1. Sources

2. Pre-history and Proto-history

3. Indus Valley Civilization

4. Megalithic Cultures

5. Aryans and Vedic Period

6. Period of Mahajanapadas

7. Mauryan Empire

8. Post – Mauryan Period

9. Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India

10. Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

11. The Regional States during the Gupta Era

12. Themes in Early Indian Cultural History

13. Early Medieval India (750-1200)

14. Cultural Traditions in India (750-1200)

15. The Thirteenth Century

16. The Fourteenth Century

17. Administration, Society, Culture, Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

18. The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century – Political Developments and Economy

19. The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century – Society and Culture

20. Akbar

21. Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

22. Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

23. Culture in the Mughal Empire

24. The Eighteenth Century

2. British Expansion in India

3. Early Structure of the British Raj

4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

5. Social and Cultural Developments

6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas

7. Indian Response to British Rule

8. Indian Nationalism - Part I

9. Indian Nationalism - Part II

11. Other strands in the National Movement (Revolutionaries & the Left)

12. Politics of Separatism

13. Consolidation as a Nation

14. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

15. Economic development and political change

16. Enlightenment and Modern ideas

17. Origins of Modern Politics

18. Industrialization

19. Nation-State System