📜 UPSC History

Chapters

1. Ancient Bihar: Magadha to the Guptas
   For more than a thousand years, the land that is now Bihar was the political and intellectual centre of India. The first great empires, the first universities, and two…
2. Bihar in the Freedom Struggle
   Bihar was not a bystander in India's freedom struggle — it was often the centre of it. From an 80-year-old king who fought the British in 1857, to Gandhi's very first…
3. Modern India: The Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
   Ninety years, one goal: freedom. This chapter is a map of the whole national movement — from the first great revolt in 1857 to Independence in 1947. Do not try to…
4. Medieval Bihar: Sher Shah Suri to the Battle of Buxar
   The medieval age gave Bihar two moments that shaped all of India. First, a boy from Sasaram rose to defeat a Mughal emperor and rule Delhi — Sher Shah Suri, whose Grand…
5. Bihar after Independence
   When India became free in 1947, Bihar had to build a modern state almost from scratch — its schools, dams, factories and politics. This chapter follows that journey: the…
6. Indus Valley Civilisation & the Vedic Age
   Indian history opens with two very different worlds. The first is a world of cities — the Harappans, who built brick streets, covered drains and public baths while most…
7. Delhi Sultanate & the Mughal Empire
   Medieval India is really one long story told in two halves. In the first half, five Turkish and Afghan dynasties rule from Delhi for 320 years (1206–1526) — each one…
8. Bhakti & Sufi Movements and Indian Art & Culture
   Medieval India had temples and mosques, priests and maulvis, Sanskrit and Persian — and in between them stood a crowd of ordinary people who could read neither. Out of…
9. Peasant, Tribal & Religious Reform Movements
   Long before Gandhi arrived in Champaran, the villages and forests of Bihar were already fighting. Santhals, Mundas, Kols and Bhumij rose against land-grabbers and…
10. Mauryan & Pala Art, Patna Qalam and Modern Indian Thought
    a descriptive General Studies paper names three art traditions by name — Mauryan art, Pala art and the Patna Qalam school of painting — and adds the thought of Gandhi,…

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