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Introduction: How, When and Where
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How Important are Dates?
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Which dates?
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How do we periodise?
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What is Colonial?
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How do We Know?
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Administration produces records
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Surveys become important
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What official records do not tell
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Chapter test 1
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From trade to territory
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Introduction
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East India Company Comes East
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How Trade Led to Battles
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The Battle of Plassey
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Aftermath of the Battle of Plassey
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Company Officials Become “Nabobs”
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Company Rule Expands
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Tipu Sultan
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War with the Marathas
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The Claim to Paramountcy
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Doctrine of Lapse
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Setting Up a New Administration
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The Company Army
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Conclusion
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Chapter test 1
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Ruling the countryside
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The Company Becomes the Diwan
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Revenue for the Company
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The Need to Improve Agriculture
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The Problem
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A New System is Devised
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The Munro System
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All Was Not Well
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Crops for Europe
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Does color have history?
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Why the Demand for Indian Indigo?
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Britain Turns to India
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How Was Indigo Cultivated?
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The Problem with Nij Cultivation
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Indigo on the Land of Ryots
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How Was Indigo Produced?
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The Blue Rebellion
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Chapter test 1
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Tribals, dikus and vision of golden age
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Introduction
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How did Tribal Groups Live?
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Some were jhum cultivators
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Some were hunters and gatherers
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Some herded animals
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Some took to settled cultivation
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How did Colonial Rule Affect Tribal Lives?
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What happened to tribal chiefs?
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What happened to shifting cultivators?
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Forest laws and their impact
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The problem with trade
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The search for work
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A Closer Look: Birsa Munda
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Birsa Munda (continued)
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Chapter test 1
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When People Revolt 1857 and After
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Policies and the People
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Nawabs Lose Their Power
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The Peasants and the Sepoys
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Responses to Reforms
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Through the Eyes of the People
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A Mutiny Becomes a Popular Uprising
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From Meerut to Delhi
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The Uprising Spreads
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The Company Fights Back
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Aftermath
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The Khurda Uprising – A Case Study
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Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation
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How the British saw Education
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The Tradition of Orientalism
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Grave Errors of the East
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Education for Commerce
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The Demand for Moral Education
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What happened to local schools?
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The report of William Adam
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New Routines, New Rules
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The Agenda for a National Education
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English Education Has Enslaved Us
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Tagore’s “Abode of Peace”
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Women, Caste and Reform
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Introduction
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Working Towards Change
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Changing the Lives of Widows
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Girls Begin Going to School
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Women Write About Women
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Caste and Social Reform
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Demands for Equality and Justice
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Gulamgiri
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Who Could Enter Temples?
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The Non-Brahman Movement
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Organising for Reform
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Chapter test 1
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The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947
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The Emergence of Nationalism
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A Nation in the Making
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Freedom is our Birthright
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The Growth of Mass Nationalism
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The Advent of Mahatma Gandhi
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The Rowlatt Satyagraha
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Khilafat Agitation and the Non-Cooperation Movement
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People’s Initiatives
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The People’s Mahatma
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The Happenings of 1922–1929
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Revolutionary Nationalists and Bhagat Singh
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The March to Dandi
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Bose and the INA
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Quit India and Later (1942–1945)
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The Demand for Pakistan
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Chapter test 1
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Chapter test 3