Chapter 1

What, Where, How and When?

What Can We Know About the Past?

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Where Did People Live?

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Names of the Land

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Finding Out About the Past

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Chapter 2

From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food

The Earliest People: Why Were They on the Move?

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How Do We Know About These People?

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Choosing a Place to Live In

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Making Stone Tools

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Finding Out About Fire

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Chapter 3

In the Earliest Cities

The Story of Harappa

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What Was Special About These Cities?

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Houses, Drains and Streets

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Life in the City

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New Crafts in the City

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Chapter 4

What Books and Burials Tell Us

One of the Oldest Books in the World

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How Historians Study the Rigveda

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Cattle, Horses and Chariots

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Words to Describe People

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Chapter 5

Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic

How Some Men Became Rulers

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Varnas

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Janapadas

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Mahajanapadas

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Taxes

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Chapter 6

New Questions and Ideas

The Story of the Buddha

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Upanishads

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Jainism

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The Sangha

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Monasteries

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Chapter 7

Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War

A Very Big Kingdom = An Empire

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How Are Empires Different from Kingdoms?

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Ruling the Empire

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The Emperor and the Capital City

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Chapter 8

Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

Iron Tools and Agriculture

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Other Steps to Increase Production: Irrigation

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Who Lived in the Villages?

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Findings About Cities: Stories, Travellers, Sculpture and Archaeology

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Coins

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Chapter 9

Traders, Kings and Pilgrims

How to Find Out About Trade and Traders

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New Kingdoms Along the Coasts

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The Story of the Silk Route

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The Spread of Buddhism

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Chapter 10

New Empires and Kingdoms

Prashastis and What They Tell Us

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Samudragupta's Prashasti

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Genealogies

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Harshavardhana and the Harshacharita

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The Pallavas, Chalukyas and Pulakeshin's Prashasti

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