Modern Indian History (2025-26)

Unit 1 Mid-Eighteenth Century India (India on the Eve of British Conquest) 
1. Decline of Mughal Empire (1707–1857) 
2. Rise of Autonomous States 
3. Rise of British Supremacy: A Backgrounder (Emergence of Imperialism in Europe and Arrival of Europeans in India) 
4. Rise of British Supremacy: Carnatic, Plassey and Buxar 

Unit 2 British Expansion and Consolidation in India (1767–1857) British 
1. Expansion in South India (Conquest of Mysore and the Marathas, 1767–1818)
2. British Expansion Beyond Indian Frontiers (Nepal, Burma and Afghanistan, 1814–42) 
3. British Expansion in North India (Conquest of Sind, Punjab and Awadh, 1843–57) 

Unit 3 Changes and Impact (Mid-18th to Mid-19th Century) (Changes Introduced by the British and their Impact on Indian Economy, Polity, Administration and Society) 
1. Changes and Impact: Indian Economy 
2. Changes and Impact: Indian Polity (Constitutional Development-Part 1, 1757–1858) 
3. Changes and Impact: Indian Administration and Society 
4. Rise and Growth of National Consciousness 

Unit 4 Popular Uprisings and Revolts 
1. Popular Uprisings up to 1857 
2. Revolt of 1857 
3. Popular Uprisings After 1857 (1857–1900) 

Unit 5 Socio-Religious Reform Movements 
1. Socio-Religious Reform Movements-Part 1(Awakening in Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern India) 
2. Socio-Religious Reform Movements-Part 2(Awakening among the Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis and Non-Brahmins) 

Unit 6 Indian National Movement-Part 1 (Emergence of Organised Nationalism) 
1. Political Associations before Indian National Congress 
2. Formation of Indian National Congress 
3. Moderate Phase (1885–1905) 
4. Rise of the Extremists (Phase of Militant Nationalism or Radical Politics) 
5. Extremist Phase, Part 1 (1905–18) (Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi Movement) 
6. Extremist Phase, Part 2 (1905–18) (Revolutionary Terrorist Movement, Ghadar Movement, Home Rule Movement) 
7. Mahatma Gandhi: Emergence and Ideology 
8. Constitutional Development-Part 2 (1861–1920) 
9. Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement (1919–22) 
10. Swarajists and Constructive Work (1922–29) 
11. Rise and Growth of Communalism up to Second World War
12. Second Phase of Revolutionary Terrorist Movement (After 1922) 
13. Growth of Left Movement in India 
14. Growth of Peasants’ and Workers’ Movements 1920s–30s 
15. The States’ People’s Movement 
16. Simon Commission and Simon Boycott Movement (1927–29) 
17. Civil Disobedience Movement 1930–34 (Civil Disobedience Movement, Round Table Conferences 1930–32 and Communal Award 1932) 
18. Constitutional Development — Part 3 (1921–35) 
19. Elections of 1937 and Congress Ministries 

Unit 7 Indian National Movement-Part 2 (Towards Freedom) 
1. Indian National Movement during Second World War: Quit India Movement and INA (1939–45) 
2. Post-War National Movement (1945–47) 
3. Communalism, Partition and Freedom of India