Modern History March 2025

SOURCES AND APPROACHES

ADVENT OF EUROPEANS & CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER

RISING RESENTMENT AGAINST COMPANY RULE

REFORM MOVEMENTS

THE STRUGGLE BEGINS

NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1905-1918)

ERA OF MASS NATIONALISM BEGINS (1919-1939)

TOWARDS FREEDOM AND PARTITION (1939-1947)

INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE: GOVERNANCE AND OTHER ASPECTS

INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER

CLASS TEST

Course Content

SOURCES AND APPROACHES

ADVENT OF EUROPEANS & CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER

The advent of Europeans in India ( Portuguese)

Advent of Europeans – Dutch, English, Danish, French

Later Mughals and Decline of Mughals

Successor States & Carnatic Wars

Battle of Plassey, Battle of Buxar, Regional Power of Mysore

Anglo Mysore War & Peshwa System Under Maratha

Anglo Maratha Wars

Regional Power of Punjab, Anglo Sikh Wars

Charter Act of 1833, 1853, and Pillars of administration – British EIC

Land revenue settlement of British EIC

RISING RESENTMENT AGAINST COMPANY RULE

Civil & Tribal Uprising

Revolt of 1857

Revolt of 1857 – Part 2 and Its Significance.

REFORM MOVEMENTS

Socio Religious Reforms

Socio Religious Reforms – 2

THE STRUGGLE BEGINS

Freedom Struggle – Rise of Nationalism

Formation of INC , Moderate and Extremist phase of freedom struggle

Communalism, Morley Minto Reforms, Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism

NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1905-1918)

Revolutionary Activities Outside India, Gandhi Phase – Moderate and Passive Resistance

Home Rule Movement, Gandhian Phase- (Champaran, Ahmedabad Mill Strike, Kheda Satyagraha)

ERA OF MASS NATIONALISM BEGINS (1919-1939)

Indian Council Act of 1919, Rowlatt Act and Satyagraha, Khilafat Non-Cooperation Movement

Revolutionary Nationalism Phase-2, Simon Commission

Nehru Report, Round Table Conferences , Civil Disobedience Movement

Communal Award and Poona Pact, GoI Act 1935, Provincial Election 1937

TOWARDS FREEDOM AND PARTITION (1939-1947)

Individual Satyagraha, Cripps Mission, Quit India Movement, CR Formula, Desai Liaquat Pact

3rd Phase of Revolutionary Nationalism, INA, Cabinet Mission, Mountbatten Plan

INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE: GOVERNANCE AND OTHER ASPECTS

Development of Education during the British Rule, Peasants organization and movements in the 20th century

Phase of Colonialism in Princely States, Rise of Left Wing in India, Rise and Development of Press in India

INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER

CLASS TEST

18th Century to 1857

REFORM MOVEMENTS