History

The Maratha Empire for exams: Shivaji and the Ashtapradhan, chauth and sardeshmukhi, the rise of the Peshwas, the confederacy, Panipat 1761 and the three Anglo-Maratha wars.

Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, mansabdari and the dahsala revenue system, the three battles of Panipat, and the empire that owned the richest coast in Asia but never built a navy.

Five dynasties in 320 years, because the Sultanate never had a law of succession. The order, the rulers, the administration, three traps and the sultan who fixed the price of horses.

Ashoka wrote his own edicts; the Guptas had a court poet write for them, on the very same pillar. Rulers, the Prayag Prashasti, administration, the golden age and three traps.

One Mauryan king had his own words carved into rock, and that single fact shapes the whole chapter. Rulers, edicts, scripts, Dhamma, administration and Mauryan art.

The Middle Path against extreme austerity, and what follows from it. Founders side by side, the five vows, the four Buddhist Councils and the five traps candidates fall for.

Harappan sites and their finds in one table, the 1:2:4 brick ratio, the undeciphered script, Dholavira’s World Heritage dossier and why the cities declined.

Stop memorising dates. Almost every Indian movement answered a specific British action — learn the pairs and the dates arrange themselves. Full 1885–1947 table, three phases and practice questions.