Freedom Struggle Focus
A complete guide for AP SI and Constable preparation, with 18 connected lessons, original maps and diagrams, and 601 explained practice questions.
Study plan
Read each chapter with its maps and tables before attempting that chapter’s full question set. Answer without notes, then read every explanation, including questions answered by guess. Record the mistaken relationship—date, person, place, method, institution or evidence scale—and retrieve it again after a day and a week. The question sets are original practice items, not official previous-year questions.
Scope and source use
This edition follows the chapter plan in the local source register. It combines ancient and medieval context with colonial expansion, the freedom struggle, Andhra regional movements and constitutional transition. Dates and region-specific claims are checked against the cited official and curricular sources; contested details are identified or omitted.
Contents
01 Chapter 1. How historians reconstruct India • 27 questions
02 Chapter 2. Early India: societies, states and ideas • 32 questions
03 Chapter 3. Empires, trade and regional cultures • 32 questions
04 Chapter 4. Medieval India and the Deccan • 42 questions
05 Chapter 5. European companies and the making of Company rule • 44 questions
06 Chapter 6. The colonial state and economy • 32 questions
07 Chapter 7. Resistance before 1857 • 37 questions
08 Chapter 8. The revolt of 1857 • 32 questions
09 Chapter 9. Reform, education and public debate • 24 questions
10 Chapter 10. Early nationalism and the Indian National Congress • 30 questions
11 Chapter 11. Swadeshi, revolutionary action and Home Rule • 28 questions
12 Chapter 12. Gandhi, satyagraha and mass non-cooperation • 32 questions
13 Chapter 13. Civil Disobedience and constitutional politics • 32 questions
14 Chapter 14. The many streams of the freedom struggle • 32 questions
15 Chapter 15. Andhra in India's national movement • 28 questions
16 Chapter 16. War, Quit India and the final decade • 28 questions
17 Chapter 17. Partition, independence and the Constitution • 45 questions
18 Chapter 18. Chronology, comparison and exam synthesis • 44 questions
How to use the questions
Each chapter’s questions are followed by the answer key and a short explanation. In the reader draft, answers are expandable. For self-testing in Word or PDF, cover the explanation section until all questions are attempted.