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"......history generally happens to be the story of human experience in a certain political or cultural region. By history of India we mean the history of human experience in all its facets in the country which we call 'India' today. The division of history of India, or for that matter of any country, into Ancient, Medieval and Modern, is at best artificial. For while universal human experience in any one area may have a diffused and even negligible effect on another, there is a continuous chain of causation running from the remotest times to the present day in much the same way as there is an unbroken chain of generations." ----H.K Sherwani.

History of India

General

• India A Library of Congress Country Study
• Manas: History of India
• South Asian History
• Hindu History
• Library of Hindu History
  
• Resource Materials and Essays
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook
• Short History of Medival India

Ancient

• Prehistoric India [400,000-1000 B.C.]
• Ancient Dynasties: II
• Ancient India
• India’s Adivasis
  • Adivasi Contributions to Indian Culture & Civilization
• The Indus Valley Civilization
  • Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Indus Civilization (Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization)
  • Lesson Plan - Indus Valley Civilization
  • The Ancient Indus Valley
  • "Economics of the Indus Valley Civilization," Chad Greenwood
  • Harappa
• The Aryan Invasions
  • The Aryans
  • The Aryans and the Vedic Age [c. 1500 B.C.]
  • The Vedas and Upanishads
  • The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India, by David Frawley
  • The Aryan Invasion and Indology
  • Evaluation of the Aryan Invasion Theories
  • The Laws of Manu [c. 1500 B.C.]
• The Classic Age
  • India before 600 B.C.
  • Sanskrit Documents
  • Du Mahbhrata [French Translation]
  • The Bhagavadgita
  • Bhagvadgita on Caste
  • Ancient India's Contribution to Our World's Material (Temporal) Culture, by Sudheer Birodkar
  • Rise of Religions and Emergence of the State [c. 500 B.C.]
  • Buddhist Scriptures
  • Buddhist Ethics
  • Philosophy, Upanishads, Nyaya Sutras, Jains
  • Hindu Images
  • Alexander in India [325 B.C.]
  • People and Languages in the Pre-Islamic Indus Valley
  • The Rise of Religions and the Emergence of the State
  • King Ashoka: His Edicts and His Times
• The Guptan Empire
  • The Guptan Age [300 A.D.]
  • The Guptan Era [c. 300 A.D.]
  • The Guptan Empire c. 400 [a map]
  • Selections from Arthshastra
  • The Southern Kingdoms
  • The Ramayana
  • The Ramayana Story Illustrated
  • The Ramayana: A "Telling" of the Ancient Indian Epic

Medieval: The Mughal Empire

• Chronology of Medieval India: 1000-1756
• Medieval India, 600 B.C. 1500 A.D.
• Social Relations, Caste, Gender
• Arab Invasion of Sindh
• The Turkish Invasions [1000-1206]
• Islam and the Subcontinent
• Sufi Influences
• Status of Women in Medieval Deccan (South India, 14th century)
• The Muslim Invasions [1197-1206]
• The Mughals 1
• The Mughals 2
• Memoirs of Babur [The Babur Nama]
• The Mughal Empire In Delhi
• Mughal Rulers
• Crafts, Trade and Manufacturing
• Rise and Fall of the Mughals
• The Coming of the Europeans [c. 1500]
• Accession of Akbar (1556)
• Reign of Akbar (1556-1605)
• The Mughal Legacy
• The British East India Company (established 1600)

Modern

• The Marathas [c. 1700]
• Shivshahi
• East India Company
• The Battle of Calcutta 23 February 1757
• The Battle of Plassey 26 July 1757
• The British Raj 1763-1947
  • The Beginnings of the British Raj
  • Establishment of British Power in India, 1615-1761, by James Paul
  • The British Raj - The British Conquest of India
  • The British Raj, by zachary Nunn
  • Tipoo Sultan (1750-1799)
  • The First Anglo_Mysore War 1767-1769
  • Taking of Seringpatam 1799
  • Macauley's Minute on Indian Education, 2 February 1835
  • British Education in India
  • "The Battle of Kelat" (1839), Lieutenant T.W.E. Holdsworth
  • The Indian "Mutiny"
    • Revolutionary Upheaval of 1857
    • The Epic of the Race. India 1857
    • "The Bengal Mutiny," Littel's Living Age, No. 702, 7 November 1857.
    • "The Course of Empire in British India," The United States Democratic Review, Vol. 40 (1857), pp. 177-181.
    • "The Indian Mutiny," The North American Review Vol. 86 (1858)
    • "The Relief of Lucknow," The Atlantic Monthly
  • "Despotism in India," North American Review,180 (April 1859) 289-312.
  • "Troop Steamer for the Lower Indus River" [London Illustrated News, 1861.]
  • Battle at Charasia 7 October 1879
  • Storming of Takht-I-Shah Peak 12 December 1879
  • Seaforth Highlanders Private. 1st Battalion. India 1913-1914 [From the Scottish Military History Society Journal Dispatch
  • Struggle for Independence (1857-1947)
  • Landmarks of the Freedom Movement
  • Letters and Writings of Bhagat Singh
  • Legacy of Colonial Rule
  • Partition
  • Mahatma Gandhi Album
  • Critical Essay on Gandhi
• The Indian Nation 1947-
  • The New State [1947]
  • The Constitution
  • 1971 India-Pakistan War [a Indian nationalist view]
  • Collapse of the Brahminist Empire in South Asia, by Khshatrapa Gandasa

Regional Histories

• Cachar (Assam)
• Jorhat (Assam)
• Kamrup, Guwahati (Assam)
• History of  Andhra Pradesh
• History of Bombay
• Burdwan (Bengal)
• History of Goa
• History of Fatehabad, Haryana
• History of Jind, Haryana
• History of Mahendragarh, Haryana
• History of Rohtak, Haryana
• Historic Places in Rohtak
• History of Sirsa, Haryana
• History of Karnataka
• Protected Monuments of Madhya Pradesh
• History of Dhar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Dhar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Archaeology of Dewas,  Madhya Pradesh (Click on Archaeology)
• Morena (Madhya Pradesh)
• Sagar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)
• Ujjain Numismatic Studies (Madhya Pradesh)
• Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh)
• History of Orissa
• History of Punjab
• Tripura

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