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Ancient India
Indus Valley Civilisation: Archeology of India - D.P. Aggarwal.
Vedic Age: Political and Social Institutions
of Ancient India - R. S.Sharma.
Religion and Culture: Wonder that was India - A.L. Basam.
Pre Maurya: Material, Culture
and Social formation in Ancient India -R..S. Sharma.
Mauryas: Ashoka and Decline of the Maurya - Romila Thapar.
Guptas:
S.R Goyal.
South Indian history: K Nilkantha Sastri or M.A. History of Annamalai University--correspondence notes.
Guptas
and Harsha: Harsha, a Political Study - Devahuti
IGNOU Booklets on Ancient India
* Medieval India
For Delhi Sultanate: (.Comprehensive History of the Sultanate - K.A.Nizami
Mughals: Foundation of Muslim Rule in India - A. B. M. Habibulah
Art, Culture and Religion: Wonder that was India,
Vol II - S. A. A. Rizvi.
Social life and Cultural life of both Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India:An Advanced Study of Medieval
India. Vol III - J.L. Mehta
Sources of History: Gazetteer of India, Vol. II and Rau's Study Material.
Shivaji: Gazetteer
of India- Vol II. + Medieval India - Satish Chandra
Feudal period: Feudalism in India - R.S. Sharma.
Some aspects
of Medieval History - U. N. Dey
IGNOU Booklets on Medieval India
* Modern
India
A New look into the Modern Indian
History - Grover and Grover.
Economic History of British India: Gazetteer of India, Vol. II. + Economic History of India
- Sardesai
Freedom Struggle - Bipan Chandra and others.
Tribal Movement, Peasant Movement, Swadeshi Movement: Modern
India: 1885-1947 - Sumit Sarkar
. IGNOU Booklets on Modren India
* World History:
European History - L. Mukherjee
Europe since
Napolean - David Thompson.
World Civilisation - Vol. II, and starting part of Vol. Ill of Burns and Burns
Book list from Source-2
Compulsory reading
1. What
is History E.H. Carr
2. Historian's Craft Marc Block
3. The Past and the
present Lawrence Stone
Having read these books, you can confidently move
for Interview.
Additional reading
Ancient India
1. Ancient India (NCERT) Prof. R.S. Sharma
2. The Wonder That was India
A.L. Basham
3. Ancient India - An Introductory Outline D.N. Jha
4. History of India,
Vol. I Romila Thapar
5. Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India
R.S.
Sharma (only Conclusion)
6. Material culture & Social Formation in Ancient India R.S. Sharma
7. Indian
Feudalism R.S. Sharma
8. Ashoka & Decline of the Maurya Romila Thapar
9. A
History of South India K.A. Nilkantha Sastri
10Ancient India and Indian Archaeology
Archaeological Survey of India
Medieval India
1. Medieval India (NCERT) Satish Chandra
2. Medieval India (Macmillan)
Satish Chandra
3.The Wonder That was India (Vol.2) S.A.A. Rizvi
4.The Agrarian System of Mughal India
1556-1707 Irfan Habib
5.The Mughal Empire J.F. Richards
6.Urban
Dynamics H.C. Verma
7.The Marathas Gordon
Modern India
1.Modern India (NCERT) Bipan
Chandra
2.Modern India (Macmillan) Sumit Sarkar
3.Anatomy of the Raj (PPH) Suhash
Chakravarty
4.The Raj Syndrome (Penguins) Suhash Chakravarty
5.VAID's Fundamentals of History Series
a.Administrative History Pravin Kumar
b.Constitutional History
Pravin Kumar
c.Social History Pravin Kumar
d.Freedom Struggle
Pravin Kumar
6.Peasant Movements in India D.N. Dhanagare
7.India's Struggle for Independence
Bipan Chandra and others
8.Gandhi B.R. Nanda
9.Gandhi Judith Brown
10. Freedom
Struggle (NbT) Bipan Chandra & others
World
History
1.The story of Civilization, Vol. 2 (NCERT) Arjun
Dev
2.Contemporary World History (NCERT) Arjun Dev & others
3.The Mainstream of Civilization
Strayer, Gatzke & Harbison
4.Western Civilizations Burns & others
5.Industry & Empire
E.J. Hobsbawm
6.Age of Revolution E.J. Hobsbawm
7.Age of Capital E.J. Hobsbawm
8.Age
of Empires E.J. Hobsbawm
9.Social basis of Democracy & Dictatorship B.J. Moore
10.Europe
Since Napoleon David Thompson
11.Europe Since 1815 W.C. Craig
12.Europe Since 1870
James Joll.
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