CUET PG History Stone Age, Chalcolithic Age and Indus Valley Civilization Handwritten Notes

CUET PG History Stone Age and Indus Valley Handwritten Notes, free to download as a 20-page PDF. HUQP09 asks 75 questions at four marks each, and this opening stretch of Unit 1 takes roughly two days to learn, so plan two sittings.

The notes are scans of a real notebook: short lines, boxed rules, and a margin note wherever something is easy to get wrong.

Where This Sits in HUQP09

CUET PG History carries 75 bilingual questions. NTA divides the syllabus into four named periods rather than into themes, so knowing which period a name belongs to is half of what the paper tests.

What the Notes Cover

• Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, with the tool and the way of life that separates them
• The named sites, from Bhimbetka and Mehrgarh to Burzahom and Chirand
• The Chalcolithic cultures, and why copper did not end the use of stone
• Harappan chronology, extent, and the six major cities
• Town planning: the grid, the drains, the citadel and the granary
• Site-and-finding pairs, which is how most Harappan questions are framed
• Economy, trade with Mesopotamia, weights, seals and the undeciphered script
• The decline theories, and what the evidence actually supports

How to Approach the Topic

Almost nothing here rewards argument. The Harappan script is undeciphered and there are no written sources at all for the Stone Age, so what survives is archaeology, and what the examiner can ask about archaeology is where a thing was found.

That makes site-and-finding pairs the whole game. The dockyard is Lothal, the ploughed field is Kalibangan, the great bath is Mohenjodaro, the stadium is Dholavira. A page of these is worth more than a page of prose about Harappan society.

The second habit is holding the dates loosely but the sequence firmly. Mature Harappan is roughly 2600 to 1900 BC, and the exact figure varies by scholar, but no version of the chronology puts the Vedic age before it. Sequence questions are safe; precise-date questions are rarely asked because the precision does not exist.

Common Mistakes

• Calling the civilization Bronze Age and then dating it alongside the Iron Age
• Placing the Vedic age before the Harappan period
• Saying the script has been read. It has not
• Giving Harappa the great bath, which is at Mohenjodaro
• Treating the Aryan invasion as settled fact rather than one contested theory
• Assuming horses are well attested at Harappan sites
• Confusing Mehrgarh, which is Neolithic, with a Harappan city

Video Revision

Source: CUET PG Wallah

How to Use These Notes

Page 7 is the site-and-finding table and page 17 the recall grid. Between them they are a workable revision on the morning of the exam.

Page 11 works through how a source question on the Harappans is set, which is worth reading before any practice paper, because the answer usually turns on what the evidence cannot show rather than on what it does.

The next set picks the story up at the Vedic age, state formation and the rise of Buddhism and Jainism.