Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) w.e.f. 2020-22

Kolhan University, Chaibasa

Upgraded Courses of Study for M.A. (History) Programme

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

w.e.f. 2020-22 The M.A. Courses of Study will be of two years duration and divided into four semesters,

each of six months duration. During these four semesters, the students will study the following eighteen papers and undertake two project works:

Course Structure: M.A. History Programme

Semesters Courses Course Name Credits Hrs./Week

Core Course -01 (CC-101) Concept of Historiography

4 60

I

Core Course – 02 (CC-102) Ancient Civilizations

4 60

Core Course – 03 (CC-103) Medieval Societies

4 60

Core Course – 04 (CC-104) Twentieth Century World up to 1945

4 60

Core Course – 05 (CC-105) State in Ancient India

4 60

Core Course – 06 (CC-201) Research Methodology

4 60

II

Core Course – 07 (CC-202) Women in Indian History

4 60

Core Course – 08 (CC-203) History of Jharkhand up to 1947

4 60

Core Course – 09 (CC-204) State in Modern India

4 60

Core Course – 10 (CC-205)

Political Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi

4 60

Core Course – 11 (CC-301) Medieval Islamic World

4 60

III

Core Course – 12 (CC-302) Indian Historiography

4 60

Discipline Specific Elective – 1 (DSE-301)

Group – A History of India up to 650 AD

Or Group – B Polity of Medieval India 1200 – 1550

Or Group – C History of Modern India 1757 – 1857

4 60

Discipline Specific Elective – 2 (DSE-

Group – A History of India 650 to 1200 AD

4 60

302) Or Group – B Polity of Medieval India 1550-1750

Or Group – C History of Modern India 1859-1950

Project (PR) - 01[PR - 301]

6 120

Core Course – 13 (CC-401)

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

4 60

IV

Course Course – 14

(CC-402) Indian Nation Making 4 60

Discipline Specific

Elective – 03 (DSE-

401)

Group – A

Economic Life in India up to 1200

AD

Or

Group - B

Economic Life in India 1200-1757

AD

Or

Group – C

Economic Life in India 1757-1950

AD

4 60

Discipline Specific

Elective – 04 (DSE-

402)

Group - A Society and Culture in India up to 1200 AD

Or

4 60

Group – B

Society and Culture in India 1200-

1757 AD

Or

Group – C

Society and Culture in India 1757-

1950 AD

Project (PR) - 02[PR - 401]

6 120

Total 84 1320 Credits

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M.A. History, CBCS, Semester–I

Marks: 70 (ESUE), 30 (SIA)

Credits: 4

Core Course–1

Concept of Historiography

Unit 1: Definition and Scope of History

a. Definition, Scope, Meaning, Nature, Importance of History; Science and History

b. History and other Disciplines: Archaeology, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science,

Sociology, Economics, Statistics

Unit 2: Sources

a. Primary Sources: Variety and Taxonomy of primary Sources, Use of Primary Sources

b. Secondary Sources

c. Oral Tradition

Unit 3: Objectivity and Subjectivity in History

a. Objectivity in History; Meaning of Objectivity; The Problem of Objectivity in History

b. Subjectivity in History; Bias, Distortion and Generalization in History

Unit 4: Tradition of Historical Writing

a. Ancient – Greek and Roman

b. Medieval – Arabic and Persian

c. Modern – Empiricism and Positivism, Marxist and Annales School

Suggested Readings

B. Sheikh Ali, History: Its Theory and Method, Macmillan, 1978

Carlo Ginzburg, Clues, Myths and the Historical Method, John Hopkins University Press, 1992

E. H. Carr, What is History?, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

E. H. Carr, Itihas Kya Hai?, Macmillan, New Delhi

E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography 500 BC to AD 2000, Orient BlackSwan, 2004

E. Sreedharan, Itihas-Lekh: Ek Patthyapustak, Orient BlackSwan, 2011

Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, University of Chicago, 2003

Georg G. Iggers, Historiography in the Twentieth Century, Wesleyan University Press, 1983

Jeremy Black, Donald M. Macraild, Studying History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Manik Lal Gupta, Itihas: Swarop, Awdharnayein aur Upyogita, Atlantic, 2002

Michael Bentley, M. Bentley, Modern Historiography: An Introduction, Routledge, 1999

R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, Hesperides Press, 2008

Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History, Granta, 1997

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Credits: 4

Core Course–2

Ancient Civilizations

Unit 1: Egyptian Civilization

a. Egyptian Civilization: Polity, Society, Economy, Culture

b. Old Kingdom: Society, Art and architecture

c. Middle Kingdom: Polity, Society, Economy; Culture

d. New Kingdom: Akhenaton

Unit 2: Mesopotamian Civilization

a. Sumerian Civilization: Early Dynastic Period

b. Babylonian Civilization: Achievements of Hammurabi; Origin and Achievements of

Kassites

c. Assyrian Civilization, Decline of Assyrian Civilization

Unit 3: Chinese Civilization

a. Shang Dynasty: Religion and Economy

b. Chou Dynasty: State Structure and Society

Unit 4: Greek Civilization

a. Achievements of Homeric Age

b. Main Features of Spartan Constitution

c. Main Features of Periclean Age

Unit 5: Roman Civilization

a. Transition from Republic to Empire

b. Society and Economy

c. Decline of the Roman Empire

Suggested Readings

A.H.M. Jones, The Greek City from Alexander to Justinian, Clarendon Press, London, 1984

A.H.M. Jones, Athenian Democracy, OUP, 1969

A.H. M. Jones, The Roman Economy, OUP, 1974

Antony Andrews, Greek Society, Harmondsworth, 1991

Amar Farooqi, Prachin aur Madhyakalin Samajik Sanrachanayen aur Sanskritiyan, Granth Shilpi, 2003

Antony Andrews, The Greeks, London, 1968

Antony Andes, Greek Society, Penguin Books, London, 1975

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Arthur Cotterell, Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of Celestial Empire, 2008

B. Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Brian M. Fagan (ed), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, OUP, 1996

C.G. Starr, The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece, New York, 1977

Cyril Aldred, The Egyptians,Thames and Hudson, London, 1998

D. Oates, The Rise of Civilization, Oxford, 1976

D.T. Potts, Mesopotamian Civilization: the Material Foundation, London, 1997

Gay Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt, Stanford University Press, 1993

George Roux, Ancient Iraq, Penguin, 1992

Helen M. Parkins, Roman Urbanism: Beyond The Consumer City, Routledge, 1997

Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, OUP

J. Romer, History of Ancient Egypt, Penguin Books

J. Huskinson (ed), Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity & Power in Roman Empire, 2000

Jacques Gernet, J. R. Foster, Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, Cambridge

James Henry Breasted, History of Egypt, London, 1941

M. Hammond, The City in the Ancient World, Harvard University Press, 1972

Marc Van De Mieroop, History of Ancient Egypt, Wiley-Blackwell

Nicholas Postgate, Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History, Routledge, 1992

Nicholas Tarling (ed), The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. I, CUP, 1992

Norman Yoffee, Myths of the Archaic State. Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States and

Civilizations, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Paul Wheatley, Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and

Character of the Ancient Chinese City, Edinburgh University Press, 1971

Redman, The Rise of Civilization, San Francisco, 1978

S.P. Shukla and Rajender Singh, Vishva ki Prachin Sabhaytayen evam Sansthayen, Jaipur, 2003

Shaw and Richard Saller (eds), Economy and Society in Ancient Greece, NY, 1982

Shriram Goyal, Vishva ki Prachin Sabhyatayen, Vishvavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1994

Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia: An Eden that Never Was, 1999

Sushil Madhav Pathak, Visva ki Prachina Sabhyataon ka Itihas, Hindi Granth Academy, Patna, 1986

Uday Naraian Ray, Vishva Sabhyata ka Itihas, Lok Bharti, Allahabad, 1982

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Credits: 4

Core Course–3

Medieval Societies

Unit 1: Western Europe from 8th to 15th Century

a. Tradition from Ancient Society to Medieval Society

b. Agrarian Structure and Relations

Unit 2: Nature of Medieval Societies

a. Demographic Trends

b. Technological Developments

c. Organization of Non-Agricultural Production

d. Trade: Trade Routes and Commerce

Unit 3: Feudalism

a. Origin of Feudalism

b. Nature and Main features of Feudalism

c. Positive Aspects of Feudalism

d. Causes for the Decline of Feudalism

Unit 4: Church and State

a. Nature of Papacy

b. Relation between the State and the Church

c. The Feudal States- their Nature and Structure

Unit 5: Urbanisation

a. Nature of Urbanisation

b. Urban Centres; Artisans and Merchants

c. Cultural Developments

d. Growth of Universities

Unit 6: Transition from Medieval to Modern Age

a. Renaissance and its Impact

b. Reformation and its Impact

c. Geographical Discoveries

d. Commercial Revolution

Suggested Readings

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Amar Farooqi, Prachin aur Madhyakalin Samajik Sanrachanayen aur Sanskritiyan, Granth Shilpi, 2003

Angus Mckay, The Atlas of Medieval Europe, Routledge, 2007

Arvind Sinha, Sankranti kaleen Europe, Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 2009

Bal Mukund Virottam, Madhyakalin Europe ka Itihas, Bihar Hindi Granth Academy, Patna, 1985

Carlo Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution, Routledge, 1993

H.W.C. Davis, Medieval Europe, Camp Press, 2011

Hanns J Hummer, Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe, CUP, 1992

Henri Pirenne, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe, Routledge, 1958

Holmes, The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, OUP, 2002

Georges Duby, Early Growth of European Economy: Warrior and Peasants from the Seventh to the

Twelfth Century, Cornell, 1974

John Haywood, Medieval Europe, Raintree, 2009

Lynn White, Medieval Technology and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 1966

Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Verso Publication, London, 1978

R. H. Bautier, The Economic Development of Medieval Europe, London, 1971

Robin W Winks, Medieval Europe and the World: From Late Antiquity to Modernity, 400-1500, OUP,

2005

Roger Collins, Early Medieval Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Credits: 4

Core Course–4

Twentieth Century World up to A.D. 1945

Unit 1: World Order up to 1919

a. System of Alliances: Triple Alliance, Triple Entente

b. Origins of the First World War, Its Nature and Consequences, Treaty of Versailles,

Reparation Problems

c. Russian Revolution of 1917

Unit 2: World between the Two World Wars

a. The League of Nations: Establishment, Achievements and Failures

b. The Great Depression: Causes and Consequences

c. Rise of Dictatorships: Italy and Germany

d. French Quest for Security

Unit 3: Idea and Ideology

a. Fascism and Nazism: Study of Italy, Germany and Japan

Unit 4: The Second World War

a. Causes of the War

b. Course of the War

c. Consequences of the War

Suggested Readings

Ben Walsh, Essential Modern World History, Hoddar Murray, 2002

Chris Harman, A Peoples History of the World, Orient Blackswan, 2009

Devender Singh Chauhan, Europe ka Itihas, Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Academy, Bhopal, 1996

Devesh Vijay, Adhunik Europe ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalaya, 2010

Devesh Vijay (ed), Europeeya Sanskriti (1400-1800), Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalaya,

University of Delhi, 2010

Dick Geary, Richard Geary, Hitler and Nazism, Routledge, 2000

Edmund Wright, A Dictionary of World History, OUP, 2007

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991, Vintage, 1995

Gordan Corrigan, The Second World War, Penguin, 2010

Hew Strachan, The Outbreak of the First World War, OUP, 2004

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Credits: 4

Core Course-5

State in Ancient India

Unit 1: Transition from Tribe to State

a. Sabha and Samiti in the Vedic Period: Formation and Working

b. Emergence of the Territorial States; State in the Age of Gautama Buddha

Unit 2: Origin of the State

a. Social Contract Theory

b. Divine Theory of State

Unit 3: The Mauryan State

a. Socio-economic Basis of the Mauryan State

b. The Kautilyan Concept of State

c. The Saptang Theory

d. The Mauryan Administration: Centre, Province and City

e. The State as an Empire

Unit 4: The Gupta State

a. Nature and Socio-Economic Basis of the State

b. Administrative Organization

Unit 5: Emergence of the State in South India

a. State uder the Satavahanas

b. State under the Cholas

Suggested Readings

A.S. Altekar, State and Government in Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass, 1996

Charles Drekmeier, Kingship and Community in Early India, OUP, 1962

D.D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1956

G.M. Bongard-Levin, Mauryan India, Delhi, 1983

John W. Spellman, Political Theory of Ancient India, OUP, 1964

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, The Age of the Nandas and Mauryas, Delhi, 1953

Kumkum Roy, The Emergence of Monarchy in North India, OUP, 1994

R.S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Manohar, 1999

Romila Thapar, From Lineage to State, OUP, 1990

Shobha Mukherjee, The Republican Trends in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1969

Upinder Singh, Nayanjot Lahiri, Ancient India: New Research, OUP, 2010

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M.A. History, CBCS, Semester–II


Credits: 4

Core Course-6

Research Methodology

Unit 1: Fundamentals of Research

a) Preparation of Research Proposal

e) Review of Literature, Formation of Hypothesis

f) Research Designs, Sampling Designs, Methods of Research, Plagiarism

Unit 2: Research Ethics

a) Codes of Ethics

e) Permission to Research

f) Responsibilities, Confidentiality

Unit 3: Data Collection and Analysis

a) Methods of Data Collection: Sampling, Survey, Interviews, Questionnaires, Case Study

Method, Observation

b) Using the Archives and Library; Using Internet; Word Processing

b) Analysis of Data: Qualitative Data Principle

Unit 4: Communication of Research: Report Writing and Referencing

a) Dissertation and Research Papers

b) Footnotes, Endnotes, Bibliography, Appendix, Glossary, Index

Suggested Readings

C.R. Kothari, Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, New Age International Publishers, 2004

Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, 13 edn., Wadsworth, 2013

Jacques Barzun, Henry F. Graffv, The Modern Researcher, Wadsworth, 2004

K. Punch, Developing Effective Research Proposals, Sage, 2006

M. Henn, M. Weinstein and M. Foard, A Short Introduction to Social Research, Vistaar, 2006

Nicolas Walliman, Research Methods: The Basics, Routledge, 2011

S. Kvale, Doing Interviews, London, Sage, 2008

V. Desai and R. Potter (eds.), Doing Developmental Research, Vistaar, Delhi, 2006

W. Strunk and E.B. White, The Element of Style, Needham Heights, 2000

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Credits: 4

Core Course–7

Women in Indian History

Unit 1: Survey of Approaches

a. Liberal b) Marxist c) Radical d) Postmodern

Unit 2: Religion and Women

a. Brahminical Tradition

b. Jainism

c. Buddhism

d. Islam

e. Shikhism

f. Christianity

Unit 3: Women in Social Reform Movements

a. Bhakti Movement

b. Brahmo Samaj

c. Arya Samaj

d. Theosophical Movement

Unit 4: Customary and Legal Status

a. Ancient India

b. Medieval India

c. Colonial India

Unit 5: Education and Women

a. Ancient India

b. Medieval India

c. Colonial India

Unit 6: Political Participation

a. Gandhian Satyagraha

b. Revolutionary Movements

c. Peasant and Workers Movements

Suggested Readings

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A.S. Altekar, The Position of Women in Hindu civilization: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day,

Motilal Banarsidass, 1959, reprint ed. 2005

A. K Tyagi, Women Workers in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1994

Anindita Ghosh, Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a

Colonial Society, 1778-1905, OUP, 2006

Aparna Basu and A. Taneja (eds), Breaking out of Invisibility; Women in Indian History, 2002

C. Bader, The Woman in Ancient India, London, 1930

Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, OUP, 1986

Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Geraldine Forbes, Women in Colonial India - Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography, Orient

Blackswan, 2004

Gopa Joshi, Bharat Mein Stri Asamanta: Ak Vimarsh, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvay Nideshalaya, Delhi

University, 2006

Imtiaz Ahmad (ed), Modernzation and Social Change among Muslims in India, Mahohar, 1983

Janaki Nair, Women and Law in Colonial India, A Social History, Kali for Women, Delhi, 1999

Jana Everett, Women and Social Change in India, St Martin Press, NY, 1994

K. M. Malati, Stri-Vimarsh: Bhartiya Pariprekhsha, Vani Prakashan, 2010

Kumkum Roy (ed), Women in Early Indian Societies, Manohar, New Delhi, 2005

Madhava Prasad, The Ideology of the Hindi film: A Historical Reconstruction, OUP, 1998

Patricia Uberoi, Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India, OUP, 2006

Prathama Banerjee, Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-writing in a Colonial Society, Oxford

University Press, 2006

Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and

Feminism in India 1800-1990, Delhi, 1993

Radha Kumar, Stri Sangarsh Ka Itihas, 1800-1990, Vani Prakashan, 2005

Ramchandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya,

Delhi, 1989

Rekha Mishra, Women in Mughal India (1526-1748 A. D.), Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1967

S. Kujur, Vedic avam Dharma-shastriya Sahitya mein Nari, Vishvidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1982

Ruby Lal, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, CUP, 2005

Sadhna Arya, Nivedita Menon, Zinee Loknita (ed.), Narivadi Rajniti: Sangharsh avam Mudday, Hindi

Madhyam Karyanvay Nideshalaya, Delhi University, 2001

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Joseph Bara and Chinna Rao Yagati (eds), Development of Women's Education

in India: A Collection of Documents (From 1850 to 1920), Kanishka, New Delhi, 2001

Sukumari Bhattacharji, Women and Society in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1994

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Credits: 4

Core Course–8

History of Jharkhand up to A.D. 1947

Unit l: Jharkhand in Pre-historic Age

a. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Sites and Tools

Unit 2: Early History of Jharkhand

a. Settlement of Tribes in Jharkhand

Unit 3: Tribal Administration

a. Village Administration

b. Parha Panchayat, Manki Munda, Parganait Manjhi System

Unit 4: Political Formation and the Emergence of the State in Jharkhand

a. Nagbanshi Dynasty

b. Singh and Chero Dynasty

c. Afghans in Jharkhand

d. Mughals in Jharkhand

Unit 5: British-indigenes Relationship

a. Advent and Growth of Modern Education in Chotanagpur

b. Introduction of Modern Education in Kolhan: Chaibasa School (1841), Zillah School

(1865) and Vernacular School (1868)

Unit 6: Tribal Revolts and Movements

a. Chuar Revolt (1767-1805)

b. Chero Revolt (1771-1819)

c. Ho Revolt (1820-21)

d. Kol Revolt (1831-32)

e. Bhumij Revolt (1832-33)

f. Poto Ho Revolt in Kolhan (1836-37)

g. Santhal Revolt (1855-56)

h. 1857-58 in Jharkhand: Raja Arjun Singh of Porahat and Gono Pingua of Kolhan

i. Birsa Movement

j. Tana Bhagat Movement

Suggested Readings

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Amit Prakash, Jharkhand: Politics of Development and Identity, Orient BlackSwan, 2011

Asoka Kumar Sen, Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India, Routledge,

London, NY, 2017

Asoka Kumar Sen, „Reconstructing an Event: The Great Rebellion of 1857-58 and Singhbhum Indigenes‟

in Daniel J. Rycroft and Sangeeta Dasgupta (eds.), The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi,

Routledge, 2014.

Asoka Kumar Sen, From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society,

Orient BlackSwan, 2012

Asoka Kumar Sen, Representing Tribe: The Ho of Singhbhum under Colonial Rule, Concept Publishing

Company, 2011

Archana Prasad, 'Unravelling the Forms of “Adivasi” Resistance in Colonial India' Indian Historical

Review, Volume XXXIII, Number I

B. Virottam, Jharkhand: Itihas avam Sanskriti, Patna, 2000

B. Virottam, The Nagbansis and Chero, New Delhi, 1972

C.P. Singh, „The Martyrs of Singhbhum‟, The Journal of the Bihar Research Society, LVII, January-

December, 1971, 149-153.

C.P. Singh, The Ho Tribe of Singhbhum. Classical Publications, 1978.

Dhirendra Nath Majumdar, The Affairs of a Tribe: A Study in Tribal Dynamics, Ethnogrphics and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow, 1950.

J.C. Jha, Kol Insurrection of Jharkhand, Calcutta, 1964

J.C. Jha, The Bhumij Revolt, 1832-33, Delhi, 1967

K.K. Datta, The Santhal Insurrection of 1855-57, Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 2001

K.S. Singh, Tribal Society in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1985

K.S. Singh, Tribal Movements in India, 2 vols, New Delhi, 1982

K.S. Singh, „The Munda Land System‟ In P. Ponette (ed), The Munda World, Catholic Press, Ranchi,

1978

Murali Sahu, The Kolhan Under the British Rule, Calcutta, 1985

Sanjay Nath. „Schooling the Tribes and Chybassa School: Advent of Primary Education in Kolhan

Government Estate in Singhbhum (1841-51)‟, Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies (Online),

Volume V, No. 2, 2016, 19-27

Sanjay Nath, „Remembering Poto Ho: The Leader of Adivasi Anti-British Resistance in Kolhan (1836-

37)‟, Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies (Online), 2019, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1-25

Ranendra and Sudhir Paul (eds), Jharkhand Encyclopaedia, 4 vols, Vani Parakashan, 2008

Sanjukta Das Gupta, Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-Economic Transition of the Hos 1820-1932, Orient

Blackswan, 2011

Sarat Chandra Roy, The Mundas and their Country, Catholic Press, Ranchi, 2nd reprint 1995

Sarat Chandra Roy, The Oraons of the Chota Nagpur: Their History, Economic Life and Social

Organisation, Catholic Press, Ranchi, 1915

Paul Struemer, A Land of their Own: Samuel Richard Tickell and the Formation of Autonomous Ho

Country in Jharkhand 1818-1842, Wakkaman, the Netherlands, 2016.

Prathama Banerjee, Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-writing in a Colonial Society, Oxford


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Credits: 4

Core Course-9

State in Modern India

Unit 1: Colonial State

a. Nature of the State under Company's Rule under the Crown

b. Nature of State Apparatus–Secretary of State in India, India Council, Governor-in-

Council

c. Civil Administration-Police, Civil Services

d. Judicial Administration

Unit 2: Towards Independence

a. Concepts of Swaraj, Home Rule

b. Dominion Status, Complete Independence

c. Two- Nation Theory

Unit 3: Making of Indian Constitution

a. Making of Indian Constitution–Aims and Objectives

b. Salient Features of Indian Constitution

c. Reorganisation of States

Unit 4: State in Independent India

a. Nature of the State in Independent India

b. Elements of Continuity and Change

c. State during Emergency

Suggested Readings

Ajit Ray, Political Power in India, Calcutta, 1981

Bipan Chandra, et al, India since Independence, Penguin Books, 2007

Bipan Chandra, et al, India’s Struggle for Independence, Penguin, New Delhi, 1989

Daniel Thorner, The Shaping of Modern India, New Delhi, 1980

Kuldip Nayar, The Judgement: Inside Story of the Emergency in India, New Delhi, 1977

Max Zins, Strains on Indian Democracy, New Delhi, 1988

Rajni Kothari, Politics in India, Orient Longman, 1970

Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Development Planning: The Indian Experience, OUP, 1987

W.H. Morris-Jones, The Government and Politics in India, NY, 1967

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M.A. History, EC-2, CBCS, Semester–II


Credits: 4

Core Course-10

Political Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi

Unit 1:

Emergence of Gandhi on the Indian Political Scene

Gandhi’s Concept of Morality in Politics

Theory of Ends and Means

Unit 2:

Gandhi’s Views on the Relationship between Religion and Politics

Gandhi’s Views on Equality, Liberty, Rights and Duties

Gandhi’s Views on Nationalism and Internationalism

Unit 3:

Gandhi’s Views on Democracy, Ideal Society, State and Government

Gandhi’s Views on Gramswaraj and Ramrajya

Unit 4:

Concept of Satyagraha, Satyagraha and Passive Resistance

Various Techniques of Satyagraha

Main Features and Forms of Satyagraha

Suggested Readings

B. Bhattacharya, Evloution of the Political Philosophy of Gandhi, Calcutta Book House, Calcutta

Bikhu Parekh, Colonialism: Tradition and Reform, Delhi, 1991

Bikhu Parekh, Gandhi’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination, 1989

D. Rothermund, Mahatma Gandhi: Political Biography, Manohar, New Delhi, 1991

G. Dhawan, The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, Navajivan, Ahmedabad

Judith Brown, Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope, Yale University Press, London, 1991

K.S. Bharathi, The Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, Concept Publishing House, New Delhi

Louis Fischer, The life of Mahatma Gandhi, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai,1998

R.N. Iyer, The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, New York

R.R. Diwakar, Saga of Satyagraha, Navajivan, Ahmedabad

S. Radhakrishnan, Mahatma Gandhi, Hundred years, Orient Longman, New Delhi

V.P. Varma, Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and Sarvodaya, Laxmi Narain Agarwal, Agra

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M.A. History, CBCS, Semester–III


Credits: 4

Core Course–11

Medieval Islamic World

Unit 1: Islamic World

a. Rise of Islam, Social and Political Background

b. Constitution of Madina

c. Evolution of Islamic State

Unit 2: Islamic State and Society under Early Caliphate

a. Abu Bakr, Umar, Usman, Ali, Fatimi

Unit 3: Ummayads and Abbasids

a. State and Society under the Ummayads

b. State and Society under the Abbasids

c. Condition of Women and Slaves

Unit 4: Economy

a. Trade and Trade Routes

b. Revenue Administration with Special Reference to Taxation System

Unit 5: Cultural, Scientific and Intellectual Contribution

a. Art and Architecture

b. Language and Literature, Historiography, Geography, Astronomy

c. Medicine, Mathematics and Philosophy

d. Ceramics, Textiles and Calligraphy

Suggested Readings

Aziz Al-Azmeh, The Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography, Budapest, 2007

Asgar Ali Engineer, Islam ka Janam aur Vikas, Rajkamal Prakashan, 2008

Chase F. Robinson, Islamic Historiography, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1960-2004, 12 vols, E.J. Brill, Leiden

Francis Robinson, Islam and Muslim History in South Asia, OUP

G.B. Grunebaum, Medieval Islam, Chicago, 1946

Jan-Peter Hartung and Albrecht Fuess (eds), Court Cultures in the Muslim World, Routledge, 2011

Kishori Prasad Sahu, Islam Udbhava aur Vikas, Bihar Hindi Granth Academy, Patna, 2008

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Credits: 4

Core Course–12

Indian Historiography

Unit 1: Approaches

a. Orientalist, Imperialist, Nationalist, Marxist, Subaltern, Postmodernist

Unit 2: Tradition of Historical Writing in Ancient India

a. Itihas-Puran Tradition,

b. Buddhist Historiography

c. Jain Historiography

d. Banabhatta

Unit 3: Medieval India: Broad Trends in the Writings of

a. Kalhana

b. Alberuni

c. Ziauddin Barani

d. Abul Fazl

e. Abdul Qadir Badauni

f. Ghulam Hussain Khan’s Siyar U’l Mutakherin

Unit 4: Colonial and Post-Independent India: Broad Trends in the Writings of

a. K.P. Jayaswal

b. D.D. Kosambi

c. Jadunath Sarkar

d. Muhammad Habib

e. R.C. Dutt

f. Bipan Chandra

Suggested Readings

A. K. Warder, An Introduction to Indian Historiography, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1973

B. N. Puri, Ancient Indian Historiography, Atma Ram & Sons, Delhi, 1994

Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among Historians and other Essays, OUP, 2010

C. H. Philips (ed), Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, OUP, 1961

David Ludden (ed), Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Permanent Black, 2002

Devahuti, Bias in Indian Historiography, Delhi, 1980

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E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography 500 BC to AD 2000, Orient Blackswan, 2004

E. Sreedharan, Itihas-Lekh: Ek Patthyapustak, Orient Blackswan, 2011

G. P. Singh, Ancient Indian Historiography: Sources and Interpretations, D. K. Printworld, 2003

H.A Phadke, Essays on Indian Historiography, Rawat Publications, 2005

Harbans Mukhia, Historians and Historiography during the Reign of Akbar, New Delhi, 1976

Harishankar Srivastava, Bhartiya Itihas mein Itihas Lekhan, 1200-1445, Vani Prakashan, 2007

Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Indo-Persian Historiography up to the Thirteenth Century, Primus Books, 2009

Irfan Habib, Essays in Indian History: A Marxist Perception, Tulika, 2011

Irfan Habib, Bhartiya Itihas ki Pramukh Vyakhyayein, Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 1999

K. A. Nizami, On History and Historians of Medieval India, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983

Mohibbul Hasan (ed), Historians of Medieval India, Meenakshi Prakashan, Meerut, 1982

Peter Hardy, Historians of Medieval India, New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1997

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Credits: 4

DSE-1

(Group A)

History of India up to c. AD 650

Unit 1: Nature of Sources

a. Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics

b. Literary Sources: Religious and Non-Religious

c. Foreign Accounts

Unit 2: Earliest Human Organisation

a. Paleolithic Cultures: Stone Industries and other Technological Developments

b. Mesolithic Cultures: New Developments in Technology and Economy

c. Neolithic Age: Neolithic Settlements; Farming and Cereals, Pottery

d. Chalcolithic Cultures: Chalcolithic Settlements; Importance of Chalcolithic Phase

Unit 3: Harappan Culture

a. Origin, Distribution, Town Planning and Structures of Major Sites

b. Agriculture, Technology and Crafts, Trade, Religious Practices

c. End of the Indus Culture

Unit 4: Vedic Age

a. Society, Economy, Polity and Religion as reflected in the Vedic Literature

Unit 5: Janapadas and Mahajanapadas

a. Territorial States-Monarchial and Republican

b. Religious Movements: Jainism, Buddhism, Ajivikas and other Sects

c. Second Urbanization: Urban Centres, New Classes and Changing Social Relations

Unit 6: Towards Empire: Nandas and Mauryas

a. Polity: Nature and Extent of Centralization

b. Economy-Trade and Trade Routes, Currency and Coinage

c. Art and Architecture

Unit 7: Gupta and Post-Gupta Period

a. Administrative Structure; Social, Cultural and Economic Changes in the Gupta Period

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b. Maukharis, Vakatakas, Chalukyas and Later Guptas

c. Harshavardhana: Political System and Administrative Institutions

Suggested Readings

A. S. Altekar, State and Government in Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass, 1996

A. L. Basham, A Cultural History of India, Oxford University Press, 1997

A. L. Basham, A Wonder that was India, Rupa, New Delhi, 1994

D.D. Kosambi, The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline, Vikas, New

Delhi, 1976

D.N. Jha, K.M.Srimali (eds), Prachin Bharat ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalay,

Delhi University, 2007

Irfan Habib, Prehistory, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001

J.L. Mehta, Sarita Mehta, History of Ancient India, Lotus Press, 2008

R.K. Mukherjee, Prachin Bharat, Raj Kamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1990

R.S. Sharma, India’s Ancient Past, OUP, 2005

R.S. Sharma, Prarambhik Bharat ka Parichay, Orient Longman, 2004

R.S. Sharma, Prarambhik Bharat ka Aarthik aur Samajik Itihas, Delhi University, 2000

R.S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Delhi, 1996

R.S. Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, Macmillan, 1983 R.S.

Romila Thapar, Adikalin Bharat ki Vyakhya, Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 2008

Romila Thapar, Vansh se Rajya Tak, Granth Shilpi, New Delhi, 2004

Romila Thapar, The Penguin History Of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, Penguin,

2003

http://www.flipkart.com/author/romila-thapar



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Credits: 4

DSE-1

(Group B)

Polity of Medieval India (c. AD 1200-1550)

Unit 1: Sources and Historiography

a. Persian Chronicles: Amir Khusrau, Ziauddin Barani

b. Travellers’ Accounts

c. Persian and Arabic inscriptions; Sanskrit Inscriptions

d. Bhakti and Sufi Literature

Unit 2: Government and Administration under Delhi Sultanate

a. Central Government: Sultan and Council of Ministers

b. Court and the Royal Household

c. Provincial and Local Governments

d. Judicial Administration: Central and Provincial

e. Military Organisation

Unit 3: Ruling Classes: Evolving Composition

a. The Nobility

b. The Chiefs: Emergence of Zamindars

c. Local Alliances and Conflicts

Unit 4: Vijaynagar and Bahmanid Rule (c. 1350-1565)

a. Administrative System of the Vijaynagar Empire

b. Administrative System of the Bahmanid Kingdom

Unit 5: Turko-Afghan Period

a. Nature of State, Monarchy and Governance under the Lodis and Sur Afghans

Suggested Readings

A.B.M. Habibullah, The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India, Allahabad, 1967

Abdul Halim, History of the Lodi Sultans of Delhi and Agra, Delhi, 1974

Aziz Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment, OUP, 1991

Burton Stein, Vijayanagar, Cambridge University Press, 1989

G. H. Khare, Persian Sources of Indian History, vol. 4, Puna, 1973

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H.C. Verma (ed), Madhyakaleen Bharat, Vol.1, University of Delhi, 2002

H.K. Sherwani, The Bahmanis of Deccan, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1985

I. H. Siddiqui, Some Aspects of Afghan Despotism in India, Aligarh, 1969

I. H. Quereshi, The Administration of the Sultanate of Delhi, Pakistan Historical Society, 1958

Irfan Habib, Bhartiya Itihas mein Madhyakaal, Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 2002

Irfan Habib, The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey, Tulika, 2001

Julie Scott Meisami, Persian Historiography, Edinburgh University, Press, 1999

K. A Nizami, On History and Historians of Medieval India, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983

K. S. Lal, History of the Khaljis, 1290-1320, The Indian Press, Allahabad, 1967

Mehdi A. Hussain, Tuglaq Dynasty, S. Chand and Company, 1976

Mohammad Habib and K.A. Nizami (eds), The Delhi Sultanat, Vol. 5, 2 parts (A Comprehensive

Series of India Series), People’s Publishing House, 1992

Raziuddin Aquil (ed), Sufism and Society in Medieval India, Debates in Indian History and

Society Series. OUP, 2010

Peter Jackson, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History, Cambridge University

Press, 1999

Pushpa Prasad, Sanskrit Inscriptions of Delhi Sultanate, OUP, Delhi, 1996

Satish Chandra, Medieval India, From Sultanate to the Mughals, Part I, Delhi Sultanate (1206-

1526), Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 2009

Satish Chandra, History of Medieval India, Orient BlackSwsan, 2007

Satish Chandra, Madhyakalin Bharat: Rajniti, Samaj avam Sanskriti, Orient BlackSwan, New

Delhi, 2007

Satish Chandra, Madhyakaleen Bharata mein Itihas Lekhan, Dharm aur Rajya ka Swaroop,

Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 1999

Sunil Kumar, Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2007

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Credits: 4

DSE-1

(Group C)

History of Modern India c. AD 1757-1857

Unit 1: Sources

a. Archival Records, Private Papers, Newspapers, Periodicals and Oral Tradition

b. Historiographical Trends: Approaches and Interpretations of Modern India

Unit 2: Expansion of British Power

a. Ideolodgy of Expansion and Mercantilism

b. Policies and Programmes of Expansion

c. Instruments of Expansion: War and Diplomacy

Unit 3: Administration

a. Administrative Structure

b. Arms of the State: Police, Army and Law

Unit 4: Resistance to Colonial Rule

a. Nature and Forms of Resistance

b. Pre-1857: Peasant, Tribal and Cultural Resistance

c. Revolt of 1857 and its Representations

Suggested Readings

B. Chattopadyay, Crime and Control in Early Colonial Bengal, K.P. Bagchi & Company,

Calcutta, 2000

Burton Stein (ed), The Making of Agrarian Policy in British India, 1770-1900, OUP, 1992

C. A. Bailly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, CUP, 1987

I. Copland, The British Raj and the Indian Princes, Orient Longman, Bombay, 1982

Michael H. Fisher, Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858, OUP,

1991

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S. C. Ghosh, History of Education in Modern India, 1758-1986, Orient Longman, 1995

Seema Alavi, The Sepoy and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770-

1830, OUP, 1995

Susan Bayly, Castes, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern

Age, CUP, 1999

R. Ray, Change in Bengal Agrarian Society, 1760-1850, Manohar, 1979

Richard Barnett, North India between Empires, Awadh, the Mughals and the British, 1720-1801,

University of California Press, 1980

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, Orient

Longman, 2004

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Plassey se Vibhajan Tak: Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas, Orient Longman,

2007

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Credits: 4

DSE-2

(Group A)

History of India c. AD 650-1200

Unit 1: Sources

a. Historiography

b. Epigraphy, Numismatics, Literature

c. Regional Chronicles, Sufi and Bhakti Texts

d. Travelogues

Unit 2: Political Developments

a. Arab Invasion of Sindh

b. Regional Politics with Special Reference to Pratiharas, Palas, Rashtrakutas and Cholas

c. Ghaznavid and Ghurid Invasions: Nature and Impact.

Unit 3: Economy

a. Land Grants and Agrarian Expansion

b. Land Tenure, Peasants, Intermediaries and Landed Magnates

c. Urban Centres, Trade and Trade Networks, Coinage and Currencies,

d. Trade contacts with South East Asia and West Asia

e. Crafts, Guilds and Industries

Unit 4: Culture

a. Literature, Rise and Growth of Regional Languages

b. Art, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture

c. Schools of Philosophy

d. Religious Cults

e. Science and Technology

Unit 5: Society and Economy: Regional Perspective

a. Trade and Urbanization with Special Reference to South India

b. Indian Ocean Trade

c. Religious Cults: Vishnavite Movements in Eastern India, Jagannath Cult in Orissa,

Warkari Movement and Cult of Vithoba in Maharashtra

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d. Regional Art and Architectural Forms; Regional Literature

Suggested Readings

Amar Frooqui, Early Social Formations, Manak, New Delhi, 2001

Burtein Stein, Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India, OUP, 1980

Burton Stein, David Arnold, A History of India, Wiley India, 2011

D.N. Jha, Economy and Society in Early India, New Delhi, 1993

Hemchandra Raychuadhuri, Political History of Ancient India, OUP, 1996

J.L. Mehta, Sarita Mehta, History of Ancient India, Lotus Press, 2008

K.A.N. Sastri, History of South India, OUP, 1975

Michael Gottlab (ed), Historical Thinking in South Asia, OUP, 2003

Peter Robb, A History of India, Palgrave Macmilan, 2004

R. Champakalakshmi, Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South India, 300BC to AD 1300,

Delhi, 1996

R.K. Mukherjee, Prachin Bharat, Raj Kamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1990

R.S. Sharma, Prarambhik Bharat ka Aarthik aur Samajik Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvan

Nidishalay, Delhi University, 2000

R.S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass,

Delhi, 1996

R.S. Sharma, Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Ancient India, Motilal

Banarsidass, Delhi, 1996

R.S. Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, Macmillan, 1983

Romila Thapar, The Penguin History of Early India: From The Origins to AD 1300, Penguin,

2003

Romila Thapar, Cultural Past: Essays in Early Indian History, OUP, 2000

Uma Chakravarti, Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society, New Delhi, 2007

Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From Stone Age to the 12th

Century, Pearson, 2009




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Credits: 4

DSE-2

(Group B)

Polity of Medieval India (C. AD 1550-1750)

Unit 1: Sources and Historiography

a. Persian Chronicles: Abul Fazl, Abdul Qadir Badauni, Abdul Hamid Lahori

b. Travellers’ Accounts

c. Sufi and Bhakti Literature

d. Persian and Arabic sources

Unit 2: Government and Administration

a. Mughal Theory of Kingship

b. Central Government: Badshah and Council of Ministers

c. Court and the Royal Household

d. Provincial and Local Governments

e. Judicial Administration: Central and Provincial

f. Military Organisation

Unit 3: The Ruling Class

a. Mansabdari System

b. Jagirdari System

c. Zamindari System

Unit 4: Maratha Administration

a. Administrative Structure

b. Nature of the State

c. Social Base of the Maratha State

Suggested Readings

Harbans Mukhia, The Mughals of India , Blackwell Publishing, 2005

Harbans Mukhia, Perspectives on Medieval India, Delhi, 1994

Harishankar Srivastava, Mughal Sashan Pranali, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 1999 (Hindi)

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H.C. Verma (ed), Madhyakaleen Bharat (1540-1761), Vol.2, University of Delhi, 2002

Iqtidar Alam Khan, Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, OUP, 2004

I. H. Quereshi, The Administration of the Mughal Empire, OUP, Karachi, 1966

Irfan Habib, Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization, National Book Trust, 2008


Irfan Habib, Bhartiya Itihas ki Pramukh Vyakhyayein, Granth Shilpi, Delhi, 1999

Irfan Habib (ed), Akbar and his India, OUP, 1997

Irfan Habib (ed), Medieval India-I, OUP, 1992

Jadunath Sarkar, A Short History of Aurangzeb, reprint, Orient BlackSwan, 2009

Jadunath Sarkar, Shivaji and his Times, Calcutta, 1952

John F Richards, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1993

K. A. Nizami, On History and Historians of Medieval India, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983

M. Athar Ali, Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, OUP, 1997

M. Athar Ali, Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society and Culture, OUP, 2008

Margrit Pernau and Yunus Jaffrey, Information and the Public Sphere: Persian Newsletters from

Mughal Delhi, OUP, 2009

Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam In India, c. 1200-1800, Permanent Black,

2004

Muzaffar Alam, Mughal Imperial Decline in North India, New Delhi, 1986

Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam (eds), The Mughal State, 1526-1750, OUP, 1998

Satish Chandra, Uttar Mughal Kalin Bharat, Delhi, 1993

Satish Chandra, Medieval India, From Sultanate to the Mughals, Part II, Mughal Empire (1526-

1748), Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 2009

Satish Chandra, History of Medieval India, Orient BlackSwsan, 2007

Satish Chandra, Madhyakalin Bharat: Rajniti, Samaj avam Sanskriti, Orient BlackSwan, New

Delhi, 2007

Satish Chandra, Essays on Medieval Indian History, OUP, 2003

Satish Chandra, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court, 1707-1740, OUP, 2002

Satish Chandra, Madhyakalin Bharat mein Itihas Lekhan, Dharma aur Rajya ka Swaroop,

Granth Shilpi, New Delhi, 1999

Seema Alavi (ed), The Eighteenth Century in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2002

Tapan Raychaudhari and Irfan Habib (ed), The Cambridge Economic History of India, 1200-

1700, Vol. I, reprint edition, Orient Longman, 2007

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Credits: 4

DSE-2

(Group C)

History of Modern India c. AD 1858-1950

Unit 1: Consolidation and Expansion of British Power

a. British Government and its Control over Indian Administration: Central, Provincial and

District

b. Relation with Princely States

c. Principles and Policies of Governing Foreign Relations

Unit 2: National Movement

a. Approaches to Indian Nationalism: Conceptual Debates

b. Role of Social and Religious Movements

c. Role of English Education, Press and Railways

d. Economic Nationalism

Unit 3: Trends of National Movement since 1919

a. Gandhian Movements

b. Revolutionary and Left Movements

c. Tribal Movements

Unit 4: Movement since 1935

a. Working of Congress and non-Congress Provincial Ministries

b. Communal Politics and Demand for Pakistan

c. Subhash Chandra Bose and Indian National Army

Unit 5: Independent India

a. Partition and Independence; Migration and Rehabilitation

b. Integration of Princely States

c. The Making of the Indian Constitution and Establishment of Parliamentary Democracy

Suggested Readings

Anita Inder Singh, The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-1947, OUP, 1987

Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan,

Cambridge University Press, 1985

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B.T. McCully, English Education and the Origins of Indian Nationalism, Peter Smith, 1966

Bharati Ray (ed), Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods, Sage Publications, New

Delhi, 2005

Peter Heehs, Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History, OUP,

1998

Peter Robb, A History of India, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Raka Ray, Fields of Protest: Women’s Movement in India, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1999

Ramvilas Sharma, Swadhinta Sangram ke Badalte Paripeksh, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvay

Nideshalay,University of Delhi, 1995

Ram Lakhan Shukla (ed), Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvay

Nideshalay,University of Delhi, 1990

Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India, Sage

Publications, New Delhi, 2000


Sumit Sarkar, Modern India: 1885-1947, Macmillan, Delhi, 1984

Sumit Sarkar, Adhunik Bharat, Rajkamal Publication, Delhi, 1999

Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, Peoples’ Publishing House, 1970

Susobhan Sarkar, On the Bengal Renaissance, Papyrus, Calcutta, 1979

Stephen Henningham, Peasant Movement in Colonial India North Bihar 1917-42, Australian

National University, Canberra, 1982

W.H. Morrris Jones, The Government and Politics of India, New York, 1967

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M.A. History, CBCS, Semester–IV


Credits: 4

Core Course–13

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Section – A (Europe)

Unit 1: Historiography of Science and Technology

a. Definition of Science and Technology

b. Interaction of Science, Technology and Society

Unit 2: Birth of Modern Science in Europe

a. The Scientific Revolution: Nicolaus Copernicus (1472–1543), Johannes Kepler (1571–

1630), Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

Unit 3: Growth of Technology in Europe

a. The Printing Press

b. The Industrial Revolution

Section – B (India)

Unit 4: Science and Technology in Ancient India

a. Technology in the Indus Valley Civilization and the Vedic Period

b. Developments in Science and Technology from A.D. 1st century to A.D. 1200

c. Developments in Astronomy with special Reference to Aryabhata, Varahmihira and

Bhaskar I

d. Development in Medicine and Surgery: Charaka and Sushruta Samhita

Unit 5: Science and Technology in Medieval India

a. New Developments in Technology: Persian Wheel, Gun Powder, Paper Manufacturing,

Textiles, Building Technology, etc

b. Development in Medical Knowledge and Interaction of Unani, Ayurveda and Alchemy

c. Astronomy and Mathematics in Medieval India

Unit 6: Science and Technology in Colonial India

a. Technical Education in British India: Establishment of Engineering and Medical Colleges

and Scientific Institutions

b. Teaching of Science Subjects in Universities; Establishment of Scientific Institutions

c. Establishment of Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) at Jamshedpur: A Brief Review

Suggested Readings

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A. K. Bag, History of Technology in India, 4 vols, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1997

A. J. Qaisar, The Indian Response to European Culture and Technology (AD 1498-1707), New Delhi,

1982

A. Rahman, History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture, OUP, 1998

A. Roy and S. K. Bagchi (eds.), Technology in Ancient and Medieval India, Delhi, 1986

Benjamin Zacharia, Developing India: An Intellectual and Social History, 1930-50, OUP, 2005

Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds), The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India,

Routledge, 2009

Charles Singer, A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900, OUP, 1979

David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, The New Cambridge History of

India, Vol. III. Pt 5, Cambridge University Press, 2000

David Arnold, Aupniveshik Bharat mein Vijnan, Praudyogiki aur Aurvijnan, The New Cambridge History

of India, Vol. III. Pt 5, Cambridge University Press, 2005

D. D. Chattopadhyay, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India: The Beginnings, 1986

D.M. Bose and S.N. Sen, Concise History of Science in India, Universities Press, Hyderabad, 2009

Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj (1857-1905), OUP, 2000

Deepak Kumar, Vigyan Aur Bharat mein Angrezi Raj (1857-1905), Granth Shilpi, New Delhi, 1998

Deepak Kumar (ed), Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview, Tulika, 2001

Deepak Kumar and R. Macleod (eds), Technology and the Raj, Sage Publications, 1995

Deepak Kumar and R. Macleod (eds), Pradhyogiki aur Bharat mein Angrezi Raj, Granth Shilpi, New

Delhi, 2003

Dhruv Raina, Images and Contexts: The Historiograaphy of Science and Modernity in India, OUP, 2010

George Joseph Geevarghese, The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics, Princeton


H. F. Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, University of Chicago Press, 1994

Henri Smith Williams, A History of Science, Hardpress Publishing, 2008

Irfan Habib, Medieval Technology: Exchanges Between India and the Islamic World, Aligarh, 1985

J. D. Barnal, Vigyan ki Samajik Bhumika, Granth Shilpi, New Delhi, 2000

J. Lourduswamy, Science and National Consciousness in Bengal 1870-1930, Orient Longman, 2004

John Gribbin, Science: A History, Penguin Books, 2010

M. Bhardwaj, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India, Cyber Tec Publications, 2009

Seema Alavi, Islam And Healing: Loss And Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition 1600-1900,

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 1996

Steven Yearly, Science, Technology and Social Change, Unwin Hyman, London, 1988

Thomas Cuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1996

Zaheer Baber, The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India,

Suny Press, New York, 1996

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Credits: 4

Core Course–14

Indian Nation Making

Unit 1:

Conception of India as a geographical unity

Explaining Nation and Nationalism: Uniqueness of Indian experience

Unit 2: Impact of British Rule

Impoverishment of Peasants and Weavers

Export of Raw Materials and Import of British Manufactured Goods

Drain of wealth

Rise of Industrial Capitalist

Unit 3: Early Indian Response to the British Rule

Tribal Uprisings

Revolt of 1857: Causess, Nature and Consequences

Unit 4: Socio-Cultural and Religious Reform Movements in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Widow Remarriage Act

Jyothiba Phule, Narayana Guru and Anti-caste Movements

Aligarh Movement and Sir Sayyid Ahammed Khan

Wahabi Movement

Swami Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna Mission

Theosophical Society

Unit 5: Phases of Indian Nationalist Movement

Rise of Indian Nationalism

Formation of Political Associations up to 1885

Moderates and Extremists: Swadesi Movement

Revolutionaries and their Ideology

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Mahatma Gandhi and Indian National Movement

Non-Cooperation Movement

Civil Disobedience Movement

Quit India Movement

The Contribution of INA

Partition of India and Integration of the States

Suggested Readings

Anil Seal, Emergence of Indian Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, 1960


Bipan Chandra, Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas, Orient BlackSwan, 2009

Bipan Chandra, History of Modern India, Orient BlackSwan, 2009

Bipan Chandra, et al, Freedom Struggle, NBT, 2007


Bipan Chandra, et al, India’s Struggle for Independence, Penguin, New Delhi, 1989

Bipan Chandra, et al, Bharat ka Swatantrata Sangharsh, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalaya,


Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Orient Longman, 1979


Ernest Gellener, Nations and Nationalism, Basil Blackwell, 1983

Peter Robb, A History of India, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (ed), Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, OUP, 2009

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, Orient Longman, 2004

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Plassey se Vibhajan Tak: Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas, Orient Longman, 2007

Subhash Kashyap, Swatantrata Andolan ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvay Nideshalay, University of

Delhi, 1997

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Credits: 4

DSE-3

(Group-A)

Economic Life in India up to c. AD 1200

Unit 1: Vedic Economy

a. Early Vedic Economy

b. Later Vedic Economy

Unit 2: Economy: Mauryan to Gupta Period

a. Mauryan Economy

b. Kushana Economy

c. Gupta Economy

Unit 3: Post Gupta Period Economic System

a. Principles of Taxation: Income and Expenditure of State,Guild System

b. Land Ownership

c. Irrigation System

d. Land Grants and Agrarian Expansion, Changes in Land Tenure, Peasants, Intermediaries

and Landed Magnates

Unit 4: Trade and Commerce: Post Gupta Period

a. Urban Centres, Trade and Trade Routes, Traders and Merchants

b. Internal and Foreign Trade, Trade Contacts with South-east Asia and West Asia

c. Credit and Banking System, Coins and Exchange

Suggested Readings

Burtein Stein, Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India, OUP, 1980

Burton Stein, David Arnold, A History of India, Wiley India, 2011

B. P. Sahu (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India: Readings in Early Indian History,

Manohar, 1977

B. P. Sahu, Iron and Social Change in Early India, OUP, 2007

D.N. Jha, Economy and Society in Early India, New Delhi, 1993

R.S. Sharma, Prarambhik Bharat ka Aarthik aur Samajik Itihas, Delhi University, 2000


R. Champakalakshmi, Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South India, 300BC to AD 300, Delhi, 1996

35




Credits: 4

DSE-3

(Group-B)

Economic Life in India c. AD 1200-1757

Section – A ( Economy under Delhi Sultanate)

Unit 1: Agriculture and Agrarian Sector

a. Means and Methods of Cultivation and Irrigation

b. Agricultural Production: Food and Non-Food Items

c. Lands Revenue System: Iqta System

d. Condition of Peasants

Unit 2: Towns, Crafts and Commerce

a. Growth and Expansion of Urban Centres and Urbanism

b. Crafts Production: Spinning Wheel (Charkha), Persian Wheel (Saqiya), Treadles,

Sericulture (Production of Silk),Carpet Weaving, Paper Manufacturing, Brass Utensils,

Building Industry, etc

c. Inland and Foreign Trade

d. Economy under Vijayanagar Empire: Agriculture, Trade and Commerce

Section – B (Economy under Mughal Empire)

Unit 3: Agriculture and Agrarian Sector

a. Irrigation

b. Food and Non-Food Crops: Introduction of Tobacco, Maize and Capsicum in India

c. Mughal Land Revenue System: Size of Land Revenue; Method of Assessment and

Collection

d. Famines and Natural Calamities; Relief Measures

Unit 4: Trade and Commerce

a. Land Trade: Inland and Foreign Trade

b. Maritime Trade

c. Role of the European Companies in Indian Ocean Trade

d. Money and Credit: Sarrafs (Money-Changers), Hundis (Bills of Exchange), Bima

(Insurance)

Suggested Readings

Ashin Das Gupta, Merchants of Maritime Trade, 1500-1800, Aldershot, 1994

36

Abdul Aziz, The Mansabari System and the Mughal Army, Delhi, 1972

Burton Stein, Vijayanagar, Cambridge University Press, 1989

H.K. Naqvi, Urban Centres and Industries Upper India, 1552-1803, Bombay, 1960

James D. Tracy, The Rise of Merchant Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1990

K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam

to 1750, Cambridge University Press, 1985

Irfan Habib, The Economic History of Mughal India: A Survey, Tulika, 2001

Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Mughal India,1556-1707, revised edition, OUP, 1999

Irfan Habib, Bhartiya Itihas mein Madhyakal, Granth Shilpi, New Delhi, 1999

Irfan Habib and J.F. Richards (eds), The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India, Delhi, 1987

Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam, The Mughal State, 1526-1750, OUP, 1998

Noburo Karashima, Towards a New Economic Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagar Rule,

Delhi, 1992

R. Champakalakshmi, Trade, Ideology and Urbanisation, Delhi, 1999

S. Nurul Hasan, Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India, New Delhi, 1973

S. Subrahmanyam, Political Economy of Commerce, Southern India, 1550-1650, Cambridge University

Press, 1990

Satish Chandra, Medieval India, From Sultanate to the Mughals, Part II, Mughal Empire (1526-1748),

Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 2009

Satish Chandra, Essays in Medieval Indian Economic History, New Delhi, 1987

Satish Chandra, Medieval Indian Society, the Jagirdari Crisis and the Village, Delhi, 1981

Shireen Moosvi, The Economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595, A Statistical Study, OUP, 1987

Shireen Moosvi, People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal India, OUP, 2008


T.J. Byres and Harbans Mukhia (eds), Feudalism and Non-European Societies, London, 1985

Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, c. 1200 -

1750, Orient Longman, 1982

Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Moslem India, Delhi, 1968

W.H. Moreland, From Akbar to Aurangzeb: A Study in Economic History, London, 1923

W.H. Moreland, India at the Death of Akbar: An Economic Study, London, 1920

W.H. Nelson Wright, The Coinage and Metrology of the Sultans of Delhi, Delhi, 1936

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Credits: 4

DSE-3

(Group–C)

Economic Life in India c. AD 1757–1950

Unit 1: Indian Economy in the Middle of the 18th Century

a. The English East India Company and its Rule in Bengal

b. The Drain of Wealth: Mechanism, Effects

c. Indian Crafts and Trade

Unit 2: The Agrarian Economy down to 1857

a. The Permanent Settlement: Effects on Zamindars and Peasants

b. The Ryotwari and the Mahalwari Systems

Unit 3: Trade and Commerce

a. Changing Nature of External Trade

b. The Effects of the Charter Acts of 1813 and 1833

c. Internal Trade

d. Rise of Opium Trade and its Significance

Unit 4: The Railways and Indian Economy

a. Economic and Political Factors behind Railway Construction

b. Economic Consequences of Railways

Unit 5: Rise of Modern Indian Industries

a. Jute and Cotton Textile Industries

b. Coal Industry

c. Iron and Steel Industries; Tata Iron and Steel Company in Jamshedpur

d. Class Structure: Middle Class and Working Class

Suggested Readings

A.K. Bagchi, Private Investment in India, 1900-1939, CUP, 1972

Asok Sen, et al (eds), Perspectives in Social Sciences, 2: Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure of

Bengal, OUP, 1982

B.B Chaudhury, Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal 1757-1900, Calcutta, 1964


Burtein Stein (ed), The Making of Agrarian Policy in British India, 1770-1900, OUP, 1992

Asiya Siddiqui (ed.), Trade and Finance in Colonial India 1750-1860, OUP, 1995

38

Dharma Kumar, The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II, Orient Longman, 2005

Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India, Cambridge University Press, 1965

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rethinking Working Class History. Bengal, 1890-1940, Princeton, 1989

Jan Breman, Labour Bondage in West India from Past to Present, Oxford University Press, 2008

K.N. Raj et al (eds.), Commercialisation of Indian Agriculture, OUP, 1985

Ranajit Guha, A Rule of Property in Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent

Settlement, Duke University Press, 1982

Prasannan Parthasarathy, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers,Merchants and Kings in South

India, 1720-1800, CUP, 2001

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Financial Foundations of the British Raj, Simla, Indian Institute of

Advanced Study, 1971


Tirthankar Ray, The Economic History of India 1857-1947, OUP, 2006

Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little, India’s Economic Reforms, 1991-2001, OUP, 1996

Vinay Bahl, The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company,

1880-1946, Sage Publications, London, 1995

39




Credits: 4

DSE-4

(Group-A)

Society and Culture in India up to c. AD 1200

Unit 1: Social Institutions

a. Varna System, Position of the Brahmanas

b. Origin and Growth of Caste, Position of Shudras, Untouchability

c. Ashram System, Purusarthas, Samskaras

d. Hindu Society, Muslim Society, Slavery

e. Status of Women

f. Marriage and Family Life; Property Rights, Village Community

Unit 2: Religious Movements

a. Jainism, Buddhism, Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism

b. Vaishnava and Saiva Forms of Worship, Beginning of Tantric Practices

c. Schools of Philosophy

d. The Evolution of the Vedanta Tradition–Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhva; Siddha

Tradition

e. Bhakti, Sufism and Composite Culture

Unit 3: Education, Language, Literature and Art

a. Sanskrit Education, Gurukul System

b. Buddhist Centres of Education, Women Education

c. Hindu system of Education

d. Muslim System of Education

Unit 4: Literature and Art

a. Literature; Rise and Growth of Regional Languages

b. Art, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture

c. Development of Science and Technology

Suggested Readings

A. L. Basham, A Cultural History of India, Oxford University Press, 1997

A. L. Basham, A Wonder that was India, Rupa, New Delhi, 1994

Amar Frooqui, Early Social Formations, Manak, New Delhi, 2001

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B. N. Sharma, Social Life in Northern India (AD 600-1200), Munshiram Manoharlal, 1966

B.D. Chattopadhyay, The Making of Early Medieval India, OUP, 1994

D.D. Kosambi, The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline, Vikas, New Delhi,

1976

D.N. Jha, K.M.Srimali (eds), Prachin Bharat ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalay, Delhi

University, 2007

Edith Tomory, A History of Fine Arts in India and the West, Orient Blackswan, 2011


Romila Thapar, The Penguin History Of Early India: From The Origins to AD 1300, Penguin, 2003

Romila Thapar, Cultural Past: Essays in Early Indian History, OUP, 2000

U.N. Ghosal, Studies in Indian History and Culture, Orient Longman, 1965

Uma Chakravarti, The Social Dimensions of Buddhism, OUP, 1987

Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From Stone Age to the 12th Century,

Pearson, 2009




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Credits: 4

DSE-4

(Group-B)

Society and Culture in India c. AD 1200-1757

Unit 1: Structure of Rural Society

a. Composition and Stratification of Rural Society

b. Village Community

Unit 2: Structure of Urban Society

a. Composition

b. Classes and Communities

c. Urban Culture

Unit 3: Bhakti and Sufi Movement

a. Bhakti Movement in North and South India: Ramananda, Kabir, Dadu, Guru Nanak,

Chaitanya, Tulsidas, Saint Gyaneshwar and Saint Tukaram

b. Origin and Growth of Sufi Silsilas: Chisti, Suhrawardi, Qadri, Naqshbandi and Firdausia

Unit 4: Education and Learning

a. Hindu System of Education and Learning

b. Muslim System of Education and Learning

c. Women Education: Hindu and Muslim Women

Unit 5: Sultanate and Mughal Art and Architecture

a. Khalji and Tughlaq

b. Mughal Architecture: Akbar and Shahjahan

c. Mughal and Rajput Paintings

Unit 6: Regional Architecture and Sculpture

a. Vijayanagar

b. Bahmani

c. Sharqi

d. Bengal

Suggested Readings

A.L. Dallapiccola, Vijayanagara: City and Empire, Stuttgart, 1992

Alok Rai, Hindi Nationalism, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2001

Amrit Rai, A House Divided: The Origin and Development of Hindi/Hindavi, Delhi, 1984

42

Anand Krishna, Early Mughal Painting, New Delhi, 1971

Aziz Ahmad, Studies In Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment, OUP, 1964

C. Vaudeville, A Weaver Named Kabir, New Delhi, 1991

Carla Petievich, Assembly of Rivals: Delhi, Lucknow and the Urdu Ghazal, Manohar, 1992

Christopher R. King, One Language, Two Scripts, New Delhi, 1994

Desiderio Pinto, Piri-muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah, Manohar, 1995

H.C. Verma (ed), Madhyakaleen Bharat, Vol.1 & 2, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalaya,


Harbans Mukhia, The Mughals of India , Blackwell Publishing, 2005

Francesca Orsini (ed), Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture, Orient Blackswan, New

Delhi, 2010

Irfan Habib, Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization, National Book Trust, 2008


J.N. Mohanty, Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought, OUP, 1992

K.A. Nizami (ed), Politics and Society during the Early Medieval Period: Collected Writings of

Mohammad Habib, reprint, New Delhi,1992, 2 Volumes

K.A. Nizami, Religion and Politics in India during the Thirteen Century, Aligarh, 1961

M.M. Saeed, The Sharqi Sultanate of Jaunpur: A Political and Cultural History, Karachi, 1972

N. R. Farooqi, Medieval India: Essays on Sufism, Diplomacy and History, Laburnum Press, Allahabad ,

2006

Noboru Karashima, Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagar Rule, New

Delhi, 1992

Pushpa Prasad, Sanskrit Inscription of Delhi Sultanate, 1911-1526, Delhi, 1990

R.E. Frykenberg, Delhi through the Ages: Essays in Urban History, Culture and Society, OUP, 1986

Raziuddin Aquil, In the Name of Allah: Understanding Islam and Indian History, Penguin, 2010

Richard M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760, California, 1993

Raziuddin Aquil, Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India, OUP, 2007

S.A.A. Rizvi, Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth

Centuries, reprint, New Delhi, 1993

S.A.A. Rizvi, A History of Sufism in India, Vol. I, Early Sufism and its History in India to 1600 A.D.,

Munshiram Manoharlal, 1978

S. Nurul Hasan, Religion, State and Society in Medieval India, OUP, 2005

S.P. Verma, Mughal Painters and their Work, New Delhi 1994

Satish Chandra, Madhyakalin Bharat: Rajniti, Samaj avam Sanskriti, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi,

2007

Satish Chandra, Medieval Indian Society, the Jagirdari Crisis and the Village, Delhi, 1981


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Credits: 4

DSE-4

(Group–C)

Society and Culture in India c. AD 1757-1950

Unit 1: British Understanding of Indian Society

a. Orientalist

b. Utilitarian

c. Evangelical

Unit 2: Social Policies of British India

a. Social Policies of East India Company

b. Education - Indigenous and Modern

c. Impact of Social Policies on Indian Society

Unit 3: Social Movement

a. Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, Prathana Samaj

b. Theosophical Society and Annie Besant

Unit 4: Social and Cultural Change

a. Mahatma Gandhi’s Programme of Social Upliftment, Harijan Movement, B.R. Ambedkar

b. Emerging Social Classes; Rise and Growth of the Middle Classes

c. Press and Public Opinion

d. Language and Literature

Suggested Readings


Bharati Ray (ed), Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods, Sage Publications, New Delhi,

2005


C. H. Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform, Princeton University Press, 1964


Francesca Orsini, Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North

India, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2009

Imtiaz Ahmad (ed), Modernzation and Social Change among Muslims in India, Mahohar,1983

Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900,

CUP, 2002

Madhava Prasad, The Ideology of the Hindi film: A Historical Reconstruction, OUP, 1998

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Meera Kosambi, Crossing Threshholds: Feminist Essays in Social History, Permanent Black, 2007

Patricia Uberoi, Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India, OUP, 2006

Prem Chowdhury, The Veiled Woman, OUP, 1994

Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and

Feminism in India 1800-1990, Delhi, 1993

Radha Kumar, Stri Sangarsh Ka Itihas, 1800-1990, Vani Prakashan, 2005 (Hindi)

Ramchandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya,

Delhi, 1989

S. C. Ghosh, History of Education in Modern India, 1758-1986, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1995

Susobhan Sarkar, On the Bengal Renaissance, Papyrus, Calcutta, 1979

Tanika Sarkar, Hindu Wife Hindu Nation, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2001

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