdon Hastings (1813-1823), the Gurkha War (1814-1816), The Pindaris and the Marathas, The Third Anglo-maratha War (1816-1818), The Settement of 1818, Lord Willliam pitt Amherst (1823-1828) The First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), Imperialists vs intellectuals, Lord William Cavedish-Bentinch (1828-1835), British Fears of Russia, Lord George Eden Auckland (1836-1842), The First Afghan War (1839), Lord Edward Law Ellenborough (1842-1844), The Annexation of Sindh (1843), The Weakening of Gwalior (1844), Lord Henry Hardinge (1844-1848), The first Anglo-Sikh War (1845), Lord James Andrew Brwon Ramsay Dalhousie (1848-1856), The Second Anglo-Sikh War (1849) Other Annexations by Dalhousie, Dalhousie’s Modernization Drive, The first Challenge to British Authority, Lord Charles john canning (1856-1862), The Great Uprising (1857). 13. The Crown Raj (1858-1947): Lessons learnt from the Great Uprising, War Indemnity Imposed on India, Simultaneous Development and Increase in Poverty, Imperial Expansion after 1857, Northward, Eastward, Southward. 14. Indian Nationalism: The Complexities of Indian Nationalism, The Consequences of the Policy of divide and Rule, The Hindu-Muslim Question and Indian Nationalism, some Leaders of Political Awakening in India, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), Sir Surendranath Banerjea (1848-1925), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915), Mohandas Karamchand Ghani (1876-1948), Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964). Select Bibliography, Index.

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