ANCIENT HISTORY 6 T0 12 NCERT TOPICS COVERED ( UPSC CSE & STATE PSC )

1. SOURCES OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY
           

                      NCERT TOPICS COVERED

CLASS 7.

• New and Old Terminologies
• Historians and Their Sources
• Thinking about Time and Historical Periods

CLASS 8

• How Important are Dates?
• How Do We Periodise?
• What is colonial?
• How do We Know?

1. Administration produces records
2. Surveys become important
3. What official records do not tell

CLASS 11 (OLD NCERT)

• Material Remains
• Coins
• Literary Sources
• Foreign Accounts
• Historical Sense
• Inscriptions

CLASS 12

• Back to Basics: How Are Inscriptions Deciphered

1. Deciphering Brahmi
2. How Kharosthi was Read
3. Historical Evidence from Inscriptions

• The Limitations of Inscriptional Evidence
• The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
• Explaining Social Differences: A Social Contract
• Handling Texts: Historians and the Mahabharata

1. Language and Content
2. Author(s) and Dates
3. The Search for Convergence