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)
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 images
Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives in Early Modern India (India, chap. 13)
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
Religious Communities and Elite Culture, 1600–1650 (India, chap. 14)
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
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 LACMA and 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 speak to perceptions of the British and rebelling Sepoys in 1857–58
Knowing India and Indians, 1860–1900 (India, chap. 19)
Primary sources on Rukhmabai and Age of Consent Bill debates
Images of princes and 1911 durbar in Venugopal’s Historical Record
Indians on the Move, 1880–1920 (India, chap. 20)
SAADA primary source documents on the 1907 Bellingham race riot
Ramabai’s The High-Caste Hindu Woman
Advocating for Independence, Nationalism, and Equal Rights (India, chap. 21)
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
Dividing India in 1947 (India, chap. 22)
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)
New Nation States, 1947–1990 (India, chap. 23)
ABC news footage from November 1971 covering village massacre in East Pakistan/Bangladesh
Mandal Commission Report (1980)
Everyday Life in Contemporary South Asia (India, chap. 24)
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