Product Description
▼📘 DRISHTI IAS Modern Indian History – History Optional Course | English Medium
- ✅ 16 chapters covering Modern Indian History
- ✅ European expansion and development of British colonial rule
- ✅ Economic policies, reforms and peasant and tribal uprisings
- ✅ Freedom movement, Gandhian nationalism and constitutional developments
- ✅ Post-independence politics, social change and development
📖 About This Book
Drishti Publications' Modern Indian History is an English-medium study resource for aspirants preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Mains – History Optional. It covers european expansion and development of british colonial rule; economic policies, reforms and peasant and tribal uprisings; freedom movement, gandhian nationalism and constitutional developments, in a systematic format suited to subject study and revision.
🎯 Why Study This Book?
The content is organized for History Optional preparation with clearly grouped historical themes and topics. It supports systematic coverage and revision of the subjects shown in the provided book preview.
🗂️ Table of Contents
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European Penetration into India
- Early European Settlements
- Acquisition of Bengal
- Battle of Plassey
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British Expansion in India
- Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim
- Battle of Buxar
- Marathas
- Mysore
- Punjab
- Subsidiary Alliance
- Doctrine of Lapse
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Early Structure of the British Raj
- Administrative Structure
- Diarchy
- Important Acts
- Free Trade and Colonial Rule
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Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule
- Land Revenue Settlements
- Landless Labourers
- Traditional Trade
- Famine and Poverty
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Social and Cultural Developments
- Education
- Western Education
- Press and Literature
- Science
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Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas
- Reformers
- Women's Emancipation
- Islamic and Sikh Reform Movements
- Backward Caste Movements
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Peasant Movement and Tribal Uprisings (18th and 19th Centuries)
- Peasant and Tribal Movements
- Revolt of 1857
- Post-1857 Movements
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Birth of Indian Nationalism
- Early Political Associations
- Indian National Congress
- Moderates and Extremists
- Swadeshi Movement
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Gandhi and Indian Nationalism
- Home Rule
- Rowlatt Act
- Khilafat
- Non-Cooperation
- Civil Disobedience
- Quit India
- Cabinet Mission
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Constitutional Developments during British Raj
- East India Company Rule
- Development of Self-Government
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Indian Revolutionaries
- Early and Later Phases
- Evaluation of Revolutionary Extremism
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Left Movement in India
- Rise of Left Movement
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Other Left Parties
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Politics of Separatism
- Communalism
- Politics of Partition
- Congress and Partition
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Post Independence Indian Politics
- Nehru's Foreign Policy
- India and Neighbours
- National Consolidation
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Caste and Ethnicity in Post Independent India
- Other Backward Classes
- Scheduled Castes and Tribes
- Dalits
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Development in Post Independent India
- Land Reforms
- Planning and Rural Reconstruction
- Ecology and Environment
- Science
Suitable For: UPSC CSE Mains History Optional and other civil services aspirants studying the relevant history topics.
Included: 1 individual book – Modern Indian History.
DRISHTI IAS Modern Indian History – History Optional Course, Class Note, English Medium
