Palas, Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas
Whole chapter · 12–18 focused hours
Early medieval north India (750 to 1200)
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
- Delhi Sultanate institutions and campaigns after 1206 are assigned separately; no full religious-history reread.
Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time
- Palas: Gopala's election, Dharmapala (Vikramashila, Somapura), Devapala; Buddhist patronage; Pala art
- Gurjara-Pratiharas: Nagabhata I and II, Mihira Bhoja, Mahendrapala; check on Arab expansion
- Rashtrakutas: Dantidurga, Krishna I (Kailasa temple), Amoghavarsha I (Kavirajamarga), Indra III, Krishna III
- Tripartite struggle for Kanauj and its outcome; Kanauj as the symbol of sovereignty
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 2 Kings and Kingdoms ↗
ch. 2 Kings and Kingdoms, pp. 1-14 (printed 16-29)
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗
Lesson 8 Harsha and Rise of Regional Kingdoms, pp. 128-142 (printed 124-138)
- History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗
Chapters 2, 4 and 5: regional competition, society and conquest; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.
Whole chapter reading
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗
Lesson 8 regional kingdoms and Lesson 10 sections on Arab/Turkish entry before the Delhi Sultanate
- History of Medieval India (Satish Chandra), verified publisher contents ↗
Chapters 2, 4 and 5: regional competition, society and conquest; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.
Book required