This document provides a summary of Indian history from 200,000 BC to 1947 AD. It covers the Stone Age periods, the Indus Valley Civilization including Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, the Vedic civilization, the rise of Buddhism and Jainism, the Mauryan Empire under Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka, the Gupta Empire, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, the Maratha Empire, British rule and the Indian independence movement. Key figures and events are mentioned for each historical period.

1. GLIMPSES OF INDIAN HISTORY

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.

4. RELIGION
Mother goddess and
Pashupathi (protector
of animals)

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

7. SOME FACTS
•Harappans
domesticated cattle,
pig, dog, sheep goat
etc.
•But was not aware
of Horse.
•Though in
‘Surkotada’ bones of
horses were found.

8. VEDIC CIVILIZATION 1000 BC - 600 BC
Vedas were composed
•Rigveda
•Samaveda
•Yajurveda
•Atharvaveda

9. LITERATURE
Sutras, Smrithis, puranas, Aaranyakas darsanas
brahmanas etc were composed

10. CASTE SYSTEM

11. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS 600 BC - 400 BC
 Vedic religion lost purity
 Religious renaissance started with Jainism
and Budhism.

12. MAHAJANAPADAS

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)

14.  Udayin (Patna)
 Sisunaga
 Kalashoka (3rd Buddhist council)
 Mahapadma nanda (Barber)
 Dhanananda (Alexander 327-325 BC)
 Chandraguptha Maurya(chankya)
 Bindusara
 Asoka (Indian constantine)

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)

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.

21. ART AND ARCHITECTURE

22. POST GUPTHA AGE 550-750
 Harshavardhana
(aihole, huen tsang )
 South India under
Muvendar
 Chera (cheraman
perumal)
 Chola (karikala,
rajendra)
 Pandya
(sundarapandya

23.  Prathiharas
 Pallavas
 Hoysalas
 Palas
 Chalukyas

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)

25. DELHI SULTANATE
 Quttubudin Aibak slave dynasty1206-90
 Aaram bakh sha
 Illtumish (delhi made capital)
 Ruknudin firuz
 Sulthana Raziya- yakut
 Bahram sha
 Masud sha
 Nasirudhin mahmud
 Ghiyassudin Balban

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)

32. Shajahan (1628-58)
Mumtaz
Peacock throne
Tajmahal

33. Dara shikov
Aurangazeb 1658 -1707
Bahadur sha
Jahandar sha
Farrukh siyyar
Muhammed sha rangeela
Ahamed sha
Alamgir
Sha alam
Akbar sha
Bahadur sha

34. MARATHA AGE
Sivaji 1630 -80
•Haindava
Dharmmodharak
•Peshwas

35. MODERN INDIA
3rd Battle of Panipat 1761
Haider ali
Tippu sulthan
Marthanda varma
Subsidiary alliance by Lord wellesely

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