ANCIENT HISTORY

Pre-Historic

• Stone Age 

• Chalcolithic Age 

• Iron Age 

Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) 

• Town Planning 

• Harappan Society 

• Characteristics of Major Centers 

• Harappan Art & Architecture 

• Decline of Harappan Culture 

Vedic Society 

• Original Home of Aryans 

• Socio- Economic Characters of Vedic Society 

• Vedic Literature 

• Social Organization and Varna System  

• Religion and Thought 

Pre-Mauryan Period 

• Mahajanpadas 

• Haryanka dynasty  

• Shishunaga dynasty  

• Nanda dynasty 

Jainism and Buddhism 

 Gautam Buddha 

 Mahavira  

 Growth of Jainism and Buddhism

Mauryan Empire 

• Chandragupta and Bindusara  

• Arthasastra (Book by Kautilya) 

• Megasthenes 

• Asoka and His Successors  

• Asoka’s Inscriptions and Sites  

• Asoka’ a Dhamma  

• Mauryan. Administration, Economy, Society and Art 

• Decline of Maurya

Post-Mauryan India  

• Arrival of Indo-Greeks, Shakas, Parthians & Kushana 

• Satavahanas and Other Indigenous Dynasties 

• Schools of Art: Gandhara; Mathura; Amravati 

• Imperial Guptas 

 Political history of Guptas  

 Gupta Administration  

 Development of Art & Culture 

 Age of Golden age 

 Economic Conditions  

 Urban centres in Gupta period 

• Harshavardana 

 Sources for Harsha’s Period  

 Early life of Harsha 

 Harsha’s Administration 

 Important Officials of the empire 

 Economy under Harsha 

 Huen Tsang 

 Society 

 Religion 

• The Southern Dynasties 

 Satavahanas (230 BC TO AD 225)  

 Pallavas (AD 330–796)  

 Chalukyas (AD 535–1190) 

 Pandyas of Madurai (AD 590–1323)  

 Chola Dynasty (AD 850–1310)  

 Rashtrakutas (AD 753–973)