🏺 CUET History (Section II)

Chapters

1. Bricks, Beads and Bones — the Harappan Civilisation
   The Harappan civilisation left no text anyone can read, so everything known about it comes from what was dug out of the ground: the layout of its cities, its seals and…
2. Kings, Farmers and Towns — Early States and Economies (c. 600 BCE – 600 CE)
   More than a millennium separates the end of the Harappan cities from the period this chapter covers, and the evidence changes character: alongside archaeology there are…
3. Kinship, Caste and Class — Early Societies and the Mahabharata
   How were families organised in early India, who could marry whom, who could inherit, and how rigid was the order of varna? Historians answer these questions mainly from…
4. Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings — Cultural Developments (c. 600 BCE – 600 CE)
   The middle of the first millennium BCE was a time of remarkable intellectual ferment across the world, and in the subcontinent it produced the teachings of Mahavira and…
5. Through the Eyes of Travellers — Al-Biruni, Ibn Battuta and Bernier
   Travellers noticed what local people took for granted, and so they wrote about things no chronicle bothered to record — how a postal system worked, what betel leaves…
6. Bhakti–Sufi Traditions — Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts
   From about the eighth century, poet-saints across the subcontinent expressed devotion to God in the languages people actually spoke rather than in Sanskrit, and many of…
7. An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara (c. Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century)
   Vijayanagara, the "city of victory", was the capital of an empire that for more than two centuries dominated the peninsula south of the Krishna. Its ruins at Hampi, on…
8. Peasants, Zamindars and the State — Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire
   In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries about 85 per cent of the people of India lived in villages, and the Mughal state drew most of its revenue from what they grew.…
9. Colonialism and the Countryside — Exploring Official Archives
   Colonial rule was first established in Bengal, and it was in the Bengal countryside that the East India Company first tried to reorder rural society to secure its…
10. Rebels and the Raj — the Revolt of 1857 and Its Representations
    From May 1857 the sepoys of the Bengal army rose against their British officers, and within weeks the rising had spread from the cantonments to the countryside and the…
11. Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement — Civil Disobedience and Beyond
    Between his return from South Africa in 1915 and his death in 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi transformed Indian nationalism from a movement of professionals and…
12. Framing the Constitution — the Beginning of a New Era (1946–1950)
    The Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950, after nearly three years of debate in the Constituent Assembly — debate held against the background of…

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