1. European Penetration into India:

• The Early European Settlements
• The Portuguese and the Dutch
• The English and the French East India Companies and their struggle for supremacy
• Carnatic Wars
• Bengal-The conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English
• The Battle of Plassey and its significance

2. British Expansion in India:

• Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim
• The Battle of Buxar
• Battle of Mysore
• The Marathas
• The three Anglo-Maratha Wars
• British Expansion in Punjab

3. Early Structure of the British Raj:

• The Early administrative structure From diarchy to direct control
• The Regulating Act (1773)
• The Pitt’s India Act (1784)
• The Charter Act (1833)
• The Voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule
• The English utilitarian and India.

4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule:

(on agriculture)

• Land revenue settlements in British India
• The Permanent Settlement
• Ryotwari Settlement
• Mahalwari Settlement
• Economic impact of the revenue arrangements Commercialization of agriculture
• Rise of landless agrarian labourers
• Impoverishment of the rural society

(on traditional industries)

• Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce
• De-industrialization
• Decline of traditional
  crafts
• Drain of wealth
• Economic transformation of India
• Railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services
• Famine and poverty in the rural interior
• European business enterprise and its limitations.

5. Social and Cultural Developments:

• The state of indigenous education and its dislocation
• Orientalist-Anglicist controversy
• The introduction of western education in India
• The rise of press, literature and public opinion
• The rise of modern vernacular literature
• Progress of Science
• Christian missionary activities in India.

6. Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

• Ram Mohan Roy
• The Brahmo Movement
• Devendranath Tagore
• Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
• The Young Bengal Movement
• Dayanada Saraswati
• The social reform movements in India
• Sati
• widow remarriage
• child marriage
• The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India
• Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.

7. Indian Response to British Rule:

• Peasant movement and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Rangpur Dhing (1783)
• Kol Rebellion (1832)
• Mopla Rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920)
• Santal Hul (1855)
• Indigo Rebellion (1859-60)
• Deccan Uprising (1875)
• Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900)
• The Great Revolt of 1857 —Origin, character, casuses of failure, the consequences
• The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s.