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Index
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY
MAP OF INDIA
HISTORY
PREHISTORIC INDIA
Stone Age Settlements
Bhimbetka
Mehrgarh
ANCIENT INDIA
INDUS VALLEY CIVILISATION (2800 BC – 1900 BC)
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Way of Life
ARYANS AND THE VEDIC AGE (1700 BC – 500 BC)
Early Vedic Period
Aryans Introduce the Caste System
Later Vedic Period
The Mahajanapadas and the Kingdom of Magadha
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (r. 327 BC – 323 BC)
THE MAURYA DYNASTY (321 BC – 185 BC)
Chandragupta Maurya: The Monarch Who Unified India (R. 321 Bc – 297 Bc)
Ashoka The Great (R. 273 Bc – 232 Bc)
Rise of Buddhism under Ashoka’s Patronage
POST-ASHOKA PERIOD
The Sunga Dynasty (185 BC – 73 BC)
The Kanva Dynasty (73 BC – 28 BC)
The Satavahana Dynasty (28 BC – 250 AD)
GREEK AND CENTRAL ASIAN INVADERS
Indo-Greek Kingdom (175 BC – 10 BC)
Indo-Scythian, Kushan and Indo-Parthian Kingdoms
King Kanishka (r. 78–111)
THE GUPTA EMPIRE 320–550
Chandragupta I (r. 320–335)
Samudragupta (r. 335–380)
Chandragupta Ii (R. 380–415)
The Golden Age of Indian History
Decline of the Gupta Empire and the Hun Invasion
POST-GUPTA PERIOD
RISE OF THE RAJPUTS
The Dark Age of India
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOMS
The Pallava Dynasty (4th–9th Centuries)
The Chola Dynasty (9th–13th Centuries)
The Chera Dynasty (800–1300)
The Pandya Dynasty and Vijayanagara
MUSLIMS INVADE INDIA
Mahmud of Ghazni (r. 997–1030)
Muhammad of Ghur (r. 1175–1206)
THE DELHI SULTANATE 1206–1526
Mamluk (Slave) Dynasty (1206–1290)
The Khilji Dynasty (1290–1320)
The Tughlaq Dynasty (1320–1413)
The Sayyid and Lodhi Dynasties
THE MUGHAL EMPIRE 1526–1858
Babur the Tiger (r. 1526–1530)
Humayun (1530–1539, 1555–1556)
Akbar the Great (1556–1605)
Jahangir (r. 1605–1627)
Shah Jahan: the Emperor who Built The Taj Mahal (r. 1627–1658)
Aurangzeb: the Last of the Great Mughal Rulers (r. 1658–1707)
THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS
The Portuguese Traders
Trade Wars
The British East India Company (1608–1858)
THE BRITISH RAJ
Sepoy Mutiny of 1857
The Crown Takes Charge
Society and Economy under British Rule
REFORM MOVEMENTS
RISE OF INDIAN NATIONALISM
Indian National Congress
The Muslim League
World War I and Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
Gandhi’s Salt March
Hindu-Muslim Differences
Quit India Movement
PARTITION AND INDEPENDENCE
Communal Catastrophe
Hindu Militancy
Kashmir
India Becomes A Republic
Politics and Policies
The Nehru Legacy
RELIGION
HINDUISM
BUDDHISM
JAINISM
ISLAM
CHRISTIANITY
SIKHISM
ZOROASTRIANISM
PEOPLE AND LANGUAGES
POPULATION
CASTE AND RESERVATION
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
SANSKRIT
HINDI
LITERATURE
TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
The Vedas
RAMAYANA
MAHABHARATA
The Bhagavad Gita
Shakuntala
MODERN LITERATURE
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Premchand (1880–1936)
Booker Prize-Winning Novels
FOLKTALES AND PROVERBS
PANCHATANTRA
The Heron and the Crab
The Jataka Tales
The Tale of the Two Parrots
Kathasaritsagara
The Heads that Got Switched
PROVERBS
ARTS AND CRAFTS
MADHUBANI PAINTING
CAVE ART
TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE
GLASS PAINTING
MINIATURE PAINTINGS
FOLK ART
MODERN ART
Clay, Wood, Stone And Metalware
PERFORMING ARTS
BOLLYWOOD: THE DREAM MACHINE
Bollywood in Transition
MUSIC
DANCE
Folk Dances
INVENTIONS AND MEDICINE
MATHEMATICS
Aryabhata
Nobel Laureate C V Raman
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Ayurveda
Siddha System of Medicine
Yoga
THE INDIAN CALENDAR
INDIAN NATIONAL CALENDAR
INDIAN NATIONAL CALENDAR
INDIAN FESTIVALS
Diwali, Festival of Lights
Dussehra
Holi, Festival of Colours
Raksha Bandhan
Baisakhi
Buddha Poornima Or Buddha Jayanti
Mahavira Jayanti
Navroz
THE RESURGENCE OF INDIA
INDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Congress Politics
Opposition in Power
Hindu Nationalists to the Fore
Foreign Relations
Continuity and Change
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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