Micro Topics : Ancient India Syllabus

Pre-Historic

• Stone Age 
• Chalcolithic Age 
• Iron Age 

Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) 

• Town Planning 
• Harappan Society 
• Characteristics of Major Centers 
• Harappan Art & Architecture 
• Decline of Harappan Culture 

Vedic Society 

• Original Home of Aryans 
• Socio- Economic Characters of Vedic Society 
• Vedic Literature 
• Social Organization and Varna System  
• Religion and Thought 

Pre-Mauryan Period 

• Mahajanpadas 
• Haryanka dynasty  
• Shishunaga dynasty  
• Nanda dynasty 

Jainism and Buddhism 

• Gautam Buddha 
• Mahavira  
• Growth of Jainism and Buddhism

Mauryan Empire 

• Chandragupta and Bindusara  
• Arthasastra (Book by Kautilya) 
• Megasthenes 
• Asoka and His Successors  
• Asoka’s Inscriptions and Sites  
• Asoka’ a Dhamma  
• Mauryan. Administration, Economy, Society and Art 
• Decline of Maurya 

Post-Mauryan India  

• Arrival of Indo-Greeks, Shakas, Parthians & Kushana 
• Satavahanas and Other Indigenous Dynasties 
• Schools of Art: Gandhara; Mathura; Amravati 
• Imperial Guptas
  • Political history of Guptas  
  • Gupta Administration  
  • Development of Art & Culture 
  • Age of Golden age 
  • Economic Conditions  
  • Urban centres in Gupta period 
• Harshavardana
  • Sources for Harsha’s Period  
  • Early life of Harsha 
  • Harsha’s Administration 
  • Important Officials of the empire 
  • Economy under Harsha 
  • Huen Tsang 
  • Society 
  • Religion 
• The Southern Dynasties
  • Satavahanas (230 BC TO AD 225)  
  • Pallavas (AD 330–796)  
  • Chalukyas (AD 535–1190) 
  • Pandyas of Madurai (AD 590–1323)  
  • Chola Dynasty (AD 850–1310)  
  • Rashtrakutas (AD 753–973)