User:Fowler&fowler/NCERT India High School History Textbook

Here is the 2011 online version of the text book "Themes in Indian History" used by Class 12 students (Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)) in India. There are 37 million students enrolled in the CBSE system.

Preliminaries and Table of Contents

1. THEME ONE: BRICKS, BEADS AND BONES: The Harappan Civilisation,
2. THEME TWO: KINGS FARMERS AND TOWNS: Early States and Economies (c.600 BCE-600 CE),
3. THEME THREE: KINSHIP, CASTE, AND CLASS: Early Societies (c. 600 BCE -600 CE),
4. THEME FOUR: THINKERS, BELIEFS AND BUILDINGS: Cultural Developments (c. 600 BCE -600 CE),
5. THEME FIVE: THROUGH THE EYES OF TRAVELLERS: Perceptions of Society (c. tenth to seventeenth centuries),
6. THEME SIX: BHAKTI –SUFI TRADITIONS: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth centuries),
7. THEME SEVEN: AN IMPERIAL CAPITAL: VIJAYANAGARA (c. fourteenth to sixteenth centuries),
8. THEME EIGHT: PEASANTS, ZAMINDARS AND THE STATE: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries),
9. THEME NINE: KINGS AND CHRONICLES:The Mughal Courts (c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries),
10. THEME TEN: COLONIALISM AND THE COUNTRYSIDE: Exploring Official Archives,
11. THEME ELEVEN: REBELS AND THE RAJ: 1857 Revolt and its Representations,
12. THEME TWELVE: COLONIAL CITIES: Urbanisation, Planning and Architecture,
13. THEME THIRTEEN: MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT: Civil Disobedience and Beyond,
14. THEME FOURTEEN, UNDERSTANDING PARTITION: Politics, Memories, Experiences,
15. THEME FIFTEEN: FRAMING THE CONSTITUTION: The Beginning of a New Era.