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
Map Quiz - Premodern (pre-1500) and Modern (post-1500), w/ answers
Caste System Diagram
India Resources by Chapter
*chapters 12–24 complete; chapters 1–11 in progress fall 2026
1. Indus Valley Civilization, 2600–1900 BCE
Harappa.com, especially around “Indus in 90 slides” as a primary source (part 1 and part 2)
2. Ancient Migrants and Vedic Practices
Video on Vedic memorization techniques (4 ½ minutes)
Excerpts from Rig Veda books 2-3 (Jamison and Brereton trans)
Chapters 3–11 forthcoming…
12. Seeking God or Fame, 1500–1550
Baburnama and Jahangirnama excerpts (also useful with chap. 14)
Baburnama select images:
Drunken Babur Returns to Camp at Night, Lahore
Babur visiting Ashram near Peshawar, Walters image and V and A image
Walters Museum manuscript with many image
13. Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives in Early Modern India
Tilted empire map (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
14. Religious Communities and Elite Culture, 1600–1650
Baburnama and Jahangirnama excerpts (also useful with chap. 12)
Jahangir embracing Shah Abbas (fig. 14.1), Smithsonian
Jahangir visiting Jadrup: fig. 14.2 Louvre and LACMA
15. Aurangzeb’s Empire and Two Shudra Lineages
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
16. Regional Flourishing, 1720–1780
Muhammad Shah Rangila playing Holi: fig. 16.1 LACMA and fol. 22a Oxford
Palace of Maharaj of Indore in Benares (fig. 16.2)
17. Company Bahadur
Short video showing playing of Tipu’s Tiger
18. Sepoy Rebellion
Poetry and prose that speak to perceptions of the British and rebelling Sepoys in 1857–58
19. Knowing India and Indians, 1860–1900
Primary sources on Rukhmabai and Age of Consent Bill debates
Images of princes and 1911 durbar in Venugopal’s Historical Record
20. Indians on the Move, 1880–1920
SAADA primary source documents on the 1907 Bellingham race riot
Ramabai’s The High-Caste Hindu Woman
21. Advocating for Independence, Nationalism, and Equal Rights
Excerpts by Mohandas Gandhi on the meaning of swaraj (1909) and defining Hinduism (1921)
Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste, text only and Arundhati Roy edition
22. Dividing India in 1947
1947 Partition Archive with Individual Stories
Margaret Bourke-White Partition images from Life Magazine
Select Manto short stories (Open It, Cold Meat, Toba Tek Singh)
Sunderlal Report, on 1948 Indian annexation of Hyderabad (nicely typed version)
23. New Nation States, 1947–1990
ABC news footage from November 1971 covering village massacre in East Pakistan/Bangladesh
Mandal Commission Report (1980)
24. Everyday Life in Contemporary South Asia
BBC’s India: The Modi Question (2023 documentary)
Human rights reports on India: Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, USCIRF
Indexes for South Asian nations showing hunger, democratic health, freedom, freedom of the press, and academic freedom