2. ANCIENT INDIA 200000 BC TO 2500 BC
Stone age
Age of stone tools
Divided into 3 ages
Paleolithic
Food gatherers
Mesolithic
Partly
adopted
settled way of
life
Neolithic
Domestication
started
3. NORTHERN BLACK POLISHED WARE
NBPW
characteristic of the
urban centers in
Ganges plain, is
thought to have
developed from
high firing
techniques used in
smelting iron and
local hematite soil.
5. HARAPPA AND MOHENJADHARO 2000 BC TO 1000 BC
Alexander Cunningham
discovered in 1875. He was
the first director general of ASI
(archaeological survey of
India)
Also known as Indus valley
civilization.
Sumerians called this area
‘Meluha’.
6. TOWN PLANNING IN HARAPPA
Drainage system
Great bath
Citadel
Streets cutting at
right angles
Baked bricks
Social stratification
13. RISE OF MAGHADHA
Naturally protected with Himalayas bay of
Bengal Ganga Yamuna and Vindhya Satpura.
Rich in Iron wealth.
Rulers were
Jarasandha
Sahadeva
Bimbisara
Ajathasathru (kanthaka, rathamoorshala)
15. MAURYAN EMPIRE IN DETAIL
Chankya –
Arthasasthra
treatise on
Administration.
Indica by
Megasthenes
16. ASOKAS DHAMMA 268-232 BC
•261 BC kalinga war heavy
bloodbath.
•Embraced budhism.
•Acquired name Devanam piya
piyadashi (James Princep)
•Dhammaghosha Instead of
Bherighosha.
•Dhamma was a Way of Life.
•All men are my children.
•Later Mauryans were not
popular.
17. POST MAURYAN INDIA 200 – 300 AD
Sungas (112 years , Pushyamithra sunga )
Kanvas
Ghanasangas
Satavahanas (Gautami putra satakarni)
Indo Greeks (Meander- Milindapanha)
Sakas
Parthians
Kushanas ( gold coin)
18.
19. GUPTHA EMPIRE 320-550 AD
Sri Guptha
Golden age of
India
Samudraguptha
(Indian
Nepolean)
Chandraguptha
Vikramaditya (9)
Kumaraguptha
20. A POET SAINT NAMED GYANDEV INTRODUCED SNAKE LADDER, THE GAME OF
CHESS WAS ALSO INVENTED THEN.
22. POST GUPTHA AGE 550-750
Harshavardhana
(aihole, huen tsang )
South India under
Muvendar
Chera (cheraman
perumal)
Chola (karikala,
rajendra)
Pandya
(sundarapandya
24. MEDIEVAL INDIA
AD 712 Muhammed bin qasim conquered
Sindh.
Mahmud Ghazni invaded 17 times
Muhamed ghori from Ghur AD 1175
(prithviraj)
Bhakhyar khalji (Nalanda)
26. Kaikubad
Khilji dynasty 1290 1320
Jallaludhin khalji
Alaudin khalji
Malik kafur
Tughlaq
Ghiyassudin tughlak
Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Firoz shah tughlaq
Sayyid dynasty
Lodhi dynasty
Bahavul lodhi
Sikander lodhi
Ibrahim lodhi
27. RELIGION AND CULTURE
Hinduism
Bhakthi movement
Advaitha
Dvaitha
Visistadvaitha
Sudhadhvaitha
Sikhism
Guru Nanak
Guru Grantha sahib
Guru arjun
Guru teg bahadur
Guru gobind
28. RELIGION AND CULTURE
Sufism
Muslim saints who
advocated purity and
renunciation in life (music)
Chisti silsila
Khwaja abdal chisti
Suhrawadi silsila
Firdausi silsila
Shattari silsila
Qadri silsila
29. MUGHAL EMPIRE
Babur 1484-1530
5th Generation from Timur (paternal) and 15th
generation from Chengizkhan (maternal)
Invited by Daulat khan lodhi
Defeated Ibrahimlodhi in 1st panipat 1526
Battle of Khanwa 1527
Battle of chanderi 1528
Babur Nama
30. Humayun 1530-40 & 1555 -56
Lost to Sher khan (Sher shah prominent ruler of
north sur empire 1540-45)
In 1555 defeated Surs but died a year later.
Akbar 1556 -1605
1556 2nd battle of panipat with Hemu
Fatehpur sikri
Buland darwaza
Din ilahi
Abul faizal
Abu fazal
31. Jahangir 1605 -27
Noorjahan junta
Khusru –khuram
Arjun dev
Painting flourished
John Hawkins and Sir Thomas Roe
(1615-18)
35. MODERN INDIA
3rd Battle of Panipat 1761
Haider ali
Tippu sulthan
Marthanda varma
Subsidiary alliance by Lord wellesely
36.
37. ADVENT OF EUROPEANS
Portuguese
Dutch
Danish
French
British
Carnatic war
Battle of Plassey 1757
38. REVOLT OF 1857
Wahabi movement
Kukka movement
Sanyasi santhal movement
Pig fat smeared cartridge and cow meat
issue
Nana sahib
Tantia tope
Rani lakshmi bhai
Bhahadur sha
39. INDIAN RENAISSANCE
Ram Mohan Roy – William Bentict
Sati
Thugs
Ramkrishna
Vivekananda
Theosophical society
Arya samaj
40. RISE OF INDIAN NATIONALISM
Indian national congress
Extremism
Arrival of Gandhi 1915 January 9
Satyagraha
Netaji
Bagath singh
Aurobindo Ghosh
41. Quit India movement
1947 august 15 Lord Mount Batten signed
agreement of Independence…..
42. OUR GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER
FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE
FALL.
CONFUCIUS