History

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : History
India
1. The Himalayan Mountains - Answer (click here)
2. The Indo-Gangetic Plain - Answer (click here)
3. The Southern Peninsula - Answer (click here)
4. India - A Land of Unity in Diversity - Answer (click here)
5. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age - Answer (click here)
6. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age - Answer (click here)
7. Neolithic Age - Answer (click here)
8. Metal Age - Answer (click here)
9. The Harappan Civilization - Answer (click here)
10. Salient Features of the Harappan Culture - Answer (click here)
11. The vedic culture - Answer (click here)
12. Rig Vedic Age or Early Vedic Period (1500 - 1000 B.C.) - Answer (click
here)
13. Later Vedic Period (1000 - 600 B.C.) - Answer (click here)
14. Causes for the Rise of Jainism and Buddhism - Answer (click here)
15. Life and Teachings of Vardhamana Mahavira (539- 467 B.C.) and
Spread of Jainism - Answer (click here)
16. Life and Teachings of Gautama Buddha And Spread of Buddhism -
Answer (click here)
17. The rise of magadha and alexander's invasion - Answer (click here)
18. Persian and greek invasions - Answer (click here)
19. Alexander's Invasion of India - Answer (click here)
20. The mauryan empire - Answer (click here)
21. Political history of the mauryas chandragupta Maurya - Answer (click here)
22. Extent of Asoka's Empire - Answer (click here)
23. Mauryan Administration - Answer (click here)
24. Post-mauryan india - Answer (click here)
25. Foreign Invasions of Northwest India - Answer (click here)
26. History : Kanishka (78 - 120 A.D.) - Answer (click here)
27. Sangam age and Sangam Literature - Answer (click here)
28. Sangam age Political History - Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas - Answer (click
here)
29. Sangam age - Society, Religion, Position of Women, Fine Arts - Answer
(click here)
30. Economy of the Sangam Age - Answer (click here)
31. History : Gupta empire - Chandragupta I, II ,Samudragupta - Answer (click
here)
32. History : Samudragupta and Extant of Samudragupta's Empire - Answer
(click here)
33. History : Chandragupta II - Estimate, Successors, Western India
Conquest - Answer (click here)
34. Gupta Administration and Social Life - Answer (click here)
35. Gupta Empire - Art, Culture,Architecture, Literature, Science - Answer
(click here)
36. History : Harshavardhana - Early Life of Harsha - Answer (click here)
37. Harshavardhana - Harsha's Military Conquests - Answer (click here)
38. Harshavardhana - Kanauj Assembly, Allahabad Conference - Answer
(click here)
39. Harsha's Administration, Society and Economy - Answer (click here)
40. Harshavardhana - Nalanda University - Answer (click here)
41. South Indian Kingdoms - I : PallavasOrgin and History - Answer (click
here)
42. Pallavas - Mahendravarman I - Answer (click here)
43. Pallavas - Narasimhavarman I (630-668 A.D.) - Answer (click here)
44. Pallavas - Narasimhavarman II or Rajasimha - Answer (click here)
45. Administration and Society under the Pallavas - Answer (click here)
46. Pallava - Education, Literature, Pallava Art and Architecture - Answer
(click here)
47. South Indian Kingdoms : Chalukyas, Pulakesin II - Answer (click here)
48. Art, Architecture, Administration, Social Life under the Chalukyas -
Answer (click here)
49. Rashtrakutas - South Indian Kingdom - Answer (click here)
50. Rashtrakutas - Administration, Society, Cultural, Economy, Art and
Architecture - Answer (click here)
51. Imperial cholas - Rajaraja I, Rajendra I - Answer (click here)
52. Chola Administration - Government, Revenue, Provincial, Military -
Answer (click here)
53. Chola Kingdom : Socio-economic Life - Answer (click here)
54. Chola Kingdom : Education, Literature, Art and Architecture - Answer
(click here)
55. The spread of indian culture in other asian countries - Answer (click here)
56. Indian Culture in South East Asia - Answer (click here)
57. Indian culture in Central Asia - Answer (click here)
58. Early medieval india - Answer (click here)
59. Rajput Kingdoms - Answer (click here)
60. Arab Conquest of Sind (712 A.D.) - Answer (click here)
61. Mahmud of Ghazni and his Invasions - Answer (click here)
62. Muhammad Ghori and The Battle of Tarain - Answer (click here)
63. Delhi sultanate - Qutbuddin Aibak - Answer (click here)
64. Delhi sultanate - Slave Dynasty - Answer (click here)
65. Delhi sultanate - Ilbari dynasty by Iltutmish - Answer (click here)
66. Delhi sultanate - First Ilbari dynasty : Iltutmish, Raziya, Balban - Answer
(click here)
67. Delhi sultanate - Second Ilbari dynasty : Balban, Khalji, Alauddin Khalji
- Answer (click here)
68. Era of Balban (1246-1287) - Answer (click here)
69. Delhi sultanate - The Khalji Dynasty - Answer (click here)
70. Delhi sultanate - The Tughlaq Dynasty - Answer (click here)
71. Delhi sultanate - Firoz Tughlaq - Answer (click here)
72. Delhi sultanate - Muhammad bin Tughlaq - Answer (click here)
73. Delhi sultanate - Sayyids and Lodis - Answer (click here)
74. India under the delhi sultanate - Answer (click here)
75. Delhi sultanate - Administration and Government - Answer (click here)
76. Delhi sultanate - Social Life - Answer (click here)
77. Delhi sultanate - Art, Architecture, Literature and Music - Answer (click
here)
78. Bhakti movement in medieval india - Answer (click here)
79. Bhakti Movement - Answer (click here)
80. Bhakti Movement - Ramananda, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Chaitanya,
Gnanadeva, Namadeva, Ekanatha - Answer (click here)
81. Vijayanagar and bahmani kingdoms - Sources, Political History - Answer
(click here)
82. Krishna Deva Raya - Answer (click here)
83. Krishna Deva Raya - Administration and Social Life - Answer (click here)
84. Krishna Deva Raya - Economic Condition, Cultural Contributions -
Answer (click here)
85. Bahmani Kingdom and Mahmud Gawan - Answer (click here)
86. The mughal empire : Babur - Answer (click here)
87. The mughal empire : Humayun - Answer (click here)
88. The mughal empire : Sher Shah Sur - Answer (click here)
89. The mughal empire : Humayun and Sur Interregnum - Answer (click here)
90. The mughal empire : Akbar - Administration, Mansabdari System -
 Answer (click here)
91. The mughal empire : Jahangir and Nur Jahan - Answer (click here)
92. The mughal empire : Shah Jahan - Answer (click here)
93. The mughal empire : Aurangazeb - Deccan and Religious Policy - Answer
(click here)
94. Causes for the Downfall of the Mughals - Answer (click here)
95. India under the mughals - Answer (click here)
96. The mughal empire : Art and Architecture - Answer (click here)
97. The mughal empire : Paintings and Music - Answer (click here)
98. The mughal empire : Rural Masses, Agriculture, Growth of Trade -
Answer (click here)
99. The Marathas - The Rise of the Marathas - Answer (click here)
100. The Marathas - Shivaji : His Life, Conquests and Administration -
Answer (click here)
101. The Peshwas - Balaji Viswanath, Balaji Baji Rao, Baji Rao I - Answer
(click here)
102. The coming of Europeans to India - Answer (click here)

India Under the English East India Company: Warren Hastings

(1772 1785)
1. India Under The English East India Company: Warren Hastings - Answer
(click here)
2. The English East India Company - Answer (click here)
3. The Regulating Act of 1773 and Merits and Demerits of the Act - Answer
(click here)
4. First Anglo-Maratha War - Answer (click here)
5. The Second Anglo-Mysore War - Answer (click here)
6. The Impeachment and Estimate of Warren Hastings - Answer (click here)

Lord Cornwallis (1786 1793)

1. Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793) - Answer (click here)
2. Tipu Sultan and the Third Mysore War - Answer (click here)
3. Cornwallis : Administrative, Revenue, Judicial Reforms - Answer (click
here)

The Marquess of Wellesley (1798 1805)

1. The Marquess Of Wellesley (1798-1805) - Answer (click here)
2. The Marquess Of Wellesley : The Subsidiary System - Answer (click here)
3. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799) - Answer (click here)
4. Wellesley and the Marathas - Answer (click here)
 5. The Second Maratha War (1803-1805) - Answer (click here)

Lord Hastings (1813 1823)

1. Lord Hastings (1813-1823) - Answer (click here)
2. War against the Gurkhas (1814-16) - Answer (click here)
3. Suppression of the Pindaris - Answer (click here)
4. Downfall of the Maratha Confederacy - Answer (click here)
5. Third Maratha War (1817-1819) - Answer (click here)

Lord William Bentinck (1828 1835)

1. Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) - Answer (click here)
2. Charter Act of 1833 - Answer (click here)
3. Reforms of Lord William Bentinck - Answer (click here)

Lord Dalhousie (1848 1856)

1. Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856) - Answer (click here)
2. Lord Dalhousie : Policy of Annexation - Answer (click here)
3. Domestic Reforms of Dalhousie - Answer (click here)

Revenue Administration and Economic Policy of the British

1. Revenue Administration And Economic Policy Of The British - Answer
(click here)
2. British Agrarian Policy - Answer (click here)
3. Zamindari, Ryotwari, Mahalwari Settlement - Answer (click here)
4. British Policy towards Indian Handicrafts - Answer (click here)

Educational and Social Reforms

1. Educational And Social Reforms of British in India - Answer (click here)
2. Language and Education Policy of British in India - Answer (click here)
3. Struggle against the Caste System and the related Legislation in India -
Answer (click here)

Palayakkarar Rebellion
1. Palayakkarar Rebellion - Answer (click here)
2. Puli Thevar - Answer (click here)
3. History : Vira Pandya Kattabomman - Answer (click here)
4. History : Marudu Brothers - Answer (click here)
Vellore Mutiny
1. Vellore Mutiny - Answer (click here)

The Great Revolt of 1857

1. The Great Revolt Of 1857 - Answer (click here)
2. Causes of the Great Revolt Of 1857 - Answer (click here)
3. Causes for the Failure of the 1857 Revolt and Significance, Effects of
the Mutiny - Answer (click here)

British India After 1858: Lord Lytton (1876 1880)

1. History : Lord Lytton (1876-1880) - Answer (click here)

Lord Ripon (1880 1884) And Lord Curzon (1899 1905)

1. History : Lord Ripon (1880-84) - Answer (click here)
2. History : Lord Curzon (1899-1905) - Answer (click here)

Socio Religious Reform Movements

1. Raja Rammohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj - Answer (click here)
2. Swami Dayanand Saraswathi and the Arya Samaj - Answer (click here)
3. Self-Respect Movement and Periyar E.V.R. - Answer (click here)
4. Indian Socio-Religious Reform Movements - Answer (click here)

Indian National Movement (1885 1905)

1. Indian National Movement (1885-1905) - Answer (click here)
2. Factors Promoting the Growth of Nationalism in India - Answer (click here)
3. The Indian National Congress (1885) - Answer (click here)

Indian National Movement (1905 1916)

1. Indian National Movement (1905-1916) - Answer (click here)
2. Partition of Bengal and the Rise of Extremism - Swadeshi Movement -
Answer (click here)

The Indian National Movement (1917 1947)

1. The Indian National Movement (1917-1947) : Advent of Gandhi - Answer
(click here)
 2. Rowlatt Act, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Khilafat Movement - Answer
(click here)
3. Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-1922) - Answer (click here)
4. Simon Commission (1927) - Answer (click here)
5. Quit India Movement (1942-1944) - Answer (click here)

Role of Tamil Nadu in the Indian National Movement

1. Role Of Tamil Nadu In The Indian National Movement - Answer (click
here)
2. Non-co-operation Movement in TamilNadu, India - Answer (click here)

The Justice Party Rule

1. The Justice Party rule in the Madras Presidency constitutes - Answer (click
here)

Constitutional Development (1858 1947)

1. Indian Constitutional Development (1858 - 1947) - Answer (click here)
2. Indian Councils Act of 1861 and 1892 - Answer (click here)
3. Minto- Morley Reforms of 1909 - Answer (click here)
4. The Government of India Act of 1935 - Answer (click here)
5. Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 - Answer (click here)

India After Independence

1. India After Independence - Answer (click here)
2. Indian Polity (1947 - 2000) - Answer (click here)

Renaissance
1. Renaissance - Answer (click here)
2. Renaissance Literature, Art, Sculpture - Answer (click here)

Geographical Discoveries
1. The Geographical Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries - Answer
(click here)
2. Impact of the Geographical Discoveries - Answer (click here)
3. Geographical Discoveries : Portugal and Spain - Answer (click here)

The Reformation and Counter Reformation

 1. Causes for the Reformation - Answer (click here)
2. Martin Luther (1483-1546) - Answer (click here)
3. Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) and John Calvin (1509-1564) - Answer (click
here)
4. Counter-Reformation - Answer (click here)
5. Effects of Reformation - Answer (click here)

The American War of Independence (1776 1783)

1. The American War Of Independence (1776-1783) - Answer (click here)
2. The English Colonies in America - Answer (click here)

French Revolution
1. Causes of the French Revolution - Answer (click here)
2. French Revolution : The French Philosophers - Answer (click here)
3. Impact of the American War of Independence - Answer (click here)
4. Work of the National Assembly (1789 - 1791) - Answer (click here)
5. The National Convention (1792 - 1795) - Answer (click here)

Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

1. Agricultural Revolution - Answer (click here)
2. Industrial Revolution : Causes, Merits, Demerits - Answer (click here)

First World War

1. First World War (1914 -1919) - Answer (click here)
2. First World War - Colonialism - Answer (click here)
3. Causes of First World War - Answer (click here)
4. Course of the First World War - Answer (click here)
5. Results of the First World War - Answer (click here)

Russian Revolution of 1917

1. Russian Revolution Of 1917 - Answer (click here)
2. Causes of the Russian Revolution - Answer (click here)
3. February Revolution and October Revolution of 1917 - Answer (click here)
4. Results of Russian Revolution Of 1917 - Answer (click here)

The League of Nations

1. The League Of Nations - Answer (click here)
 2. Establishment of League of Nations - Answer (click here)
3. Achievements Of The League Of Nations - Answer (click here)
4. Causes for the Failure of League of Nations - Answer (click here)

Rise of Fascism and Nazism

1. Causes for the Growth of Fascism in Italy - Answer (click here)
2. Rise of Mussolini - Answer (click here)
3. Mussolini as the Prime Minster of Italy - Answer (click here)
4. Nazism In Germany : Hitler and the Nazi Germany - Answer (click here)

Second World War

1. Second World War - Answer (click here)
2. Causes of the Second World War - Answer (click here)
3. Course and Results of the Second World War - Answer (click here)

Growth of Asian Nations: China And Japan

1. Growth Of Asian Nations: China And Japan - Answer (click here)

United Nations Organisation

1. United Nations Organisation - Answer (click here)
2. Achievements of the U N O - Answer (click here)
3. Organization of the U.N.O. - Answer (click here)

The Cold War

1. The Cold War - Answer (click here)
2. Beginning and End of the Cold War - Answer (click here)

World Today
1. History : World Today - Answer (click here)