How, When and Where
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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East India Company Comes East
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East India Company begins trade in Bengal
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How trade led to battles
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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 - The 'Tiger of Mysore'
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War with the Marathas
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The claim to paramountcy
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The doctrine of lapse
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Setting up a New Administration
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The Company army
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Ruling the Countryside
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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Crops for Europe
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Does colour have a history?
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Why the demand for Indian indigo?
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How was indigo cultivated?
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The 'Blue Rebellion' and After
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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 the 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
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Birsa Munda
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When People Rebel (1857 and After)
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 Rebellion
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From Meerut to Delhi
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The rebellion spreads
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The Company Fights Back
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Aftermath
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Indian Textiles and the World Market
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Words tell us histories
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Indian textiles in European markets
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Who were the weavers?
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The decline of Indian textiles
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Cotton mills come up
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The sword of Tipu Sultan and Wootz steel
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Abandoned furnaces in villages
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Iron and steel factories come up in India
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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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What Happened to the 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
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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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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The happenings of 1922-1929
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The March to Dandi
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Quit India and Later
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Towards Independence and Partition
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