CONTENTS:

Introduction

• 1. Sources
• 2. The Pre-Historic People
• 3. Pre-Historic Races and Cultures in India
• 4. The Harappa Culture
• 5. The Aryans
• 6. The Vedic Literature
• 7. Rigvedic India
• 8. Later Vedic Civilisation
• 9. The Age of the Sutras
• 10. The Epic Age
• 11. The Age of the Dharam Sastra
• 12. The Caste System
• 13. Jainism Buddhism
• 14. Ancient Indian Polity
• 15. Condition of Northern lndia from 6th to 4th Century B.C.
• 16. The Rise of Magdha
• 17. India and Persia
• 18. Alexander?s Invasion of India
• 19. Chandragupta Maurya and Bindusara
• 20. Ashoka
• 21. The Mauryan Administration
• 22. Culture and Civilisation during the Mauryan Age
• 23. The Sungas and Kanvas
• 24. Social, Religious and Cultural Conditions in Post- Mauryan Times (187 B.C. to 320 A.D.)
• 25. The Satavahanas or Andhras
• 26. The Bactrian Greeks in India
• 27. The Sakas and Pallavas
• 28. Rise and Fall of the Kushana Empire
• 29. India and the Western World
• 30. The Nagas
• 31. The Gupta Empire
• 32. lndia during the Gupta Age
• 33. Ajanta, Ellora Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda
• 34. The Vakatakas
• 35. The Maitrakas and Maukharis
• 36. Harshavardhana and His Times
• 37. Northern India After Harsha
• 38. Social and Cultural Conditions of Northern India (650-1000 A.D.)
• 39. The Rashtrakuta
• 40. The Chalukyas
• 41. The Pallavas
• 42. The Cholas
• 43 The Tripartite Struggle for Supremacy
• 44. The Pandyas
• 45. Greater India
• 46. Buddhist Art
• 47. The Sangam Age
• 48. The Contribution of South India to Indian Culture
• 49. Republics in Ancient India
• 50. Appendix
• 51. Modern Historians of Ancient India
• 52. Chronological