Schedule of Personal Guidance Programme for History Mains
Schedule of Personal Guidance Programme for History Mains
Schedule
| S. No. | Day | Date | Chapters | Topic Name |
| 1. | Friday | 06-07-2012 | Sources | Archaeological sources |
| 2. | Monday | 09-07-2012 | Indus Valley Civilization |
Origin |
| 3. | Wednesday | 11-07-2012 | Aryans and Vedic Period | Expansions of Aryans in India |
| 4. | Friday | 13-07-2012 | Period of Mahajanapadas | Role of Iron |
| 5. | Monday | 16-07-2012 | Mauryan Empire | Foundation of the Mauryan Empire |
| 6. | Wednesday | 18-07-2012 | Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas |
Polity and administration |
| 7. | Friday | 20-07-2012 | Regional States during Gupta Era |
The Kadambas |
| 8. | Monday | 23-07-2012 | Themes in Early Indian Cultural History |
Languages and texts |
| 9. | Wednesday | 25-07-2012 | Early Medieval India, 750-1200 |
Polity: Major political developments in Northern India and the Peninsula, origin and the rise of Rajputs |
| 10. | Friday | 27-07-2012 | Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200 |
Philosophy: Skankaracharya and Vedanta |
| 11. | Monday | 30-07-2012 | The Thirteenth Century |
The Ghurian invasions – factors behind Ghurian success |
| 12. | Wednesday | 1-08-2012 | The Fourteenth Century |
“The Khalji Revolution” |
| 13. | Friday | 03-08-2012 | Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries |
Society: composition of rural society, ruling classes, town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste and slavery under the Sultanate, |
| 14. | Monday | 06-08-2012 | The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century – Society and Culture |
Regional cultural specificities |
| 15. | Wednesday | 08-08-2012 | Akbar |
Conquests and consolidation of the Empire |
| 16 | Friday | 10-08-2012 | Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century |
Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb |
| 17. | Monday | 13-08-2012 | Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
Population, agricultural production, craft production |
| 18. | Wednesday | 15-08-2012 | Culture in the Mughal Empire |
Persian histories and other literature |
| 19. | Friday | 17-08-2012 | The Eighteenth Century |
Factors for the decline of the Mughal Empire |
| 20. | Monday | 20-08-2012 | European Penetration into India |
The Battle of Plassey; Significance of Plassey |
| 21. | Wednesday | 22-08-2012 | British Expansion in India |
Bengal – Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim |
| 22. | Friday | 24-08-2012 | Early Structure of the British Raj |
The early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control |
| 23. | Monday | 27-08-2012 | Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule |
The Permanent Settlement |
| 24. | Wednesday | 29-08-2012 | Social and Cultural Developments |
Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, |
| 25. | Friday | 31-08-2012 | Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas |
Ram Mohan Roy, |
| 26. | Monday | 03-09-2012 | Indian Response to British Rule |
Peasant movements and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783) |
| 27. | Wednesday | 05-09-2012 | The Foundation of the Indian National Congress |
The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress |
| 28. | Friday | 07-09-2012 | Character of Gandhian nationalism |
Gandhi’s popular appeal |
| 29. | Monday | 10-09-2012 | Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935 |
Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935 |
| 30. | Wednesday | 12-09-2012 | Nehru’s Foreign Policy |
India and her neighbours (1947-1964) |
| 31. | Friday | 14-09-2012 | Economic development and political change |
Land reforms |
| 32. | Monday | 17-09-2012 | Enlightenment and Modern ideas |
Major ideas of Enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau |
| 33. | Wednesday | 19-09-2012 | Origins of Modern Politics |
European States System |
| 34. | Friday | 21-09-2012 | Industrialization |
English Industrial Revolution: Causes and Impact on Society |
| 35. | Monday | 24-09-2012 | Revolution and Counter-Revolution |
19th Century European revolutions |
| 36. | Wednesday | 26-09-2012 | World Wars |
1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: Societal implications |
| 37. | Friday | 28-09-2012 | The World after World War II |
Emergence of two power blocs |
| 38. | Monday | 01-10-2012 | Liberation from Colonial Rule |
Latin America-Bolivar |
| 39. | Wednesday | 03-10-2012 | Decolonization and Underdevelopment |
Factors constraining development: Latin America, Africa |
| 40. | Friday | 05-10-2012 | Unification of Europe |
Post War Foundations: NATO and European Community |
| 41. | Monday | 08-10-2012 | Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World |
Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 |
