Ancient and Medieval History, Art and Culture

Maratha state formation and early European trade

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
• Modern History owns European rivalry and Company conquest after 1700. Its recap of Panipat should reuse this foundation, not repeat this budget.

Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume II (lessons 12 to 19), full text ↗

  Lesson 15 The Marathas, 15.2 Shivaji; 15.4 Maratha Administration (forts and the army), pp. 66-71 (printed 62-67)

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

  Cultural properties: Maratha Military Landscapes of India (2025)

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume II (lessons 12 to 19), full text ↗

  Lesson 15, The Marathas: named institution or succession context

• Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume II (lessons 12 to 19), full text ↗

  Lesson 15, Maratha government and Peshwa expansion to Panipat; Lesson 16 only for arrivals and early trading settlements through 1700.

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

  Chapter 19, Shivaji and his administration; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.

  Book required
• Our Pasts II, Class VII, ch. 8 Eighteenth-Century Political Formations ↗

  Maratha political formation and regional expansion