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INSTRUCTIONS & SAMPLESHow to use
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FREE Samples4 Submodules
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PAPER I: ANCIENT INDIA1. Sources (COMPLETED)9 Submodules
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1.1 Sources and approaches of Indian history
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1.2.1 Archaeological Sources: Explorations, Excavation & Monuments
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1.2.2 Archaeological Sources: Epigraphy
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1.2.3 Archaeological Sources: Numismatics
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1.3.1 Literary Sources: Indigenous – Religious Literature: Buddhist and Jaina Literature as a source
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1.3.2 Literary Sources: Indigenous – Religious Literature: Puranas
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1.3.3 Literary Sources: Indigenous – Religious Literature: Shruti literature (VEDAS)
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1.3.4 Literary Sources: Indigenous – Secular Literature
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1.3.5 Literary Sources: Foreign Accounts (Greek, Chinese and Arab writers)
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1.1 Sources and approaches of Indian history
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2. Pre-history and Proto-history (COMPLETED)3 Submodules
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3. Indus Valley Civilization (COMPLETED)8 Submodules
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3.1 Indus Valley Civilization: Origin, Extent and Characteristics
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3.2 Indus Valley Civilization: Subsistence Base and Script
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3.3 Indus Valley Civilization: Polity and Society
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3.4 Indus Valley Civilization: Religion and Funerary Practices
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3.5 Indus Valley Civilization: Architecture
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3.6 Indus Valley Civilization: Crafts and Trade
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3.7 Indus Valley Civilization: Changing Perspectives, Relationship between Early and Mature Phase
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3.8 Indus Valley Civilization: Decline, Significance, Continuity, and change
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3.1 Indus Valley Civilization: Origin, Extent and Characteristics
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4. Megalithic Cultures (COMPLETED)3 Submodules
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5. Aryans and Vedic Period (COMPLETED)8 Submodules
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5.1 Expansion of Aryans
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5.2 Transformation from Rig Vedic to Later Vedic: Polity
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5.3 Transformation from Rig Vedic to Later Vedic: Economy
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5.4 Transformation from Rig Vedic to Later Vedic: Society (Rig Vedic)
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5.5 Transformation from Rig Vedic to Later Vedic: Society (Later Vedic)
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5.6 Transformation from Rig Vedic to Later Vedic: Religion
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5.7 Vedic Period: Religious and Philosophical Literature
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5.8 Significance of the Vedic Age
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5.1 Expansion of Aryans
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6. Period of Mahajanapadas (COMPLETED)10 Submodules
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6.1 Period of Mahajanapadas: Formation of States - Republics and Monarchies
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6.2 Period of Mahajanapadas: Rise of Urban Centres
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6.3 Period of Mahajanapadas: Trade routes; Economic growth; Introduction of coinage
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6.4 Emergence of Heterodox Sects - Introduction and Causes
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6.5 Emergence of Heterodox Sects - Buddhism
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6.6 Emergence of Heterodox Sects - Jainism
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6.7 Buddhism Vs Jainism and Brahmanism - Similarities and differences
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6.8 Non-Buddhist Ascetic Orders
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6.9 Period of Mahajanapadas - Social Changes
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6.10 Iranian and Macedonian Invasions and their Impact
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6.1 Period of Mahajanapadas: Formation of States - Republics and Monarchies
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7. Mauryan Empire (COMPLETED)7 Submodules
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8. Post – Mauryan Period (COMPLETED)7 Submodules
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9. Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India (COMPLETED)9 Submodules
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9.1 Kharavela
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9.2 The Satavahanas
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9.3 Tamil States of Sangam Age
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9.4 Sangam Age-Economic Development
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9.5 Sangam Age-Social Development
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9.6 Sangam Literature and Culture
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9.7 Early State in Deccan and South India - Economy, land grants, trade guilds, urban centres
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9.8 Amaravati School of Art
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9.9 Buddhist Centres
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9.1 Kharavela
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10. Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas [COMPLETED]14 Submodules
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10.1 Guptas: Polity
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10.2 Guptas: Administration
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10.3 Guptas: Coinage
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10.4 Guptas: Agriculture, Land grants, Village Economy
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10.5 Guptas: Trade & Urban Centres
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10.6 Guptas: Indian Feudalism
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10.7 Guptas: Society - Caste System, Position of Women
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10.8 Guptas: Education and Educational Institutions
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10.9 Guptas: Literature
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10.10 Guptas: Art
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10.10.1 Ajanta Art
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10.11 Guptas: Architecture
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10.12 Vakatakas
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10.13 Vardhanas
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10.1 Guptas: Polity
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11. The Regional States during the Gupta Era (COMPLETED)18 Submodules
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11.1 Kadambas
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11.2 Pallavas
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11.3 Chalukyas of Badami
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11.4 Chalukyas of Kalyana
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11.7 Palas
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11.8 Rashtrakutas
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11.9 Hoysalas
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11.10 Cholas
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11.11 Pandyas
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11.12 Senas
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11.13 Paramaras
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11.14 Arab Conquest of Sind
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11.15 Alberuni's India
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11.16 Polity and Administration (Regional States during Gupta Era)
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11.17 Tamil Bhakti Movement
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11.18 Shankaracharya and Vedanta; Ramanuja and Vishishtadvaita
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11.19 Religious Sects
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11.20 Trade Guilds
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11.1 Kadambas
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12. Themes in Early Indian Cultural History (COMPLETED)9 Submodules
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12.1 Languages and texts
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12.2 Ideas in Science and Mathematics
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12.3 Slavery in Ancient India
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12.4 Money Lending in Ancient India
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12.5 Major philosophical thinkers and schools: Systems of Indian Philosophy
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12.6 Major philosophical thinkers and schools: Six Schools of Indian Philosophy
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12.7 Major philosophical thinkers and schools: Ajivika and Charvaka School
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12.8 Major philosophical thinkers and schools: Tantricism
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12.9 Major philosophical thinkers and schools: Shaktism
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12.1 Languages and texts
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PAPER 1: MEDIEVAL INDIA13. Early Medieval India (750-1200) (COMPLETED)9 Submodules
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13.1 Major political developments in Northern India and the Peninsula
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13.2 Origin and the rise of Rajputs
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13.3 The Cholas: administration, village economy and society
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13.4 Indian Feudalism
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13.5 Agrarian Economy
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13.6 Urban Settlements
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13.7 Trade and Commerce
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13.8 Condition of Women
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13.9 Science and Technology
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13.1 Major political developments in Northern India and the Peninsula
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14. Cultural Traditions in India (750-1200) (COMPLETED)11 Submodules
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14.1 Philosophy during 750-1200 CE (Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka)
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14.2 Tamil Devotional Cult and Growth of Bhakti
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14.3 Islam and its Arrival in India
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14.4 Sufism
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14.5 Sanskrit Literature
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14.6 Tamil Literature
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14.7 Literature in New Languages
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14.8 Kalhan’s Rajtarangini
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14.9 Albiruni's India
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14.10 Temple Architecture
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14.11 Painting (750-1200 CE)
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14.1 Philosophy during 750-1200 CE (Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka)
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15. The Thirteenth Century (COMPLETED)2 Submodules
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16. The Fourteenth Century (COMPLETED)6 Submodules
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16.1 The Khalji Revolution and Alauddin Khalji: Conquests and territorial expansion, agrarian and economic measures
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16.2 Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures, the bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq
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16.3 Firuz Tughluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil engineering and public works, a decline of the Sultanate
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16.4 Shams Siraj Afif Account: Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi
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16.5 Foreign contacts and Ibn Battuta’s account
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16.6 The Mongol Menace during the Sultanate Period
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16.1 The Khalji Revolution and Alauddin Khalji: Conquests and territorial expansion, agrarian and economic measures
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17. Administration, Society, Culture, Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (ONGOING)9 Submodules
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17.1 Administration under Delhi Sultanate
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17.2 Delhi Sultanate: Agricultural Production
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17.3 Delhi Sultanate: Rise of urban economy and non-agricultural production
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17.4 Delhi Sultanate: Trade and Commerce
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17.5 Delhi Sultanate: Rural Society Composition
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17.6 Delhi Sultanate: Ruling Classes
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17.7 Delhi Sultanate: Town dwellers, Women, Religious Classes, Caste and Slavery
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17.8 Lekhapaddhati as a source of History
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17.9 Sultanate Architecture and New Structural Forms
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17.1 Administration under Delhi Sultanate
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18. The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century – Political Developments and Economy:
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19. The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century – Society and Culture
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20. Akbar
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21. Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century
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22. Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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23. Culture in the Mughal Empire
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24. The Eighteenth Century
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PAPER-II: MODERN INDIA1. European Penetration into India
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2. British Expansion in India
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3. Early Structure of the British Raj
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4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule
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5. Social and Cultural Developments
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6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas
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7. Indian Response to British Rule
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8. Indian Nationalism - Part I
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9. Indian Nationalism - Part II
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10. Constitutional Developments in Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
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11. Other strands in the National Movement (Revolutionaries & the Left)
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12. Politics of Separatism
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13. Consolidation as a Nation
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14. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947
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15. Economic development and political change
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PAPER-II: WORLD HISTORY16. Enlightenment and Modern ideas
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17. Origins of Modern Politics
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18. Industrialization
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19. Nation-State System
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20. Imperialism and Colonialism
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21. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
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22. World Wars
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23. The World after World War II
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24. Liberation from Colonial Rule
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25. Decolonization and Underdevelopment
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26. Unification of Europe
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27. Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World
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