HIS 249 Pre Modern India

 Syllabus

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OUTLINES

 Outline # 1: Vedic Age(s)

 Outline # 2: The Age of the Epic(s)

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

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

                                For images of different "avataras" see  avatara.org

 Outline # 5: The Rise of Regional Powers

              Engraving of one of the Ellora Temples: The Entire Complex was hewn from solid rock
               A closer look at the Kailash temple: Ellora
               Another close-up
 Outline # 6: Coming of Islam and Delhi Sultanate
 

MAPS

 MAP:  Rise and Decline of the Guptas

 MAP: After the Guptas

 MAP: Struggle for the South

 MAP: Chola Empire

 MAP: Islamic Empires and South Asia

 MAP: Delhi Sultanate

 MAP: Sultanate under the Khaljis

 MAP: Sultanate under the Tughlaqs

 MAP: End of the Delhi Sultanate

USEFUL LINKS

 Indus Valley Stuff From Harappa.Com

        In particular, their walk through Mohenjodaro

 David Ludden's "Slideshow" for HIST 085 at the University of Pennsylvania
 

 My Ongoing Project of Links to Pre Modern Indian history sources

 Horseplay in Harappa