Unit 1: Sources and Background

1. Modern Indian Sources
2. Pre-Conquest Political Conditions
3. Pre-Conquest Socioeconomic Conditions
4. Mughal Empire Decline
5. Rise of Regional States

Unit 2: European Companies

1. European Commercial Interests
2. Portuguese Arrival
3. Portuguese Settlements
4. Dutch East India Company
5. Dutch Settlements
6. English East India Company
7. English Company Factories
8. French East India Company
9. French Settlements
10. Danish Settlements
11. European Companies Comparison

Unit 3: Carnatic Wars

1. Anglo-French Rivalry
2. First Carnatic War
3. Second Carnatic War
4. Third Carnatic War
5. Treaty of Paris
6. French Decline
7. British Success Factors
8. French Failure Factors
9. Carnatic War Personalities
10. Carnatic War Treaties
11. Trade to Political Power

Unit 4: Bengal, Mysore and Marathas

1. British Imperial Expansion
2. Pre-Plassey Bengal
3. Siraj-ud-Daulah
4. Battle of Plassey
5. Shuja-ud-Daula
6. Treaty of Allahabad
7. Bengal Dual Government
8. Mysore Resistance
9. Hyder Ali
10. Tipu Sultan
11. Anglo-Mysore Wars
12. Maratha Confederacy
13. Nana Fadnavis
14. Mahadji Shinde
15. Yashwantrao Holkar
16. Anglo-Maratha Wars
17. Maratha Defeat Causes

Unit 5: Punjab and Frontier

1. Conquest of Sindh
2. Ranjit Singh
3. Treaty of Amritsar
4. First Anglo-Sikh War
5. Second Anglo-Sikh War
6. Conquest of Punjab
7. Tripartite Treaty
8. Anglo-Afghan Relations
9. First Afghan War
10. Northwest Frontier Policy
11. Masterly Inactivity
12. Proud Reserve Policy

Unit 6: Paramountcy and Neighbours

1. British Paramountcy
2. Ring Fence Policy
3. Subsidiary Alliance
4. Doctrine of Lapse
5. Annexation Policy
6. Princely States Policy
7. Anglo-Nepalese Relations
8. Anglo-Burmese Relations
9. Anglo-Bhutanese Relations
10. Anglo-Tibetan Relations
11. Frontier Expansion Impact

Unit 7: Early Civil Uprisings

1. Pre-1857 Civil Uprisings
2. Early Resistance Patterns
3. Sanyasi-Fakir Rebellion
4. Moamaria Revolt
5. Ahom Revolt
6. Midnapore-Dhalbhum Uprisings
7. Jungle Mahal Uprisings
8. Gorakhpur-Basti Uprisings
9. Vizianagaram Revolt
10. Ganjam-Gumsur Uprisings
11. Palamau Uprising
12. Poligar Revolts
13. Veeran Sundaralingam
14. Velu Thampi Revolt
15. Sangolli Rayanna
16. Paika Rebellion
17. Kolhapur-Savantvadi Revolts
18. Kutch-Bareilly Uprisings

Unit 8: Religious and Sepoy Resistance

1. Wahabi Movement
2. Faraizi Movement
3. Pagal Panthis
4. Narkelberia Uprising
5. Titu Mir Movement
6. Moplah Uprisings
7. Kuka Movement
8. Surat Salt Agitations
9. Pre-1857 Sepoy Mutinies
10. Vellore Mutiny
11. Barrackpore Mutiny

Unit 9: Revolt of 1857

1. Revolt Background
2. Revolt Causes
3. Revolt Outbreak
4. Revolt Spread
5. Revolt Centres
6. Revolt Leaders
7. Popular Participation
8. Revolt Suppression
9. Revolt Failure
10. Revolt Nature
11. Revolt Significance
12. Revolt Legacy

Unit 10: British Administration

1. Crown Rule Transfer
2. Crown Administration
3. Secretary of State
4. Viceroy and Council
5. Central Administration
6. Provincial Administration
7. District Administration
8. Indian Civil Service
9. Civil Service Act
10. Statutory Civil Service
11. Public Service Commission
12. Lee Commission
13. Colonial Police System
14. British Indian Army
15. Colonial Judiciary
16. Local Self-Government
17. British Indian Census
18. Racial Discrimination

Unit 11: Constitutional Developments

1. Company Constitutional Development
2. Crown Constitutional Development
3. Parliamentary Control
4. Legislative Councils
5. Indian Representation
6. Separate Electorates
7. Dyarchy and Autonomy
8. Federal Scheme
9. Constitutional Reforms Comparison
10. Constitutional Legacy

Unit 12: Revenue and Agrarian Economy

1. Permanent Settlement
2. Ryotwari Settlement
3. Mahalwari Settlement
4. Zamindari System
5. Taluqdari System
6. Revenue Farming
7. Village Communities
8. Agricultural Commercialisation
9. Rural Indebtedness
10. Agrarian Class Structure
11. Plantation Economy
12. Colonial Famine Policy
13. Famine Commissions

Unit 13: Colonial Economy

1. Colonial Economic Impact
2. Drain of Wealth
3. Home Charges
4. Council Bills
5. One-Way Free Trade
6. Deindustrialisation
7. Ruralisation of India
8. Peasant Impoverishment
9. Nationalist Economic Critique
10. Drain Theory Thinkers
11. R.C. Dutt
12. Colonial Tributary System

Unit 14: Industry and Transport

1. Indian Industrialisation
2. Handicraft Decline
3. Modern Indian Industries
4. Jute Industry
5. Cotton Textile Industry
6. Iron and Steel Industry
7. Indian Capitalists
8. Industrial Banking
9. Colonial Railways
10. Railway Guarantee System
11. Roads and Canals
12. Indian Telegraph System
13. Indian Postal System
14. Ports and Shipping
15. Hartog Committee
16. Internal Trade
17. Foreign Trade
18. Famine of 1876–78
19. Bengal Famine
20. Famine Codes

Unit 15: Education and Press

1. Orientalist-Anglicist Debate
2. Missionary Education
3. Macaulay’s Minute
4. Wood’s Despatch
5. Hunter Education Commission
6. Raleigh Commission
7. Hartog Committee
8. Crown-Era Education
9. Vernacular Education
10. Technical Education
11. Indian Press Development
12. Press Regulations
13. Public Opinion Growth

Unit 16: Socio-Religious Reform

1. Reform Movement Background
2. Reformist and Revivalist Streams
3. Women’s Social Reform
4. Caste Reform Movements
5. Abolition of Sati
6. Widow Remarriage Movement
7. Age of Consent Debate
8. Brahmo Samaj
9. Young Bengal Movement
10. Prarthana Samaj
11. Satyashodhak Samaj
12. Arya Samaj
13. Ramakrishna Mission
14. Aligarh Movement
15. Deoband Movement
16. Theosophical Movement
17. Sikh Reform Movements
18. Parsi Reform Movement
19. South Indian Reform

Unit 17: Nationalism and Moderates

1. Rise of Nationalism
2. Nationalism Growth Factors
3. Early Political Associations
4. Indian Association
5. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
6. Madras Mahajan Sabha
7. Bombay Presidency Association
8. Indian National Conference
9. Indian National Congress
10. Congress Foundation
11. Safety Valve Theory
12. Moderate Phase
13. Moderate Methods
14. Moderate Economic Critique
15. Moderate Constitutional Demands
16. Moderate Leadership
17. Moderate Limitations

Unit 18: Swadeshi and Extremism

1. Rise of Extremism
2. Extremist Leaders
3. Lal-Bal-Pal
4. Tilak’s Political Ideas
5. Bengal Partition
6. Anti-Partition Movement
7. Swadeshi Movement
8. Boycott Movement
9. National Education Movement
10. Bengal National College
11. Swadeshi Samitis
12. Women in Swadeshi
13. Students in Swadeshi
14. Workers in Swadeshi
15. Peasants in Swadeshi
16. Swadeshi Constructive Programme
17. Swadeshi Cultural Movement
18. Swadeshi Economic Programme
19. Surat Split
20. British Repression
21. Morley-Minto Reforms
22. Separate Electorates
23. Swadeshi Movement Evaluation

Unit 19: Early Revolutionaries

1. Revolutionary Movement Background
2. Bengal Revolutionaries
3. Anushilan Samiti
4. Jugantar Group
5. Alipore Conspiracy Case
6. Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case
7. Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy
8. Abhinav Bharat
9. Chapekar Brothers
10. Nasik Conspiracy Case
11. Punjab Revolutionaries
12. Overseas Revolutionary Activities
13. India House
14. Ghadar Movement
15. Komagata Maru Incident
16. Singapore Mutiny
17. Berlin Committee
18. Hindu-German Conspiracy
19. Christmas Day Plot
20. Kabul Provisional Government
21. World War Revolutionaries
22. Revolutionary Movement Decline

Unit 20: World War and Gandhi

1. First World War
2. India in World War
3. Indian War Economy
4. Home Rule Movement
5. Home Rule Leagues
6. Tilak Home Rule League
7. Besant Home Rule League
8. Lucknow Pact
9. August Declaration
10. Gandhi in South Africa
11. Satyagraha
12. Gandhi’s Return
13. Champaran Satyagraha
14. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
15. Kheda Satyagraha
16. Rowlatt Committee
17. Rowlatt Bills
18. Rowlatt Satyagraha
19. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
20. Hunter Committee

Unit 21: Non-Cooperation and Swarajists

1. Khilafat Movement
2. Khilafat Leaders
3. Ali Brothers
4. Non-Cooperation Movement
5. Non-Cooperation Programme
6. Students and Lawyers
7. Peasants and Workers
8. Prince of Wales Riots
9. Chauri Chaura Incident
10. Non-Cooperation Withdrawal
11. Flag Satyagraha
12. Swaraj Party
13. Council Entry Debate
14. Swarajist Manifesto
15. Swarajist Achievements
16. No-Changers Programme
17. Constructive Work
18. Mass Politics Transition

Unit 22: Socialist and Caste Politics

1. Socialist Ideas
2. Marxist Influence
3. Communist Party Formation
4. Youth Movements
5. Student Politics
6. Trade Unionism
7. Caste Movements
8. Justice Party
9. Self-Respect Movement
10. Revolutionary Socialism
11. Kakori Conspiracy
12. Hindustan Republican Association
13. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
14. Saunders Murder Case
15. Assembly Bomb Case
16. Lahore Conspiracy Case
17. Jatin Das Fast
18. Chittagong Armoury Raid
19. Revolutionary Ideological Shift

Unit 23: Simon to Civil Disobedience

1. Simon Commission
2. Simon Commission Boycott
3. Simon Protests
4. Nehru Report
5. Jinnah’s Fourteen Points
6. Lahore Congress
7. Purna Swaraj Resolution
8. Civil Disobedience Movement
9. Dandi March
10. Dharasana Satyagraha
11. Vedaranyam March
12. Khudai Khidmatgar
13. Qissa Khwani Massacre
14. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
15. Karachi Congress
16. Round Table Conferences
17. Communal Award
18. Poona Pact
19. Gandhi-Ambedkar Debate
20. Civil Disobedience Evaluation

Unit 24: Congress Ministries and Bose

1. Civil Disobedience Aftermath
2. Council Entry Debate
3. Government Act Politics
4. Provincial Elections
5. Congress Election Manifesto
6. Congress Ministries
7. Ministry Reforms
8. Civil Liberties Policy
9. Agrarian Labour Measures
10. Muslim League Response
11. Haripura Congress
12. Tripuri Congress
13. Congress-Bose Crisis
14. Forward Bloc

Unit 25: War, Quit India and INA

1. Second World War
2. Congress Ministries Resignation
3. August Offer
4. Individual Satyagraha
5. Cripps Mission
6. Quit India Movement
7. Quit India Resolution
8. Gandhi’s Quit India Instructions
9. Quit India Spread
10. Congress Radio
11. Underground Activities
12. Parallel Governments
13. Wartime Scarcity
14. Indian Independence League
15. Indian National Army
16. Azad Hind Government
17. Indian Legion
18. INA Leadership
19. INA Trials
20. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
21. Royal Air Force Strikes
22. Postwar Upsurge

Unit 26: Communalism and Partition

1. Indian Communalism
2. Communalism Growth
3. All-India Muslim League
4. Muslim League Politics
5. Two-Nation Theory
6. Pakistan Demand
7. Khaksar Movement
8. Rajagopalachari Formula
9. Desai-Liaqat Pact
10. Wavell Plan
11. Simla Conference
12. Elections of 1945–46
13. Cabinet Mission Plan
14. Grouping Clause Debate
15. Direct Action Day
16. Noakhali Riots
17. Attlee Declaration
18. Mountbatten Plan
19. Transfer of Power
20. Partition of India
21. Radcliffe Boundary Commission
22. Partition Refugee Crisis

Unit 27: Peasant Movements

1. Colonial Peasantry
2. Indigo Revolt
3. Pabna Agrarian Leagues
4. Deccan Riots
5. Punjab Agrarian Unrest
6. Champaran Peasant Movement
7. Kheda Peasant Movement
8. Awadh Kisan Sabha
9. Eka Movement
10. Coolie-Begar Movement
11. Mappila Rebellion
12. Bardoli Satyagraha
13. All India Kisan Sabha
14. Bihar Kisan Movement
15. Sahajanand Saraswati
16. Tebhaga Movement
17. Telangana Peasant Struggle
18. Peasant Movements Comparison

Unit 28: Tribal Movements

1. Tribal Revolts
2. Chuar Uprising
3. Kol Rebellion
4. Santhal Hul
5. Ho-Munda Uprisings
6. Bhil Revolts
7. Koli Revolts
8. Ramosi Revolt
9. Khond Revolts
10. Koya Rebellions
11. Birsa Munda Movement
12. Tana Bhagat Movement
13. Rampa Rebellion
14. Alluri Sitarama Raju
15. Northeast Tribal Revolts
16. Hur Movement
17. Tribal Movements Comparison

Unit 29: Labour and Left Movements

1. Early Labour Movement
2. Factory Labour Conditions
3. Bombay Mill Workers
4. Swadeshi Labour Upsurge
5. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
6. Madras Labour Union
7. AITUC Formation
8. Meerut Conspiracy Case
9. Workers and Civil Disobedience
10. Wartime Labour
11. Communist Movement
12. Congress Socialist Party
13. Achyut Patwardhan
14. Basawon Singh
15. Left Movement Legacy
16. Trade Union Act

Unit 30: Governors-General and Viceroys

1. Robert Clive
2. Warren Hastings
3. Lord Cornwallis
4. Sir John Shore
5. Lord Wellesley
6. Lord Minto I
7. Lord Hastings
8. Lord Amherst
9. Lord William Bentinck
10. Lord Auckland
11. Lord Ellenborough
12. Lord Hardinge I
13. Lord Dalhousie
14. Lord Canning
15. Lord Elgin I
16. Lord Lawrence
17. Lord Mayo
18. Lord Northbrook
19. Lord Lytton
20. Lord Ripon
21. Lord Dufferin
22. Lord Lansdowne
23. Lord Elgin II
24. Lord Curzon
25. Lord Minto II
26. Lord Hardinge II
27. Lord Chelmsford
28. Lord Reading
29. Lord Irwin
30. Lord Willingdon

Unit 31: British-Era Acts

1. Regulating Act 1773
2. Pitt’s India Act
3. Charter Act 1793
4. Charter Act 1813
5. Charter Act 1833
6. Charter Act 1853
7. Government of India Act 1858
8. Indian Councils Act 1861
9. Indian Councils Act 1892
10. Indian Councils Act 1909
11. Government of India Act 1919
12. Government of India Act 1935
13. Vernacular Press Act
14. Arms Act 1878
15. Ilbert Bill
16. Factory Act 1881
17. Factory Act 1891
18. Age of Consent Act
19. Indian Universities Act
20. Official Secrets Act
21. Indian Press Act
22. Rowlatt Act
23. Trade Union Act 1926
24. Criminal Tribes Act
25. Sati Regulation Act
26. Widow Remarriage Act
27. Sharda Act 1929
28. Indian Independence Act

Unit 32: Congress Sessions

1. Bombay Congress 1885
2. Calcutta Congress 1906
3. Surat Congress 1907
4. Lucknow Congress 1916
5. Calcutta Congress 1920
6. Nagpur Congress 1920
7. Gaya Congress 1922
8. Belgaum Congress 1924
9. Madras Congress 1927
10. Lahore Congress 1929
11. Karachi Congress 1931
12. Faizpur Congress 1936
13. Haripura Congress 1938
14. Tripuri Congress 1939
15. Meerut Congress 1946

Unit 33: Newspapers and Publications

1. Bengal Gazette
2. Samvad Kaumudi
3. Mirat-ul-Akbar
4. Tattvabodhini Patrika
5. Hindu Patriot
6. Amrita Bazar Patrika
7. Kesari and Mahratta
8. The Hindu
9. Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh
10. Young India
11. Navajivan and Harijan
12. Bande Mataram
13. Yugantar and Sandhya
14. Ghadar Newspaper
15. Indian Sociologist
16. Commonweal and New India
17. Indian Opinion
18. Free Hindustan

Unit 34: Organisations and Pacts

1. Atmiya Sabha
2. Servants of India Society
3. Hindu Mahasabha
4. Ghadar Party
5. AITUC
6. Butler Committee
7. Cabinet Mission
8. Boundary Commission
9. Treaty of Salbai
10. Treaty of Bassein

Unit 35: Independent India

1. Indian Independence Day
2. Partition Rehabilitation
3. Liaquat-Nehru Pact
4. Gandhi Assassination
5. Political Integration
6. Princely States Integration
7. Junagadh Integration
8. Hyderabad Integration
9. Kashmir Accession
10. Instrument of Accession
11. Republic of India
12. National Language Debate
13. First General Elections
14. Linguistic Reorganisation
15. French India Integration
16. Yanaon Coup
17. Goa Annexation
18. Nehruvian Foreign Policy
19. Panchsheel and Non-Alignment

Unit 36: Princely States Movements

1. Praja Mandal Movement
2. States People’s Movement
3. State Political Mobilisation
4. Chamber of Princes
5. Aundh Experiment
6. Travancore State Congress
7. Mysore People’s Movement
8. Hyderabad State Congress
9. Kashmir National Conference
10. Rajkot Satyagraha
11. Orissa States Movement
12. Princely States Legacy

Unit 37: Social Reformers

1. Raja Rammohan Roy
2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
3. Dayananda Saraswati
4. Swami Vivekananda
5. Jyotirao Phule
6. Savitribai Phule
7. Pandita Ramabai
8. Dhondo Keshav Karve
9. Mahadev Govind Ranade
10. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
11. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
12. Kandukuri Veeresalingam
13. Narayana Guru
14. Ayyankali
15. Ayya Vaikundar
16. Periyar
17. Rettamalai Srinivasan
18. Vitthal Ramji Shinde
19. B.R. Ambedkar
20. Shahu Maharaj
21. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
22. Vakkom Moulavi
23. Sister Nivedita
24. Muthulakshmi Reddy
25. Vaidyanatha Iyer
26. G. Subramania Iyer
27. Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty
28. Baba Amte
29. Vinoba Bhave

Unit 38: Nationalist Leaders

1. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Lala Lajpat Rai
5. Annie Besant
6. Mahatma Gandhi
7. Abul Kalam Azad
8. Jawaharlal Nehru
9. Vallabhbhai Patel
10. C. Rajagopalachari
11. Rajendra Prasad
12. Sarojini Naidu
13. Chittaranjan Das
14. J.B. Kripalani
15. Purushottam Das Tandon
16. Govind Ballabh Pant
17. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
18. Bidhan Chandra Roy
19. K. Kamaraj
20. V.K. Krishna Menon
21. R. Venkataraman
22. Syama Prasad Mukherjee
23. A.K. Fazlul Huq
24. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
25. Hakim Ajmal Khan
26. Mohammad Ali Jauhar
27. K.M. Munshi
28. Jatindra Mohan Sengupta
29. Dukkipati Nageswara Rao
30. P. Kakkan
31. M. Bhaktavatsalam
32. Shri Krishna Singh

Unit 39: Revolutionary Leaders

1. Sri Aurobindo
2. Niralamba Swami
3. Khudiram Bose
4. Prafulla Chaki
5. Bagha Jatin
6. Rash Behari Bose
7. Bhagat Singh
8. Ram Prasad Bismil
9. Ashfaqulla Khan
10. Jatindra Nath Das
11. Surya Sen
12. Pritilata Waddedar
13. Vanchinathan
14. V.O. Chidambaram
15. Subramania Bharati
16. Subramaniya Siva
17. Hemu Kalani
18. Tarak Nath Das
19. Har Dayal
20. Ubaidullah Sindhi
21. Muhammad Mansoor Ansari
22. Shyamji Krishna Varma
23. Bhikaiji Cama
24. Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
25. M.N. Roy
26. Bhupendra Kumar Datta
27. Bhavabhushan Mitra
28. Yogendra Shukla
29. Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
30. Nagnath Naikwadi
31. Satyapal Dang
32. Subhas Chandra Bose

Unit 40: Regional Activists

1. Accamma Cherian
2. Annapurna Maharana
3. Aruna Asaf Ali
4. Mithuben Petit
5. Tara Rani Srivastava
6. Tiruppur Kumaran
7. Bharathidasan
8. Rahul Sankrityayan
9. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
10. Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
11. Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi
12. Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai
13. Chetram Jatav

Unit 41: British Officials and Missions

1. Stafford Cripps
2. James Outram
3. Clement Attlee
4. Pethick-Lawrence
5. A.V. Alexander
6. Cyril Radcliffe
7. Edwin Montagu
8. John Morley
9. India Office
10. British War Cabinet
11. Viceroy’s Executive Council
12. Cabinet Mission Members
13. Constitutional Missions