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IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

IGNOU B.A. HISTORY NOTES

Modern India 1857-1964
- UNIT 1 IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
- UNIT 2 IMPERIALISM: ITS EFFECTS
- UNIT 3 THE RISE OF NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
- UNIT 4 THE REVOLT OF 1857
- UNIT 5 COLONIALISM: THE NEW ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM - PRE AND POST 1857
- UNIT 6 CONSOLIDATION OF THE RAJ : FRONTIER AND FOREIGN POLICY
- UNIT 7 POPULAR UPRISINGS : SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
- UNIT 8 SOCIAL REFORMS IN 19TH CENTURY INDIA
- UNIT 9 INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS FORMATION
- UNIT 10 INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: MODERATES AND EXTREMISTS
- UNIT 11 PARTITION OF BENGAL AND THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT
- UNIT 12 MARXIST AND SOCIALIST THOUGHT
- UNIT 13 THE FIRST WORLD WAR: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
- UNIT 14 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: CAUSES, COURSE, AND SIGNIFICANCE
- UNIT 15 REVOLUTIONARY TRENDS, GHADAR PARTY AND HOME RULE LEAGUE
- UNIT 16 SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
- Unit 17 BHUDDHISM JAINSM AND OTHER RELIGIOUS IDEAS
- Unit 18 MAGADHAN TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
- Unit 19 ECONOMY OF THE MAURYAN PERIOD
- Unit 20 ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION AND RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER POWER
- Unit 21 ASHOKA POLICY OF DHAMMA
- Unit 22 DISINTEGRATION OF THE EMPIRE
- Unit 23 NORTHERN WESTERN AND NORTHERN INDIA
- Unit 24 EXPANSION IN NETWORK OF TRADE AND URBANISATION
- Unit 25 DEVELOPMENT RELIGION
- Unit 26 ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- Unit 27 EARLY STATE FORMATION IN THE DECCAN
- Unit 28 EARLY STATE FORMATION IN SOUTH INDIA TAMILAHAM
- Unit 29 AGRARIAN SETTLEMENTS AND AGRARIAN SOCIETY IN PENINSULAR INDIA THE DECCAN AND THE SOUTH
- Unit 30 EXPANSION OF TRADE AND URBAN CENTRES
- Unit 31 GROWTH OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- Unit 32 RISE AND GROWTH OF GUPTAS
- Unit 33 ECONOMY SOCIETY AND POLITY GUPTAS
- Unit 34 POST GUPTA KINGDOMS IN NORTH INDIA
- Unit 35 KINGDOMS IN THE DECCAN AND SOUTH INDIA
- Unit 36 CHANGES IN ECONOMY
- Unit 37 CHANGES IN SOCIETY
- Unit 38 STRUCTURE OF POLITY
- Unit 39 DEVELOPMENTS IN RELIGION
India Earliest Times to the 8th Century A.D.

Unit 1 India Physical Features
Unit 2 Regions In Indian History Formation And Characteristics
Unit 3 Hunter Gatherers Archaeological Perspective
Unit 4 Origin of Agriculture And Domestication Of Animals
Unit 5 Antecedents Chronology And Geographical Spread
Unit 6 Material Characteristics
Unit 7 Nature Of Contacts
Unit 8 Society And Religion
Unit 9 Diffusion And Decline
Unit 10 Chalcolithic And Early Iron Age-i
Unit 11 Chalcolithic And Early Iron Age-ii
Unit 12 The Early Vedic Society
Unit 13 Changes In The Later Vedic Phase
Unit 14 Janapadas And The Mahajanapadas
Unit 15 Century Rise Of Urban Centres
Unit 16 Society And Economy
Unit 17 Buddhism Jainism And Other Religious Ideas
Unit 18 Magadhan Territorial Expansion
Unit 19 Economy Of The Mauryan Period
Unit 20 Administrative Organisation And Relationship With Other Powers
Unit 21 Asoka Policy Of Dhamma
Unit 22 Disintegration Of The Empire
Unit 23 Northern Western And Northern India
Unit 24 Expansion In Network Of Trade And Urbanisation
Unit 25 Development In Religion
Unit 26 Art And Architecture
Unit 27 Early State Formation In The Deccan
Unit 28 Early State Formation In South India Tamilaham
Unit 29 Agrarian Settlements And Agrarian Society In Peninsular India The Deccan And The South
Unit 30 Expansion Of Trade And Urban Centres
Unit 31 Growth Of Tamil Language And Literature
Unit 32 Rise And Growth Of Guptas
Unit 33 Economy Society And Polity Guptas
Unit 34 Post Gupts Kingdom In North India
Unit 35 Kingdoms In The Deccan And South India
Unit 36 Changes In Economy
Unit 37 Changes In Society
Unit 38 Structure Of Polity
Unit 39 Developments In Religion

History India From 8th to 15th Century

Unit 1= Agrarian Economy
Unit 2= Urban Settlements
Unit 3= Trade and Commerce
Unit 4= Trading Communities Organisation
Unit 5= Social Organisation
Unit 6= Ideology
Unit 7= Development of Regional Cultural Traditions
Unit 8= Nature of Regional Politics
Unit 9= Northern and Eastern India
Unit 10= Western and Central India
Unit 11= The Deccan
Unit 12= South India
Unit 13= Rise of Turks and Mongols in Central Asia
Unit 14= Establishment and Consolidation
Unit 15= Territorial Expansion
Unit 16= Administration of The Sultanate
Unit 17= Formation of The Sultanate Rulling Class
Unit 18= Problem Crisis nd Decline
Unit 19= State and Economy
Unit 21= Rise of Urban Economy Ttrade and Commerce
Unit 22= Technology and Craft
Unit 23= Central and Eastern India
Unit 24= Northern and Western India
Unit 25= State Administration and Economy in North India
Unit 26= Regional Powers in South India and Deccan
Unit 27= Century the Vijaynagar Empire
Unit 28= The Bahmanis
Unit 29= Socio Religious Movemnet Bhakti Movement
Unit 30= Socio Religious Movemnet Sufi Movement
Unit 31= Art and Architecture of Delhi Sultanate
Unit 32= Art and Architecture of Regional States
Unit 33= Language and Literature
Unit 34= Lifestyle and Popular Cultures

India From 6th to Mid 18th Century

Unit 1= Political Formations in Central and West Asia
Unit 2= Polity end Economy in North India
Unit 3= Polity and Economy in Deccan and South India
Unit 4= The Trading World of Asia and The Coming of The Portuguese
Unit 5= Growth of Mughal Empire 1526-1556
Unit 6= Expansion and Consolidation 1556-1707
Unit 7= Relations with Central Asia and Persia
Unit 8= Ahmednagar,Bijapur and Golkonda
Unit 9= The Deccan States and The Mughals
Unit 10= Rise of the Maharathas in the 17th Century
Unit 11= Rajput States
Unit 12= Mughal Theory of Sovereignty
Unit 13= Mughal Ruling Class
Unit 14= Mughal Administration Central Provincial and Local
Unit 15= Mughal Administration Mansab and Jagir
Unit 16= Mughal Land Revenue System
Unit 17= Agrarian Relations Mughal India
Unit 18= Land Revenue System Marathas Deccan and South India
Unit 19= Agrarian Relations Deccan and South India
Unit 20= Fiscal and Monetary System Prices
Unit 21= Agricultural Productions
Unit 22= Non-Agricultural Productions
Unit 23= Inland and Foreign Trade
Unit 24= Personnel of Trade and Commercial Practices
Unit 25= The European Trading Companies
Unit 26= Population in Mughal India
Unit 27= Rural Classes and Life Style
Unit 28= Urbanisation Urban Classes and Life Style
Unit 29= Religious Ideas and Movements
Unit 30= State and Religion
Unit 31= India Language and Literature
Unit 32= Century Science and Technology
Unit 33= Architecture
Unit 34= Painting and Fine Arts
Unit 36= Rise of Regional Powers
Unit 37= Potentialities of Capitalistic Development

India from Mid-18th to Mid-19th Century

Unit 1 Indian Polity in the Mid 18th Century
Unit 2 Bengal and Awadh
Unit 3 The Maratha State System
Unit 4 Mysore and Hyderabad
Unit 5 The Punjab
Unit 6 Mercantile to Industrial Capitalism in Europe
Unit 7 European Colonial Powers
Unit 8 The British in Eastern India up to Buxar
Unit 9 Conflict and Expansion South India
Unit 10 Anglo Maratha and Mysore Wars
Unit 11 British Expansion in North India
Unit 12 British Expansion Beyond Indian Frontiers
Unit 13 Imperial Ideology Orientalist Construction of India and The Utilitarians
Unit 14 Mercantile Policies and Indian Trade
Unit 15 The New Land Revenue Settlements
Unit 16 The Commercialisation of Agriculture
Unit 17= De Industrialization in India
Unit 18 Economic Impact of Colonial Rule
Unit 19 The Languages of Modern India
Unit 20 Literature in the Indian Languages
Unit 21 The Spread of English Education
Unit 22 Western Knowledge and The Indian Mind
Unit 23 Constitutional Developments 1757-1858
Unit 24 Century Administration and Law
Unit 25 Social Policy and Indian Response
Unit 26 Reform Movement I
Unit 27 Reform Movement II
Unit 28 Social Discrimination and Disprivileged Group
Unit 29 Peasant and Tribal Uprisings
Unit 30 Revolt of 1857 Causes and Nature
Unit 31 Revolt of 1857 Caurse and Aftermath

History of China and Japan (1840-1949)

Unit 1 Land and People East Asia
Unit 2 Society and Polity China
Unit 3 Society and Polity Japan
Unit 4 Traditional Economy China and Japan
Unit 5 Religion and Culture China and Japan
Unit 6 The Opium Wars in China
Unit 7 The Unequal Treaty System in China
Unit 8 Japan and The West up to The Meiji Restroration
Unit 9 Decline of Feudalism and The Meiji Restoration
Unit 10 Modernization in Japan-1
Unit 11 Modernization in Japan-2
Unit 12 Modernization in Japan-3
Unit 13 Taiping Uprising
Unit 14 The Boxer Uprising
Unit 15 Self Strengthening Movement and Hundred Days Reforms
Unit 16 Polical Reforms in Japan
Unit 17 The Chinese Revolution of 1911
Unit 18 Meiji Japan I
Unit 19 Meiji Japan II
Unit 20 Japan and World War I
Unit 21 China and World War I
Unit 22 Rise of Political Parties
Unit 23 Rise of Militarism
Unit 24 Post World War 1 Economy
Unit 25 Japanese Imperialism upto the Second World War
Unit 26 Japanese After World War II
Unit 27 Post Revolutionary Developments 1911-19
Unit 28 Cultural Movement
Unit 29 Foreign Investment and Rise of The New Class
Unit 30 Rise of Nationalism
Unit 31 Formation of the Communist Party of China CPC
Unit 32 United Front
Unit 33 Kiangsi Soviet Experience
Unit 34 CCP and the War with Japan
Unit 35 The Chinese Revolution

Modern Europe (Mid 18th to Mid 20th Centuries)

Unit 1 The Modern State and Politics
Unit 2 Political Transition in Britain 1780-1850
Unit 3 The American Revolution
Unit 4 Radical Action by the Masses
Unit 5 Birth of the Modern French State
Unit 6 European Political Mobilizations
Unit 7 New Political Systems
Unit 8 Industrial Capitalism
Unit 9 Industrial Capitalism in England
Unit 10 Industrial Capitalism in France and Germany
Unit 11 Industrial Capitalism in Russia
Unit 12 Demography
Unit 13 Family
Unit 14 The Social Classes in Europe
Unit 15 Transition to Class Society
Unit 16 Nationalism and the Nation State
Unit 17 Formation of Nation States-1:British and French
Unit 18 Formation of Nation states-2:Germany and Italy
Unit 19 Empires and Nation state-1:Ottoman and Habsburg Empires
Unit 20 Empires and Nation state-2:The Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Unit 21 Colonialism
Unit 22 Patterns of Colonial Domination-1:Direct Rule
Unit 23 Patterns of Colonial Domination-2:Indirect Rule
Unit 24 Imperialist Rivalries
Unit 25 Liberal Democracy
Unit 27 Counter Revolution-2:National Socialism in Germany
Unit 28 The Socialist World I
Unit 29 The Socialist World II
Unit 30 The Two World Wars
Unit 31 Nature of The Wars
Unit 32 Glimpse of the Post War World

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