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Summary This course will discuss NCERT Class 6 and NCERT Class 12 Part one together. These two books cover ancient Indian history. Ancient History is one among the must read subject to cracking CSE. Understanding The Ancient History is presented by Nandini Mahara$8.29
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Summary This course will discuss NCERT Class 6 and NCERT Class 12 Part one together. These two books cover ancient Indian history. Ancient History is one among the must read subject to cracking CSE. Understanding The Ancient History is presented by Nandini Mahara
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This course will discuss NCERT Class 6 and NCERT Class 12 Part one together. These two books cover ancient Indian history. Ancient History is one among the must read subject to cracking CSE. Understanding The Ancient History is presented by Nandini Maharaj. As the course starts one will gain an int...
Hi guys, in this course I will be talking about Ancient Indian history
strictly from the NCRT. This is a little bit about me, I am Nandini and I
did my undergrad in history on earth. I have discussed NCRT class 6 and
class 12 part 1 because these two talks specifically about Ancient Indian
history and I haven't exactly followed the way NCRT talks about history,
it is more themeatic and I have spoken a little bit more about
chronologically and empire why so that is I find that it is a little bit
easier to remember from the CSE point of view not from you know having an
overarching understanding of the themeatic and social changes that were
happening which is how the NCRT deals with it. So I have tried to compile
the information from these two books and present them in a way that
focuses more on answering brilliant questions. And the lesson list is
there is one lesson on prehistoric south Asia which overlaps a little bit
with the hair of principleization but a repensibilization has a full
lesson all to itself. There is one on Vedic literature which is not from
the NCRT is exactly but I thought that that is another important topic
that is really needed otherwise rest are covered in the NCRT. And there
are two lessons on early states and societies in which I talked from all
the megadhan empire up till the up till the Palavas and Chalukyas and the
last lesson is on Buddhism and Jellism and I really really urge you to
watch that because that is important from the Ancient Indian history for
review and the art and culture point of view. I just like to clarify
these two terms a little bit so AD and BC were being used before had
talking about the ton of the century. AD stood for anodomini and BC stood
for before Christ and that BC is before the birth of Christ and AD is
after the birth of Christ. But now we don't use these terms anymore we
speak in terms of BC, BC and CE before common era and common era. So
these are just the same terms just more secular. So I will be using the
terms BC, and that is what the NCRT is used and in case you have to write
an answer in history I urge you to use these terms because this is what
we use now before common era and common era. And that is all and I hope
you enjoy the course to come. Hi guys today we will be talking a little
bit about prehistoric South Asia what prehistory is and a little bit of
introduction to the Karapan civilization. There is a little bit about me,
I am Nandini and I have done a grandan history. So prehistory and history
the differences between written and non written sources. For prehistory
we do not have written records for history we do have written records.
But for a little bit for grey areas like the Harapan civilization for
which we do have written sources but they are not deciphered we use the
top protohistry. The first part about human history are the stone ages
which is which is when we started using stone tools and stone technology.
So these are the paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic ages and they are
based on say divisions of geologically age type and style of tool
technology etc but don't get to in-world in this just concentrate a
little bit on the timeline. So the three stone ages which are both
lithically thick which do rise from the word stone which means the word
stone are paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. Then there was the
Chalcolythic age which defined the first use of copper and the Harapan
civilization was from this age which means that was before the Iron Age
remember that Harapan is Chalcolythic no iron was found during Harapan
civilization and then finally we have written sources from say 600 BC E.
Now the three stone ages paleolithic is the oldest and the longest stone
age from 2002 million years ago, empire is million years ago, 2012 and a
site in India is Hunksy and interestingly there were ostriches found in
, India that time and people even made craft material out of ostrich eggs
and then there was a Mesolithic age which was 12000 to 10000 years ago
and importantly for India art, Mesolithic art was found in Bhimbethka.
This is one of the oldest arts found in the world so you can really go
and google pictures of Bhimbethka and see the amazing art that there is
from there and small stone tools were found there, micro, lits, micro
means small lits means tools that means paleolithic had big stone tools.
Neolithic is the most recent stone age and it started from about 10000
years ago and continue in different times and different parts of the
world and it neolithic ages when agriculture, domestication etc began and
these are some of the sites of India which you can see if you are
interested. Now the people in prehistoric south Asia were mostly hunter-
catherers and there is an example of a settlement near Nerve the
agriculture is found very rarely and importantly we have rice grown in
India as 8000 years ago this is one of the earliest calculations of rice
and there is some more neolithic age sites and so the source is how we
identify these sites is either the people lived there or they may in
tools over there so that is factory and habitations sites but that is not
really important for us to remember from the civil basis example in the
few unless you are taking history as an option and these sites were
really close to water bodies and but has fire was also used as evidence
from the cool no-l caves. Now the Harapan civilization was it is called
Harapan because Harapava was the first discovered site this is the
general trend of neeming civilization across the world and from 6000 to
1900 BC was the mature Harapan faith which is when the civilization was
in full swing and before and afterward the early phase when the
civilization was developing and the later phase when the civilization was
dying down and it was from Afghanistan to Gujarat here we can see the
spread so it covers nearly all of Pakistan large parts of India and off
of Afghanistan as well. So the discovery of Harapava was announced in
1924 by John Marshall the director general of archaeological survey of
India and he found that Harapava is contemporaneous with the Mesopotamia
which was really exciting news because still then we didn't know that
there was any civilization as old as Mesopotamia and just before John
Marshall Alexander Cunningham who was the first director of
archaeological survey of India. He had come across many Harapan artifacts
but he only understood in his to begin from the time of Mahajan Padas and
Rigveda not before that. So he just sort of discarded those artifacts
could not fit them in the then known time frame of South Asia and was not
able to see the amazing bits of history that were right in front of him
but thankfully for us John Marshall came across and announced Harapava.
We will talk a little bit more about the Harapan civilization in the next
episode of presentation so please do watch it. Thank you. Hi guys today
we are going to continue with studying the Harapan civilization and
please watch this video after you have seen the previous video because it
is in continuation. This is a little bit about me I am Nandini and I have
done my graduation in history. So what did the Harapan eat? This may not
sound that interesting but we have to do it for some specific because
some specific questions are asked in UPSC from this. So they ate plants
and animal and fish this is not that important but how they grew their
food irrigation arrangements. So there were khanas at short a guy of
Ghanistan and there was a plowed field at Kali Bangan. They do ask these
things and mash the following. As we go on more and more you will
understand what I mean and there was a water reservoir at Hola Vira.
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