UNIT - I 

1. Survey of the Sources of Indian History 2. Harappan Civilization 3. Society and Culture as Reflected in Vedic Literature 4. Social Development in Vedic Age 5. Political Condition in Sixth Century B.C. 6. Rise of Monarchical States-Rise and Expansion of Magadh Empire 7. Foreign Invasion 8. The Mauryan Empire 9. Ashoka’s Dhamma : Nature and Propogation 10. Mauryan State–Administration and Economy 11. Mauryan Art and Architecture 12. Post Mauryan Period : Sungas, Satvahanas, Seythians, The Kushanas 13. Post Mauryan Period : Society, Culture and Art 14. Important Powers in the South India : Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas 15. The Gupta Empire and its Contemporaries 16. The Gupta Administration and Downfall of the Gupta Empire 17. North India : Society, Literature and Art in Gupta and Post-Gupta Period 18. Post-Gupta Period upto 750 A.D. : Pallavas, Chalukyas and Vardhanas 19. North India (750-1200) Gurjar-Pratiharas, Palas and Senas 20. Deccan : Rashtrakutas and their Contemporaries 21. Condition of Women in Gupta and Post-Gupta Period 22. Varna, Caste, Slavery, Forced Labour in Gupta and Post-Gupta Periods 23. India’s Relations with South Asia and Srilanka 24. Temples, Bhakti Movement, Art and Architecture in South India, 320-1200 25. Invasion of Arabs, Gazanavis and Ghori and their Impact.

UNIT - II 

1. Stuarts Era : Charles I, Conflict between Charles and Parliaments, Long Parliament and Civil War 2. Commonwealth and Protectorates : Cromwel 3. Restoration and Charles II 4. James II : Glorious Revolution of 1688-Causes, Nature and Significance 5. Growth of the Constitutional Monarchy, 1688-1714 6. The Expansion of Britain 7. George III 8. Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution 9. Parliament Reforms : Chartist Movement, The Reforms Acts of 1867 and 1884 10. The Victorian Era with Special Reference to the Peel, Palmerstone, Disraeli and Gladstone 11. First World War and England 12. Socialist and Labour Movements 13. Constitutional Development : Monarchy, Parliament, Party System and Cabinet 14. Ireland and Scottland 15. Policy of Appeasement and Drift towards the Second World War.