| 1 | Unit-1 | Bricks, Beads and Bones – The Harappan Civilisation |
| 2 | Unit-2 | Kings, Farmers and Towns – Early States and Economies (c. 600 BCE to 600 CE) |
| 3 | Unit-3 | Kinship, Caste and Class – Early Societies (c. 600 BCE to 600 CE) |
| 4 | Unit-4 | Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings – Cultural Developments (c. 600 BCE to 600 CE) |
| 5 | Unit-5 | Through the Eyes of Travellers – Perceptions of Society (c. tenth to seventeenth century) |
| 6 | Unit-6 | Bhakti-Sufi Traditions – Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth century) |
| 7 | Unit-7 | An Imperial Capital: Vijayanagara (c. fourteenth to sixteenth century) |
| 8 | Unit-8 | Peasants, Zamindars and the State – Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) |
| 9 | Unit-9 | Kings and Chronicles – The Mughal Courts (c. sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) |
| 10 | Unit-10 | Colonialism and the Countryside – Exploring Official Archives (including the Revolt of 1857) |
| 11 | Unit-11 | Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement – Civil Disobedience and Beyond |
| 12 | Unit-12 | Framing the Constitution – The Beginning of a New Era |
| 13 | Map Work | Map questions based on the complete syllabus |