course content / syllabus unit i 1. the past and history

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MA SEM-I, II, III & IV CONSOLIDATED COURSE STRUCTUREDEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

FACULTY OF ARTS

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaFaculty of ArtsDepartment of HistoryOpp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer CentreVadodara. 390 002 Phone : 0265-2791502 [email protected]

ACADEMIC YEAR2016-2017

M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -01

HISTORICAL THOUGHT (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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The paper seeks to impart an understanding of history as a form of social inquiry,

highlighting the conceptual, theoretical and methodological concerns and

procedures that inform it as a discipline.

COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS

UNIT – I Nature and Scope of History 12 Hrs

1. The Past and History: Exploring the Relationship

2. History and Natural Sciences

3. History and Social Sciences

4. History and Humanities

UNIT – II History and Historical Evidence and Historical Writing 11 Hrs

1. Primary Sources & Secondary Sources2. Oral Traditions and Folklore3. Material Remains4. Constructing a Verifiable past

UNIT - III Historical Constructs and Concerns 11Hrs

1. Objectivity and Subjectivity in History2. Description, Explanation, Causation and Theory in History3. Narrativity and History

UNIT-IV Project

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Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The Students would be required to make presentations.

Suggested Readings

1. Marwick, Arthur , The Nature of History, London, 1989

2. Carr, E.H., What is History?, London

3. Collingwood, R.G., The Idea of History, London, 1961

4. Marc Bloch, Historian’s Craft, Manchester, 1954

5. Braudel, Fernand, On History, London, 1980

6. Tosh, John, The Pursuit of History, London, 1985

7. Jenkins, Keith, On ‘What is History?’: From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, London&

New York, 1996

8. Sharma, Tej Ram, Research Methodology

9. Bajaj, Satish K, History: Its Philosophy, Theory and Methodology

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE-02

TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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To develop an understanding of the phase of transition from Medieval to Modern

Indian History


UNIT - I Introduction 12 Hrs

1. Defining/locating the ‘modern and ‘modernity’

2. European History: The coming of the modern and the formation

of modernity

3. Periodalisation: Medieval and Modern-Contrasting Categories

representing history and social formations.

4. The European shift from Medieval to Modern

UNIT - II Medieval India and the Mughals 11 Hrs

1. Medieval India and the Mughals.

2. Decline of the Mughal Empire: an overview of conditions,

theories and explanations

3. The Long 18th century in Indian history: historical processes

and structures in transition

4. Specifics and peculiarities if India’s transition from ‘medieval’

to ‘modern’ India.’

UNIT - III Modernity and the Public Sphere 11Hrs

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1. Modernity and the coming of the Public.; historical significance

2. Conceiving publics and public sphere

3. The paradigmatic model: Habermas and the history/ conception

of the public sphere in the West

4. India - before and after Company Raj . Christopher Bayly and

the ‘Indian Ecumene’: Framework of an indigenous model of

the public sphere.

Unit-IV Project


Suggested Readings:

1. Hall, Staurt, (ed.) Formations of Modernity

2. Richards , J.F., The Mughal Empire,Cambridge,1993

3. Bayly C.A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Delhi, 19904. Ali, Athar M., ‘The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case’ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 9,

No. 3. (1975), pp. 385-3965. Pearson, M. N. , ‘Shivaji and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’, The Journal of Asian

Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb., 1976), pp. 221-2356. Hardy, P. ‘Commentary and Critique ‘, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb.,

1976), pp. 257-2637. Naqvi, Hamida Khatoon,’ Aurangzeb's Policies and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’, The

Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Nov., 1977), pp. 191-1928. Karen Leonard ‘The 'Great Firm' Theory of the Decline of the Mughal Empire’,Comparative

Studies in Society and History, Vol. 21, No. 2. (Apr., 1979), pp. 151-167.9. Habermas, Jurgen, ‘The Public Sphere’ in Steven Steidman (ed.), Jurgen Habermas on

Society and Politics, pp.231-3610. Alam, Muzaffar, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, Delhi (OUP), 198611. Bayly, C.A., Empire and Information, Cambridge, 199912. _________, Origins of Nationality in South Asia, Delhi (OUP), 199813. Freitag, Sandria B., Collective Action and Community, Delhi (OUP), 199914. Rai, Amrit, A House Divided, Delhi (OUP), 199115. Ali, Daud, Invoking the Past, Delhi (OUP), 199916. Metcalf, Thomas R., Ideologies of the Raj

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -03 (A)

SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WESTERN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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To enhance the understanding of the complexities of socio-economic history

medieval India with special reference to Western India


UNIT - I Economy of the Delhi Sultanate 12 Hrs

1. Socio-economic structure of northern India on the eveof Turkish invasion and gradual transformation.

2. The Agrarian Economy: agricultural production andagrarian taxation.

3. Grants:(a) Iqta: distribution of resources among the rulingclasses(b) Other Grants: Madad-i ma‘ash and Sayurghal

UNIT - II Society during the Delhi Sultanate 11 Hrs

1. The Ruling Classes: Sultans, Nobility & other Officials 2. The Merchants, Traders & Peddlers 3. The Artisans & Craftsmen, Peasants & Labour

UNIT - III Economy in the Mughal period 11Hrs

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1. Agricultural Production: crops—jins-i adna and jins-ikamil

2. Land Revenue: Methods of assessment; and machineryof collection

3. Jagir and the jagirdari system.

UNIT - IV Society during the Mughal period 11Hrs

1. Zamindars: Deshmukhs, Deshpandes &Desais.2. The Peasants Stratification. The khud-kasht and

pahi-kasht3. The Village Community: Balutedars

Suggested Readings

1. Ali, M. Athar, The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, Delhi, 1985.2. Ashraf, K. M., Life& Conditions of the People of Hindustan, Delhi, 1959.3. Aziz, Abdul,The Mansab System and the Mughal Army, Lahore, 1945.4. Cambridge Economic History of India,Vol.4, The Mughal Period Cambridge, 1922.5. Chicherov, A.I.,Indian Economic Development in16th to 18th Centuries: outline History of Crafts

& Trade, Moscow, 1967.6. Gopal,L., Economic Life of Northern India, Delhi, 1965.7. Habib, Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India. Bombay, 1963.8. Habibullah, A. B. M., The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India, Allahabad, 1961.9. Hasan, Ibn, The Central Structure of Mughal Empire, (reprint), Delhi, 1970.10. Hasan,S. Nurul,Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India, Delhi, 1967.11. Jain, V.K., Trade & Traders of Western India, Delhi, 1990.12. Khan, A. R., Chieftains in the Mughal Empire during the Reign of Akbar, Shimla, 1977.13. Kumar, Sunil, The Delhi Sultanate, Delhi, 2010.14. Moreland, W. H., Agrarian System of Moslem India, Cambridge, 1920.15. _____, India at the Death of Akbar, London, 1920.16. _____, From Akbar to Aurangzeb, London, 1923.17. Nigam, S. B. P., Nobility Under the Sultans of Delhi, Delhi, 1968.18. Nizami, K. A., Some Aspects of Religion & Politics in India in Thirteenth Century,Aligarh, 1961.19. Pearson, M. N., Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat, California, 1976.20. RaychaudhuriTapan& Irfan Habib (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I.,

Delhi, 1984

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -03 (B)

HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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To introduce the students to the concept of Historiography of Modern India


UNIT – I Historiography-I 12 Hrs

1. Indian Historiographical tradition

2. Orientalist discovery of India’s past

3. Imperialistic interpretations of the Indian Past

UNIT – II Historiography-II 11 Hrs

1. Nationalist Historiography

2. Marxist Historiography

3. Communal Approaches to Indian History

UNIT – III Historiography-III 11Hrs

1. Economic Historiography

2. Cambridge School

3. Social Historiography

UNIT – IV Project 11Hrs

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Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The Students would be required to make presentations

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. Vinay Lal, The History of History-Politics of Scholarship in Modern India, OUP, 2003

2. R.C. Majumdar, Historiography in Modern India, London and Bombay, Asia Publishing

House, 1970

3. Subodh Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Evolution of Historiography in Modern India:1900-1960,

Calcutta:

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

5. Daud Ali (ed) Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia, Delhi, 1999

6. C. A. Bayly. Empire and Information: Intelligence gathering and social communication in

India, 1780-1870, Delhi 1999

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -04 (A)

DELHI SULTANATE: THE KHALJIS

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIVES: To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and

administrative history of Delhi Sultanat


UNIT – I The Ghurids and The Khaljis 12 Hrs

1. The Ghurids2. Antecedents of the Khaljis, the Khalji coup de tat, the “Khalji

revolution”.3. Jalaluddin Khalji: policies, military operations, murder and

Alauddin’s accession.

UNIT – II Alaudin Khalji and the Mongol Invasions 11 Hrs

1. Alauddin Khalji: rebellions and policy measures, composition ofthe nobility.

2. Territorial expansion, Mongol invasions3. Mubarak Shah, Khusrau Khan

UNIT – III Society, Culture and Economy 11Hrs

1. land revenue administration2. Market regulations.3. Society and Culture


Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The Students would be required to make presentations

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Suggested Readings

Books:1. M. Habib and K.A.Nizami ed., Comprehensive History of India, Vol. V2. K.S.Lal, History of the Khaljis3. R.P.Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration4. W.H. Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India5. Tapan Raichaudhari and I. Habib ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I6. U.N.Dey, Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History7. A.B.M Habibullah, The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India.8. Mohibbul Hasan, Historians of Medieval India.9. Minhaj us Siraj, Tabqat I Nasiri, tr. Major Raverty10. Isami, Futuh us Salatin, tr. Mahadi Hussain11. Barni, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own

Historians vol.III12. Afif, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own

Historians vol.IIIIbn Batuta, Rehla, tr. Mehdi Hussain

13. I.H. Qureshi, Administration of the Delhi Sultanate.14. Andre Wink, Al Hind

Articles:1. Irfan Habib, The Formation of the Ruling Class of the Delhi Sultanate in the Thirteenth

Century.IHC 1977

2. Irfan Hbaib, Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India, Historical Probing, ed. R.S.Sharma

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -04 (A)

THE AFGHAN INTERREGNUM (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIVES

:

To give a comprehensive understanding of Afghan Interregnum


UNIT – I The Rise of Afghans: Lodis 12 Hrs

1. Afghans before the rise of Lodis

2. Emergence of Lodi kingdom- political background

3. Expansion and Consolidation under the Lodis

4. The Surs, their antecedents in India

5. Establishment of the Sur dynasty

UNIT – II The Rise of Afghans: Surs 11 Hrs

1. Antecedents in India2. Establishment of the Sur dynasty3. Sher Shah and his successors

UNIT-III Society, Economy and Culture 11Hrs

1. Society and Economy under the Lodis2. Society and Economy under the Surs3. Art and Architecture



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Suggested Readings

1. Tripathi R A, Rise and Fall of Mughal Empire

2. _________, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration

3. Halim A, History of Lodhi Sultans of Delhi and Agra

4. Qanungo K R, Sher Shah and His Times

5. Ambasthya B P, History of Sher Shah

6. Moreland W H, The Agrarian System of Modern India

7. Habib Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India

8. Hasan Nurul S, Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India

9. Siddiqui Iqtidar Husain, Afghan Despotism in India

10. ------------------------------, History of Sher Shah Sur

Articles:

1. Hasan Nurul S, ‘Administration of His Father’s Jagir of Sahsaram by Farid’, PIHC, 1967

2. Habib Irfan, ‘Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India’, in R S Sharma &

V Jha (eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -04 (A)

EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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To give a comprehensive understanding of Early Medieval India


UNIT-I Sources

1. Literary

2.Epigraphic

3.Numismatics

12 Hrs

UNIT - I State Formation 11 Hrs

1. Gurjara-Pratiharas, Palas of Bengal, Rashtrakutas

2. Kashmir

3. Cholas

UNIT - II The Frontiers of Hindustan 11 Hrs

1. Political Geography: Khurasan, Zamindawar, Zabul and Kabul,

Makran

2. Sind and Hindustan

3. Arab conquests in Sind and Hindustan

UNIT - III Project 11Hrs

Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The Students would be required to make presentation

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SUGGESTED READINGS

1. D D Kosambi, AnIntroductiontotheStudyofIndianHistory, Bombay

2. R S Sharma & V Jha (eds.), IndianSociety : HistoricalProbings, in Memory of D D Kosambi

3. R S Sharma, IndianFeudalism

4. ________, Social Change in Early Medieval India

5. Irfan Habib, Social Distribution of LandedPropertyinPre-BritishIndia, in R S Sharma & V Jha

(eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings

6. R Coulburn, Feudalism, Brahminism and the intrusion of Islam in Indian History, CSSH, 10,

3, (1968)

7. B D Chattopadhyaya, Trade and Urban Centres in Early Medieval India, IHR, 1, (1974)

8. ________________, Origin of Rajputs: the Political, Economic and Social Processes in Early

Medieval Rajasthan, IHR, 3 , (1976)

9. Romila Thapar, (ed.), Literary Indian History

10. Z J Byres & Harbans Mukhia (eds.), Feudalism in Non-European Societies

11. Andre Wink, Al Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Delhi, 1990

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -04 (B)

BRITISH RULE IN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

ES:

To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and

administrative history of British Rule in India


UNIT – I Processes of Colonization of India 12 Hrs

1. Contextualizing Colonialism in India2. Political Climate in the 18th century: British Conquest of Bengal3. Expansion through Conquests, Subsidiary Alliance System and

Doctrine of Lapse.4. Consolidation: Administration under the East India Company

and Constitutional Developments 1773-1853.

UNIT – II Consolidation of the Imperial Structure 11 Hrs

1. Consolidation: Administration under the East India Company and Constitutional Developments 1773-1853.

2. Structure and development of Imperial Administration.3. Constitutional Development 1858-1909

UNIT – III National Awakening-I 11Hrs

1. Indian Reaction: the Uprising of 18572. Foundation of Indian National Congress.3. Moderate phase: policy and programme

UNIT – IV National Awakening-II 11Hrs

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1.Emergences of Extremism in Punjab, Maharashtra and Madras2. Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement.3. Revolutionary trends:Phase-1

SUGGESTED READINGS

Books:

1. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-19472. Bipin Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India3. S. Gopal, British Policy in India4. Bipin Chandra, India’s Struggle for independence 1857-1947, Penguin, 20005. Eric Stokes, The Peasant and the Raj, Cambridge, 19786. B.L. Grover, British Policy towards Indian Naitonalism, 1885-1909 Delhi, 19677. Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi, 19738. Arun Chandra Guha, First Spark of Revolution, Bombay, 1971

Articles:

1. Kumkum Chatterjee, Trade and Darbar Politics in the Bengal Subah, 1733-1757, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, May, 1992

2. Holden Furber and Kristof Glamann Source, Plassey: A New Account from the Danish Archives,The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Feb., 1960

3. Michael H. Fisher, Indirect Rule in the British Empire: The Foundations of the Residency System in India (1764- 1858), Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1984

4. P. J. Marshall, Early British Imperialism in India,Past & Present, No. 106, Feb., 19855. Irfan Habib, The Coming of 1857, Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1/4 Jan. - Apr., 19986. Gopal Krishna, The Development of the Indian National Congress as a Mass Organization,

1918-1923,The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3, May, 19667. Anil Baran Ray, Communal Attitudes to British Policy: The Case of the Partition of Bengal

1905, Social Scientist, Vol. 6, No. 5 Dec., 19778. Gordon Johnson, Partition, Agitation and Congress: Bengal 1904 to 1908,Modern Asian

Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 19739. Donovan Williams, The Council of India and the Relationship between the Home and

Supreme Governments, 1858 -1870,The English Historical Review, Vol. 81, No. 318, Jan., 1966

10. K. N. Panikkar, From Revolt to Agitation: Beginning of the National Movement, Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. 9/10, Sep. - Oct., 1997

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -05 (A)

MUGHAL EMPIRE 1526-1605 (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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administrative history of Mughal Empire


UNIT – I Foundation of Mughal Empire 12 Hrs

1. The legacy of Indo-Islamic frontier. Babur and Humayun,

conflict with Afghans and Rajputs

2. Bairam Khan’s Regency. Initial challenges to Mughal rule till

1561

3. The nobility under Babur and Humayun. Akbar’s conflict with

Turani nobles and reorganization of the nobility

4. Mughal theory of sovereignty.

UNIT – II Expansion and consolidation of Mughal Empire 11 Hrs

1. Imperial expansion and policies: Malwa, Rajasthan, Gujarat,

Bengal and Kashmir

2. Akbar’s policy towards the chieftains

3. The North-west frontier policy of Akbar and Mughal relations

with Persia and Central Asia

4. The evolution of Mansabs and Jagirs

UNIT – III Religion Art and Culture 11Hrs

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1. Akbar’s socio religious outlook: the sulh-i kul, break with the

orthodoxy, mahzar

2. Mughal Architecture and its characteristics

3. Persian Literature at the Mughal court: histories, poetry, Persian

translation of the scriptures

4. The Mughal miniature Painting

UNIT - IV Project 11Hrs


SUGGESTED READINGS

1. J.F.Richards, The Mughal Empire ( The New Cambridge History of India)

2. R.P.Tripathi, Rise and fall of Mughal Empire

3. Satish Chandra, Mughal Empire

4. Azra Alvi, The socio-religious outlook of Akbar

5. S.R.Sharma, Religious policies of the Mughal Emperors

6. S.A.A.Rizvi, Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims During the Reign of Akbar

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

8. Riazul Islam, Mughal Relations with Persia

9. Ibn Hasan, Central Structure of the Mughal Empire

10. Richard Foltz, Mughal India and Central Asia

11. P.Spears, The Mughal Architecture

12. S.P.Verma, Art, Material Culture in the Paintings of Akbar’s Court, New Delhi, 1978.

13. A.R.Khan, Chieftains During the Reign of Akbar

14. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam ed. Mughal State

15. Abdul Aziz, The Mughal Mansabdari System

16. Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I CORE -05 (B)

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1757-1857(1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIVE

S:

Survey of Indian economy during colonial times: with focus on transition in the

mid-18th century; leading to transformation in agrarian economy, industries,

trade and commerce and lastly creation of the colonial economic infrastructure.


UNIT – I Transition debate on mid 18th century economy 12 Hrs

1. The mid-eighteenth century economy in India2. The indigenous origins of colonial economy3. The transition debate.

UNIT – II Initiation of Colonial Changes 11 Hrs

1. Agrarian economy-the major land revenue systems2. Trade and Commerce3. Industry and Industrial decline

UNIT – III The economic drain and creation of modern infrastructure 11Hrs

1. The ‘Drain Theory’2. Roads3. Railways.

UNIT – IV Creation of modern infrastructure-II 11Hrs

1. 1. Irrigation.2. Tariffs.3. Currency and Banking

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SUGGESTED READINGS

1. B N Bhatia, Famines in India.2. B R Tomlinson, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970.3. Bipan Chandra, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.4. C.A Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars.5. D H Buchanan, The Development of Capitalistic Enterprises in India.6. D R Gadgil, The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent Times.7. Dharma Kumar (ed.), Cambridge Economic History India, Vol II.8. G Blyn, Agricultural Trends in India.9. K Bagchi, Private Investment in India.10. Morris Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.11. P K Gopalakrishnan, Development of Economic Ideas: India 1880-1950.12. R.C Dutt, The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age.13. R.S Rungta, The Rise of Business Corporations in India: 1851-1900.14. Rajat Ray, Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the British Corporate Sector.15. S. Ambirajan, Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India.16. Tirthankar Roy, The Economic History of India, 1857-1947.

Articles:

1. Morris D. Morris, T. Mastsui, Bipan Chandra Tapan Ray Chaudhuri: ‘The Indian Economy inthe Nineteenth Century : A Symposium’, Economic and Social History Review, Vol.No.1, 1969.

2. Irfan Habib, ‘Colonialisation of the Indian Economy’, Social Scientist, No.32.3. B B Chaudhari, ‘Growth of Commercial Agriculture and its Impact on the Peasant Economy’,

The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.III, No.1, March 1970.4. Burton Stein, Eighteenth Century India: Another view, Studies in History, 5, 1 n.s. (1989).

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I Project-01

REVIEW OF LITERATURE (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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The content and scope of project work would be decided upon by the department on an

annual basis. The assessments of the projects would involve both written assignments

and seminar presentations by the students and these would be assessed collectively by

the department faculty.

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M. A. I SEMESTER I

Year I IDE-01

THE PRE-MODERN WORLD: THE WEST

CREDIT 3

Semester I HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

ES:

This is an elective course that seeks to impart conceptual and empirical

understanding of the pre-modern world with reference to the West - i.e. the

European part of the world - during a thousand years or so of its history, from c.

500 C.E. to c. 1500 C.E. Within broad limits, the centuries covering the two points

are termed ‘medieval’. Given in three modules, the course requires students to

undertake structured and selective readings of classical/contemporary works of

scholarship focused on specific themes outlined in Modules I & II.


UNIT - I Locating pre-modern Europe 12 Hrs

1. The idea of time in history. ‘Periodization’-the conceptual basis

of historical time.

2. The scope and frame of the ‘pre-modern’.

3. Categories of time and space: ‘medieval’ and ‘modern’as

referents of time and space.

4. Medieval and modern social formations. Disntinctions, contrasts

and connections.

UNIT - II Stages/Phases in the making of the medieval 11 Hrs

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1. The coming of the medieval in Europe: decline of the Romanimperium; Germanic invasions. Developments in Christianity.Formation of church and state

2. Between the old and the new: processes at the inception of themedieval complex. Movements and settlement of barbarianfolks. Tribes and territories: emerging socio-politicalarrangements

3. Stages of expansion and consolidation: Merovingian,Carolingians and Saxon

UNIT-III Society

1. Lords and Vassals. Charlemagne: conquests, Christianity andvassalic armies. Manors and serfs and peasants. Fiefs.Monasteries

2. Feudalism and the Three Orders3. Rise of urban communes. Crisis and decline

UNIT – III Project 11Hrs


SUGGESTED READINGS

1. Strayer, Gatke & Harrison, The Mainstream of Civilization

2. Jacques LeGoff, Medieval Civilization

3. Georges Duby, The Early Growth of European Economy

4. R.H.C. Davis, Medieval Europe

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -06

HISTORICAL THOUGHT(2)

CREDIT 3

Semester II HOURS 45

OBJECTIV

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To give a comprehensive understanding of Historical Thought


UNIT - I Various schools of history writing 12 Hrs

1. Paradigms, theoretical framework and the discipline of history

2. Positivism

3. Marxism and History

UNIT - II Different aspects of history 11 Hrs

1. Eurocentrisim and world history

2. Annales and the French Tradition of historical inquiry

3. Foucault: discursive practices, power and knowledge.

Archeology and genology of the present.

UNIT-III Modern Historical Thought 11 Hrs

1. Feminism and women’s history

2. Post-modernism and history

3. Post-colonialism and history


Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.The Students would be required to make presentation

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Suggested Readings

1. Iggers, Georg, New Directions in European Historiography ,London, 1985

2. McLennan,Gregor, Marxism and the Methodologies of History, London, 1987

3. Amin, Samir, Eurocentricism, New York,1989

4. Jenkins, Keith, Rethinking History, London, 1991

5. Rosalind O’Hanlon & David Washbrook, ‘After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism and Politics

in the Third World’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34, 1992, 141-167

6. Prakash,Gyan, ‘Can the “Subaltern” Speak? A Reply to O’Hanlon and Washbrook’,

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34, 1992

7. Brekenridge, Carol A. & Peter van der Veer, Orientalism and the Post-colonial Predicament:

Perspectives on South Asia, Philadelphia, 1993

8. Chakrabarty, Dipesh, ‘Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for “Indian”

Pasts’, Representations, 37, 1992

9. Williams, P. and Chrisman, L., Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader,

Harvester Wheatsheaf (Hemel Hemstead),1994

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE-07

TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

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To develop an understanding of the phase of transition from Medieval to Modern

Indian History


UNIT - I Collective Identities 12 Hrs

1. Sate and Community: Conceptual Schema

2. State and Community in medieval/pre-colonial India

3. Religious and other communities

4. Communities and Conflict: Late Medieval-early colonial

contexts

UNIT - II Patriotism and Patrias 11 Hrs

1. Patriotism, patrias and cultural homelands

2. Patriotism: political doctrines and ethical government in pre-

colonial and early colonial India

3. Emergence and consolidation of patrias in India. Regional and

pan-regional patrias. Indian Patrias and Religious Communities

4. Patrias in action: The colonial encounter

Unit-III Nationalism 11 Hrs

1. Patriotism and Nationalism

2. Nation, nationality and nationalism in India: Existing

frameworks. Critiques

3. Patriotisms in transition

4. ‘Nationality’: Towards an extended timeframe and alternative

narratives

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Suggested Readings:

1. Hall, Staurt, (ed.) Formations of Modernity

2. Richards , J.F., The Mughal Empire,Cambridge,19933. Bayly C.A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, Delhi, 19904. Ali, Athar M., ‘The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case’Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 9,

No. 3. (1975), pp. 385-3965. Pearson, M. N. , ‘Shivaji and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’, The Journal of Asian

Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb., 1976), pp. 221-2356. Hardy, P. ‘Commentary and Critique ‘, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2

(Feb., 1976), pp. 257-2637. Naqvi, Hamida Khatoon,’ Aurangzeb’s Policies and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’,

The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Nov., 1977), pp. 191-1928. Karen Leonard ‘The ‘Great Firm’ Theory of the Decline of the Mughal

Empire’,Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 21, No. 2. (Apr., 1979), pp. 151-167.

9. Habermas, Jurgen, ‘The Public Sphere’ in Steven Steidman (ed.), Jurgen Habermas on Society and Politics, pp.231-36

10. Alam, Muzaffar, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, Delhi (OUP), 198611. Bayly, C.A., Empire and Information, Cambridge, 199912. _________, Origins of Nationality in South Asia, Delhi (OUP), 199813. Freitag, Sandria B., Collective Action and Community, Delhi (OUP), 199914. Rai, Amrit, A House Divided, Delhi (OUP), 199115. Ali, Daud, Invoking the Past, Delhi (OUP), 199916. Metcalf, Thomas R., Ideologies of the Raj

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -08 (A)

SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WESTERN INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:

To enhance the understanding of the complexities of socio-economic history

medieval India with special reference to Western India


UNIT - I Karkhanas 12 Hrs

Organization, Categories, Administration & Wages

2. Imperial Karkhanas under Mughals

3. Karkhanas of Princes, Nobles & European Companies

UNIT - II Non-Agrarian Production 11 Hrs

1. Technology: Manufactures2. Technology: Handicrafts3. The Mechanics of Production: the dadni system in Western

India

UNIT - III Trade 11Hrs

1. Features of Inland Trade: Land & River.2. Trade Routes: Land & River3. Trading communities in Western India.

UNIT - IV Commerce 11Hrs

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1. External Trade through Land 2. External Trade through Sea

(a) Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (b) Networks in the Eastern Indian Ocean 3. Shipping in Medieval India

30

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. Ashraf, K. M., Life& Conditions of the People of Hindustan, Delhi, 1959.2. Cambridge Economic History of India,Vol.4, The Mughal Period Cambridge, 1922.3. Chandra, Satish (Ed.), The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and politics,

Delhi, 1978.4. Chaudhari, K.N., ,Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History From the

Rise of Islam Until 1750, Cambridge, 1985.5. ----, Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean From the Rise of

Islam to 1750,6. Chicherov, A.I.,Indian Economic Development in16th to 18th Centuries: outline History of

Crafts &Cambridge, 1990.7. Dasgupta, Ashin, The Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat c. 1700-1750, Wiesbaden,

1979.8. Gokhlae, B.G., Surat in the Seventeenth Century, A Study in Urban History of Pre-Modern

India, London, 1974.9. Gopal, L., Economic Life of Northern India, Delhi, 1965.10. Gopal, S., Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat, 16th and 17th Centuries; A Study in the Impact of

European Expansion of Pre-capitalist Economy, New Delhi, 1975.11. ----, ‘Gujarati Shipping in the 17th Century, IESHR, Vol. 8, no. 1, 1971, pp. 31-39.12. Gupta. O.P., Trade of Surat under Mughals, Delhi, 1983.13. Habib, Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India. Bombay, 1963.14. ____, An Atlas of the Mughal Empire,. Delhi, 1982.15. Jain, V.K., Trade & Traders of Western India, Delhi, 1990.16. Kumar, Sunil, The Delhi Sultanate, Delhi, 2010.17. Mahmud, S.J., Metal Technology in Medieval India, Delhi, 1988.18. Moreland, W. H., India at the Death of Akbar, London, 1920.19. _____, From Akbar to Aurangzeb, London, 1923.20. _____, ‘The Shahbandar of the Eastern Seas’ Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society

(Oct.1920).21. Qaisar, A. J.,The Indian Response to European Technology & Culture, Delhi, 1982.22. _____, Building Construction in India, Delhi, 1988.23. Pearson, M. N., Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat, California, 1976.24. Raychaudhuri Tapan& Irfan Habib (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I.,

Delhi, 1984.25. Sarkar, B., inland Transport & Communications in Medieval India, Calcutta, 192526. Tirmizi,S.A. I., Some Aspects of Medieval Gujarat,New Delhi, 1968.27. Tripathi, Dwijendra, (Ed.), Business Communities of India, Manohar, Delhi 1984.28. Verma, Tripta, Karkhanas under the Mughals: From Akbar to Aurangzeb-A Study in

Economic Development, Delhi, 1994.29. Watson, J, F., Textile Manufacturers & the Costumes of the People of India, (reprint),

London, 1860.30. White, Lynn Tr., Medieval Technology & Social Change New York, 1964.

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -08 (B)

HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES

:

To introduce the students to the concept of Historiography of Modern India


UNIT – I Historiography-I 12 Hrs

1. Subaltern Studies

1. Regional Historiography

2. Post Coloniality

UNIT – II Historiography-II 11 Hrs

1. Feminist Historiography

2. Dalit Historiography

3. Tribal Historiography

UNIT - III Historiography-III 11Hrs

1. Post Modernism

2. Revisionist trends in historiography


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Suggested Readings

1. Partha Chatterji, The nation and its fragments: Colonial and Post colonial histories, Princeton

and Delhi, 1994

2. S.M. Michael, Dalits in Modern India: Visions and Values, Delhi, 1999

3. Vinay Lal, The History of History-Politics of Scholarship in Modern India, OUP, 2003

4. R.C. Majumdar, Historiography in Modern India, London and Bombay, Asia Publishing

House, 1970

5. L.P. Mathur, Historiography and Historians of Modern India

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -09 (A)

DELHI SULTANATE: THE TUGHLUQS

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:


administrative history of Delhi Sultanat


UNIT – I Ghiyasuddin and Mohammad Bin Tughluq 12 Hrs

1. Antecedents, accession of Ghyiasuddin Tughluq.2. Administrative and fiscal measures, military operations.3. Muhammad Tughluq, rebellions, nature and composition of

nobility.4. Changes in land revenue administration: Token currency,

transfer of capital, agricultural reconstruction in the Doab

UNIT – II Firuz Shah Tughluq 11 Hrs

1. Accession of Firuz Shah and the supremacy of the nobility, military Operations.

2. Fresh estimation of Jama, inheritance to posts and land revenue assignments.

3. Public works.

UNIT - III Society and Culture: Decline 11Hrs

1. Decline of the Sultanate.2. An overview of society and culture


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Suggested Readings

1. M. Habib and K.A.Nizami ed., Comprehensive History of India Vol. V2. R.P.Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration3. W.H. Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India4. Tapan Raichaudhari and I. Habib ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I5. U.N.Dey, Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History6. Mahdi Hussain, The Tughluq Dynasty7. Ishwari Prasad, History of the Qaranah Turks8. R.C. Johari, Firuz Tughluq9. Mohibbul Hasan, Historians of Medieval India.10. Minhaj us Siraj, Tabqat I Nasiri, tr. Major Raverty11. Isami, Futuh us Salatin, tr. Mahadi Hussain12. Barni, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own

Historians vol.III13. Afif, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians

vol.III14. bn Batuta, Rehla, tr. Mehdi Hussain15. Yahya Sirhindi, Tarikh I Mubarak Shahi, tr. K.K Basu16. I.H. Qureshi, Administration of the Delhi Sultanate.17. Andre Wink, Al Hind

Articles:1. Irfan Habib, The Formation of the Ruling Class of the Delhi Sultanate in the Thirteenth

Century, IHC 1977

2. Irfan Hbaib, ‘Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India’, in R.S. Sharma, ed., Historical Probings

3. M.Athar Ali, Nobility under Muhammad Tughluq, IHC, 1981

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -09 (A)

THE AFGHAN INTERREGNUM (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES

:

To give a comprehensive understanding of Afghan Interregnum


UNIT – I Polity and Administration 12 Hrs

1. The Afghan concept of kingship

2. The position and role of Afghan sardars

3. The nature of Afghan army

UNIT – II Society and Economy 11 Hrs

1. The Working of the Iqta System and the position of the Iqtadars2. Working of the land revenue system under the Lodhis3. Sher Shah’s policy towards trade and commerce, the building of

highways and constructions of sarais

UNIT-III Cultural Developments

1.Sufism:Sufi saints and the Afghan Rulers2.Music3.Literature



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Suggested Readings

1. Tripathi R A, Rise and Fall of Mughal Empire

2. _________, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration

3. Halim A, History of Lodhi Sultans of Delhi and Agra

4. Qanungo K R, Sher Shah and His Times

5. Ambasthya B P, History of Sher Shah

6. Moreland W H, The Agrarian System of Modern India

7. Habib Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India

8. Hasan Nurul S, Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India

9. Siddiqui Iqtidar Husain, Afghan Despotism in India

10. ------------------------------, History of Sher Shah Sur

Articles:

1. Hasan Nurul S, ‘Administration of His Father’s Jagir of Sahsaram by Farid’, PIHC, 1967

2. Habib Irfan, ‘Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India’, in R S Sharma & V

Jha (eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -09 (A)

EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:

To give a comprehensive understanding of Early Medieval India


UNIT – I The Indo-Islamic World 12 Hrs

1. Formation of the Caliphate and the early Islamic conquests

2. Indian Ocean and the Indian trade.

3. Trading Diasporas: Muslims, Jews and Parsees

UNIT – II Indian Society: Structures & Processes, c, 800-1200 11 Hrs

1. The Samanta Order. ‘Indian Feudalism’

2. Origin of Rajputs

3. Alberuni’s India

UNIT-III Religion

1.Brahmanism, Hinduism. Decline of Hinduism2. Shankaracharya & Ramanuja3. Arrival of Sufis



38

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. D D Kosambi, AnIntroductiontotheStudyofIndianHistory, Bombay

2. R S Sharma & V Jha (eds.), IndianSociety : HistoricalProbings, in Memory of D D Kosambi

3. R S Sharma, IndianFeudalism

4. ________, Social Change in Early Medieval India

5. Irfan Habib, Social Distribution of LandedPropertyinPre-BritishIndia, in R S Sharma & V Jha

(eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings

6. R Coulburn, Feudalism, Brahminism and the intrusion of Islam in Indian History, CSSH, 10,

3, (1968)

7. B D Chattopadhyaya, Trade and Urban Centres in Early Medieval India, IHR, 1, (1974)

8. ________________, Origin of Rajputs: the Political, Economic and Social Processes in Early

Medieval Rajasthan, IHR, 3 , (1976)

9. Romila Thapar, (ed.), Literary Indian History

10. Z J Byres & Harbans Mukhia (eds.), Feudalism in Non-European Societies

11. Andre Wink, Al Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Delhi, 1990

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -09 (B)

BRITISH RULE IN INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:


administrative history of British Rule in India


UNIT- I Advent of Mahatma Gandhi: 12 Hrs

1. Mahatma Gandhi :Development of Ideologies2. Earlier Movements: Champaran, Kheda, Ahemdabad3. Rowlett Satyagraha

UNIT-II Stratagem of Mass Struggle

1. Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement2. Truce Period 1921-19293. Revolutionary Trends:Phase-2

UNIT - III Intensification of Mass Struggle 11 Hrs

1. Mass Nationalism and Civil Disobedience Movements.

2. Truce Period: 1934-19393. Quit India Movement: Azad Hind Fauz: RIN

UNIT – IV Independence and Partition 11Hrs

1. Communal Holocaust and Partition of India.2. Constitutional Development 1909-1950.3. Relation of the British with the Princely States 1857-1950

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Suggested Readings

1. M. K. Gandhi, The story of my experiments with truth, London, 19662. Ravidner Kumar, (ed), Essays on Gandhian Politics: The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919,

London, 19713. David Hardiman, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917-1934, New Delhi,

19814. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, New Delhi, 19715. Bipin Chandra, India’s Struggle for independence 1857-1947, Penguin, 20006. Bipin Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India7. S. Gopal, Jawarharlal Nehru-A Biography Vol-18. R.J. Moore, Churchill, Cripps and India 1939-1945, Oxford 19799. Bipin Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, New Delhi, 198710. Urmila Phadnis, Towards the Integration of Indian States, 1919-1947 Bombay, 1978

Articles:

1. Irfan Habib, Gandhi and the National Movement,Social Scientist, Vol. 23, No. 4/6, Apr. - Jun., 1995, pp. 3-15

2. K. L. Tuteja, Jallianwala Bagh: A Critical Juncture in the Indian National Movement, Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. ½, Jan. - Feb., 1997

3. Peter D. Reeves, The Politics of Order: "Anti-non-Cooperation" in the United Provinces, 1921, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, Feb., 1966

4. Mushirul Hasan, Communalism in the Provinces: A Case Study of Bengal and the Punjab, 1922-26, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 15, No. 33Aug. 16, 1980

5. Susan Visvanathan, S. K. Rudra, C. F. Andrews and M. K. Gandhi: Friendship, Dialogue and Interiority in the Question of Indian Nationalism,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No.34, Aug. 24-30, 2002

6. G. K. Lieten, The Civil Disobedience Movement and the National Bourgeoisie,Social Scientist, Vol. 11, No. 5 May, 1983

7. Gyanendra Pandey, Community and Violence: Recalling Partition,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 32, Aug. 9-15, 1997

8. Urvashi Butalia, Community, State and Gender: On Women's Agency during Partition,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 28, No. 17, Apr. 24, 1993

9. Mushirul Hasan, Partition Narratives,Social Scientist, Vol. 30, No. 7/8, Jul. - Aug., 200210. M. Ramaswamy, Constitutional Developments in India 1600-1955,Stanford Law Review, Vol.

8, No. 3 May, 1956

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -10 (A)

MUGHAL EMPIRE 1605-1707 (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:


administrative history of Mughal Empire


UNIT – I Mughal Empire under Jahangir (1605-1627) 12 Hrs

1. Extent of Empire. Political developments- factional struggle within the ruling class, the accession crisis.

2. Consolidation of Internal Frontiers : The Sisodias: Mewar settlement, Deccan settlement

3. Religion and politics: The Sikh Mughal conflict, Jahangir’s relations with Jadrup Gosain, Jains and Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi

4. The political influence of NurJahan: ‘The NurJhan Junta’

UNIT – II Shah Jahan 11 Hrs

1. Changes in the Mughal nobility: Timurid court culture, the mansab system: Month scales; military obligations

2. The Deccan (1628-38) : Nizamshahis and Bijapur; treaty of 1636. Problems of Mughal administration in the Deccan

3. The religious climate: Return to an Islamic political culture. Intellectual movement towards reconciliation: Dara Shikoh, Miyan Mir, Sarmad

4. War of succession (1658-59)

UNIT - III Aurangzeb 11Hrs

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1. Imperial Expansion (1658-89): North-east -invasion of Kuch Bihar and Assam. North-west: Yusufzai; Afridi

2. The Deccan: Maratha insurgency and Mughal conquests. Shivaji and creation of an insurgent state, The Deccan wars andImperial elite. The final campaign (1698-1707)

3. Aurangzeb’s religious policy. The crisis of Empire and Imperial culture. ‘Revanchist Islam’: Aurangeb’s specific measures

4. Nobles and Jagirs: the Jagirdari crisis



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SUGGESTED READINGS

1. J.F.Richards, The Mughal Empire ( The New Cambridge History of India)

2. R.P.Tripathi, Rise and fall of Mughal Empire

3. Satish Chandra, Mughal Empire

4. Azra Alvi, The socio-religious outlook of Akbar

5. S.R.Sharma, Religious policies of the Mughal Emperors

6. S.A.A.Rizvi, Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims During the Reign of Akbar

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

8. Riazul Islam, Mughal Relations with Persia

9. Ibn Hasan, Central Structure of the Mughal Empire

10. Richard Foltz, Mughal India and Central Asia

11. P.Spears, The Mughal Architecture

12. S.P.Verma, Art, Material Culture in the Paintings of Akbar’s Court, New Delhi, 1978.

13. A.R.Khan, Chieftains During the Reign of Akbar

14. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam ed. Mughal State

15. Abdul Aziz, The Mughal Mansabdari System

16. Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I CORE -10 (B)

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1858-1956) (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:

Survey of Indian Economy from the mid-18th century to the mid-20th century:

Focus on agrarian protest movements; creation of modern industries and a

working class; and debate on the 19th century economy


UNIT - I Commercialisation and Agrarian Protests 12 Hrs

1. Commercialization of Agriculture.2. Famines.3. Peasant Movements-19th century4. Peasant Movements-20th century

UNIT - II Modern Industries 11 Hrs

1. The Plantation Industries.a. Indigob. Teac. Coffee

2. Modern Heavy Industriesa. Cotton Textilesb. Iron and Steelc. Jute

UNIT - III Capitalism and Indian Labour Force 11Hrs

1. Foreign capital2. Indian Capitalist development.3. Emergence and Growth of the Indian Labour force and Trade

Unionism’

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UNIT – IV Colonial Economic Legacy 11Hrs

1.British economic Impact-the Nineteenth century debate2.State and economy: the emergence of economic management in India.3.An overview of the Colonial Legacy

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. B N Bhatia, Famines in India.2. B R Tomlinson, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970.3. Bipan Chandra, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.4. C.A Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars.5. D H Buchanan, The Development of Capitalistic Enterprises in India.6. D R Gadgil, The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent Times.7. Dharma Kumar (ed.), Cambridge Economic History India, Vol II.8. G Blyn, Agricultural Trends in India.9. K Bagchi, Private Investment in India.10. Morris Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.11. P K Gopalakrishnan, Development of Economic Ideas: India 1880-1950.12. R.C Dutt, The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age.13. R.S Rungta, The Rise of Business Corporations in India: 1851-1900.14. Rajat Ray, Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the British Corporate Sector.15. S. Ambirajan, Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India.16. Tirthankar Roy, The Economic History of India, 1857-1947.

Articles:

1. Morris D. Morris, T. Mastsui, Bipan Chandra Tapan Ray Chaudhuri: ‘The Indian Economy inthe Nineteenth Century : A Symposium’, Economic and Social History Review, Vol.No.1, 1969.

2. Irfan Habib, ‘Colonialisation of the Indian Economy’, Social Scientist, No.32.3. B B Chaudhari, ‘Growth of Commercial Agriculture and its Impact on the Peasant Economy’,

The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.III, No.1, March 1970.4. Burton Stein, Eighteenth Century India: Another view, Studies in History, 5, 1 n.s. (1989).

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Project



M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I PROJECT-02

REVIEW OF LITERATURE (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

E

The content and scope of project work would be decided upon by the department on an

annual basis. The assessments of the projects would involve both written assignments

and seminar presentations by the students and these would be assessed collectively by

the department faculty.

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M. A. I SEMESTER II

Year I IDE-02

THE PRE-MODERN WORLD: THE EAST

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIV

ES:

This is an elective course that seeks to impart conceptual and empirical understanding

of the pre-modern world with reference to the East – inclusive of the ‘Islamic East’ and

India (South Asia) – between c. 630 C.E. and c. 1750 C.E. Within broad limits the

dates cover the period generally termed ‘medieval’. The paper, however, will be

informed by necessary qualifications regarding the traditional categories of historical

time.


UNIT – I Regions of Islamic East 12 Hrs

1. The East and the West. Distinctions, regions and historicalconditions

2. The Islamic East.3. Arab conquests and formation of the caliphate.4. The Umayyads – a conquest state?

UNIT – II Evolution of Islamic Polity 11 Hrs

1. Evolution of Islamic polity. Internal conflicts. Nomadicirruptions

2. The ‘Abbasid Revolution’ and social transformation (c.750-1250)

3. Institutional frame of the Islamic/caliphal state: Caliphs;praetorian guards; Iqtas: centralization of revenues.

4. The ‘Islamic world economy’.

UNIT-III India 11 Hrs

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1. India, c.700 – c. 1200: Regional states and ‘Indian feudalism’

2. Turkish raids and conquests; formation of the Delhi Sultanate.Agrarian regimes: power lineages and rural taxation.

3. The Mughals: evolution of an Indo-Islamic polity.The eighteenth century watershed: decline of empire andprocesses of change from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern



SUGGESTED READINGS

1. D. Sourdel, Medieval Islam, New Delhi, 1984

2. Andre Wink, Al-Hind. The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, vol. I

3. R.S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism

4. Irfan Habib, ‘The Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India’,

Enquiry

5. J.F. Richards, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, 1993

6. P. Crone, Slaves on Horses. The Evolution of Islamic Polity, Cambridge, 1980

7. B.D. Chattopadhya, ‘Origin of the Rajputs: The Political, Economic and Social

Processes in Early Medieval Rajasthan’

8. Coulborn, ‘Feudalism, Brahminism and the Intrusion of Islam upon Indian History’,

Comparative Studies in Society and History

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M. A. II SEMESTER III

Year II CORE -11MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES: INDIA, EUROPE AND THE

ISLAMIC EAST (1)

CREDIT 3

Semester III HOURS 45

OBJECTIVES:

To enable the students to understand formation of Medieval societies in India, Europeand Islamic East.


UNIT – I Origins of Medieval Society 12 Hrs

1. India c 700 –c 1200: Political fragmentation and beginnings of

regional states. The Samanta system: ‘Indian feudalism’.

Crystallization of Rajput power. Temples as Landed Magnate.

Turkish raiders: the Ghaznavid invasions.

2. Islamic East, 632-750: Early Islamic conquests and formation of

the Caliphate. Battle of Nihavand (641) and collapse of the

Sassanid realm. The Muslim State under the Umayyads (656-

750). Social and ethnic conflicts: the mawalis, dhimmis and the

Arab aristocracy

3. Europe c. 400 – c. 1000: Breakdown of the Roman imperial

system; barbarian invasions, settlements and kingdoms.

Ecclesiology and State formation

UNIT – II Europe: The German attempt at Organisation 11 Hrs

1. The Merovingian.2. Warriors and Peasants: Slaves, free peasants, lords (7th-8th centuries)3. The Carolingian phase, placitum générale and the expanding orb

of conquests.4. The Saxon phase: Consolidation of the royal fisc; appearance of

knights and castles.

UNIT-III The Medieval European Complex

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1. Ties of dependence: lords, vassals and fiefs. Feudalism.

2. The Three Orders.

3. Early medieval economy and its ‘mental’ foundation; ‘Taking,

giving and consecrating’; Polyptyques and the great estates.

UNIT - III The Dynamic of Social Change 11Hrs

The crisis of European feudalism

1. The communes and urban revolution (10th and 12th

centuries)

2. Decline of the Middle Ages

3. The Coming of the ‘modern’

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Crone P, Slave on Horses: The Evolution of Islamic Polity, Cambridge, 19802. Pipes D, Slave Soldiers in Islam: The Genesis of Military System, London, 19813. Bosworth C E, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 944-1040,

Edinburgh, 19634. -----------------, The Later Ghaznavids-Splendour and Decay: The Dynasty in Afghanistan and

Northern India, 1040-1186,Edinburgh, 19845. Chaudhari K N, trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the

Rise of Islam to 17506. Sourdel D, Medieval Islam, New Delhi 19847. Wink Andre, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, OUP, Delhi 19908. Asopa J N, Origin of the Rajputs, Delhi 19709. Ahmad Aziz, Studies in Islamic Cultures in the Indian Environment, Oxford 196410. Ikram S M, Muslim Civilization in India, New York, 196411. Richards J F, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, CUP 1993

12. Husain Yusuf, Indo-Muslim Polity: Turko-Afghan Period, IIAS, Simla 197113. Cipolla C M, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy, London 197414. J Le Goff, MedievalCivilization15. Duby Georges, The Growth of the early European Economy, London 197416. Eisentadt S N, The Political Systems of Empires, New York 196917. Bloc Marc, FeudalSociety, 2 Vols, London 1962

Articles:1. Chattopadhyaya B D, Origin of Rajputs: the Political, Economic and Social Processes in

Early Medieval Rajasthan, Indian Historical Review, 3 , (1976)2. Coulburn R, Feudalism, Brahminism and the intrusion of Islam in Indian History,

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 10, 3, (1968)3. Irfan Habib, Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India, in R S Sharma &

V Jha (eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings4. Richards J F, Mughal State Finance and Pre-Modern World Economy, Comparative

Studies in Society and History, 23, (1981)

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The Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaFaculty of ArtsDepartment of HistoryOppCricket Ground , Nr. Computer CentreVadodara. 390 002 Phone : 0265-2791502 [email protected]



Year II CORE -12NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM IN ASIA: 19TH& 20TH

CENTURIES

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To enhance the understanding of the concepts of nationalism and colonialism in Asia in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries


UNIT - I Introduction to Nationalism & Colonialism 12 Hrs

1. Concepts, Concerns & debates on Nationalism(a) Europe(b) North & South America(c) Asia & Africa

2. Concepts, Concerns & debates on Colonialism(a) Europe(b) Asia & Africa

UNIT - II Nationalism in 19th Century Europe 11Hrs

1. Environment that facilitated Nationalism in Europe: Nation–States to Nation States

2. Salient Features of Nationalism in France, Germany and Italy

UNIT - III Creation of Colonial Empires in Asia 11Hrs

1. South Asia & West Asia2. South East Asia & Far Eas

UNIT - IV Decolonization in Asia 11Hrs

1. South Asia & West Asia2. South East Asia & Far East

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Ashcroft, Bill et. al., (eds.), The Post-Colonial Studies: Reader, Routledge, Delhi, 2006.2. Briggs Asa& Patricia Clavin, Modern Europe, 1789-Present, Pearson, Delhi, 2009.3. Clough S.B. and C.W.Cole, Economic History of Europe, Boston: Heath & Co., 1941.4. Eugene F. Rice & Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559,

Routledge, 2004.5. Fairbank John King & Merle Goldman, China: A New History, New Delhi, 2009.6. Hansraj, History of South-East Asia, Surjeet Publications, New Delhi, 2006.7. Harshe, R., Twentieth Century Imperialism: Shifting Contours& Changing Conceptions, Sage,

Delhi, 1997.8. Hobsbawn, E.J., The Age of Capital, Signet, 1979.9. Hobsbawn, E.J., awn, The Age of Empire,Vintage, 1989.10. Hobsbawn E.J., Age of Extremes,Abacus, 1995.11. Huberman Leo, Man’s Wordlygoods:The Story of The Wealth of Nations, Hesperides Press, 2008.12. Loomba Ania, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge, London, 2005.13. Magdoff, Harry, Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present, Aakar, New Delhi, 2009.14. -----, Imperialism Without Colonies, Aakar, Delhi, 2007.15. Mill, Acton & Renan, Nation & Nationality, Critical Quest, Delhi, 201016. Moon P.T., Imperialism and World Politics,Garland Publisher, 1973.17. Parker John & Richard Rathbone, African History, Oxford, 2007.18. Rodney Hilton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism,Aakar, Delhi, 2006.19. Rodney, W., How Europe Underdeveloped Africa?, Tanzania Publications, Dar-e-Salam, 1972.20. StevanGrobsy, Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Delhi, 2010.21. The Cambridge Economic History, Vol. VI Parts I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1965.22. Thompson, David, Europe since Napoleon, Penguin, 1990.

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Year II CORE -13 A

TOWNS, TOWN LIFE, AND URBANIZATION IN MEDIEVALINDIA, 1200 1750 (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To critically look at the urbanisation processes of the India civilisation in the medieval times


UNIT - I Introduction to Urbanization in Medieval India 12 Hrs

1. Urban History, Urban Economy, Urban Society and UrbanTerminology in Medieval India

2. Historiography of Urbanization in Medieval India: A Review

UNIT - II Categorization of Cities and Towns 11 Hrs

1. Politico-administrative Centers; Trading Centers; ManufacturingCenters & Religious Centers

2. Management of Shahr, Balda and Qasba: Administrative &Economic

UNIT - III Major Towns: Profile and Characteristics 11Hrs

1. Capital Centers: Lahore, Multan, Agra & Delhi2. Provincial Centers: Azimabad, Awadh, Ahmadabad, Golkunda,

Murshidabad, Burhanpur, Aurangabad, Jaunpur, Mandu, Champaner, Bhuj, Vijyanagar, and Sirhind

UNIT - IV Middle Size &Minor Towns: Profile and Characteristics 11Hrs

1.Western India: Gujarat (Dabohi, Jambusar, Anjar, Bharuch, Rander etc), Rajasthan (Towns in Eastern & Western Rajasthan),Maharashtra (Fort towns under Shivaji)

2.Haryana: Hansi,Hissar-i-Firuza, Sirsa, Panipat, Pinjaur, Rewari and Narnau

mailto:[email protected]

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Abrams, Philip and E.A.Wrigley(eds.), Towns in Societies, Essays in Economic History and

Historical Sociology, London, 1978.2. Ashraf, K.M., Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan, Delhi, 1969.3. Ballachet, Kenneth and John Harrison (Eds.), The City in South Asia: Pre-Modern and Modern,

London, 1980.4. Banga,Indu, (ed.), The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society and Politics, Delhi,

1991.5. Bajelkal, Madhvi, ‘The state and the rural grain market in eighteenth century eastern Rajasthan’,

in Sanjay Subramanyam,(ed.), Merchants, Market and the State in Early Modern India, Delhi,1990.

6. Baqir, Muhammad, Lahore, Past and Present, Lahore, 1952.7. Blake, Stephen P, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, Cambridge, 1991.8. ----, ‘The Urban Economy in Premodern Muslim India: Shahjahanabad, 1639-1739’, MAS, Vol.

21, no. (3), 1987, pp. 447-72.9. Bose, Asish, ‘A Note on the Definition of Town in the Indian Census’, IESHR, I, no. 3, Jan.-

March, 1964. 10.Briggs, H. G., Cities of Gujarashtra: Their Topography and History, Bombay, 1849.11.Chakrabarti, Ranbir, ‘Between Villages and Cities: Linkages of Trade in India: c.600-1300 AD’,

Explorations in the History of South Asia: essays in Honour of DietmarRothermund, (eds.), GeorgBerkemer, Tilman Frasch, Herman Kulke and Jurgen Lutt, Delhi, 2001.

12.Chaudhari, K.N., ‘Some Reflections on the Town and Country in Mughal India’, MAS, Vol. 12,pt. 1, February, 1978.

13.Filliozat, V., Vijayanagar as Seen by DoringosPaes and FernaoNuniz: 16th Century PortugueseChroniclers and Others, Delhi, 1977.

14.Forrest, W.C., Cities of India – Past and Present, London, Reprint, Bombay, 1999.15.Fritz, J.M. & G. Michell, ‘Interpreting the plan of a medieval capital, Vijayanagara’, World

Archaeology, Vol.19, No.1, 1987, pp. 105-29.16.Frykenberg, R.E. Delhi through the Ages: Essays in Urban History Culture and Society, Oxford,

1988.17.Gokhlae, B.G., ‘Ahmadabad in the Seventeenth Century’, IESHR, XII, pt. I, January 1969.18.Gordon, Stewart, ‘Buhanpur: Entrepot and Hinterland, 1650-1750’, IESHR, Vol. 25, no. 4, 1988,

pp. 425-42. 19.Grewal, J.S and InduBanga, (Eds.), Studies in Urban History, Amritsar, 1981.20.Gupta, I.P., Urban Glimpses of Mughal India: Agra the Imperial Capital, 16th and 17th Centuries,

Delhi, 1986. 21.Hambly, Gavin, The Cities of Mughal India, New York, 1968.22.Heitzmen, James, The City in South Asia, New York, 2008.23.Jain,V.K., Trade and Traders in Western India, Delhi,1990.24.Khan, Hussain, ‘Genesis of Delhi as the Capital of Ilbari Turks, 1211-1290’, Journal of Pakistan

Historical Society, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1991, pp. 159-71.25.Kumar Ravindra, ‘Administration of Sarais’, paper presented at IHC, 1978, (cyclostyle copy).26.----, Sarais in Mughal India, M.Phil Dissertation, AMU, Aligarh.27.Latif, Syed Muhmmad, Agra: Historical and Descriptive with an Account of Akbar and His Court

of the Modern City of Agra, Calcutta, 1890.28.Major, R.H., India in the Fifteenth Century, Delhi, 1974.29.Mehta, R. N., ‘Urban Centres of Western India and the Western World’, in India and the West, J.

Deppert (Ed.). Delhi, 1983.30.Mohammed, K.K., ‘Bazaars in Mughal India, An Essay in Architectural Study and Interpretation’,

Islamic Culture LX III, no.3, July, 1989.31.Naqvi, Hameeda Khatoon, Mughal Hindustan: Cities and Industries 1556-1803, Karachi, 1974.32.----, ‘Progress of Urbanization in United Provinces, 1550-1800’, JESHO, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jul.,

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1967, pp. 81-101.33.---, Agricultural, Industrial and Urban Dynamism under the Sultans of Delhi, Delhi, 1986.34.Urbanisation and Urban CentresUnder the Great Mughals 1556-1707,Simla, 1972.35.Ramchandran, R. Urbanization and Urban Systems in India, Delhi, 1989.36.Sarkar, Jagdish Narayan, Studies in Economic Life in Medieval India, Delhi, 1975.37.----, Mughal Economy: Organisation and Working, Calcutta, 1987.38.Kumar Ravinder, ‘The Changing Structure of Colonial Society in Urban India, IHR, V, nos. 1-2,

July 1978 –January 1979.39.Saxena, A.B., ‘Rise and Growth of Towns in Seventeenth Century: Mughal India’, M.Phil

Dissertation, M.D.U. Rohtak, 1992, (unpublished).40.---, ‘Urban Dynamics in Haryana: 14th to Mid-18th Century’, Unpublished Ph. D Thesis,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 2000.41.----, ‘Hissar-i-Firuza: A Medieval Town of Haryana’, PIHC, 53rd Session, Calcutta, 1996.42.----, ‘Hansi: A Medieval Town of Haryana’, PIHC, 54rd Session, Madras, 1997.43.----, ‘The Contribution of the Towns, Hansi and Hissar-i-Firuza in the Economy of Haryana

Region during the Medieval Period’, paper presented in Seminar on Urbanisation in Punjab,Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab Pakistan: Proto Historic, Ancient, Medieval, Colonial andContemporary, 20-22 Feb., Chandigarh, 1997, (cyclostyle copy).

44.----‘Small and Middle Size Urban Settlements in Haryana and Gujarat, c, 1000-c.1800’, in EditedBook by Radhika Seshan, Medieval India: Problems and Possibilities, Delhi, 2006), pp. 225-278.

45.---‘The Making of Pavagadh- Champaner City Complex: A Gaze into the Historical Geographyfrom the Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century’ Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,63rd Session, Amritsar, Calcutta, 2003, pp. 336-352.

46.Shokoohy, M., and N.H. Shookohy, Hissar-i- Firuza, Sultante and Early Mughal Architecture inthe District of Hissar, India, London, 1988.

47.----, ‘The City of Turquoise: A Preliminary Report on the Town of Hissar-i-Firuza,’Environmental Design, Journal of Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre, Pune.

54. Siddiqui, I. H., Money and Social Charge in India during Medieval Times, SymposiaPaper,56thsession, Calcutta, December, 1995.Singh, M.P., Town, Market, Mint and Port in the Mughal Empire, Delhi, 1985.48.Spodek, Howard, ‘Studying the History of Urbanisation in India’, Journal of Urban History, May,

1980.49.Stow A.M., ‘The Road Between Delhi and Multan’, Journal of Punjab Historical Society, Lahore,

III, 1914.50.Trivedi, K.K. ‘Lahore as a Centre of Economic Growth’, paper Presented at the Seminar on

Urbanisation in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab (Pakistan), Feb 22-24,Chandigarh, 1997.

51.----, Agra: Economic and Political Profile of a Mughal Suba, c. 1580-c. 1707, Pune, 1998.52.----, ‘The Emergence of Agra as a Capital and a City: A Note on Its Spatial and Historical

Background during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, JESHO, Vol. 37, No. 2,1994, pp.147-170.

53.Umar Muhammad, Urban Cultures in Northern India during the Eighteenth Century, Delhi, 2001.54.Verma, Pavan K., Mansions at Dusk: The Havelis of Old Delhi, Delhi, 1992.55.Verma, H.C., Dynamics of Urban of Life in Pre-Mughal India, Delhi, 1986.56.Verma, H.C., Medieval Routes in India- A Study of Trade and Military Routes, Calcutta, 1978.57.Whiteland, R.B., ‘Mint Towns of the Mughal Emperors of India’, JASB, (New Series), vol.8, no.

11, 1912.

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Year II CORE -13 (A)RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA, 1200-1750

(1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give an enhanced understanding of Religion and Society in Medieval India


UNIT - I Indian society in the early the 13th century 12 Hrs

1. The Hindu social structure2. Arab settlements3. Advent of Turks

UNIT II Society in the Sultanate period 11 Hrs

1.Ruling Class2.Merchants, Traders and Craft-persons3.Peasantry and Urban poor

UNIT - III Sufism 11 Hrs

1. Sufi Silsalahs2. Relations with the Ulema and society3. Relations with Nathpanthi and other Yogis


Project and assignments would be chosen by students based on the topics from Unit-I, II &III.The students would be required to make a presentation.

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SUGGESTED READINGSOriginal Text:

1. R.A.NicholsonTr. KashfulMahjub

Secondary Works:

2. K.A.Nizami, Religion and politics in India during the 13th century3. Tara Chand, Influence of Islam on Indian Culture4. Tara Chand, Society and State in the Mughal period5. K.Banerjee, philosophy of Gorakhnath6. J.E.Carpenter, Theism in Medieval India7. Richard Eaton, The Sufis of Bijapur: Social role of sufis in Medieval India8. J.S.Tirimangham, Sufi orders in Islam9. Asim Roy, The Islamic syncretic traditions in Bengal10. YohananFriedmann, Shykh Ahmad Sirhindi

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Year II CORE -13 (B)HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

Conceptualizing Women’s Studies, through an understanding of feminist consciousness, feminism, and patriarchy; and analyzing the efforts to improve women’s condition in the 19th century


UNIT – I Feminist Consciousness 12 Hrs

1. Absences of Women from history2. Tracing feminist consciousness in Europe3. Tracing feminist consciousness in Europe

UNIT – II Feminism 11 Hrs

1. Understanding Gender2. Conceptualizing Feminism3. Various Schools of Feminism

UNIT – III Patriarchy 11Hrs

1. Origins of Patriarchy2. Structures of Patriarchy3. Brahmanical Patriarchy

UNIT - IV Women and Reform 11Hrs

1. Social reforms and women2. Women’s education3. State, Law and Women


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Karen Offen, European Feminisms, 1700-1950, 2000, Stanford University Press, Stanford2. Gerda Lerner , The Creation of Patriarchy, 1986, OUP, New York3. Kamala Bhasin, Understanding Gender, 2000, Kali, New Delhi4. Chris Beasley, What is Feminism, 1999, Sage, New Delhi5. Kamala Bhasin, What is Patriarchy, 2000, Kali, New Delhi6. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, 1998, Foundation Books, New Delhi7. Janaki Nair, Women and Law in Colonial India, 2000, Kali, New Delhi8. Sudhir Chandra, Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights, 1999, OUP9. KumkumSangri&SudeshVaid, (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History,

1989, Kali, New Delhi

10. Ann-Louise Shapiro, (ed.), History and Feminist Theory, no. 4, 1992, Wesleyan UniversityArticles:

1. Gail Omvedt, “Patriarchy: the Analysis of Women’s Oppression”, The Insurgent Sociologist, 13, 1986

2. Tanika Sarkar, “Rhetoric against Age of Consent: Resisting Colonial Reason and Death of a Child Wife”, EPW, 28, 36, Sept 4, 1993, pp. 35-65

3. Uma Chavravarti, “Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste, State and Market”, EPW, April 3, 1993, pp. 579-585

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Year II CORE -13 (B)FORMATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE GAEKWAD

STATE (1770-1950)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To enable the students the importance of formation of the Gaekwad state.


UNIT - I The Beginnings 12 Hrs

1. Decline of the Mughals and the Rise of the Gaekwad power inthe Maratha confederacy.

2. Gaekwad-PeshwaRelationship: Mid Eighteenth Century3. Gaekwad-Peshwa Relationship:1750-180

UNIT - II The Rule of Anandrao Gaekwad: 1800-1818 11 Hrs

1. The Kadi War2. The Arab Mercenaries3. Administrative Changes

UNIT - III The Rule of Sayajirao-II: 1818-1848 11Hrs

1. Anglo-Gaekwad conflict2. Sequestrations3. Administrative Changes


Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the above three units. The students would be required to make a presentation.


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SUGGESTED READINGSPrimary Sources

• Historical Selections from Baroda State Records

• Baroda State Gazetteers, 2 VolsSecondary Sources:

1. M.S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, Vol. 32. S. B. Rajyagor, History of Gujarat

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Year II CORE -14 (A)THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION IN EUROPE (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give an enhanced understanding of Renaissance and Reformation in Europe


UNIT - I Europe in the fifteenth century 12 Hrs

1. Political survey: The Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France,England, Spain and Portugal.

2. Economy: Changes in Agriculture, Enclosures.3. Re-emergence of Commerce and towns Hansa, Venice and

Genoa, Industry, Banking 4. Bankers and Merchant Princes5. Society6. Church and the Papacy

UNIT - II Renaissance: Meaning and Concept 11 Hrs

1. Literature and Learning, the Humanists- Dante, Petrarch, Boccacio, Chaucer, Lorenzo Valla, and Erasmus.

2. Art and Architecture – Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian, Painting in Northern Europe

3. Science, Technology, Medicine and Astronomy.

UNIT - III Project 11Hrs



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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Brinton Crane, Christopher John B, Wolff Robert Lee, Civilization in the West2. Burns, Ralph, Lerner and Meacham, World Civilisation 2 vols.3. Durant Wili, The Renaissance4. Gilmore Myron P. The World of Humanism5. Peter Burke, The Renaissance6. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I The Renaissance.7. Cipolla M, The Fontana Economic History of Europe8. Joseph Strayer and Hans W. Gatze, Mainstream of Civilization

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Year II CORE -14 (B)HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1850-

1914 (1)

CREDIT

3


OBJECTIVES:

Survey the creation of a nation: USA


UNIT - I Background 12 Hrs

1. War of Independence2. Constitution of 18813. Territorial Expansion

UNIT - II Resolving Slavery Issue 11 Hrs

1. Compromise of 1820 & 18502. USA on the eve of Civil War3. Civil War and its Aftermath

UNIT - III Economic and Social Development 11Hrs

1. Oil, Iron & Steel, Railroad Empires2. Agrarian Protest Movements & Legislation in response3. The Women of Seneca Falls

UNIT - IV Initiation of Foreign Policy 11Hrs

1.Monroe Doctrine and its application2.Spanish American WarForeign Policy under Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Barton Berstein& Allen Matusow, Twentieth Century American Interpretations2. Harold V Faulkner, Politics, Reform and Expansion3. ------------------------------, The Quest for Social Justice, 1898-1914.4. Frank Friedal, American Issues in the Twentieth Century.5. Eric F Goldman Rendezvous with destiny: A History of Modern America6. Richard Leopold, Arthur Link and the StanelyCoben (eds.), ProblemsinAmericanHistory, 2

Vols.7. S.E.Morrison, The Oxford History of American People.8. Henry Parkes, TheUnitedStatesofAmerica: A History9. RobertPunel, A History of American Economic System10. A.M.Schlesinger, The Rise of Modern America, 1865-195111. Dwijendra Tripathi & S.C. Mishra, Themes and Perspective in AmericanHistory: Essays in

Historiography.12. C. Van Woodward (ed.), A Comparative Approach to American History.13. Faragher, Buhle, Czitrom and Armitage (combined edition), Out of Many, A History of the

American People.14. E C Stanton, Eighty Years and More : Reminiscences 1815-1897

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Year II CORE -14 (B)HISTORY OF CANADA (1)

CREDIT 3


Note:This course has not been formatted as it has not been in operation since over a decade, neither do we have any expertise.

OBJECTIVES:

To give a comprehensive understanding of History of Canada


UNIT - I Introducing Canada 12 Hrs

1. Natives of Canada2. Immigration and History

UNIT - II Economy of Canada 11 Hrs

1. Industrialization and Urbanization2. Working Class Organization and Social Ferment3. Cultural Change in Canada

UNIT-III Society and Culture of Canada 11Hrs

1. Multiculturalism2. White Racism3. Women in Canadian History



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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Bannett P W & Cornelius, Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in

Canadian History, Scarborough, 19862. Berger Carl, Issues in Canadian History: Imperialism and Nationalism3. Eastern W T & Aitken H G J, Canadian Economic History, Toronto, 19934. Finkel A &Conard M, History of the Canadian People, Vol. 2, 1867 to the Present, Toronto,

19935. Finlay J L & Sprague D N, Post-Confederation Canada: The Structure of Canadian History

Since Confederation, 4th ed. Scarborough, 19936. Francis R D & Smith D, Canadian History Since Confederation, Toronto, 19887. Francis R D, Jones R & Smith D, Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation,4th ed.

Toronto, 19948. Gilbert A D, Wallace C M, and Bray H M, Reappraisal in Canadian History: Post-

Confederation, Scarborough, 19929. Lower A, Canada: An Outline History, Toronto, 199110. McInnis E, Canada: A Political& Social History, Toronto, 198211. McKay I, The Challenge of Modernity: A reader of Post-Confederation Canada, Toronto,

199212. McNaught K, The Penguin History of Canada, 198813. Morton D, A Short History of Canada, 198314. Muise D A(ed.), A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History, Toronto, 198215. Schultz J (ed.), Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Canadian History, Scarborough,

1990

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Year II CORE -15 (A)SULTANATE OF GUJARAT (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give a comprehensive understanding of Sultanate of Gujarat


UNIT - I Political Developments 12 Hrs

1. Sources2. Khalji Conquest of Gujarat3. Gujarat under the Delhi Sultans

UNIT II Sultanate of Gujarat 11Hrs

1. Establishment, Expansion and Consolidation of the Sultanate underAhmad Shah, Mahmud Shah and Bahadur Shah.2. Later Muzaffarids: Pre-eminence of the nobility.3. Muzaffarids and the Mughals. Akbar’s conquest 1573.

UNIT - III State and Administration 11 Hrs

1. Nature and Character of the State2. Composition of the nobility3. Administration.4. Inter-State relations: Cheiftains of Idar, Champaner and

Junagadh. Chittor, Malwa, Khandesh, and the Bahmanids and Mughals


Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the above three units. The students would be required to make a presentation..

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. S.C.Misra, Rise of Muslim Power in Gujarat: A History of Gujarat from 1298 to 1442, 19632. _______ed. Tarikh-i-Mahmud Shahi3. M.S. Commissariat, History of Gujarat, Vol. I&II4. M.N. Pearson, Merchants and rulers in Gujarat, 19765. Uma Das Gupta compiled Collected Essays of Ashin Das Gupta, The World of the Indian

Ocean Merchant 1500-1800, 20016. S.A.I Tirmizi, Aspects of the History of Medieval Gujarat, 19687. Samira Sheikh, Forging a Region, Sultans, Traders and Pilgrims in Gujarat 1200-1500, 20108. C.A. Baily, Local Muhammadan Dynasties of Gujarat9. M.F.Lokhandwala, (Engtr.) Ali Muhammad Khan’s Mirat I Ahmadi, 196510. Mirat I Ahmadi Supplement, trans. Syed Nawab Ali and C.N. Seddon

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Year II CORE -15 (B)SOCIO-CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1757-

1857

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

It discusses: the dissemination colonial culture and ideology; the socio-religious reform movements which led to introspection of the strengths and weaknesses of indigenous culture; and efforts to regenerate the society.


UNIT - I British Understanding of Indian Society 12 Hrs

1. Evangelical2. Utilitarian3. Orientalist

UNIT - II Indian Renaissance and the Socio-Religious Reform Movements 11 Hrs

1. The Conceptual Framework2. Bengal and North-Eastern India3. Movements in the Gangetic Core

UNIT - III Socio-Religious Movements-II 11Hrs

1. Punjab and the North-West2. Movements in Gujarat and Maharaashtra3. The Dravidian South

UNIT - IV Regeneration of Indian Society 11Hrs

1. Women and social reform2. Cast movements in Maharashtra3. Caste movements in Southern India

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Ballhatchet, Kenneth, Social Policy and Social Change in Western India, 1817-30, 19572. Kapoor, A.C., Constitutional History of India, 1760-19973. Barns, M., The Indian Press, 19404. Basham, A. L., (ed.), A Cultural History of India, 19755. Baylay, C. A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, 1988.6. Chandra Bipan, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India, 19667. ____________, Modern India, 19868. Kenneth, W. Jones, Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India9. Narain , V. A., Social History of India- Nineteenth Century10. Desai Neera, Women in Modern India11. Nurullah, S., &Naik, J.P., History of Education in India during the British Period.12. Ray chaudhary S.C., Social Cultural and Economic History of India (Modern Times), 197813. Ashton A.R., British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905-1939, Bombay,198214. Gopal S., British policy in India, 1858-1905, 1965.15. Nurullah S. &Naik, J.P., History of Education in India during the British Period, 1951

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Year II CORE -15 (B)SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY: BRITISH GUJARAT

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give a deep insight to the students about socio-cultural history in the modern Gujarat context.


UNIT - I Idea of Gujarat as a Region and Social Changes 12 Hrs

1. Regional History: Concepts and Approaches2. . Idea of Gujarat: Geographical, Historical and Cultural3. British Gujarat: Socio-Economic Development

UNIT - II Economic Impact of the British Rule 11 Hrs

1. Economic Impact of British Rule between 1850 and1900: LandRevenue, Agriculture and its Commercialization

2. Rise of Rich Peasantry and Peasant Movements: Kheda and Bardoli3. Rise of Industry between 1900 and 1950, Co-operative Movements and its impact on society

UNIT - III Gujarati Society 11Hrs

1.Religious Attitudes of Gujarati Society2. Gujarati Literature: Socio-Economic Perspective3. Social Reform Movements in British Gujarat



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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Jan Breman, Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat,

Berkeley, 1974.2. Neil Charlesworth, Peasant and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the

Bombay Presidency, Cambridge, 1958.3. Chavda V. K., Modern Gujarat, New Book Co, Ahmedabad, 1982.4. Choksey R.D., Economic Life in Bombay Gujarat (1800-1839), Asia Publishing House,

London, 1968.5. Desai Neera, Social Change in the Gujarat, Bombay, 1978.6. David Hardiman, The Coming of Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India, Oxford University

Press, New Delhi, 1987.7. David Hardiman, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda district 1917-1934, Oxford

University Press, New Delhi, 1981.8. Mehta Shirin, The Peasantry and Nationalism: A Study of Bardoli Satyagraha, Delhi, 1984.9. David F. Pocock, Kanbis and Patidars, Oxford, 1972.10. Raval R. L., Socio-Religious Reform Movements in Gujarat, Delhi, 1987.11. TripathiDwijendra, Business Houses in Western India: A Study in Entrepreneurial Response,

1850-1956, South Asia Books, 1990.12. Howard Spodek, Urban-Rural Integration in Regional Development: Saurashtra, 1976.13. Amrita Sodhan, The Question of Community, Bombay University.14. Munshi K. M., History of Gujarati Literature.15. Jhaveri Mohanlal K, Milestones in Gujarati Literature, 2 Vols.16. NaranjiVassanji Lectures, Developments in Gujarati Literatures, Bombay University17. AchyutYagnik, History of Gujarat, 19th and 20th Centuries

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Year II PROJECT-03SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES (1)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVE

The content and scope of project work would be decided upon by the departmenton an annual basis. The assessments of the projects would involve both writtenassignments and seminar presentations by the students and these would beassessed collectively by the department faculty.

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Year II IDE-03THE INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT- 1885 TO 1947

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give a foundational level understanding of the idea of nation and nationalism in the context of Indian Freedom Movement


UNIT - I Nation, Nationality and Nationalism 12 Hrs

1. Locating nation, nationality and nationalism.2. The Indian Context. Colonialism and resistance:3. The beginnings of Indian nationalism

UNIT - II Stages of Freedom Movement 11 Hrs

1. Stages of Nationalism2. Distinctive features of Nationalism in India under the Freedom

Struggle3. Problems of the struggle for freedom in India

UNIT - III Contesting Interpretation and Historiographies 11Hrs

1. Contesting Interpretations and historiographies2. Imperialist, nationalist, communal, Cambridge3. Subaltern, post- modernist and other schools of history.


Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the above three units. The students would be required to make a presentation

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Summit Sarkar, Modern India 1885-1947, Macmillan, New Delhi, 19832. Barbara D Metcalf and Thomas R Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge University

Press, , 20023. Burton Stein, A History of India, OUP, 20024. Paul Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge University Press, 19905. RomilaThapar, HarbansMukhia and Bipan Chandra, Communalism and the Writing of Indian

History, People’s Publishing House, New Delhi, 1987

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M. A. II SEMESTER IV

Year II CORE -16MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES: INDIA, EUROPE AND THE

ISLAMIC EAST (2)

CREDIT 3

Semester IV HOURS 45

OBJECTIVES:

To enable the students to understand formation of Medieval societies in India, Europe and Islamic East.


UNIT - I Islamic East-I 12 Hrs

1. Evolution of Islamic polity: Conception of power, transmissionand devolution.

2. Government organization, prestige and ceremonial.3. The Abbasid Revolution and Social transformation (750-1250):4. Nomadic Irruptions. Slave armies and slave aristocracies..

UNIT-II Islamic East-II 11 Hrs

1. Cadastral surveys: iqtas, the mechanism of centralization andtaxation.

2. ‘Islamic World Economy’3. Urban development, global trading networks and monetary

circuits. Circulation of precious metals. Transition to a unifiedcurrency

UNIT - III India 11 Hrs

1. Evolution of medieval polity: intrusion of Ghorian raiders.Conquests.

2. Delhi Sultanate (1205-1388): seizure of territory under warriorchieftains. Prebandal assignments: iqtas and muqtis.

3. Agrarian regimes: power lineages and rural taxation.Suppression of khuts, muqaddams and chaudharis (13th

century). Armed peasantry. Zamindars. Reconstruction of ruralaristocracy (16th century).

UNIT - III India-II 11Hrs

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1. Foundation of a syncretic Indo-Islamic state: Akbar andthe Mughal Empire. Theory of Kingship. Sulh-ikul.Ethnic composition of the ruling class. Jagirs andmansabs.

2. Islamic policies and Imperial culture (1658-1707): TheDeccan Wars.

3. Agrarian crisis? Decline of empire. The 18th centuryn

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Crone P, Slave on Horses: The Evolution of Islamic Polity, Cambridge, 19802. Pipes D, Slave Soldiers in Islam: The Genesis of Military System, London, 19813. Bosworth C E, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 944-1040,

Edinburgh, 19634. -----------------, The Later Ghaznavids-Splendour and Decay: The Dynasty in Afghanistan and

Northern India, 1040-1186,Edinburgh, 19845. Chaudhari K N, trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the

Rise of Islam to 17506. Sourdel D, Medieval Islam, New Delhi 19847. Wink Andre, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, OUP, Delhi 19908. Asopa J N, Origin of the Rajputs, Delhi 19709. Ahmad Aziz, Studies in Islamic Cultures in the Indian Environment, Oxford 196410. Ikram S M, Muslim Civilization in India, New York, 196411. Richards J F, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, CUP 1993

12. Husain Yusuf, Indo-Muslim Polity: Turko-Afghan Period, IIAS, Simla 197113. Cipolla C M, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy, London 197414. J Le Goff, MedievalCivilization15. Duby Georges, The Growth of the early European Economy, London 197416. Eisentadt S N, The Political Systems of Empires, New York 196917. Bloc Marc, FeudalSociety, 2 Vols, London 1962

Articles:1. Chattopadhyaya B D, Origin of Rajputs: the Political, Economic and Social Processes in

Early Medieval Rajasthan, Indian Historical Review, 3 , (1976)2. Coulburn R, Feudalism, Brahminism and the intrusion of Islam in Indian History,

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 10, 3, (1968)3. Irfan Habib, Social Distribution of Landed Property in Pre-British India, in R S Sharma &

V Jha (eds.), Indian Society : HistoricalProbings4. Richards J F, Mughal State Finance and Pre-Modern World Economy, Comparative

Studies in Society and History, 23, (1981)

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Year II CORE -17NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA: 19TH&

20TH CENTURIES

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To enhance the understanding of the concepts of nationalism and colonialism in Asia in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries


UNIT - I Colonisation of Africa 12 Hrs

1. Africa before Colonization2. Scramble for Africa

UNIT - II Creation of Colonial Empires in Africa 11 Hrs

1. East & West Africa2. North, Central & South Africa

UNIT - III Nationalism in 20th Century Africa 11Hrs

1. Freedom Struggle in East & West Africa2. Freedom Struggle in North, Central & South Africa

UNIT - IV Nationalism and Development Process in the Newly Emerged Polities

11Hrs

1. South Asia, South-East Asia, China, Japan and West Asia till 1950.

2. Asia South Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa and North Africa till 1990

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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Amin , Samir, Imperialism & Unequal Development, The Harvester Press, Sussex, 1977.2. Ashcroft, Bill et. al., (eds.), The Post-Colonial Studies: Reader, Routledge, Delhi, 2006.3. Fairbank John King & Merle Goldman, China: A New History, New Delhi, 2009.4. Chandra, Bipin, Freedom Struggle, NBT, Delhi, 2008.5. Chandra, Bipin, et. al., (eds.), India After Independence,1947-2000, Delhi, 1999.6. Deagan, Heather, The Middle east and the Problems of Democracy, open University Press,

Philadelphia, 1993.7. Dodson, M. S., Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture, India, 1770-1880, Foundation

Books, 2010.8. Hansraj, History of South-East Asia, Surjeet Publications, New Delhi, 2006.9. Harshe, R., Twentieth Century Imperialism: Shifting Contours& Changing Conceptions,

Sage, Delhi, 1997.10. Huberman Leo, Man’s Wordlygoods:The Story of The Wealth of Nations, Hesperides Press,

2008.11. Loomba, Ania, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge, London, 2005.12. Magdoff,Harry, Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present, Aakar, New Delhi, 2009.13. -----, Imperialism without Colonies, Aakar, Delhi, 2007.14. Mill, Acton & Renan, Nation & Nationality, Critical Quest, Delhi, 201015. Moon P.T., Imperialism and World Politics, Garland Publisher, 1973.16. Parker John & Richard Rathbone, African History, Oxford, 2007.17. Rodney, W., How Europe Underdeveloped Africa?, Tanzania Publications, Dar-e-Salam,

1972.18. StevanGrobsy, Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Delhi, 2010.19. The Cambridge Economic History, Vol. VI Parts I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1965.20. Wright S.& Janice, N. B.,Africa in World politics: Changing perspectives, Macmillan,

London, 1987.

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Year II CORE -18 A

TOWNS, TOWN LIFE, AND URBANIZATION IN MEDIEVALINDIA, 1200 1750 (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To critically look at the urbanisation processes of the India civilisation in the medieval times


UNIT - I Bandar/ Port Cities 12 Hrs

1. Administration & Management of Bandars along the Western Coast

2. Political significance, Market Networks and Mercantile Activitywith reference to Indian Ocean

UNIT - II Profile of Port Cities 11 Hrs

1. (a) Cambay, Surat, Calicut, Chaul, Goa, Kachchh-Mandvi,Mundra, Daman & Diu, and Bombay (b) Masulipattam, Cuddalore, Pondicherry, Madras and Calcutta2. Baras along the western and eastern coast line

UNIT - III Social Composition of Agra, Delhi, Ahmedabad & Surat 11Hrs

1. Nobility, Bureaucracy and Political Elites2. Merchants and Intermediaries

UNIT - IV Cultural Ethos of Agra, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat &Awadh 11Hrs

1. Artisans and their Craftsmanship2. Music, Poetry and Literature


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Altekar, A. S., A History of Ancient Towns and Cities of Gujarat and Kathiawad, Bombay, 1926.2. Arasartham, S., Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740,

Delhi, 1986.3. Ballachet, Kenneth and John Harrison, (Eds.), The City in South Asia: Pre-Modern and Modern,

London, 1980.4. Banga Indu, (Ed.) Ports & their Hinterlands in India, Delhi, 1992.5. Basu, Dalip K. (Ed.), The Rise and Growth of the Colonial Port Cities in Asia, Monograph Series

No. 25, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Berkeley 1983 (reprint).6. Bouchon, Genevieve, ‘Calicut at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Portuguese Catalyst’,

Indica, Vol. 26,No. 1-2, 1989, pp. 3-13.7. Broeze, Frank, (Ed.), Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th to 20th Centuries,

Australia 1989.8. Champakalakshmi, R., ‘Urban Processes in Early Medieval Tamil Nadu’ in The City in Indian

History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics, (Ed.) Indu Banga, New Delhi, 1991, pp. 47-68.

9. ----, ‘Urbanism in Medieval Tamil Nadu’ in Situating Indian History, Essays in Honor ofSarvapalli Gopal, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and RomilaThapar (Eds.), Delhi, 1986, pp. 34-105.

10. Chandra, Satish (Ed.), The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and politics, Delhi,1978.

11. Chaudhari, K.N., Trade and Commercial Organization in Bengal, 1650-1720, Calcutta, 1975.12. ----, ‘Some Reflections on the Town and Country in Mughal India’, MAS, Vol. 12, pt. 1,

Feburary, 1978.13. ----, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History From the Rise of Islam

Until 1750, Cambridge, 1985.14. ----, Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean From the Rise of Islam

to 1750, Cambridge, 1990.15. Dasgupta, Ashin, The Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat c. 1700-1750, Wiesbaden,

1979.16. Grewal J.S., (Ed.), Calcutta: Foundation and Growth of a Colonial Metropolis, Urban History

Association of India, Amritsar, 1990.17. Gokhlae, B.G., Surat in the Seventeenth Century, A Study in Urban History of Pre-Modern India,

London, 1974.18. Gopal, S., Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat, 16th and 17th Centuries; A Study in the Impact of

European Expansion of Pre-capitalist Economy, New Delhi, 1975.19. ----, ‘Gujarati Shipping in the 17th Century, IESHR, Vol. 8, no. 1, 1971, pp. 31-39.20. Kosambai, Meera and John E. Bush, ‘Three Colonial Port Cities in India’, The Geographical

Review (USA), Vol. 78, No.1 (Jan.1988), 32-47.21. Kunju Ibrahim, Studies in Medieval Kerala History, Trivandrum, 1975.22. Lewandowski, Susan J., ‘Changing From and Function in the Colonial Port City in India: An

Historical Analysis of Madurai and Madras’,Modern Asian Studies, Vol. II, Pt 2 (April 1977),183-213.

23. Mathew, K.S., ‘Masulipatnam and the Maririme Trade of India during the Seventeenth Century’,Proceedings of the Andhra Pradesh History Congress, 1987.

24. Moreland, W.H., ‘The Shahbandar of the Eastern Seas’ Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society(Oct.1920).

25. Mukherjee, R., and Lakshmi Subramanian (Eds.), Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World:Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Delhi, 1998.

26. Macmillan, Seaports of India and Ceylon, London 1928.27. Nightingale, Pamela, Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784-1806, Cambridge, 1970.28. Pearson, M.N., Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the

SixteenthCentury, Berkeley, 1976.

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29. Pearson, M.N., ‘The Port City of Goa: Policy and Practice in the Sixteenth Century’, CoastalWestern India: Studies from the Portuguese Records, Concept, Delhi 1981.

30. . Polanyi, K., ‘Ports of Trade in Early Societies’,Journal of Economic History, 23 (1963), 30-45.31. Reeves, P.D., F.J.A. Broeze and K.I. McPherson, Ports and port Cities, Centre for South and

South-east Asian Studies, Nedlands, Western Australia 1982.32. Singh, Mahindra Pal, Town, Market, Mint and Port in the Mughal Empire, 1500-1707, Adam,

Delhi 1985.33. Subramanian, Lakshmi, ‘Capital and Crowd in a Declining Asian Port City: The Anglo Bania

Order and the Surat Riots in 1795’,Modern Asian Studies, 19, 2 (1985), 205-37.34. Torri, M., ‘In the Deep Blue Sea: Surat and its Merchants Class during the Dyarchic Era (1759-

1800)’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, XIX, 3 and 4 (1982), 267-99.35. Torri, M., ‘Surat during the Second Half of the 18th Century: What Kind of Social

Order?’,Modern Asian Studies, XXI, 4 (1987),677-710.36. Tripathi, Dwijendra, (Ed.), Business Communities of India, Manohar, Delhi 1984.37. Villiers, A.J., MonsoonSeas: The Story of the Indian Ocean, McGraw Hill, New York 1952.38. Wadia, R.A., the Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders, Bombay, 1957.

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Year II CORE -18 (A)RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give an enhanced understanding of Religion and Society in Medieval India


UNIT - I Society in the Mughal Period 12 Hrs

1.Ruling Class2. Merchants, Traders and Craft-persons3. Peasantry and Urban poor

UNIT II Muslim Revivalist Movements and the State Response

1. Mahdavis2. Mujaddadis3. Others

UNIT - III Rise of Popular Monotheism. Vaishnaism and the Sikh Movements 11 Hrs

1. Kabir and DaduDayal, Nanak and Guru Govind Singh2. Chaitanya Tulsidas and Namdev3. Elements of Conflict and Synthesis in Medieval Indian Society




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Références

Original Texts:1. TulsidasKavitawali, Tr. R. Allchin2. Surdas, Sursagar Text printed at Mathura3. Callewaert.W.M, The Hindi Biography of DaduDayal, New Delhi 19884. Sri Dasam Guru GranthSaheb, Lucknow, 1976.5. Dabistan-i-Mazahib, Tr. David Sheen and Anthony Trover

Secondary works:1. S.A.A.Rizvi, Muslim Revivalist Movement in Northern India in the sixteenth and seventeenth

centuries2. -------------Sufism in India,vol.i,ii3. T. Roychaudhary, Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir4. A.K.Majumdar, Bhakti Renaissance5. -------------------,Chaitanya: His life and doctrine6. M.Mujeeb, The Indian Muslims7. Ch.Vanduville, Kabir, vol.i8. Dr. Nagendra (ed), Tulsidas: His mind and Art9. S.C.Malik (ed), Indian Moments in some Aspects of Dissent, Protest and Reform in Indian

Civilization10. J.S.Grewal, Guru Nanak in History11. --------------, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India, 199412. W.H. Mcleod, Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion

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Year II CORE -18 (B)HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

Comprehending women’s participation in the public field, first for theindependence of India and secondly to further the realization of their rights ofempowerment.


UNIT – I Women and Politics 12 Hrs

1. Birth of women’s organizations2. Political participation: Nationalist Movement ;3. The movement for women’s rights

UNIT – II Women and Economy 11 Hrs

1. Women and work in colonial India2. Women in Agrarian Movements:

a. Awadh,b. Tebhagac. Telangana

UNIT – III Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India-I 11Hrs

1. Independence, Partition and Women2. Worli-Tribal Movement3. Gender and Environment: Chipko

UNIT – IV Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India-II 11Hrs

1. Contemporary feminist movement, 1970-1980

2. The nineteen eighties: Women’s Issues & Movements

3. Women and Arts


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SUGGESTED READINGSBooks:

1. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, 1998, Foundation Books, New Delhi2. Radha Kumar, The History of Doing, 2001, Kali, New Delhi3. KumkumSangri&SudeshVaid, (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History,

1989, 4. Kali, New Delhi5. A Suryakumari(ed.) Women’s studies: An Emerging Discipline, 1993, New Delhi6. Peter Custers, Women in the Tebhaga Uprising, Calcutta, 1987 and K Lalitha and et al, We

were Making History, Kali, 19897. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence-Voices from the Partition of India, 1998, Penguin,

New Delhi8. Ritu Menon & Kamala Bhasin, Borders & Boundaries-Women in India’s Partition, 1998,

Kali, New Delhi

Articles:1. Peter Custers, Women's Role in Tebhaga Movement, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.

21, No. 43 (Oct. 25, 1986), pp. WS 94-WS104.2. Rege S, Dalit Women Talk Differently, Economic and Political Weekly, 31st October 1998,

pp WS- 39 to WS-463. Uberoi P, Feminine Identity and National Ethos in India Calendar Art, Economic and

Political Weekly, 28th April 1990, ppWS-41 to WS-484. Bhagwat V, Marathi Literature as a Source for Contemporary Feminism, 1843 to 1993,

Economic and Political Weekly, 29th April 1996, pp WS-87 to WS-905. Thakurta T G, Women as ‘Calendar Art icons: Emergence of Pictorial stereotype in Colonial

India, Economic and Political Weekly, 26th October 1991 pp WS-91 to WS-99

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Year II CORE -18 (B)FORMATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE GAEKWAD

STATE (1770-1950)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To enable the students the importance of formation of the Gaekwad state.


UNIT – I Ganpatrao and Khanderao Gaekwad: 1848-1870 12 Hrs

1. The beginnings of social development2. The Uprising of 18573. Administrative Changes

UNIT – II Malharrao Gaekwad and Sir T. Madhav Rao 11 Hrs

1. The case of Malharrao Gaekwad2. Administrative Changes

UNIT – III Sayajirao-III 11Hrs

1. Sayajirao-III : the architect of Modern Baroda2. Administrative Changes3. Education and Social Change




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SUGGESTED READINGS1. H.R. Aiyer, Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda, Baroda2. Hashit H. Buch, The Maharaja Sayajirao III (Gujarati)3. V.K. Chavda, Gaekwad and the British: A Study of their Problems, (1875-1920)4. G.H. Desai, A Statistical report of the Baroda state ( Gujarat)5. G.H. Desai and A.B. Clarke, Gazetteer of the Baroda State Volumes-I & II6. FAH Elliot, The Rulers of Baroda7. FatehsinghraoGaekwad, Sayajirao of Baroda: The Prince and the Man8. Stanely Rice, Life of Sayajirao-III, Maharaja of Baroda, 2 Volumes9. G.S. Sardesai, An Account of the Education of His Highness Sayajirao Gaekwad10. Speeches and Addresses of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad, 4 Volumes11. Philip W Sergeant, The Ruler of Baroda : An Account of the life and Work of Maharaja

Gaekwad12. M.H. Shah, Baroda By Decades 1871-194113. W.R. Wallace, The Gaekwad and his relations with the British Government

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Year II CORE -19 (A)THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION IN EUROPE (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give an enhanced understanding of Renaissance and Reformation in Europe


UNIT – I The Reformation-I 12 Hrs

1. Church and the Papacy in the fifteenth century2. The Reformation3. The Lutheran Protest. Spread of the protestant Movement in

Germany and the Scandinavian Countries.4. Ulrich Zwingli and the revolt in Switzerland

UNIT – II Reformation-II 11 Hrs

1. Calvinism and the protest in Geneva; Presbyterianism in Scotland;

2. Reformation in England.3. Council of Trent4. The Catholic Reformation, Divided Christendom

UNIT-III Significance of the Renaissance and the Reformation 11 Hrs

1. Progress in Science and Technology2. Age of Discovery and rise of Overseas Empires-Spain and

Portugal3. The rise of Nation States4. Absolutism and Mercantilism

UNIT – IV Impact of Reformation 11Hrs

1. The Religious orders and Congregations vis-a-vis

Reformation,

2. Thirty Years War

3. Peace of Westphalia


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Brinton Crane, Christopher John B, Wolff Robert Lee, Civilization in the West2. Burns, Ralph, Lerner and Meacham, World Civilization 2 Vols3. Durant Wili, The Reformation4. Gilmore Myron P. The World of Humanism5. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I The Reformation6. Cipolla M, The Fontana Economic History of Europe7. Joseph Strayer and Hans W. Gatze, Mainstream of Civilization8. F. Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the reign of Philip II9. H.A.L. Fisher, History Of Europe10. Ludwig F. Schaffer, Daniel P. Resnick and George L. Netterville III, The Search for the

Modern World

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Year II CORE -19 (B)HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1850-

1914 (2)

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

Survey of the creation of a nation: USA.


UNIT – I USA and the First World War 12 Hrs

1. First World War and the Peace settlement2. Post War Efforts to Avert Tensions3. Continental Solidarity

UNIT – II USA and the Second World War 11 Hrs

1. USA in the Second World War2. Emergence of US as a world power3. Cold War and USA

UNIT – III Progressivism 11Hrs

1. Progressive Era2. Progressive Legislation under Wilson3. The New Woman and the Feminism of the 20th Century

UNIT – IV Analysing the’Melting Pot’ 11Hrs

1.Afro-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement2.Amerindians and Federal Indian Policy3.Immigration and Cultural Change


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Barton Berstein& Allen Matusow, Twentieth Century American Interpretations2. Harold V Faulkner, Politics, Reform and Expansion3. ------------------------------, The Quest for Social Justice, 1898-1914.4. Frank Friedal, American Issues in the Twentieth Century.5. Eric F Goldman Rendezvous with6. and Perspective in AmericanHistory: Essays in Historiography. destiny: A History of

Modern America7. Richard Leopold, Arthur Link and the StanelyCoben (eds.), ProblemsinAmericanHistory,

2 Vols.8. S.E.Morrison, The Oxford History of American People.9. Henry Parkes, TheUnitedStatesofAmerica: A History10. RobertPunel, A History of American Economic System11. A.M.Schlesinger, The Rise of Modern America, 1865-195112. DwijendraTripathi& S.C. Mishra, Themes13. C. Van Woodward (ed.), A Comparative Approach to American History.14. Faragher, Buhle, Czitrom and Armitage (combined edition), Out of Many, A History of the

American People.15. June Sochen (ed.), TheNew Feminism in Twentieth Century America, Mass. 1971

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Year II CORE -19 (B)HISTORY OF CANADA (2)

CREDIT 3

Semester

IV HOURS 45

Note: This course has not been formatted as it has not been in operation since over a decade, neither do we have any expertise.

OBJECTIVES:

To give a comprehensive understanding of History of Canada


UNIT – I Formation of Canada 12 Hrs

1. The Dominion of Canada2. Formation of Confederation

UNIT – II Expansion 11 Hrs

1. Western Expansion and Nation-building2. Growth and Expansion of Canadian Economy

UNIT-III Foreign policy 11 Hrs

1. Imperialism and the National Policy2. Regionalism and the National Agenda3. Foreign policy, 1870-1945




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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Bannett P W & Cornelius, Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations

in Canadian History, Scarborough, 19862. Berger Carl, Issues in Canadian History: Imperialism and Nationalism3. Eastern W T & Aitken H G J, Canadian Economic History, Toronto, 19934. Finkel A &ConardM, History of the Canadian People, Vol. 2, 1867 to the Present,

Toronto, 19935. Finlay J L & Sprague D N, Post-Confederation Canada: The Structure of Canadian

History Since Confederation, 4th ed. Scarborough, 19936. Francis R D & Smith D, Canadian History Since Confederation, Toronto, 19887. Francis R D, Jones R & Smith D, Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 4th

ed. Toronto, 19948. Gilbert A D, Wallace C M, and Bray H M, Reappraisal in Canadian History: Post-

Confederation, Scarborough, 19929. Lower A, Canada: An Outline History, Toronto, 199110. McInnis E, Canada: A Political& Social History, Toronto, 198211. McKay I, The Challenge of Modernity: A reader of Post-Confederation Canada,

Toronto, 199212. McNaught K, The Penguin History of Canada, 198813. Morton D, A Short History of Canada, 198314. Muise D A(ed.), A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History, Toronto, 198215. Schultz J (ed.), Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Canadian History, Scarborough,

1990

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Year II CORE -20 (A)SULTANATE OF GUJARAT (2)

CREDIT 3

Semester

IV HOURS 45

OBJECTIVES:

To give a comprehensive understanding of Sultanate of Gujarat


UNIT – I Trade and Commerce: Internal 12 Hrs

1. Internal Trade2. Trade routes3. Currency

UNIT II Trade and Commerce: External 11 Hrs

1. Overseas trade. Advent of Europeans2. Ship- Building3. Port towns

UNIT – III Society and Culture 11 Hrs

1. The Bhakti Movement. Sufism, Imamshahi sect and the Mahdawis

2. Art and Architecture3. Music




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SUGGESTED READINGS1. M.N. Pearson, Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the

sixteenth century, 19762. S.C. Misra, Muslim Communities in Gujarat: Preliminary Studies in their History and Social

Organization, 19643. Uma Das Gupta Compiled, The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800, Collected

Essays of Ashin Das Gupta, 20014. M.S Commissariat, History of Gujarat, Vol. I&II5. Alka Patel, Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society During the 12th

through the 14th centuries, 20046. Surendra Gopal, Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat7. B.G Gokhle, Surat in the seventeenth century8. S.A.A Rizvi, Religious and Revivalist Movements in Northern India9. Makrand Mehta, History of International Trade and Custom Duties in Gujarat, 200910. V.A. Janaki, The Commerce of Cambay from the earliest Period to the nineteenth century,

198011. James Burgess, Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad12. Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Islamic Period)13. Samira, Sheikh, Forging a Region, Sultans, Trader and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500,

201014. Al Dabir Hajji, Arabic History of Gujarat, tr. M.F Lokhandwala, 1970,15. Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Ras Mala, Hindoo, Annals of the Province of Goozerat in

Western India. 2 vols.16. M.R. Majmudar, Cultural History of Gujarat: From Earliest times

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Year II CORE -20 (B)SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY: PRINCELY STATES OF

GUJARAT

CREDIT 3


OBJECTIVES:

To give a deep insight to the students about the Princely states of Gujarat


UNIT – I British and the creation of Princely states 12 Hrs

1. Political Trajectory of Native States in Northern BombayPresidency

2. British Policies towards the Native States3. Reaction and treaties signed between British and Native State

Rulers

UNIT – II Changes in the Princely States 11 Hrs

1. Natives States and Uprising of 18572. Economic Development: Urbanization, Industry and Transport3. National Movement and participation of Native States in Gujarat

UNIT – III Education and other Reforms in the states and accession to the Union of India

11Hrs

1. Education & other Reforms in Native States2. Prajamandal Movement in Gujarat3. Integration of Native States with the Union




101

SUGGESTED READINGS1. Copland Ian, The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947, Delhi, 1999.2. Copland Ian, The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857-1930,

Delhi, 1982.3. Robin Jeffery, People, Princes and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely

States, Manohar, New Delhi, 1978.4. Mehta Shirin, The Peasantry and Nationalism: A Study of BardoliSatyagraha, Delhi, 1984.5. Raval R.L., Socio-Religious Reform Movements in Gujarat, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978.6. James Campbell, Gazetteer of Bombay Presidency Bombay Gujarat, Vol.67. Menon V.P, The Story of Integration of the Indian States, Orient Longman, Bombay, 1956.8. Barbara Ramnsack, The New Cambridge History of India, III, 6: The Indian Princes and Their

States, Cambridge, 2004.9. Manu Bhagvan, Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education and Empire in Colonial India, Delhi,

2003.10. Dick Kooiman, Communalism and Indian Princely States: Travancore, Baroda and Hyderabad

in the 1930, New Delhi, 2003.11. Forbes A.K., Rasmala, (Tr.) 1922.12. Handa R.L., History of Freedom Struggles in Princely States, Central News Agency, New Delhi,

1968.13. EdaljiDosabhai, A History of Gujarat, Bombay 1894.14. Dharaiya R.K., Gujarat in 1857, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, 1970

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Year II CORE -20 (B)SOCIO- CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA 1850-

1950

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OBJECTIVES: To provide the students an understanding of socio-cultural history of Modern India


UNIT – I Indian Nationalism and the cultural reactions 12 Hrs

1. Indian Nationalism: the Beginnings2. Nationalism under Gandhi’s Leadership3. Literary and Cultural Reactions

UNIT – II Gandhian Ideas 11 Hrs

1. British Policies towards the Native States2. Gandhian Ideas and Institution3. Indian Society in Gandhian Era

UNIT – III Partition and Independence 11Hrs

1. Partition and Independence: Problems and Challenges2. Conditions of Various Social groups: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs,

Parsis, Christians, Dalits and Women3. Social, Religious and Cultural Realities and Making of Indian

Constitution


Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the above three units


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SUGGESTED READINGS1. Ashton A. R., British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905-1939, Bombay,1982.2. Gopal S., British policy in India, 1858-1905, 1965.3. Menon V.P., The Story of the Integration of the Indian States, Bombay, 1961.4. Christopher Jaffrelot, Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability, New Delhi, 2005.5. Barbara Ramusack, The Indian Princes and Their States, New Cambridge History of India,

Vol. III, Cambridge University Press, 2004.6. Dube S. C., Indian Society, NBT, New Delhi, 1990,7. Nanda S. P., Economic and Social History of Modern India, New Delhi, 1999.8. Bayly, C. A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, 1988.

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Year II PROJECT-03SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES (2)

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OBJECTIVE The content and scope of project work would be decided upon by thedepartment on an annual basis. The assessments of the projects would involveboth written assignments and seminar presentations by the students and thesewould be assessed collectively by the department faculty.


course content / syllabus unit i 1. the past and history

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