• Arrival and Establishment of the Portuguese East India Company
• Arrival and Establishment of the Dutch East India Company
• Arrival and Establishment of the British East India Company
• Arrival and Establishment of the French East India Company
• Arrival and Establishment of the Danish East India Company
• Why Did the English Outperform Other European Powers?

• Bengal
• Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Supremacy
• The Subsidiary Alliance System
• Second Phase of British
• Expansion In India
• The Conquest of Sindh
• Anglo-Sikh Wars
• Doctrine of Lapse
• Annexation of Oudh

• The Dual System
• The Charter Acts
• Judicial System
• Impact of British Administration

• Phase of Mercantilism (1757-1813)
• Phase of Free Trade (1813-1858)
• Phase of Finance Imperialism (1858 onwards)
• Land Revenue Policy
• Impact of British Policy on Indian Economy
• Drain of Wealth Theory

• Industrialization—Ruin of Artisans and
• Handicrafts men
• Impoverishment of Peasantry
• Emergence of New Land Relations,
• Ruin of Old Zamindars
• Stagnation and Deterioration of Agriculture
• Commercialization of Indian Agriculture
• Development of Modern Industry
• Rise of Indian Bourgeoisie
• Economic Drain
• Famine and Poverty
• Nationalist Critique of Colonial Economy

Abolition of the Dual System

• Causes of the Revolt
• Economic Causes
• Political Causes
• Administrative Causes
• Socio-Religious Causes
• Influence of Outside Events
• Discontent Among Sepoys
• Centres and Spread of the Revolt
• Leaders of the Revolt
• Causes of Failure of the Revolt
• Nature and Impact of the Revolt
• Consequences

• Administration – Central, Provincial, Local
• Changes in the Army
• Public Services
• Princely States
• Foreign Policy

• Indian Civil Services Act, 1861
• Aitcision Committee on Public Services (1886)
• Montford Reforms (1919)
• Lee Commission (1924)
• Government of India Act, 1935

• Charter Act of 1813
• Orientalist-Anglicism Controversy
• Efforts of Thomson
• Wood’s Dispatch (1854) Hunter Education
• Commission (1882-83)
• Indian Universities Act, 1904
• Government Resolution
• on Education Policy—1913
• Saddler University Commission (1917-19)
• Education Under Dyarchy
• Hartog Committee (1929)
• Wardha Scheme of Basic Education (1937)
• Sergeant Plan of Education
• Kothari Education Commission (1964-66)
• Development of Vernacular Education
• Development of Technical Education
• Evaluation of British Policy on Education

• Different Publications and Journals
• Acts related to Press
• Struggle by Early Nationalists to Secure Press Freedom
• During and After the First World War
• During the Second World War
• After Independence

• Factors causing Reforms
• Directions of reforms
• Hindu Reform Movements
• Reform Movements Among Muslims
• Sikh Reform Movement
• Parsi Reform Movement
• Parsi Religious Reform Association
• Significance of Reform Movements
• Impact of Reform Movements

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Swami Vivekananda
• Swami Dayananda Saraswati
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
• Keshab Chandra Sen
• Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
• Mahadev Govind Ranade
• Annie Besant–Theosophical Society
• Syed Ahmad Khan
• Baba Dayal Das
• Pandita Ramabai Sarojini Naidu
• Jyotiba Phule
• Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

• Tribal Movements
• Peasant Movements

• Early Phase Indian National Congress
• The Moderate Congress (1885-1905)
• Opinion Against Economic Exploitation
• Administrative Reforms Constitutional Reforms: Weaknesses & Evaluation
• The Extremist (1905-1920)
• Differences between the Moderates and the Extremists

• Partition of Bengal (1905)
• Swadeshi Movement
• Muslim League, 1906
• Surat Session of INC, 1907
• Indian Council Act (Morley-Minto Act) 1909
• Ghadar Party, 1913
• Komagata Maru Incident 1914
• The Lucknow Pact (1916)
• Home Rule Movement (1915–1916)
• August Declaration, 1917

• World War I-Reforms and Agitation
• Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
• Ahmadabad Mill Strike (1918)
• Kheda Satyagraha (1918)
• The Government of India Act, 1919
• Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh
• Massacre (1919)
• Khilafat Movement
• The Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22)
• Bardoli Resolution
• Nagpur Session of Congress
• Swaraj Party and its Evaluation
• Muddiman Committee (1924)
• Simon Commission (1927)
• Bardoli Satyagraha (1928)
• Nehru Report (1928)
• Jinnah’s Fourteen Points
• Lahore Session, 1929
• Allahabad Address (1930)

• Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-1931)
• First Round Table Conference, 1930
• Gandhi-Irwin Pact, 1931
• Karachi session of 1931
• Second Round Table Conference, 1931
• Civil Disobedience Movement (Second-Phase)
• Third Round Table Conference
• (17 November 1932)
• Communal Award
• Poona Pact, 1932
• Government of India Act, 1935
• World War II and Indian Nationalism
• Resignation of Congress Ministers (1939)
• Poona Resolution and Conditional Support to Britain (1941)
• August Offer of 1940
• The Individual Civil Disobedience
• Two-Nation Theory
• Demand for Pakistan (1942)
• Cripps Mission (1942)
• Quit India Movement
• Azad Hind Fauj
• Indian National Army
• I.N.A. Trials
• R.I.N. Rebellion
• Rajagopalachari Formula, 1945
• Desai – Liaqat Pact
• Cabinet Mission (1946)
• Wavell Plan
• Jinnah’s Direct Action Resolution
• Mountbatten Plan of June 1947
• Indian Independence Act 1947

• Governor of Bengal (Before 1773)
• Governor Generals of Bengal (1773-1833)
• Governor Generals of India (1832-1858)
• Viceroy and Governor Generals of India (1858-1947)

• Robert Clive (1754-1767)
• Lord Warren Hastings (1773-1785)
• Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)
• Sir John Shore (1793-1798)
• Lord Arthur Wellesley (1798-1805)
• Lord George Barlow (1805-1807)
• Lord Minto-I (1807-1813)
• Francis Rawdon Hastings (1813-1823):
• (Marques of Hastings)
• Lord Amherst (1823-28)
• Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835)
• Sir Charles Metcalfe (1835-1836)
• Lord Auckland (1836-1842)
• Lord Ellenborough (1842-1844)
• Lord Hardinge-I (1844-1848)
• Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856 great
• imperialist and colonist)
• Lord Canning (1856-1857 and 1858-1862)
• Lord Elgin-I (1862-1863)
• Lord Lawrence (1864-1869)
• Lord Mayo (1869-1872)
• Lord Northbrook (1872-1876)
• Lord Lytton (1876-1880)
• Lord Rippon (1880-1884)
• Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)
• Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894)
• Lord Elgin-II (1894-1999)
• Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
• Lord Minto-II (1905-1910)
• Lord Hardinge-II (1910-1916)
• Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)
• Lord Reading (1921-1926)
• Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
• Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)
• Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)
• Lord Wavell (1944-1947)
• Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)

• Regulating Act 1773
• Pitts India Act of 1784
• Charter Act of 1793
• Charter Act of 1813
• Charter Act of 1833
• Charter Act of 1853
• Government of India Act 1858
• The Indian Councils Act 1861