UGC NET History Syllabus

Units 4 and 5 cover an enormous amount of ground — Delhi Sultanate administration through Mughal decline and the regional successor states — and candidates often respond to that scale by trying to cover everything with roughly equal depth. Past exam papers suggest a more efficient approach exists: certain categories of question recur with real…

Medieval Odisha is a topic that pays off disproportionately for the effort it takes to prepare, because it sits at a genuinely productive intersection of political history, temple architecture, and religious history — a single well-organized study session covering the Eastern Gangas and Gajapatis gives you real material for Regional History questions, Art & Culture…

Most Code 06 (History) preparation treats early modern Portuguese contact with India as a story that primarily happened to Indians — a European power arriving and imposing a trade monopoly with minimal effective resistance. The actual history of the Malabar coast in this period tells a more contested story: a sustained, organized, and at times…

Kashmir occupies an unusual position in the Code 06 (History) syllabus — it’s simultaneously a regional political history topic and, through Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, one of the most important historiographical case studies on the entire syllabus. Most study material treats these as separate concerns, covering Kashmir’s dynastic sequence in one place and Kalhana’s historiographical method in…

North-East Indian history gets a fraction of the attention most Code 06 (History) aspirants give to the Delhi Sultanate or Mughal administration, which is exactly why it’s worth your focused attention — this is a region where NTA questions have real room to surprise candidates who’ve only prepared the mainstream Gangetic-plains narrative. The Ahom kingdom,…