Teaching India
Using India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent for teaching? Check out these supplementary materials (public domain or fair use) that pair well with the book!
General Resources
Map Quiz documents
Caste System Diagram
Resources by Chapter (chap. 12 forward)
Seeking God or Fame, 1500–1550 (India, chap. 12)
Baburnama and Jahangirnama excerpts (also useful with chap. 14)
Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives in Early Modern India (India, chap. 13)
Tilted empire (corresponds with India, p. 242)
Jahangir at Jharoka Window (fig. 13.1), Aga Khan Collection
Brahmin and Mughal Translators (fig. 13.2), Free Library of Philadelphia
Kusha and Lava in Persian Ramayana (fig. 13.3), Museum of Islamic Art
Saraswati Enthroned (fig. 13.4), Jaipur City Palace
Religious Communities and Elite Culture, 1600–1650 (India, chap. 14)
Baburnama and Jahangirnama excerpts (also useful with chap. 12)
Aurangzeb’s Empire and Two Shudra Lineages (India, chap. 15)
Aurangzeb visiting Muinuddih Chishti’s Shrine (fig. 15.1), Mead Art Museum
Aurangzeb at the Siege of Golconda (fig. 15.2), Brown University Library
Full translation of Shahji’s Take my Wife play
Regional Flourishing, 1720–1780 (India, chap. 16)
Muhammad Shah Rangila playing Holi (fig. 16.1), Los Angeles County Museum of art
Second image of Muhammad Shah playing Holi, fol. 22a, Oxford
Palace of Maharaj of Indore in Benares (fig. 16.2)
Company Bahadur (India, chap. 17)
Short video showing playing of Tipu’s Tiger
Sepoy Rebellion (India, chap. 18)
Poetry and prose that speaks to perceptions of the British and rebelling Sepoys
Knowing India and Indians, 1860–1900 (India, chap. 19)
Primary sources on Rukhmabai and Age of Consent Bill debates
Indians on the Move, 1880–1920 (India, chap. 20)
SAADA primary source documents on the 1907 Bellingham race riot
Advocating for Independence, Nationalism, and Equal Rights (India, chap. 21)
Excerpts by Mohandas Gandhi on meaning of swaraj (1909) and defining Hinduism (1921)
Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste, text only and Arundhati Roy edition
Dividing India in 1947 (India, chap. 22)
1947 Partition Archive with Individual Stories
Select Manto short stories (Open It, Cold Meat, Toba Tek Singh)