How to read A Brief History of Modern India for Prelims

A Brief History of Modern India, Spectrum. Modern India from the late Mughals to Independence, in the sequence Prelims asks about it.

The reading guide for this book is being written. The chapter map on this page is complete and every note linked from it is live.

Reading is half of it. Every chapter below is mapped to the real Prelims questions that came from it, so you can test a chapter the moment you finish it.

Practise the 59 PYQs from this book

Every chapter, and what it is worth

Ordered as the book orders them. The count is how many real Prelims questions in our bank came from that chapter.

Advent of the Europeans and East India Company Trade
3 PYQs
Expansion and Consolidation of British Power
5 PYQs
Economic Impact of British Rule
4 PYQs
Education Policy under British Rule
3 PYQs
Tribal and Peasant Uprisings
2 PYQs
Socio-Religious Reform Movements
8 PYQs
Early Socio-Political Associations
1 PYQ
Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement
4 PYQs
Extremist Phase and the Surat Split
2 PYQs
Ghadar Party and Revolutionary Nationalism
1 PYQ
Home Rule Movement
1 PYQ
Gandhian Era: Early Satyagrahas
3 PYQs
Non-Cooperation Movement
3 PYQs
Civil Disobedience Movement and Communal Politics
2 PYQs
Constitutional Developments in British India
3 PYQs
Labour and Trade Union Movement
3 PYQs
National Movement: Personalities and Organisations
3 PYQs
Quit India Movement
1 PYQ
Indian National Army and Subhas Chandra Bose
1 PYQ
Cripps Mission and Wartime Negotiations
3 PYQs
Making of the Constitution
NCERT Class 12, Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 12: Framing the Constitution (The Beginning of a New Era)
1 PYQ
Post-Independence Consolidation and Integration
2 PYQs