HISTORY · CBSE Class 12th English Medium
24 chapters · 310 topics
Chapter 1: The Harappan Civilisation
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- . Beginnings
- . Subsistence Strategies
- Harappan Settlements
- How artefacts are identified
- A Planned Urban Centre
- The plight of Harappa
- Citadels
- . Tracking Social Differences
- Production
- Materials
- . Seals, Script, Weights
- . Ancient Authority
- . The End of the Civilisation
- Civilisation
- Sites, mounds, layers
- Wheeler at Harappa
- the Past
- Major Developments in Harappan Archaeology
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Chapter 1: Chapter
Chapter 2: Chapter
- . Impact of the War
- Lucknow Pact
- Act,
- . Khilafat Movement
- of the Colonial State
- Movement
- Summary
- Introduction
- of Satyagraha
- Learning Objectives
- Reforms
- Activities
- Congress
- Conferences
- the Separate Electorates
- in Freedom Movement
- Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilization
- Case,
- Kalpana Dutt
- Congress,
- and its Impact on India
- Development in India
- Muslim League
- India Hindu Mahasabha
- Deliverance
- Ministries
Chapter 2: Early States and Economies
- T HEME T WO
- . Prinsep and Piyadassi
- . The Earliest States
- Inscriptions
- . An Early Empire
- Languages and scripts
- . New Notions of Kingship
- Chiefs and chiefdoms
- . A Changing Countryside
- Gahapati
- . Towns and Trade
- Pataliputra
- How Are Inscriptions Deciphered?
- Evidence
- Major Political and Economic Developments
- Major Advances in Epigraphy
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Chapter 3: Chapter
Chapter 3: Early Societies
Chapter 4: Chapter
Chapter 4: Cultural Developments
- Sanchi in the nineteenth century
- Sacrifices and Debates
- prepared and preserved
- The Message of Mahavira
- for Enlightenment
- . The Teachings of the Buddha
- . Followers of the Buddha
- . Stupas
- The Fate of Amaravati and Sanchi
- . Sculpture
- Paintings from the past
- . New Religious Traditions
- . Can We “See” Everything?
- Monuments and Sculpture
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Chapter 5: Perceptions of Society
- Kitab-ul-Hind
- sharing ideas
- Hindu
- . Ibn Battuta’s Rihla
- The lonely traveller
- In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta
- A Doctor with a Difference
- about India
- Tradition
- enormous range
- of the Unfamiliar
- A strange nation?
- East
- Widespread poverty
- Slaves, Sati and Labourers
- Some Travellers who Left Accounts
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Chapter 6: Chapter
Chapter 6: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional texts
- traditions
- and Practices
- Early Traditions of Bhakti
- Compilations of devotional literature
- in Karnataka
- North India
- Islamic Traditions
- Shari‘a
- . The Growth of Sufism
- Sufism and tasawwuf
- Subcontinent
- Data Ganj Bakhsh
- entire land
- the qaul
- Northern India
- Religious Traditions
- Shankaradeva
- the history of sufi traditions
- Some Major Religious Teachers in the Subcontinent
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Chapter 7: An Imperial Capital Vijayanagara
- . fourteenth to sixteenth century)
- . The Discovery of Hampi
- . Rayas , Nayakas and Sultans
- The Capital and its Environs
- the city
- . The Royal Centre
- A House of Victory?
- . The Sacred Centre
- and Bazaars
- of Answers
- Krishnadeva Raya
- Major Political Developments
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Chapter 8: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire
- Production
- Irrigating trees and fields
- The spread of tobacco
- . The Village Community
- . Women in Agrarian Society
- Money in the village
- . Forests and Tribes
- . The Zamindars
- . Land Revenue System
- The mansabdari system
- . The Flow of Silver
- Fazl Allami
- Translating the Ain
- Landmarks in the History of the Mughal Empire
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