UGC NET History — Paper 2, subject code 06

All ten units are written, in 25 chapters: three each for Units III, IV, VIII and IX (this syllabus’s densest units — early medieval regional kingdoms and their polity/society; the Sultanate, the Mughals and Vijayanagara/Bahmanis/Marathas as four distinct polities; the colonial economy, infrastructure and social reform; and nationalism through post-independence) and for Unit X (whose own scope/research/historiography structure took three), and two for every other unit. Units I to IX carry no titles at all in the official document — the same shape Management’s untitled units took — so the registry, the outline and the mock section names all describe each unit by what it covers rather than quote a heading that does not exist; only Unit X is titled, and is quoted directly. This platform already teaches substantial Ancient/Medieval/Modern Indian History for UPSC and BPSC, and that overlap was real risk going in — every chapter here was nonetheless checked against and written from THIS NET document’s own sub-item list and emphasis, not adapted from those other courses: this syllabus’s specific debates (Feudal vs Segmentary vs Integrative state formation), side-by-side administrative comparisons (Sultanate vs Mughal vs Vijayanagara vs Maratha), and historiography theorists (Von Ranke, Spengler, Toynbee) that a generic Indian-history course simply does not cover are what the finished chapters are built around, and the preamble’s ninety-odd ‘Concepts, Ideas and Terms’ (Sulah-i-kul, Doctrine of Lapse, Panchsheel and the rest) are distributed into the unit each actually covers rather than bolted on as a glossary.

Paper 2 pattern

100 questions
200 marks
120 minutes
None negative marking

Syllabus, unit by unit

Every chapter below is free to read, in English and Hindi.

Unit 1 — Sources, Pastoralism and the Indus/Harappa Civilization

Unit 2 — From State to Empire: the Mauryas to the Gupta Age

Unit 3 — Regional Kingdoms, Polity and Society of Early Medieval India

Unit 4 — The Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals, Vijayanagara and the Marathas

Unit 5 — Medieval Administration and Economy

Unit 6 — Medieval Society and Culture

Unit 7 — European Powers, British Expansion and the Revolt of 1857

Unit 8 — Colonial Economy, Society and the Indian Renaissance

Unit 9 — The National Movement and Post-Independence India

Unit 10 — Historical Method, Research, Methodology and Historiography

Frequently asked questions

Is this UGC NET History course free?

Yes. All 25 chapters are free to read in English and Hindi. A free account adds the practice questions with scoring, the Paper-2 mock test, spaced revision and the AI mentor.

Does it cover the whole History syllabus?

All 10 units of the NTA syllabus (subject code 06) are written, in 25 chapters, from the official document unit by unit.

What is the UGC NET Paper 2 exam pattern for History?

100 questions for 200 marks, with no negative marking. Paper 1 and Paper 2 are taken in one sitting of three hours; the mock test here rehearses Paper 2 in 120 minutes.

Official sources

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