History KPSC - Kids writeup

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34092982/History   Good link for the syllabus below.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/58872813?secret_password=ok28s9lh9dr7fbkuao3


http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/history/harappa.htm

Create a single page on each section below.
Copy text from the web page - put into note pad and then Ctrl-C , and paste to Word doc. ( I can do the pdf doc ), Change complex words to simple words.

Page 1 on Harappa & Mohenjodaro
Page 2: Vedic I
Page 3 :Vedic II
Page 4:  Alexander
Page 5 : Maurya
Page 6 : Pre-Gupta ( or Small Kingdoms )
Page 7 : Gupta
Page 8 : Post Gupta

History (Subject Code -13)

PAPER-I

Section - A: History of India (Down to A.D. 750)

i. The Indus Civilisation ( Harappa and Mohenjodaro )

Origins : Extent; Characteristic features, Major cities. Trade and contacts, causes

of decline, Survival and continuity.

ii. The Vedic Age

Vedic literature, Geographical area known to Vedic Texts, Differences and

similarities between Indus civilization and Vedic culture, Political, Social and

Economic patterns, Major religious ideas and rituals.

iii The Pre-Maurya Period

Religious movements (Jainism, Buddhism and other sects), Social and economic

conditions, Republics and growth of Magadha imperialism.

iv The Maurya Empire

Sources, Rise, Extent and fall of the empire; Administration. Social and economic

conditions, Ashoka’s policy and reforms.

v. The Post-Maurya period (200 B.C. - 300 A.D.)

Principal dynasties in Northern and Sourthem India, Economy and Society;

Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tamil, Religion (Rise of Mahayana and Theitic cults), Art

(Gandhara, Mathura and other schools), Contacts with Central Asia.

vi. The Gupta Age

Rise and fall of the Gupta Empire, the vakatakas, Administration, Soceity,

Economic, literature, art and religion, Contacts with South East Asia.

vii. Post Gupta Period (500 - 750 A.D.)

Pushyabhutis, The Mukharis, The later Guptas, Harsha Vardhana and his times,

Chalukyas of Badami, The Pallavas; Society administration and art. The Arab

conquest.

viii. General review of science and technology, education and learning.

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The American and French revolutions, Their significance and message, the Vienna
settlement and the age of reaction, Romantic revival, Hegel and German Idealism,
The Victorian era in England, Bourgeois liberalism.
6. The industrial revolution, Growth of the factory system, The classical economist
and utilitarian philosophers, the revolutions of 1830/32 and 1848 Utopian-socialism,
Karl marx’s scientific socialism, Working class movements, and social legislations,
Nationalism in Europe, Unification of Italy and Germany, Civil war in America,
Colonialism in Afro-Asian countries, Cases of China and Japan. The Ottoman
empire.
7. Neo-lmperialism in Europe, The Eastern question, Partition of Africa, The formation
of the Triple Alliance, The welding of the Entente Europe in two camps.
8. The First World War, Paris peace conference , League of Nations; New trends in
cultural fields, Darwin, Einstein and Froud, Philosophical Reflections of the theories
of evolution, relativity and quantum mechanics, New trends in literature.
9. The Russian revolution, Socialism in one country, Fascism in Italy, Nazism in
Germany, The great depression, milestones to the second world war.
11. U.N.O. Cold war, Afro - Asian resurgence, Detente, The Contemporary scene.
Star Wars, Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika, Collapse of U.S.S.R. and
process of Globalisation.




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