Ancient and Medieval History, Art and Culture

Delhi Sultanate (1206 to 1526)

A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained ancient/medieval history or art history. Later chapters assume the earlier chronological context; History optional and practical arts training are outside scope.

Includes

• Selected explanatory readings, images/maps and source extracts
• Brief chronology or comparison notes
• Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review

Separate time needed

• Subsequent spaced revision and full mock examinations
• Reading every reference book and optional exercise in full
• Exclude architectural style surveys and detailed Sufi doctrine, which have separate Culture budgets.

Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 2 Kings and Kingdoms ↗

  ch. 2 Kings and Kingdoms, The Emergence of New Dynasties; Warfare for Wealth (Gangas of Orissa, Jagannatha), pp. 4-6 (printed 19-21)

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 7 The Making of Regional Cultures ↗

  ch. 7 The Making of Regional Cultures, Rulers and Religious Traditions: The Jagannatha Cult, pp. 2-3 (printed 80-81)

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 5 Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities ↗

  ch. 5 Tribes, Nomads and Settled Communities, A Closer Look (the Ahoms), pp. 7-9 (printed 55-57)

• UNESCO World Heritage Convention: India, properties inscribed on the World Heritage List (with inscription years) and Tentative List ↗

  Cultural properties: Moidams, the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty (2024)

• History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗

  Chapters 6–8 and 10: Sultanate institutions and later regional states; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗

  Lesson 10, Sultanate sections

• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 3 Delhi: 12th to 15th Century ↗

  Rulers, sources, expansion and administration

• History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗

  Chapters 6–8 and 10: Sultanate institutions and later regional states; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.

  Book required