CHAPTER 1: Regional Political Transitions around 18th Century
🗒️Introduction
🗒️The Fall of the Mughals & Rise of Regional States
🗒️Successor States of the Mughal Empire
🗒️Rise of New Regional Powers
🗒️Independent Kingdoms in 18th Century India
🗒️Economic Condition of India in the 18th Century
🗒️Social and Cultural Life in 18th Century India
CHAPTER 2: European Expansion and Colonial Footprints in India (1498-1763)
🗒️Overview of European Expansion in India
🗒️Beginning of European Settlement in India
🗒️European Trade Routes and the Search for Sea Paths
🗒️Portuguese Rule in India
🗒️Rise and Decline of the Dutch in India
🗒️British Settlement in India
🗒️French Colonial Ambitions in India
🗒️The Anglo-French Struggle in South India (1744–1763)
CHAPTER 3: British Expansion and Consolidation in India (1757-1857)
🗒️British Expansion and Consolidation: An Overview
🗒️British Conquest of India – The Beginning of a New Power
🗒️British Conquest of Bengal (1757–1765)
🗒️British Intervention in the Mysore and Maratha Power Struggle
🗒️Consolidation of British Rule in Mysore
🗒️Consolidation of British Rule in the Maratha State
🗒️Why Indian States Failed Against the British
🗒️Expansion of British Rule in North India (1818–1857)
🗒️Final Wave of British Annexation (1848–1856)
🗒️Why the British Succeeded in India (1757–1857)
CHAPTER 4: British India’s Frontier Expansions
🗒️Expansion of British India in India’s Frontiers: An Overview
🗒️Relations with Nepal – The Rise of the Gorkhas
🗒️The Conquest of Burma – Expansion into Southeast Asia
🗒️British–Afghan Relations – The “Great Game”
🗒️Relations with Bhutan – From Hostility to Friendship
🗒️Relations with Sikkim – From Restoration to Integration
🗒️Relation of British India with Tibet
CHAPTER 5: British Administration pre-1857
🗒️Overview of British Administration pre-1857 era
🗒️The East India Company: From Traders to Rulers
🗒️Structure of British Administration
🗒️Administrative Organisation
🗒️Judicial Organisation
🗒️Role of Governor-Generals in British Consolidation & Expansion
🗒️Warren Hastings (1772–1785)
🗒️Lord Richard Wellesley (1798–1805)
🗒️Lord Hastings (1813–1823)
🗒️Lord William Bentinck (1828–1835)
🗒️Lord Dalhousie
CHAPTER 6: British Social Policy and Educational Reforms
🗒️The Story Behind British Social Policy and Educational Reforms
🗒️British Intellectual Currents in India
🗒️Colonial Ideologies in Pre-1857 India
🗒️British Approach to Indian Society
🗒️Humanitarian Measures by Britishers
🗒️Spread of English Education — The Beginning
🗒️Development of Education under Colonial Rule
🗒️Role of Missionaries in Modern Education
🗒️Education for Girls under British Rule
🗒️Different Views on Education in Modern India
🗒️Educational Institutions — Context and Significance
CHAPTER 7: Land Revenue and Economic Policies of British
🗒️Introduction: Land Revenue and Economic Policies of the British
🗒️Land Revenue Policy of the British
🗒️British Economic Policies
🗒️Impact of British Economic Policies
🗒️Colonialism
🗒️Development of Textile and Iron & Steel Industries
CHAPTER 8: Tribal and Peasant Movements
🗒️Introduction: The Story of Tribal and Peasant Resistance
🗒️Civil Rebellions
🗒️Tribal Uprisings
🗒️Anti-Colonial Tribal Movements: Case Studies
🗒️Peasant Movements
🗒️Peasants Movement before 1857
🗒️Peasant Movements post 1857
CHAPTER 9: The Revolt of 1857
🗒️The story of the Revolt of 1857
🗒️Major Causes of the Revolt
🗒️The Beginning and the Spread of the Revolt.
🗒️Reasons for the Failure of the Revolt of 1857
🗒️1857 Uprising: Nature, Impact & Legacy
CHAPTER 10: Socio-Religious Reforms
🗒️The Story of Socio-Religious Reform in 19th-Century India
🗒️Introduction
🗒️Reforms in Eastern India (Bengal)
🗒️Reforms in Western India
🗒️Reforms in North India
🗒️Reforms in South India
🗒️Reforms in Parsis and Muslims
🗒️Emancipation of Women Section
CHAPTER 11: British Administration post 1857
🗒️Introduction: British Administration after 1857
🗒️Administrative Changes After 1858
🗒️Administrative Organisation after 1858
🗒️Administrative Policies after 1857
CHAPTER 12: INC and Moderate Nationalism (1885-1905)
🗒️INC and Moderate Nationalism (1885-1905): An Overview
🗒️Birth of Indian Nationalism: The Larger Context
🗒️Predecessors of the Indian National Congress
🗒️Indian National Congress
🗒️Moderate Nationalism
🗒️Indian Councils Act of 1892
🗒️Economic Critique of British Nationalism
🗒️Moderate Leaders
CHAPTER 13: Nationalist Movement (1905-18)
🗒️Nationalist Movements between 1905 and 1918
🗒️Militant Nationalism
🗒️Partition of Bengal
🗒️Indian National Congress (1905-14)
🗒️Indian Councils Act of 1909
🗒️Rise of revolutionary nationalism
🗒️All India Muslim League (AIML)
🗒️The Growth of Communalism
🗒️Hindu Communalism
🗒️The Nationalists and the First World War
🗒️Great Personalities
CHAPTER 14: Rise of Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement
🗒️The Rise of Gandhi and the Dawn of Mass Nationalism (1915–1922)
🗒️Emergence of Gandhi
🗒️Arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in India (1915)
🗒️Gandhian Ideology
🗒️Rise of the National Movement (1919 onwards)
🗒️The Politics of Promise and Power: 1917–1920
🗒️Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements (1919–22)
CHAPTER 15: Nationalist Movement: 1922 to 1929
🗒️Prelude to Poorna Swaraj
🗒️Pro-changers and No-changers
🗒️Gandhi’s Return and the Challenge of Communalism (1924–27)
🗒️Rise of Socialist Ideas in 1920s
🗒️Revolutionary Nationalism in the 1920s
🗒️Unsung Heroes of Revolutionary Nationalism
🗒️Simon Commission
🗒️Nehru Report
🗒️Poorna Swaraj
CHAPTER 16: Civil Disobedience Movement: 1930 to 1934
🗒️The Story of Civil Disobedience Movement
🗒️Civil Disobedience Movement (1930–34)
🗒️The Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress, 1931
🗒️The Round Table Conferences (1930–1932)
🗒️The Communal Award of 1932 and the Gandhi–Ambedkar Debate
🗒️Rani Gaidinliu and the Heraka Movement
CHAPTER 17: Nationalist Movement: 1934 to 1939
🗒️National Movement (1934–1939)
🗒️Debates and Dilemmas After Civil Disobedience
🗒️Government of India Act of 1935.
🗒️Second Phase of the Debate (1936–37)
🗒️1937 Provincial Elections and the Formation of Congress Ministries
🗒️Congress Ministries at Work (1937-39)
🗒️Congress’s Global Outlook and the Growth of Communalism in the 1930s
🗒️Important Congress Session (1936-39)
🗒️Bose vs Nehru
CHAPTER 18: The Growth of Left in India
🗒️The Origin of “Left”, “Right”, and “Centre”
🗒️Emergence of Socialist thought within the INC
🗒️Growth of Leftist Movement in India
🗒️Formation of Congress Socialist Party
🗒️Second World War and the Left Response
CHAPTER 19: World War 2 and National Movement
🗒️The Story of India’s Final March towards Independence (1939-46)
🗒️The Second World War and India’s Political Dilemma (1939–1940)
🗒️Nationalist Movement in 1940.
🗒️From Gandhi’s Reservations to Individual Satyagraha (1940–41)
🗒️Quit India Movement
🗒️Efforts to Bridge the Congress–League Divide (1940–1945)
🗒️Indian National Army
🗒️Great Personalities during 1940s
🗒️Post-war Phase of Freedom Struggle.
🗒️Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference of 1945.
🗒️Indian National Army (INA) Trials
🗒️Royal Indian Navy Revolt (1946)
🗒️Elections of 1945-46
🗒️Cabinet Mission (March–May 1946)
CHAPTER 20: Partition and Independence
🗒️Partition and Independence: The final act
🗒️Direct Action Day
🗒️Interim Government
🗒️The Meerut Session and Attlee’s Announcement (1946–47)
🗒️Mountbatten Plan
🗒️Partition and the Indian Independence Act, 1947
🗒️Independence with Partition
🗒️Popular Struggle in the Princely States