Indian History 2018

SECTION A

1. INTRODUCTION
2. PREHISTORIC CULTURES IN INDIA
3. THE INDUS CIVILISATION
4. CHALCOLITHIC AND EARLY IRON AGE CULTURE
5. VEDIC SOCIETY
6. STATE FORMATION AND URBANISATION
7. THE MAURYAN EMPIRE
8. POST-MAURYAN PERIOD (circa 200 BC to AD 300)
9. THE GUPTA AGE
10. POST-GUPTA PERIOD (up to circa 750 AD)

SECTION B

1. EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA Political and Social Developments (c. 750-1200 AD)
2. THE DELHI SULTANATE -Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
3. CULTURAL TRENDS (c. Mid-Eighth Century AD to the Thirteenth Century)
4. PROVINCIAL DYNASTIES AFTER THE SULTANATE
5. PORTUGUESE CONTROL IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
6. THE MUGHAL EMPIRE
7. DECLINE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE AND RISE OF THE REGIONAL STATES
8. THE MARATHAS
9. SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TRENDS (Mid-16th to Mid-18th Centuries)

SECTION C

1. BRITISH EXPANSION
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE BRITISH RAJ
3. CULTURAL ENCOUNTER AND SOCIAL CHANGES
4. RESISTANCE TO BRITISH RULE
5. INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
6. SEPARATIST TRENDS IN INDIAN NATIONALIST POLITICS
7. INDIA INDEPENDENT TO 1964

SECTION D

1. QUESTION REVIEW
2. Answers
3. Explanatory Notes

SECTION E

PRACTICE TEST PAPERS
(Answer sheets attached with each paper)

SECTION F

SOLVED PAPERS OF UPSC PRELIMS
Paper 1993
Paper 1994
Paper 1995
Paper 1996
Paper 1997
Paper 1998
Paper 1999
Paper 2000
Paper 2001
Paper 2002
Paper 2003
Paper 2004
Paper 2005
Paper 2006
Paper 2007