Our Pasts – Part 2

Our Pasts – Part 2 is the NCERT Class 7 History textbook covering India's medieval period, roughly the seventh to eighteenth centuries. These Class 7 History NCERT notes for UPSC build the foundation for medieval Indian history, polity, society, and culture tested across Prelims and Mains.

What the book covers, by theme:

• Political formations: the emergence of new kings and kingdoms, the Delhi Sultans, the Mughal Empire, and the eighteenth-century political landscape after Mughal decline.
• Art, architecture and economy: rulers and the buildings they commissioned, alongside the growth of towns, traders and craftspersons.
• Society and communities: tribes, nomads and settled communities, and how social groups interacted over time.
• Religion and culture: devotional paths to the divine through Bhakti and Sufi traditions, and the making of regional cultures.
• Method: tracing changes through a thousand years using historical sources.

For UPSC, this book anchors GS Paper 1 (Indian heritage and medieval history) and supplies essential Prelims factual grounding.