Paper 5:

1. Chola dynasty of the medieval south; polity, economics, society; to be read from Upinder Singh, R.C. Majumdar, Burton Stein, and R. Thapar.2. Palas and Senas; polity, economics, society; to be read from Upinder Singh and Niharranjan Ray.3. Religion and culture: Tantrism, the Bhakti movement; philosophy, culture, power-relations; an overview to be had from Upinder Singh and Andrew Nicholson; consult also R. Thapar, R. S. Sharma.4. Aftermath of the fall of the Gupta dynasty: power-vacuum, segmentary state, the feudalism debate; to be read from Aidan Southall, Burton Stein, R. S. Sharma, and the assorted criticisms and comments, etc.

Paper 6:

1. The Delhi Sultanate: this covers everything that was taught in class, including dynastic history, economic history, political structures, the Mongol invasions, & c. & c.; to be read from K. A. Nizami, Satish Chandra, Peter Jackson, et al.2. Decline and fall of the Delhi Sultanate and the successor states; reasons, economic and political conditions, emerging regional conflagrations; to be read from Satish Chandra, Peter Jackson, et al.3. Islamic historiography: types of history writing in Islam, the two broad frames: Arabian and Persian, rhetorical traditions, the question of veracity, Orientalist understandings, schematisation of the Indian past, and thus on; refer to Peter Jackson and K. A. Nizami.4. The Sufis: origins, traditions, ideas of Islamic kingship, the question of khalifa, geographical and territorial specifications, the main orders or silsilas, their relations with the Sultan, & c.; to be read from John Spencer Trimingham; see also Annemarie Schimmel.

And that is that. Cheers, my dear lass; and all my luck is yours.