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Modern India
The history atlas from 1707 to 1975 in 24 themes. Each theme is a run of events, and each event opens on a map whose phases show where things happened and how they spread, with infographics, the people and terms to know and, in some themes, a Mains debate.
Part AThe British conquest
1707 to 1857
- 1The Mughal decline and the regional powers1707 to 1761 · from the death of Aurangzeb to the Third Battle of Panipat
- 2The European trading companies1498 to 1765 · from Vasco da Gama to the eve of empire
- 3The Carnatic Wars1746 to 1763 · the English and the French fight for the Coromandel coast
- 4The conquest of Bengal1756 to 1772 · from Siraj ud Daula to the end of the dual government
- 5The wars of expansion1767 to 1856 · Mysore, the Marathas and the Sikhs
- 6Instruments of expansion and the frontiers1798 to 1893 · subsidiary alliance, doctrine of lapse, and the wars at the edges
- 7Resistance before 18571763 to 1856 · deposed rulers, peasants and tribes against Company rule
- 8The Revolt of 1857May 1857 to April 1859 · from Meerut to the end of the Company
Part BAwakening and early nationalism
1857 to 1915
- 9Socio religious reform movements1815 to 1929 · reformers, their societies and the laws they won
- 10Rise of organised nationalism1838 to 1905 · from regional associations to the Congress and the Moderates
- 11Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi1903 to 1911 · Curzon's partition and the first mass movement
- 12Revolutionary nationalism, first phase1897 to 1915 · secret societies at home and centres abroad
Part CThe Gandhian era
1893 to 1947
- 13Gandhi in South Africa1893 to 1915 · the making of a method
- 14The First World War years1914 to 1919 · Home Rule, Gandhi's first satyagrahas, Rowlatt and Jallianwala Bagh
- 15Khilafat and Non Cooperation1919 to 1931 · the first mass movement and the decade after it
- 16Civil Disobedience1930 to 1934 · the salt march, the round tables and the Poona Pact
- 17The Left in the national movement1920 to 1942 · communists, trade unions, socialists and the Tripuri crisis
- 18Caste movements and the depressed classes1902 to 1956 · non Brahmin movements, temple satyagrahas, Ambedkar and Gandhi
- 19Peasant, worker, tribal and princely state movements1859 to 1951 · the movements of the countryside, the forests, the mills and the states
- 20Quit India and the INA1935 to 1946 · ministries, war, Quit India, Netaji and the last mutinies
- 21Communal politics and the Muslim League1887 to 1946 · from separate electorates to the Pakistan resolution
- 22Partition and independence1946 to 1947 · from the Cabinet Mission to the Radcliffe line
- 23Women, capitalists, foreigners and others1857 to 1947 · the sections of society in the national movement
Part DAfter 1947
1947 to 1975
Maps are drawn on the Survey of India outline used across VidBodh; maps that leave the subcontinent use a world base with India shown as the Survey of India depicts it. Coloured glows show where a power held sway, a movement spread or tribute was collected; they are not borders.