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HISTORY
Subject
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History
(For under graduate student)
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Paper-I
History of India
Topic No. & Title
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Topic-2
Sources of the Ancient Indian
History
Lecture No. & Title
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Lecture-1
Study of Sources of
Ancient Indian History
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GLOSSARY
Battle of Plassey:
Battle in 1757 in Plassey between Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula
and the British East India Company; Siraj-ud-Daulah was
defeated and the British East India Company established
its rule over Bengal.
Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daulah (1733 – 1757):
Last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, the
end of whose reign marks the start of the rule of the
British East India Company.
Battle of Kalinga:
A war fought in 265 BC between the Mauryan Empire
under Asoka and the state of Kalinga, (a feudal republic
located on the coast of the present-day Orissa). Asoka
emerged victorious but thereafter gave up waging wars
and embraced Buddhism.
Asoka (304–232 BC):
Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya and son of Bindusara;
he was a powerful emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, and
ruled from 269 BC to 232 BC.
Edicts:
Promulgation of certain instructions, almost like law or
like present day ordinances.
Historiography:
Study of the evolution of history writing.
Archaeological Sources:
Artifacts that are unearthed from beneath the soil or
even from the surface.
Harappan Civilization:
A Bronze Age civilization discovered along the Indus
the
Indian sub-continent;
it was
believed to
in
have
flourished over a period of 2200 years between 3500 B.C.
and 1300 B.C.
Arthasastra:
An ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy
and
military
strategy
presumed
to
be
written
Chanakya.
Stupa:
A mould-like structure containing Buddhist relics.
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