HIS 249 Pre Modern India

Syllabus (Spring 2011) PDF version

Links to ALL ELECTRONIC Course Readings (including direct links to readings onElectronic Reserve)

Lecture Three links

Map for use in Mid Term Exam

STUDY GUIDES

Indian History: A Chronological Overview

Outline # 1: Vedic Age(s)

Early to Rig Vedic Age:  A Schematic Representation

Outline # 2: The Age of the Epic(s)

Pachisi or Chaupar -- the game played in the Mahabharata

Outline # 3: States, Empires and Heterodoxies 600-232 BCE

Teachings of Buddhism

Image of a Punch-marked coin

Outline # 4: The Age of the Guptas... A Classical Age?

                                For images of different "avataras" see avatara.org

Romila Thapar’s reading of Sakuntala: an overview

Outline # 5: The Rise of Regional Powers

Kailash Temple Ellora (Rashtrakuta Architecture)

Kailash temple: Ellora Another Image

Another close-up of the temple

Outline # 6: Coming of Islam and Delhi Sultanate

Outline # 7:  Mughals and Europeans

The Taj Mahal

MAPS

MAP:  South Asia in Regional Context (India and US comparison)

MAP:  Harappa

Mehrgarh Location

MAP: Indo Arya Migrations

MAP:  Epic India (from Wikipedia:  thanks to Adam Settimo for this reference)

MAP:  Kingdoms and Republics, 700-450 BCE

MAP: The Mauryan Empire

MAP2: Mauryan Empire

MAP: Greeks in India

MAP:  Kushanas, Satvahanas and Others  (ca. 185 BCE - 320 CE)

MAP:  Rise and Decline of the Guptas

Map: Gupta Empire 2

MAP: After the Guptas

MAP: Harsha’s Empire

MAP: Struggle for the South

MAP North and Central India 700-1200 CE

MAP: Chola Empire

MAP: Mahmud of Ghazni and South Asia

MAP: Mahmud of Ghazni’s Empire

MAP: Delhi Sultanate

MAP: Sultanate under the Khaljis

MAP: Sultanate under the Tughlaqs

MAP: End of the Delhi Sultanate

MAP:  Mughal India

USEFUL LINKS

Indus Valley Stuff From Harappa.Com

In particular, their walk through Mohenjodaro

David Ludden's "Slideshow" for HIST 086 at the University of Pennsylvania

Images of India

My Ongoing Project of Links to Pre Modern Indian history sources

Horseplay in Harappa (a hint of the politics behind representations of Ancient Indian history)

Vinay Lal, "Aryavarta and Silicon Valley: Indian History on the Net in the Age of Cyber Hinduism"