Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Factors that contributed to the unity of India

This is part of the series in Modern Indian History that is added to GS I in the new syllabus.

India as a young nation after Independence had to strive for the Unity of India. The global Intellegentsia was skeptical of the survival of India as the divisive forces and the factors that contribute to fragmentation were largeand they outnumbered the reasons and factors of India's unity and existence. Yet India has withstood the test of time against all odds and is considered by  historians and researchers of democracy as an exception as India was reeling under poverty, communal-ism, caste-ism, underdevelopment, linguistic and regional exclusiveness, Inequality etc. We will be considering the factors that unite India in this article.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

History Notes for revision

Here are a few documents that can be used for revision during the exams. Click the links below.








Modern India:


Disclaimer: All are collected by me from internet and the credit goes to the original uploader/owner.

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Modern India Lectures

Modern India - Part 1

Modern India - Part 2

Modern India - Part 3

Modern India - Part 4

 

Monday, 11 March 2013

Book List for History Optional

Well here are the books you can refer for History Main Optional paper.

Paper 1 : Ancient and Medieval India.
Ancient India : RS Sharma(old ncert) or DN JHA. Follow any one as most of the contents are same.

Medieval India :  Satish Chandra (or)
An advanced study in the history of medieval India : JL Mehta

Paper 2: Modern India and World History.
Modern India by Bipan Chandra(covers almost the entire syllabus)
Indias struggle for Independance : Bipan chandra et al. (A more elaborate book focussing on freedom struggle alone)
Modern Indian History by grover (A guide kind of book prepared with Civil service in mind)

A history of Modern World : Jain and Mathur can be supplemented with Mastering world history by Norman Lowe

The above books are more than sufficient for the exams.