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 NEP SYLLABUS IN HISTORY CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY 2023 1 The four - year B.A. in History will comprise 8 Semesters. The curriculum will consist of 22 Discipline Specific Elective Core Courses/ (H/CC), courses each carrying 4 credits, 8 Minor Courses each c...

 NEP SYLLABUS IN HISTORY CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY 2023 1 The four - year B.A. in History will comprise 8 Semesters. The curriculum will consist of 22 Discipline Specific Elective Core Courses/ (H/CC), courses each carrying 4 credits, 8 Minor Courses each carrying 4 credits, 3 Interdisciplinary Courses,(IDC) each carrying 3 credits 4 Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AEC) each carrying 2 credits, 3 Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) each carrying 4 credits and 4 Common Value Added Courses (CVAC) each carrying 2 credits. There will be one Summer Internship of 3 credits and Dissertation /Research Work in the 7 Semester carrying 4 credits and 8 credits in the final Semester (8 th)  Discipline- specific Courses Core Courses H CC [Twenty two courses. Each course: 4 credits (Total: 88 credits. Marks 22x100 =2200)  Each course carries 100 marks.  75 marks for theoretical segment.  25 marks for tutorial - related segments as suggested below (any one from each mode):  Any one of the following modes: upto 1000 words for one Term Paper/ Project/ Book Review/ --based on syllabus.[The modes and themes and/or topics are be decided and assessed by the concerned faculty of respective colleges.]  Minor Courses 8 Courses: 4 credits (Total: 32 credits. Marks 8x100=800)  Each course carries 100 marks.  75 marks for theoretical segment.  25 marks for tutorial - related segments as suggested below (any one from each mode):  Any one of the following modes: upto 1000 words for one Term Paper/ Project/ Book Review/ --based on syllabus. [The modes and themes and/or topics are be decided and assessed by the concerned faculty of respective colleges.]  Skill Enhancement/Skill-based Courses SEC Each Course: 4 credits.  Each course carries 100 marks.  50 marks for theoretical segment. 2  50 marks for tutorial - related segments as suggested below (any one from each mode):  Any one of the following modes: upto 1000 words each for two Term Papers/ Projects/ Book Reviews/ --based on syllabus. [The modes and themes and/or topics are be decided and assessed by the concerned faculty of respective colleges.]  IMPORTANT NOTES: The Readings provided below include many of those of the UGC Model NEP Syllabus in History. For further details of Course Objectives and additional references it is advised that the UGC model NEP syllabus concerning relevant courses and topics should be given due importance and primarily consulted.  Cited advanced texts in Bengali are not necessarily substitutes, but supplementary to the English books.  The format is subject to the common structural NEP format of the University. 3  COURSE STRUCTURE-CCF 2022 Total IDC CVAC Summer Research Work/ Credits H -CC Minor AEC SEC Internship Dissertation Course Semesters 22x 4=88 8x4=32 3x3=9 4x2=8 3x4=12 1x3=3 (1x4=4)+ 172 4x2=8 (1x8=8)=12 Semester-1 1x4= 4 1x4= 4 (m1) 1x3= 3 1x2= 2 1x4= 4 2x2 21 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 2TH +l P/TU 2TH + 2Th+2Tu/ 0 P/TU Prac Semester-2 1x4= 4 1x4= 4 (m1) 1x3= 3 1x2= 2 1x4= 4 2x2 21 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 2TH +l P/TU 2TH + 2Th+2Tu/ 0 P/TU Prac Semester-3 2x4= 8 1x4= 4(m2) 1x3= 3 1x2= 2 1x4= 4 21 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 2TH +l P/TU 2TH + 2Th+2Tu/ 0P/TU Prac Semester-4 4x4= 16 1x4= 4(m2) 1x2= 2 22 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 2TH + 0 P/TU Semester-5 4x4= 16 2x4= 8 m1+m2 24 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac Semester-6 3x4= 12 2x4=8 m1+m2 1x3 23 3Th+1Tu/ Prac 3Th+1Tu/ Prac Semester-7 4x4= 16 1x4* 20 3Th+1Tu/ Prac Semester-8 3x4= 12 1x8* 20 3Th+1Tu/ Prac Credits 22x4= 88 8x4= 32 3x3= 9 4x2= 8 3x4= 12 4x2= 8 1x3=3 (1x4)+ 172 (1X8)= 12 Marks 22x100=2200 8x100=800 3x75=225 4x50=200 3x100=300 4x50=20 1x 75 1x100+ Total 0 Marks 1x200=300 =4300 Please note: *Candidates who would not pursue Dissertation/Research work would have to study 1 additional H/CC paper in Semester 7 and 2 H/CC papers in Semester 8 of 4 credits each. 4  Structure of B.A History Courses under NEP HIS-DSC -1-22 TH &TU  Discipline- specific Courses H /CC HIS-H-CC 1 SEM -1: HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO C 300 BCE) HIS- H -CC 2 SEM-2: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD OTHER THAN INDIA. HIS- H CC 3 SEM-3: HISTORY OF INDIA (C 300 BCE TO C.750 CE) HIS- H CC 4 SEM-3: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD OTHER THAN INDIA HIS- H CC 5 SEM-4: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.750 – 1206) HIS- H CC 6 SEM-4: HISTORY OF EUROPE (C.1453-1650) HIS- H CC 7 SEM-4: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1206 – 1526) HIS- H CC 8 SEM-4: HISTORY OF EUROPE–(C. 1650-1780) HIS- H CC 9 SEM-5: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1526-1605) HIS- H CC 10 SEM-5 HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1605 – 1750) HIS- H CC 11 SEM-5: HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (C.1780-1939) HIS- H CC 12 SEM-5: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1750– 1857) HIS- H CC 13 SEM-6: HISTORY OF INDIA (C. 1857 – 1964) HIS- H CC 14 SEM-6 : HISTORY OF WORLD POLITICS: (1945-1994) HIS- H CC 15 SEM- 6: HISTORY OF MODERN EAST ASIA – I CHINA (C.1840 – 1949) HIS- H CC 1 6 SEM-7: HISTORY OF MODERN EAST ASIA – II JAPAN (C.1868 – 1945) HIS- H CC 1 7 SEM-7: HISTORY OF BENGAL (C.1757-1905) HIS- H CC 18 SEM-7: HISTORY OF BENGAL (C.1905-1947) HIS- H CC 19 SEM -7: WOMEN IN COLONIAL INDIA ** HIS- H CC 20 SEM -7: HISTORICAL TOURISM: THEORY &PRACTICE HIS- H CC 21 SEM -8 : MAJOR DEBATES IN HISTORY. HIS- H CC 22 SEM -8 : THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF INDIA (1947-1991) ** HIS- H CC 23 SEM -8: ART APPRECIATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN ART. HIS- H CC 24 SEM -8 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND TOOLS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH ** HIS- H CC 25 SEM -8 NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN 20TH CENTURY WORLD. Please note: *Candidates who would not pursue Dissertation/Research work would have to study 1 additional H/CC paper in Semester 7 and 2 H/CC papers in Semester 8 of 4 credits each. These courses are indicated in asterisk marks ** MINOR COURSES m1m2 HIS-m1- 1 SEM -1: HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO C 300 BCE) HIS-m1 2 SEM-2: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD OTHER THAN INDIA HIS-m1 3 SEM-5: HISTORY OF INDIA (C 300 BCE TO C.750 CE) HIS-m1 4 SEM -6 HISTORY OF EUROPE (C.1453-1650) 5 INTER DISCIPLINARY COURSES (IDC) HIS-IDC-1: Making of Contemporary India (1919 -1964) SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES (SEC ) HIS- SEC-1: SEM -1 Museum and Archives HIS- SEC-2 SEM -2 Understanding Cultural Heritage and Tourism HIS- SEC- 3 SEM -3 Understanding Popular Culture of Bengal ---------------------------------------- 6  Detailed Syllabus History HIS- H –1- 22 TH&TU HIS-H/CC 1 : History of India From the earliest times to C 300 BCE Learning Objectives: This course intends to provide an extensive and deeper understanding of early Indian history to students. They will be introduced to the manner in which diverse aspects of ancient Indian history have been recovered from a rich variety of sources, archaeological, literary, numismatic, epigraphist. Students will become familiar with the tools required for studying history and explore the diverse histories and regional variations in the Indian subcontinent and also study various facets of ancient India- social, cultural, political, environmental concerns. This course, with an interdisciplinary approach, will help students’ trace elements of continuity and changes in processes spanning over several millennia, from pre-historic times up to the 300 BCE. The emphasis on historiography will allow students to understand how historians have approached ancient India and how our present knowledge and perceptions have played a role in interpreting the past. I. Reconstructing Ancient Indian History: a) Early Indian notions of history and the idea of Bharat b) Sources and tools of historical reconstruction. c) Historical interpretations (with special reference to gender, environment, technology and regions) II. Hunter-gatherers and the advent of food products a)Paleolithic cultures- sequence and distribution; stone industries and other technological developments. b) Mesolithic cultures – regional and chronological distribution; new developments in technology and economy; rock art. c) Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures: distribution and subsistence pattern III. The Harappan civilization: Origins; settlement patterns and town planning; agrarian base; craft productions and trade; social and political organization; religious beliefs and practices; art; the problem of urban decline and the late/post-Harappan traditions. IV. Cultures in transition Settlement patterns, technological and economic developments; social stratification; political relations; religion and philosophy; the Aryan problem. a) North India (circa 1500 BCE – 300 BCE) b) Central India and the Deccan (circa 1000 BCE – circa 300 BCE) c) Tamilakam (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300) Essential Readings Agarwal D.P, The Archaeology of India, London, 1982. Basham A.L, The Wonder That Was India, London, 1954. Chakrabarti Dilip Kumar, An Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology, New Delhi, 2006. Chakrabarti Dilip Kumar, India, An Archaeological History, Delhi, 1999 Sharma R.S, Looking for the Aryans, 1995. Sharma R.S, Material Cultures and Social Formations in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1983. 7 Thapar Romila, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, London, 2002 Suggested Readings Basham A.L ed. A Cultural History of India, New Delhi, 1975. Ghosh Amalananda, The City in Early Historic India, Shimla, 1973. Altekar A.S, The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization from Pre-historic times to the Present Day, New Delhi, 1962. Chattopadhyaya B.D, Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues. New Delhi, 2003. Sircar D.C, Indian Epigraphy, New Delhi, 1965. Kosambi D.D, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1956 Kosambi D.D, Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings, Edited and Introduced By B.D Chattopadhyaya Jha D.N, Ancient India: An Introduction, New Delhi, 1998 Chattopadhyay D.P, Science and Society in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1977. Erdosy George, Urbanization in Early Historic India, Oxford, 1988. Allchin F.R. (ed). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States, Cambridge, 1995. Staal Frits, Discovering the Vedas : Origins, Mantras, Rituals Insights, New Delhi, 2008. Possehl G.L, ed. Harappan Civilization- A Recent Perspective, Delhi, 1993 (second edition). Michell George, The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India. London, 1989. Raychaudhuri H.C, Political History of Ancient India with a commentary by B.N.Mukherjee, New Delhi, 1996 (8th edition) Habib Irfan (General Editor), A People’s History of India (Volume 1,2,3), New Delhi. Shastri K.A Nilakantha, A History of South India, Madras, 1974 (4th Edition) Lahiri Nayanjyot, The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization, New Delhi, 2000. Ray Nihar Ranjan, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, V.R. Mani and Ranabii Chakravarti eds. A Source Book of Indian Civilization, Kolkata, 2000. Sahu Bhairabi Prasad (ed.). Iron and Social Change in Early India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Chakraborty Ranabir, Exploring early India, upto circa AD 1300 Kochar R., The Vedic People, New Delhi. 2000. Majumdar R.C (General Editor), The History & Culture of the Indian People, Volumes I – III, Bombay, 1951,1968, 1970 Sharma R.S, Advent of the Aryans, Manohar, 1999. Sharma R.S, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India. New Delhi, 2005 (reprint). Sharma R.S, India's Ancient Past, New Delhi, 2005. Sharma R.S, Perspectives in the Social and Economic History of Early India, New Delhi, 1983. Sharma R.S, Sudras in Ancient India. Salomon Richard, Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. New York, 1998. Thapar Romila (et al). India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan, New Delhi, 2006 Thapar Romila, From Lineage to State, Delhi, 1996 (2nd Edition) Ratnagar Shireen, (ed), Women in Early Indian Societies. New Delhi, 1999. Ratnagar Shireen, The End of the Great Harappan Tradition, Delhi, 2000 Roy Kumkum, The Emergence of Monarchy in North India: eighth to fourth centuries BC, NewDelhi, 1994 8 Ratnagar Shireen, Understanding Harappa, Delhi 2001 Saraswati S.K, A Survey of Indian Sculpture, New Delhi, 1975 (second edition) Bhattacharji Sukumar, Women and Society in Ancient India. Calcutta, 1994. Singh Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Delhi, 2008. বাশাম এ এল, অতীততর উজ্জ্বল ভারত, (The Wonder That Was India), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৫ চক্রবতী রণবীর, ভারত ইসতহাতির আসি পব, স কলকাতা, ২০০৭ হাসবব ইরফান, ভারতবতষরস িাধারণ মানুতষর ইসতহাি প্রথম খন্ড – প্রাক-ইসতহাি, (Pre-history) এন সব এ, কলকাতা, ২০০২ সিতীয় খন্ড: সিন্ধু িভযতা, (The Indus Civilisation) এন সব এ, কলকাতা, ২০০২ তৃতীয় খন্ড – ববসিক িভযতা, (The Vedic Age) এন সব এ, কলকাতা, ২০০২ ঝা সি এন, আসি ভারত – একটি িংসিপ্ত ইসতহাি, (Ancient India: An Introduction), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ককাশাম্বী সি সি, ভারত ইসতহাি চচসার ভূ সমকা (An Introduction to the Study of Indian History) বাগসচ কক সপ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা, ২০০২ রত্নাগর সশসরণ, হরপ্পা িভযতার িন্ধাতন (Understanding Harappa) এন সব এ, কলকাতা, ২০০৩ রায়তচৌধুরী কহমচন্দ্র, প্রাচীন ভারততর রাজননসতক ইসতহাি, (Political History of Ancient India), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা থাপার করাসমলা, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি, ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, কলকাতা ভট্টাচার্ নতরন্দ্রনাথ, স প্রাচীন ভারতত ধম, স কলকাতা, ১৯৮৮ ভট্টাচার্ নতরন্দ্রনাথ, স প্রাচীন ভারতীয় িমাজ, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা ভট্টাচার্ িু স কুমারী, ইসতহাতির আতলাতক ববসিক িাসহতয, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা ভট্টাচার্ িু স কুমারী, প্রাচীন ভারত- িমাজ ও িাসহতয, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা চক্রবতী সিলীপ কুমার - ভারতবতষরস প্রাক্ ইসতহাি আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯ গতঙ্গাপাধযায় সিলীপ কুমার - ভারত ইসতহাতির িন্ধাতন, (২ খতন্ড), ২০০৭ চক্রবতী রণবীর, প্রাচীন ভারততর অথননসতক স ইসতহাতির িন্ধাতন, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ২০০২ (িংতশাসধত িংস্করণ) চানানা কিবরাজ, প্রাচীন ভারতত িাি প্রথা, (Slavery in Ancient India as depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা ১৯৯৫ রায় নীহাররঞ্জন, বাঙাসলর ইসতহাি, কলকাতা, ১৯৮০(সিতীয় িংস্করণ) শমা স রামশরণ, প্রাচীন ভারতত বস্তুগত িংস্কৃসত ও িমাজ িংগঠন, (Material Cultures and Social Formations in Ancient India), ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, ১৯৯৮ শমা স রামশরণ, আসি মধযর্ুতগর ভারতীয় িমাজ : িমস্ত-প্রশ্চক্রয়া সবষতয় এক িমীিা (Early Medieval Indian Society : A Study in Feudalism) ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, ২০০৩ শমা স রামশরণ, ভারততর িমাজতন্ত্র, (Indian Feudalism), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা শমা স রামশরণ, আর্তির স অনুিন্ধান, (Looking for the Aryans), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা শমা স রামশরণ, আর্তির স ভারতত আগমন, (Advent of the Aryans), ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, ২০০১ শমা স রামশরণ, প্রাচীন ভারতত শূদ্র, (Sudras in Ancient India), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা থাপার করাসমলা, অতশাক ও কমৌর্তির স পতন, (Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা 9 চতট্টাপাধযায় িুনীল, প্রাচীন ভারততর ইসতহাি (১ম খন্ড), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স একািশ মুদ্রণ, এসপ্রল ২০০৪ চতট্টাপাধযায় িুনীল, প্রাচীন ভারততর ইসতহাি (২য় খন্ড), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স ৮ম মুদ্রণ, কফব্ুয়াসর ২০০৪ মুতখাপাধযায় হীতরন্দ্রনাথ, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি (১ম খন্ড) (প্রাচীন ও মধযর্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স প্রথম মুদ্রণ নতভম্বর ১৯৯৭ HIS- H CC -2 : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient World other than India Learning Objectives: This course aims to introduce the students to the significant developments in world history that have shaped the complexity of human existence. To begin with it offers a historical survey of human evolution. It details the transition from hunting gathering subsistence pattern to more advanced adaptations to a sedentary farming economy. The course content is premised on the understanding that the pace and nature of change differed in different parts of the ancient world. I. Evolution of human kind: Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures – Role of social Institutions in the development of early societies. II. Food production: Debate on the origins of food production, Neolithic cultures in West Asia and Europe III. Bronze Age civilizations, Egypt (Old Kingdom); economy, social stratification, state structure, religion architecture. IV. Nomadic groups- Debate on the advent of iron and its implications in Central and West Asia. V. Ancient Rome: Polity and society- slavery, agrarian economy, urbanization, & trade. VI. Polis in ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta - Polity and society- Slavery, Athenian democracy, Greek culture- Sophists, Drama - Tragedy and Comedy, Art and architecture. 10 Essential Readings Rakesh Kumar, Ancient and Medieval World From Evolution of Humans to the Crisis of Feudalism, Sage Texts, 2018 Farooqui Amar, Early Social Formations. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2002 B.Fagan, People of the Earth. : an introduction to world prehistory New York, NY HarperCollins College Publishers 1977 B.Trigger, Ancient Egypt : A Social History. Cambridge University Press, 1983 Bai Shaoyi, An Outline History of China. Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, 1982. Burns and Ralph, World Civilisations. Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.I. Cambridge University Press ,1982 G.Clark, World Prehistory: A New Perspective Cambridge University Press, 1977. Yuval Noah Harari , Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, Vintage,2015 Norman Davies, Europe A History , Oxford 1996 Jacquetta Hawkes, First Civilisations. life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt. The history of human society. New York: Knopf, 1973. M.I.Finley, The Ancient Economy. University of California Press 1999. R.J.Wenke, Patterns in Prehistory Oxford University Press, USA; 5th edition 2006 UNESCO Series: History of Mankind, Vols. I –III/ or New ed. History of Humanity.1963 V.Gordon Childe, What happened in History. Peregrine Books 1985 Suggested Readings A.Hauser, A Social History of Art, Vol I. Routledge, 1999. Glyn Daniel, First Civilisations. New. York: Thomas Y. Crowell (Apollo. Editions), 1968 J.D. Bernal, Science in History, Vol.I. Cambridge: The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971 Salia Ikram, Death & Burial in Ancient Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2015) V.Gordon Childe, Social Evolution. Martin Bernal, Black Athena; the Afro Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. গর্ডন চাইল্ড, স াশ্যাল ইভললউশ্ন, অল ত সচৌধুরী (ভাষান্তর), দীপায়ন, কলকাতা, ১৪০৫ বঙ্গাব্দ। গর্ডন চাইল্ড, ম্যান সম্ক্ লিম্স লফ, ম্গন দা (ভাষান্তর), দীপায়ন, কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯। গর্ডন চাইল্ড,সিায়াট িযাসপনর্ ইন লিলি, দীপায়ন, কলকাতা। জন সর্ ম্ন্ড বানাল, ড ইলতিাস লবজ্ঞান, আনন্দ, কলকাতা। কুণাল চসটাপাধযায় ও ুজাত ভদ্র, প্রাচীন গ্রীস র ম্াজ ও স্নগস্কৃলত, প্রসগ্রল ভ, কলকাতা । 11  ুপ্রলতম্ দা , গ্রী অনু ন্ধান, প্রসগ্রল ভ, কলকাতা । HIS- H CC-3 : History of India C 300 BCE to C 750 CE Learning Objectives: This paper focusses on the formation of polity, society, economy and religion of ancient India tracing the growth of empires from the Mauryas, to the Kushanas, the Satavahanas the Guptas, and also the post- Gupta polities such as the Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Vardhanas. I. Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300) a)Expansion of agrarian economy : production relations b) Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft Production: trade and trade routes; coinage c)Social stratification: class, Varna, Jati, untouchability; gender; marriage and property relations. II. Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300) : a)The Mauryan Empire b)Post-Mauryan Poliities with special reference to the Kushanas and the Satavahanas; Gana-Sanghas III. Towards early medieval India (circa CE fourth century to CE 750): a) Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations; graded land rights and peasantry. b)The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban settlements. c)Varna, proliferation of Jatis: changing norms of marriage and property d) The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries: post-Gupta polities- Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Vardhanas. IV. Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE – CE 750) a)Consolidation of the Brahmanical tradition : dharma, Varnashram, Purushastras, Samskaras. b)Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition. c) The beginnings of Tantricism. V. Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 750): a)A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical treatises. b)Art and architecture and forms and patronage; Mauryan , Post-Mauryan, Gupta , Post-Gupta Essential Readings 12 Chattopadhyaya B.D, The making of early Medieval India, 1994. Chattopadhyaya B.D, Bharatvarsha and other Essays, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2017. Chattopadhyaya D.P, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India, 1986. Chakravarti Ranabir, Exploring Early India upto AD 1300, Primus, Delhi, 2016. Huntington Susan, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain, New York, 1985. Kosambi D.D, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, 1975. Maity S.K, Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period, 1970. Sahu B.P (ed.), Land System and Rural Society in Early India, 1997. Sastri K.A.N, A History of South India. Sharma R.S, Indian Feudalism, 1980. Sharma R.S, Urban Decay in India, c.300- c1000, Delhi, Munshiram Manohar Lal, 1987 Singh Upinder, A history of Ancient and early Medieval India, 2008. Thapar Romila, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1997 Suggested Readings Agarwal Asvini, The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas, New Delhi,1988. Bhattacharya N.N, Ancient Indian Rituals ad Their Social Contents, 2nd ed., 1996. Bhattacharya N.N, History of Tantric Religion, 1982 Chakravarti Uma, The Social Dimensions of Buddhism. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. Chakravarti Uma, Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society, New Delhi, 2007 (revised edition) Champakalakshmi R, Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South India: 300BC to AD 1300, Delhi, 1996. Chanana D., Slavery in Ancient India as Depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts, Delhi, 1960. Gupta P.L, Coins, 4th ed., 1996. Harle J.C, The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, 1987. Lahiri Nayanjot, Ashoka in Ancient India, 2015 Majumdar R.C and Altekar A.S eds. The Vakataka Gupta Age, Varanasi, 1955. Mukherjee B.N, Kushana Studies, New Perspectives, Kolkata, 2004 Mukherjee B.N, The Character of the Maurya Empire, Kolkata, 2000 Mukherjee B.N, The Rise and Fall of the Kushana Empire, Calcutta, 1989. Pollock Sheldon, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men. Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Pre-modern India. New Delhi, 2006. Ray H.P, Winds of Change, 1994. Ray Nihar Ranjan, Maurya and Post Maurya Art, New Delhi, 1975. Sharma R.S, Perspectives in the Social and Economic History of Early India, New Delhi, 1983. Shastri A.M ed. The Age of the Vakatakas, Delhi, 1992. Singh Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Delhi, 2008. Smith Bardwell ed., Essays in Gupta Culture, New Delhi, 1983. Thapar Romila, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, New Delhi, 2000 Thapar Romila, Early India: From the origins to 1300, London, 2002 Thapar Romila, The Mauryas Revisited, Calcutta,1987. 13 Veluthat Kesavan, The Early Medieval in South India, New Delhi, 2009 করাসমলা থাপার, অতশাক ও কমৌর্তির স পতন, (Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা িুনীল চতট্টাপাধযায়, প্রাচীন ভারততর ইসতহাি (১ম খন্ড), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স একািশ মুদ্রণ, এসপ্রল ২০০৪ িুনীল চতট্টাপাধযায়, প্রাচীন ভারততর ইসতহাি (২য় খন্ড), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স ৮ম মুদ্রণ, কফব্ুয়াসর ২০০৪ হীতরন্দ্রনাথ মুতখাপাধযায়, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি (১ম খন্ড) (প্রাচীন ও মধযর্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স প্রথম মুদ্রণ নতভম্বর ১৯৯৭ HIS- H -CC-4 : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World other than India Learning Objectives: This course seeks to understand the transition of Ancient Europe into the medieval world. It therefore looks at the crisis caused by the decline of Roman Empire, the rise of religious organizations such as the Church and Monastery, the Carolingian and 12th century renaissance, and the rise of Universities and Towns. It addresses the ushering of Feudalism and its breakdown and finally deals with the crisis of Judaism and Christianity facing the advent of Islam and the counter attack, Crusades. I. Crisis of the Roman Empire and its principal causes: Historiography II. Religion in Medieval Europe: Religious organizations (Church and Monastery), Struggle between the Empire and Papacy. III. Culture in Medieval Europe: Carolingian renaissance 12th century renaissance, Rise of University, Medieval art and architecture. IV. Society in Medieval Europe: Feudal society its origins, Manorialism, Growth of towns. V. Origins of the crisis of Feudalism: historiography. VI. Judaism and Christianity under Islam Crusades Essential Reading: 1. Baker, Simon, Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Ebury Publishing, 2006. 2. Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society (2 Vols), Aakar Books, Revised Edition, July, 2017. 3. Brundage (ed.), The Crusades, Marquette University Press, 1962. 4. Burke, Edmund, III & Ira M. Lapidus, Islam, Politics and Social Movements, University of California Press, 1988. 5. Chris Wickham,Medieval Europe, Yale University, 2016 6. Cohen, Mark, Under Crescent and Cross The Jews in the Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, 2008. 14  7. Deansley, Margaret, A History of Early Medieval Europe, 476 to 911, Methuen, 1956. 8. Dobb, Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, Routledge, First Edition, March, 1965. 9. Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in History, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, May 2002. 10. Lewis, Bernard, The Jews of Islam, 1984. 11. Man, John, The Mongol Empire, Penguin Random House, May 2015. 12. Maurice Keen, The Penguin History of Medieval Europe, 1991 13. Pirenne, Heim, Medieval Cities, Princeton University Press, 1969. 14. Smith, Leslie and Leyser, Conrad; Motherhood, Women and Society in Medieval Europe (400-1400), Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011. 15. Stuard, Susan Mosher (Ed.), Women in Medieval History and Historiography, University of Pennsylvania Press; New edition, December, 1988. HIS- H CC 5 SEM-4: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.750 – 1206) Learning Objectives: This course seeks to provide an understanding of early medieval India - its polity, economy, society, religion and culture. I. Studying Early Medieval India: Historical geography sources: texts, epigraphic and numismatic data. Debates on Indian Feudalism, rise of the Rajputs and the nature of the state. II. Political Structures: a) Evolution of political structures: Rashtrakutas, Palas, Pratiharas, Rajputs and Cholas. b) Legitimization of kingship; Brahmanas and temples; royal genealogies and rituals c) Arab conquest of Sindh : nature and impact of the new set-up; Ismaili Dawah d) Cause and consequences of early Turkish invasions : Mamud of Ghazna; Shahab-ud- Din of Ghur. III. Agrarian structure and social change: a) Agricultural expansion; crops b) Landlords and peasants c) Proliferation of castes: status of untouchables d) Tribes as peasants and their place in the Varna order IV. Trade and Commerce a) Inter-regional trade b) Maritime trade c) Forms of exchange d)Process of urbanization 15 e)Merchant guilds of South India V. Religious and Cultural developments: a)Bhakti, Tantrism, Puranic traditions; Buddhism and Jainism; Popular religious cults. b) Islamic intellectual traditions: Al-Beruni; Al-Hujwiri c) Regional languages and literature d)Art and architecture: Evolution of regional styles. Essential Readings Chattopadhyaya, B.D, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994. Karashima, N., South Indian History and Society (Studies from Inscriptions, AD 850 – 1800) Kulke, Hermann, ed., The State in India (AD 1000 – AD 1700) Sharma, R.S and Shrimali, K.M eds., Comprehensive History of India, Vol. IV (A & B) Sharma, R.S. Indian Feudalism (circa 300 – 1200) Singh,Vipul Interpreting Medieval India, Volume-I, Early Medieval, Delhi Sultanate and Regions (circa 750 – 1550 ), 2009. Suggested Readings : Basham, A.L., (ed.), A Cultural History of India Basham, A.L., The Wonder that was India Bose Mandakranta (ed.), Faces of Feminine in Ancient Medieval and Modern India, New York, 2000 Chakravarti Ranabir, Exploring Early India upto Circa AD 1300 Chakravarti, R(ed.), Trade in Early India, Delhi Champalakshmi, R, Trade, Ideology and Urbanisation :South India 300 BC – AD 1300, Delhi, 1966 Chandra, S, History of Medieval India (800 -1700) Chattopadhyay, B.D, Aspects of Rural settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India Chattopadhyay, B.D, Science and Society in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1977 Chattopadhyay, B.D, Studying Early India: Arcchaeology, Texts and Historical Issues, New Delhi, 2003 Chaudhuri, K.N, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean : An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750 Gopal Lalanji, The Economic Life of Northern India ,Varanasi, 1965 Habib, Irfan, Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey, New Delhi, 2001 Habib, Irfan, Medieval India: The Study of a Civilisation ,New Delhi, 2008 Habib, Md. And Nizami KA (eds), A Comprehensive History of India Vol. V Habibullah, A.B.M, The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India Jackson, Peter, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political & Military History, Cambridge, 1999 Jha D.N (ed), The Feudal Order, New Delhi, 2000 Kulke, H., The State in India (1000- 1700) Majumdar R.C and Dasgupta K.K.(eds), A Comprehensive History of India Vol.Ill 16 Majumdar R.C. et al (eds), History and Culture of the Indian People Vol. IV and Vol. V Meister M.M & Dhaky MA, Indian Temple Architecture, Delhi, 1983 Mukherjee B.N, Post-Gupta Coinages of Bengal, Calcutta, 1989 Mukhia, H., The Feudalism Debate Rakaswami Vijaya, Walking Naked: Women,Society, Spirituality in South India (Simla, 1997) Ray H.C, Dynastic History of Northern India (New Delhi, 1973) Ray Nihar Ranjan et al ed., A Source Book of Indian Civilisation (Kolkata, 2000) Rizvi, S.A.A, The Wonder that was India, Vol. II Roy Kumkum (ed), Women in Early Indian Societies (New Delhi, 1999) Sastri , K.A. Nilkanta, A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijaynagar, Sastri K.A. Nilkantha, The Cholas (Madras, 1975 [reprint]) Sastri, K.A. Nilkanta (ed), A Comprehensive History of India Vol. II Sharma R.S, Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation, Delhi, 2001. Sharma R.S, Indian Feudalism, University of Calcutta, 1965. Sharma R.S, Perspectives in the Social and Economic History of Early India, New Delhi, 1983. Sharma, R.S, Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation (Delhi, 2001) Sharma, R.S, Indian Feudalism Singh Upinder ed., Rethinking Early Medieval India : A Reader, 2011 Singh Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Delhi, 2008. Thapar Romila, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, London, 2002 Thapar, R; Early India Veluthat, K; The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India India and the Expansion of Islam 7-11 century, 1990 Yadava, B.N.S, Society & Culture in North India in the 12th century Yazdani, G., (ed), The Early History of the Deccan বাশাম এ এল, অতীততর উজ্জ্বল ভারত, (The Wonder That Was India), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৫ মুতখাপাধযায় হীতরন্দ্রনাথ, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি (১ম খন্ড) (প্রাচীন ও মধযর্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স প্রথম মুদ্রণ নতভম্বর ১৯৯৭ ভট্টাচার্, স নতরন্দ্রনাথ, ধম স ও িংস্কৃসতক: প্রাচীন ভারতীয় কপ্রিাপি চক্রবতী রণবীর, প্রাচীন ভারততর অথননসতক স ইসতহাতির িন্ধাতন, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ২০০২ চক্রবতী রণবীর, ভারত ইসতহাতির আসি পব, স ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান,কলকাতা, ২০০৭ কিন িমতরন্দ্রনাথ, সবজ্ঞাতনর ইসতহাি, বশবযা প্রকাশন, ১৯৯৬ শমা স রামশরণ, ভারততর িামন্ততন্ত্র, (Indian Feudalism), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা শমা স রামশরণ, আসি মধযর্ুতগর ভারতীয় িমাজ: িামন্ত-প্রশ্চক্রয়া সবষতয় এক িমীিা(Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Feudalisation), ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, ২০০৩ 17  HIS- H CC- 6 SEM-4: HISTORY OF EUROPE (C.1453-1650) Learning Objectives: This paper explains the transition of Europe from feudalism to capitalism, illustrating the various forces that saw the culmination of this process. It thus includes geographical discoveries, Renaissance, Reformation, economic developments and finally the emergence of the national monarchies. Module 1 1.1 Transition Debate : transition from feudalism to capitalism, problems and theories. Module II 2.1 The exploration of the new world: motives 2.2 Portugese and Spanish voyages. Module III 3.1 Renaissance : its social roots 3.2 Renaissance humanism 3.3 Rediscovery of classics 3.4 Italian renaissance and its impact on art, culture, education and political thought. 3.5 Its spread in Europe Module IV 4.1 Reformation movements: Origins & courses 4.2 Martin Luther & Lutheranism 4.3 John Calvin & Calvinism 4.4 Radical reformation: Anabaptists and Huguenots 4.5 English reformation and the role of the state 4.6 Counter Reformation Module V 5.1 Economic developments 5.2 Shift of economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic 5.3 Commercial Revolution 5.4 Price Revolution 5.5 Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Movement Module VI 6.1 Development of national monarchy 6.2 Emergence of European state system Essential Readings Butterfield H., The Origins of Modern Science. The Macmillan Company. 1959 18 Cipolla Carlo M., Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and III Collins/ Fontana Books; 1978 Cipolla Carlo M., Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy, 1000-1700, W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition 1994 Coleman D.C (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism Methuen & Co, 1969. Davis Ralph, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics. Cornell University Press, 1973 Dobb Maurice, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, International Publishers, 1947 Parker G., Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. 1980 Parry, J.H., The Age of Reconnaissance University of California Press, 1981 Phukan Meenaxi, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic History of Early Modern Europe. Laxmi Publications 2013 Poliensky.V, war and Society in Europe, 1618-48 Cambridge University Press, 2008 Rabb Theodore K., The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 1975 Scammell V., The First Imperial Age: European Overseas expansion, 1400-1715. Routledge, 2003 Vries Jan de, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600-1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 Suggested Readings : Anderson M.S, Europe in the Eighteenth Century Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 Anderson, Perry, The lineages of the Absolutist States. Verso, 1979 Arvind Sinha, Europe in transition: From Feudalism to industrialization.Manohar,2019. Aston, T.H and Philipin C.H.E (eds.), The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Bernal J.D, Science in History Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1954 Burke, Peter, The Renaissance. Humanities Press International, 1987 Camerson, Euan (ed.), Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History, Oxford University Press 2001. Dunn Rechard S., The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715, W.W.Norton & Company, 2004 Elton, G.R., Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 Wiley, 1999 Gilmore, M.P., The World of Humanism, 1453-1517 New York, Harper 1952 Hall, R., From Galileo to Newton Courier Corporation, 1981 Hill, Christopher, A century of Revolutions. Psychology Press, 2002 Hilton, Rodney, Transition from feudalism to Capitalism, Aakar Books, 2006 Koenigsberger, H.G and Mosse, G.L., Europe in the Sixteenth Century. Longmans, 1961 Lee, Stephen J., Aspects of European History, 1494-1789 Routledge, 1982 Parker, G. and Smith, L.M., General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pennington, D.H., Seventeenth Century Europe. Longman, 1972 19 Rabb, Theodore K., The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 1975 Rohit Majumdar, History of Europe: From Renaissance to the end of cold war.Sage,2020 Rice, Eugene F. and Grafton, Anthony, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460- 1559, W.W.Norton & Company, 2004. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol.I, IV Cambridge University Press 1944 The New Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol.VII. Part I 1978 শ্চিপাঠী অমতলশ, ইতাসলর করতনিাাঁি বাঙাসলর িংস্কৃসত, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ১৯৯৪ িাশগুপ্ত অশীন, ভারত মহািাগতর বাসণজয ও রাজনীসত ১৫০০-১৮০০, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯ বানালস কজ সি, ইসতহাতি সবজ্ঞান, (Science in History), আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৫ কিন িমতরন্দ্র, সবজ্ঞাতনর ইসতহাি, বশবযা প্রকাশন, কলকাতা, ১৯৯৬ ভট্টাচার্ কেহাসদ্র, স ইংলতন্ডর ইসতহাি (টিউির র্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৯৫ চক্রবতী ভাস্কর, চক্রবতী িুভাষ রঞ্জন এবং চতট্টাপাধযায় সকংশুক, ইউতরাতপ র্ুগান্তর, নবভারতী প্রকাশনী, কলকাতা, ২০০৫ মুখাজী রীলা, রূপান্তসরত ইউতরাপ(৯০০ – ১৮০০), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৪ HIS- H CC-7 : HISTORY OF INDIA (c.1206-1526) Learning Objectives : This paper focusses on the polity , society and economy , culture and religion of the Delhi Sultanate. I. Interpreting the Delhi Sultanate: Survey of sources: Persian tarikh tradition; vernacular histories; epigraphy II. Sultanate Political Structures: a. Foundation, expansion and consolidation of the Sultanate of Delhi; the Khaljis and the Tughluqs; Mongol threat and Timur's invasion; Rise and fall of Syed dynasty; The Lodis; Conquest of Bahlul and Sikandar; Ibrahim Lodi and the battle of Panipat; b. Theories of Kingship; Ruling elites; Sufis, Ulama and the political authority; imperial monuments and coinage c. Emergence of provincial dynasties: Bahamanis, Vijayanagar, Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur and Bengal d. Consolidation of regional identities: regional art, architecture and literature III. Society and Economy: a. Iqta and the revenue-free grants 20 b. Agriculture production; technology c. Changes in rural society; revenue systems d. Monetization; market regulations; growth of urban centres; trade and commerce; Indian Ocean trade IV. Religion and Culture: a. Sufi silsilas: Chishtis and Suhrawardis; doctrines and practices; social roles. b. Bhakti movements and monotheistic traditions in South and North India; Women Bhaktas; Nathpanthis; Kabir, Nanak and the Sant tradition c. Sufi literature; Malfuzat; Premakhayans d. Architecture of the Delhi Sultanate ESSENTIAL READINGS: Asher, Catherine and Talbot Cynthia, India before Europe, Cambridge University Press, March 2006. Chandra Satish, Medieval India I, Har Anand Publication, New Delhi, July 2007. Habib Mohammad and Nizami K.A., eds, Comprehensive History of India, Vol. V, The Delhi Sultanate, People’s Publishing House, 2nd Edition, 1992. Hasan Mohibul, Historians of Medieval India, Meenakshi Prakashan, 1968. Jackson Peter, The Delhi Sultanate, Cambridge University Press, Revised Edition, 2003. Schomer, Karine, and McLeod W.H., (Eds), The Sants Studies in A Devotional Tradition of India, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, 1987. Nizami K.A., Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India During the 13 th Century, Aligarh, 1961. Raychaudhuri Tapan and Habib Irfan, (Eds), Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I: c. 1200 – c. 1750, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, 1987 (reprint). Rizvi S.A.A., A History of Sufism in India, Vol. I, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1978. ককককককক কককককক কককক, ককককককককককককক কককককক ক ককককককককক, ককককক কককককককককক, ককককককক Suggested Readings Ashraf K.M, Life and Conditions of the People of Hindusthan (1250 – 1550), Gyan Publishing House, 2000. Eaton, R.M, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier (1204- 1760), University of California Press, July 1996. Habib, Irfan, Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization, National Book Trust, July 2008. Karashima, Noboru, South Indian History and Society: studies from inscriptions, A.D. 850 - 1800, Oxford, 1984. Karashima, Noboru, Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagara, Oxford University Press, 1992. Kumar Sunil, The Emergence of the Sultanate of Delhi, Permanent Black, Delhi, First edition, 2010. 21 Stein, Burton, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, Oxford University Press, Oxford, February 1995. Sherwani, H.K., Joshi, P.M. (eds), The History of Medieval Deccan (1295 - 1724), Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, 1973-74. Singh,Vipul, Interpreting Medieval India, Volume-I, Early Medieval, Delhi Sultanate and Regions (circa 750 – 1550 ), Macmillan Publishers India Ltd, 2009. Tripathi, R.P; Some Aspects of Muslim Administration, The Indian Press Ltd., 1936. Wink, Andre, Al Hind; The Making of the Indo Islamic World, Volume I – Early Medieval, Brill Academic Publishers, 2nd Edition, 1991. রায় সমসহরকুমার, ভারততর ইসতহাি (তু রক-আফগান র্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স সিতীয় মুদ্রণ, কফব্ুয়ারী ১৯৯২ হাসবব ইরফান, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর অথননসতক স ইসতহাি, (Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি স হাসবব ইরফান, মধযকালীন ভারত ১-৪ খন্ড (Medieval India)কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসববুল্লাহ এ সব এম, ভারতত মুিসলম শািতনর প্রসতষ্ঠা ১২০৬-১২৯০, (The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা রায় অসনুদ্ধ ও চতট্টাপাধযায় রত্নাবলী, মধযর্ুতগ বাংলার িমাজ ও িংস্কৃসত, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা ১৯৯২ রায় অসনুদ্ধ, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর ইসতহাি : িুলতাসন আমল, ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, কলকাতা কসরম আব্দুল, বাংলার ইসতহাি : িুলতাসন আমল, ঢাকা HIS- H CC 8 SEM-4: HISTORY OF EUROPE–(C. 1650-1780) Learning Objectives: This course looks at some of the major path breaking changes that took place around the mid 17th and late 18th century Europe such as the impact of the Print revolution, revolution in war techniques, Scientific Revolution, the growth of Mercantilism and its impact on the European economics, leading to a prelude to the industrial revolution, the growth of Parliamentary monarchy with patterns of absolutism that ushered in dramatic changes in the history of Europe. Module 1 1.1 Printing Revolution. 1.2 Revolution in war techniques Module II 2.1 Crisis in Europe in the 17th century 2.2 Its economic, social and political dimensions Module III 3.1 The English Revolution : major issues 3.2 Political and intellectual issues 22 Module IV 4.1 Scientific Revolution 4.2 Emergence of scientific academies 4.3 Origins of Enlightenment Module V 5.1 Mercantilism and European economics 5.2 Preludes to the Industrial Revolution Module VI 6.1 European Politics in the 17th & 18th Century 6.2 Parliamentary monarchy 6.3 Patterns of Absolutism in Europe Essential Readings Butterfield H., The Origins of Modern Science. The Macmillan Company. 1959 Cipolla Carlo M., Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and III Collins/ Fontana Books; 1978 Cipolla Carlo M., Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy, 1000-1700, W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition 1994 Coleman D.C (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism Methuen & Co, 1969. Davis Ralph, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics. Cornell University Press, 1973 Dobb Maurice, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, International Publishers, 1947 Parker G., Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. 1980 Parry, J.H., The Age of Reconnaissance University of California Press, 1981 Phukan Meenaxi, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic History of Early Modern Europe. Laxmi Publications 2013 Poliensky.V, war and Society in Europe, 1618-48 Cambridge University Press, 2008 Rabb Theodore K., The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 1975 Scammell V., The First Imperial Age: European Overseas expansion, 1400-1715. Routledge, 2003 Vries Jan de, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600-1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 Suggested Readings : Anderson M.S, Europe in the Eighteenth Century Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 Anderson, Perry, The lineages of the Absolutist States. Verso, 1979 Arvind Sinha,Europe in transition: From Feudalism to industrialization.Manohar,2019. Aston, T.H and Philipin C.H.E (eds.), The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Bernal J.D, Science in History Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1954 Burke, Peter, The Renaissance. Humanities Press International, 1987 23 Camerson, Euan (ed.), Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History, Oxford University Press 2001. Dunn Rechard S., The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715, W.W.Norton & Company, 2004 Elton, G.R., Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 Wiley, 1999 Gilmore, M.P., The World of Humanism, 1453-1517 New York, Harper 1952 Hall, R., From Galileo to Newton Courier Corporation, 1981 Hill, Christopher, A century of Revolutions. Psychology Press, 2002 Hilton, Rodney, Transition from feudalism to Capitalism, Aakar Books, 2006 Koenigsberger, H.G and Mosse, G.L., Europe in the Sixteenth Century. Longmans, 1961 Lee, Stephen J., Aspects of European History, 1494-1789 Routledge, 1982 Parker, G. and Smith, L.M., General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pennington, D.H., Seventeenth Century Europe. Longman, 1972 Rabb, Theodore K., The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 1975 Rohit Majumdar,History of Europe: From Renaissance to the end of cold war.Sage,2020 Rice, Eugene F. and Grafton, Anthony, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460- 1559, W.W.Norton & Company, 2004. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol.I, IV Cambridge University Press 1944 The New Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol.I, VII. শ্চিপাঠী অমতলশ, ইতাসলর করতনিাাঁি বাঙাসলর িংস্কৃসত, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ১৯৯৪ িাশগুপ্ত অশীন, ভারত মহািাগতর বাসণজয ও রাজনীসত ১৫০০-১৮০০, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯ বানালস কজ সি, ইসতহাতি সবজ্ঞান, (Science in History), আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৫ কিন িমতরন্দ্র, সবজ্ঞাতনর ইসতহাি, বশবযা প্রকাশন, কলকাতা, ১৯৯৬ ভট্টাচার্ কেহাসদ্র, স ইংলতন্ডর ইসতহাি (টিউির র্ুগ), পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৯৫ চক্রবতী ভাস্কর, চক্রবতী িুভাষ রঞ্জন এবং চতট্টাপাধযায় সকংশুক, ইউতরাতপ র্ুগান্তর, নবভারতী প্রকাশনী, কলকাতা, ২০০৫ মুখাজী রীলা, রূপান্তসরত ইউতরাপ(৯০০ – ১৮০০), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৪চক্রবতী HIS- H CC-9 : HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1526-1605) Learning outcome: Students will be able to identify the major political developments in the history of India during the period between the sixteenth and the early seventeenth century. Outline the changes and continuities in the field of an eclectic political and religious ideology in connection with the bhakti movement and sufi movements, and also to delineate the development of trade and urban complexities of the aforesaid period. 24 UNIT I- Sources and the Historiography I. Important sources of Mughal Indian History: Persian and vernacular II. Different Interpretations of the Mughal state UNIT II- Establishment of the Mughal rule I. India on the Eve of Babur’s Invasion II. Mughal- Afghan contest for Supremacy-Sher Shah and his administrative and revenue reforms III. Re-establishment of Mughal Rule under Akbar UNIT III-Consolidation of Mughal Rule under Akbar I. Campaigns and conquests with special reference to Gujarat, Deccan and Bengal - Resistance of Hemu Vikramaditya, Rana Pratap, Rani Durgavati, Chand Bibi II. Evolution of administrative institutions: Zabt, Mansab, Jagir, Madaad-i-Mash III. Incorporation of the Rajputs, creation of the Mughal nobility and growth of a dynastic ideology IV. Revolts and resistance, pressure from the Ulemas UNIT IV- Society and Economy I. Conditions of Agriculture and Industry-agricultural productions, zamindars, peasants, rural tensions, non-agricultural productions II. Development of Trade and Commerce- patterns of internal commerce, trade routes, overseas trade. UNIT V- Religion and Culture I. Religious tolerance and principle of Suhl-i-Kul; Sufi mystical movement II. Bhakti movement. Suggested Readings Essential Readings Alam Muzaffar and Subramaniam Sanjay , eds., The Mughal state, 1526-1750 Ali Athar M., The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb Chandra Satish, Essays on Medieval Indian History Dasgupta Ashin, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat, 1700 – 1750 Gordon Stewart, The Marathas 1600 – 1818 Habib Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1526 – 1701 Koch Ebba, Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology Qanungo, K.R, Dara Shukoh Richards, J.F, The Mughal Empire Rizvi, S.A.A, Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India. 25 Suggested Readings Alam, Muzaffar-The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and Punjab-1707- 1748. Alavi,Seema (ed.),The Eighteenth Century in India Ali, M. Athar, Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, society and Culture. Arasaratnam S., Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century Asher Catherine, Architecture of Mughal India Bandyopadhya S, From Plassey to Partition Barnett,R.B, North India between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals and the British. Bashir, Ahmed, Akbar, the Mughal Emperor. Bayly, Susan, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the 18th century to the modern age. Bayly,C.A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire; Beach Milo, Mughal and Rajpur Paintings Bernier, F, Travels in Mughal India. Chandra Satish, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court Chandra, Satish, A History of Medieval India (Part II) Chandra, Satish, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India Chandra, Satish, Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs and the Deccan. Chandra, Satish, The 18th century in India: Its economy and the Role of the Marathas, the jats and the Sikhs and the Afghans and Supplement (K.P.Bagchi) Chaudhuri, K.N.,Trade & Civilization: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Eaton, R.M., The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier 1204-1760; Eaton, R.M., The Sufis of Bijapur Fukuzawa,H., The Medieval Deccan: Peasants, Social systems and States 16th to 18th centuries. Gordon S.,The Marathas 16oo-1818 Grewal J.S.,The Sikhs of the Punjab Habib Irfan(ed.), Medieval India Habib Irfan (ed), Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan Hasan S., Nurul,Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India Hasan S.Nurul, Reliogn, State, and Society in Medieval India Husain Iqbal, Ruhela Chieftancies in 18th Century India Kulke, H.(ed.),The State in India 1000-1700. Malik, Z.U, The Reign of Muhammad Shah Marshall P J., (Edited) , The Eighteenth century in Indian history: Evolution or revolution Marshall P J.,East Indian Fortunes: the British in Bengal in the 18th Cent, Mukhia Harbans, The Mughals of India Nizami K.A., (ed.) Politics and society during the early Medieval Period : The collected Works of Prof. Md. Habib (2 vols.) Raychoudhuri T.K. & Habib I. (eds.)-The Cambridge Economic History of India Vol.l 26 Richards J.F.,The Mughal Empire Richards, J.F, Mughal Administration in Golconda Rizvi S.A.A., A History of Sufism in India Rizvi S.A.A., The Wonder that was India (vol.2); Sarkar, Sir J.N., History of Aurangzeb 5 vols. Sarkar, Sir J.N.,The Fall of the Mughal Empire, 4 vols. Siddiqi. N.A., Land Revenue Administration Under the Mughals (1700- 1750) Stein, Burton, Eighteenth Century in India: Another view (Studies in History, No.I, 1989) Stein, Burton, Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India (Oxford University Press) Streusand D.F., The Formation of the Mughal Empire Tripathi R.P., Some Aspects of Muslim Administration Tripathi R.P.,The Rise & Fall of the Mughal Empire Wink, Andre, Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian society and politics under the eighteenth century Maratha Swarajya. Arnisha Ashraf, Tarikh-e Aasham: Astudy of Ahom-Mughal Conflict in the 17th Century,in Asiatic Society for Social Science Research,Vol.No. 2,Issue No.1 June 2020. S.L. Baruah, A Comprehensive History of Assam, 1985 K.N.Chitnis, Socio- Economic History of Medieval India,2002 Rekha Pande, Religious Movements in Medieval India,2005 Meena Bhargava, Uunderstanding Mughal India.Orient Blackswan 2020 আসল এম আথার, আওরঙ্গতজতবর িমতয় মুঘল অসভজাত কেণী(The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা বতন্দযাপাধযায় কশখর, অষ্টািশ শততকর মুঘল িংকি ও আধুসনক ইসতহাি সচন্তা, কলকাতা,১৯৮৩ ভদ্র কগৌতম, মুঘল র্ুতগ কৃসষ অথনীসত স ও কৃষক সবতদ্রাহ, িুবণতরখা, স কলকাতা, ১৯৮৩ চন্দ্র িতীশ, মুঘল িরবাতর িল ও রাজনীসত, (Parties and politics at the Mughal Court 1707-1740) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা কচৌধুরী সবনয় ভূ ষণ ও অনযানযরা, বাংলার কৃসষ িমাতজর গঠন, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মধযকালীন ভারত, খন্ড ১-৪, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মুঘল িাম্রাজয ও তার পতন- একটি িমীিা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইসতহাি িংিি,২০০০ হাসবব ইরফান, মুঘল ভারততর কৃসষ বযবস্থা, (The Agrarian System of Mughal India(1556-1707)), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর অথননসতক স ইসতহাি, (Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৯ হাসবব ইরফান, ভারততর ইসতহাি প্রিঙ্গঃ মাকসিীয় কচতনার আতলাতক(Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception), নযাশনাল বুক এতজশ্চি, কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯ রায় অসনুদ্ধ, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর অথননসতকস ইসতহাি, ১২০০-১৭৫৭, প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা রায় অসনুদ্ধ, মুঘল র্ুতগর অথননসতক স ইসতহাি, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা 27 িরকার জগিীশ নারায়ণ, মুঘল অথনীসতঃ স িংগঠন এবং কার্ক্রম, স (Mughal Economy : Organisation and Working) পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা ১৯৯১ সিশ্চিকী কনামান আহতমি, কমাঘল রাজতে ভুসমরাজস্ব পসরচালন বযবস্থা (১৭০০ – ১৭৫০)(Land Administration Under the Mughals (1700 -1750) পাল পাবসলশাি স , স কলকাতা, ১৯৮০ মুতখাপাধযায় হীতরন্দ্রনাথ, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি (২য় খন্ড) (মুঘল ও সিটিশ ভারত,পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি,কলকাতা স ১৯৯৮ চতট্টাপাধযায় রত্নাবলী, মুঘল র্ুতগর িরবাসর সচিকলা, থীমা, কলকাতা 28  HIS- H CC10: HISTORY OF INDIA (1605-1750) Learning outcome: Students will be able to identify the major political developments in the history of India during the period between the seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century. Outline the changes and continuities in the field of culture, especially with regard to art, architecture and literature and finally to delineate the developments in trade and urban complexes of the period under review. UNIT I.Sources: Persian and vernacular literary cultures, histories, memoirs and travelogues UNIT II. Political culture under Jahangir and Shahjahan a) Extension of Mughal rule: changes in Mansab and Jagir systems; b) Orthodoxy and syncretism-Naqshbandi sufis, Miyan Mir, Dara Sukoh UNIT III-Aurangzeb, Shivaji and Other Powers I. State and religion under Aurangzeb: policies regarding religious groups and institutions, II. Conquests and limits of expansion; Resistance of Assam, Mewar and Marwar II. Rise of Marathas under Shivaji ; Maratha administration, concept of Hindu Pad Padshahi III. Beginning of crisis: agrarian and jagir crises; resistance of Sikhs, Jats and Bundelas IV. Mughal decline: debates UNIT IV- Society and Economy I. Hindu and MuslimSociety: Caste and Occupational groups, Lifestyle, Education, Customs and Traditions II. Condition of agriculture, crafts and industry; Monetary system III. Development of Trade and Commerce: Indian Ocean trade network UNIT V- Religion and Culture I. Sikhism and other Sects in South India, Bengal and Kashmir II. Development of Mughal Art, architecture, literature. Suggested Readings Essential Readings Alam Muzaffar and Subramaniam Sanjay , eds., The Mughal state, 1526-1750 Ali Athar M., The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb Chandra Satish, Essays on Medieval Indian History Dasgupta Ashin, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat, 1700 – 1750 Gordon Stewart, The Marathas 1600 – 1818 Habib Irfan, Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1526 – 1701 29 Koch Ebba, Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology Qanungo, K.R, Dara Shukoh Richards, J.F, The Mughal Empire Rizvi, S.A.A, Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India. Suggested Readings Alam, Muzaffar-The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and Punjab-1707- 1748. Alavi,Seema (ed.),The Eighteenth Century in India Ali, M. Athar, Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, society and Culture. Arasaratnam S., Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century Asher Catherine, Architecture of Mughal India Bandyopadhya S, From Plassey to Partition Barnett,R.B, North India between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals and the British. Bashir, Ahmed, Akbar, the Mughal Emperor. Bayly, Susan, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the 18th century to the modern age. Bayly,C.A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire; Beach Milo, Mughal and Rajpur Paintings Bernier, F, Travels in Mughal India. Chandra Satish, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court Chandra, Satish, A History of Medieval India (Part II) Chandra, Satish, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India Chandra, Satish, Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs and the Deccan. Chandra, Satish, The 18th century in India: Its economy and the Role of the Marathas, the jats and the Sikhs and the Afghans and Supplement (K.P.Bagchi) Chaudhuri, K.N.,Trade & Civilization: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Eaton, R.M., The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier 1204-1760; Eaton, R.M., The Sufis of Bijapur Fukuzawa,H., The Medieval Deccan: Peasants, Social systems and States 16th to 18th centuries. Gordon S.,The Marathas 16oo-1818 Grewal J.S.,The Sikhs of the Punjab Habib Irfan(ed.), Medieval India Habib Irfan (ed), Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan Hasan S., Nurul,Thoughts on Agrarian Relations in Mughal India Hasan S.Nurul, Reliogn, State, and Society in Medieval India Husain Iqbal, Ruhela Chieftancies in 18th Century India Kulke, H.(ed.),The State in India 1000-1700. Malik, Z.U, The Reign of Muhammad Shah Marshall P J., (Edited) , The Eighteenth century in Indian history: Evolution or revolution 30 Marshall P J.,East Indian Fortunes: the British in Bengal in the 18th Cent, Mukhia Harbans, The Mughals of India Nizami K.A., (ed.) Politics and society during the early Medieval Period : The collected Works of Prof. Md. Habib (2 vols.) Raychoudhuri T.K. & Habib I. (eds.)-The Cambridge Economic History of India Vol.l Richards J.F.,The Mughal Empire Richards, J.F, Mughal Administration in Golconda Rizvi S.A.A., A History of Sufism in India Rizvi S.A.A., The Wonder that was India (vol.2); Sarkar, Sir J.N., History of Aurangzeb 5 vols. Sarkar, Sir J.N.,The Fall of the Mughal Empire, 4 vols. Siddiqi. N.A., Land Revenue Administration Under the Mughals (1700- 1750) Stein, Burton, Eighteenth Century in India: Another view (Studies in History, No.I, 1989) Stein, Burton, Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India (Oxford University Press) Streusand D.F., The Formation of the Mughal Empire Tripathi R.P., Some Aspects of Muslim Administration Tripathi R.P.,The Rise & Fall of the Mughal Empire Wink, Andre, Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian society and politics under the eighteenth century Maratha Swarajya. Arnisha Ashraf, Tarikh-e Aasham: Astudy of Ahom-Mughal Conflict in the 17th Century,in Asiatic Society for Social Science Research,Vol.No. 2,Issue No.1 June 2020. S.L. Baruah, A Comprehensive History of Assam, 1985 K.N.Chitnis, Socio- Economic History of Medieval India,2002 Rekha Pande, Religious Movements in Medieval India,2005 আসল এম আথার, আওরঙ্গতজতবর িমতয় মুঘল অসভজাত কেণী(The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা বতন্দযাপাধযায় কশখর, অষ্টািশ শততকর মুঘল িংকি ও আধুসনক ইসতহাি সচন্তা, কলকাতা,১৯৮৩ ভদ্র কগৌতম, মুঘল র্ুতগ কৃসষ অথনীসত স ও কৃষক সবতদ্রাহ, িুবণতরখা, স কলকাতা, ১৯৮৩ চন্দ্র িতীশ, মুঘল িরবাতর িল ও রাজনীসত, (Parties and politics at the Mughal Court 1707-1740) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা কচৌধুরী সবনয় ভূ ষণ ও অনযানযরা, বাংলার কৃসষ িমাতজর গঠন, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মধযকালীন ভারত, খন্ড ১-৪, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মুঘল িাম্রাজয ও তার পতন- একটি িমীিা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইসতহাি িংিি,২০০০ হাসবব ইরফান, মুঘল ভারততর কৃসষ বযবস্থা, (The Agrarian System of Mughal India(1556-1707)), কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা হাসবব ইরফান, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর অথননসতকস ইসতহাি, (Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey), প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা, ২০০৯ হাসবব ইরফান, ভারততর ইসতহাি প্রিঙ্গঃ মাকসিীয় কচতনার আতলাতক(Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception), নযাশনাল বুক এতজশ্চি, কলকাতা, ১৯৯৯ 31 রায় অসনুদ্ধ, মধযর্ুতগর ভারততর অথননসতক স ইসতহাি, ১২০০-১৭৫৭, প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা রায় অসনুদ্ধ, মুঘল র্ুতগর অথননসতক স ইসতহাি, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা িরকার জগিীশ নারায়ণ, মুঘল অথনীসতঃ স িংগঠন এবং কার্ক্রম, স (Mughal Economy : Organisation and Working) পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা ১৯৯১ সিশ্চিকী কনামান আহতমি, কমাঘল রাজতে ভুসমরাজস্ব পসরচালন বযবস্থা (১৭০০ – ১৭৫০)(Land Administration Under the Mughals (1700 -1750) পাল পাবসলশাি স , স কলকাতা, ১৯৮০ মুতখাপাধযায় হীতরন্দ্রনাথ, ভারতবতষরস ইসতহাি (২য় খন্ড) (মুঘল ও সিটিশ ভারত,পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি,কলকাতা স ১৯৯৮ চতট্টাপাধযায় রত্নাবলী, মুঘল র্ুতগর িরবাসর সচিকলা, থীমা, কলকাতা HIS- H CC- 11 SEM-5: HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (C.1780-1939) Learning Objectives: This paper studies the watersheds in European history beginning with the 1780s to the French revolution and its aftermath, the restoration of old hierarchies, the emergence of Capitalist industrialization and social and economic transformation in the late 18th century to 1914. It also looks at the varieties of Nationalism and the remaking of States in the 19th and 20th centuries leading to imperialism, war and crisis between c.1880 and 1918 and finally provides a picture of Europe between the two World Wars. I. The French Revolution and its European repercussions: a) Crisis of ancien regime b) Intellectual currents c) Social classes and emerging gender relations. d) Phases of the French Revolution e)Art and Culture of French Revolution f)Napoleonic consolidation – reform and empire. II. Restoration and Revolution: c.1815 - 1848 a) Forces of conservatism and restoration of old hierarchies. b) Social, Political and intellectual currents. c) Revolutionary and Radical movements, 1830 -1848 III. Capitalist Industrialization and Social and Economic Transformation (Late 18th century to AD 1914) a) Process of capitalist development in industry and agriculture: case studies of Britain, France, the German States and Russia. b) Evolution and Differentiation of social classes : Bourgeoisie, proletariat, Land Owning classes and peasantry. c) Changing trends in demography and urban patterns 32 d)Family, gender and process of industrialization. IV. Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in the 19th and 20th centuries. a)Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation of National identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans. b) Specifications of economic development, political and administrative Reorganization – Italy; Germany. c) Revolutions of 1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 d) Programme of Socialist Construction and the Soviet Union during the inter-war period 1918-39. V. Imperialism, War and Crisis: c.1880 - 1918 a) Theories and mechanisms of imperialism; b) Growth of Militarism; c) Power blocks and alliances; d) Expansion of European empires e) War of 1914 - 1918 VI. Europe between Two World Wars: a) Post War Europe: A Diplomatic History b) The Great Depression c) Rise of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany d) The Spanish Civil War e) Policy of Appeasement and Russo German Non-Aggression Pact f) Origins and Course of the Second World War Essential Readings Brennan Gerald, The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War. Cipolla C.M, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume III: The Industrial Revolution Davies Norman, Europe Evans J., The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century Europe Hamerow T.S, Restoration, Revolution and Reaction : Economics and Politics in Germany [1815 – 1871] Hobsbawn, E.J, The Age of Revolution Hunt Lynn, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution Joll James, Europe Since 1870 Landes David; Prometheus Unbound Lefebvre George, Coming of the French Revolution Lichteim, A Short History of Socialism Mathias Peter, First Industrial Revolution Nove, Alec; An Economic History of the USSR 33 Porter Andrew, European Imperialism, 1876 – 1914 Wood Anthony, History of Europe, 1815 – 1960 Woolf Stuart, History of Italy, 1700 to 1860 Suggested Readings Barraclough G., An Introduction to Contemporary History Blanning, T.C.W, The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash Braudel Fernand, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and Mukhia H. ed., French Studies in History, Vol.I (1989) Briggs Asa and Clavin Patricia, Modern Europe: 1789 – Present Calleo D, German Problem Reconsidered Carr E.H, International Relations between the Two World Wars Carr E.H, The Bolshevik Revolution (Vol. I, II, III) Cobban, Alfred, History of Modern France, Volume I – III Dobb Maurice, Soviet Economic Development since 1917 Doyle, William, Origins of the French Revolution Droz. Jacques, Europe Between Revolutions Ellis G., The Napoleonic Empire Evans, J., The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century Europe Hamerow, T.S, Restoration, Revolution and Reaction : Economics and Politics in Germany (1815 – 1871) Hanham H.J, Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815-1914 Hobsbawm, E.J, Age of Capital Hobsbawm, E.J, Age of Empire Hobsbawm, E.J, Age of Revolution Hobsbawm, E.J, Nation and Nationalism Hufton, Olwen, Europe: Privilege and Protest Jelavich Charles and Jelavich Barbara, Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1840 – 1920 Joll James, Europe Since 1870 Joll James, Origins of the First World War, 1989 Landes Jaon B., Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution Lee Stephen J., Aspects of European History 1789 – 1980 Licas Colin, The French Revolution and the Making of Modern Political Culture Lowenthal David, The Past is a Foreign Country Lyon Martin, Napoleon Bonaparte & the Legacy of the French Revolution Mansergh Nicholas, The Irish Question, 1840 – 1921 Morgan K.O, Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3 (1789-1983) Morgan R.P, German Social Democracy and the First International Perrot M. and Duby G. [eds.], A History of Women in the West, Volumes 4 and 5 Renton Dave, Fascism: Theory and Practice Riasanovsky N.V, A History of Russia Robert J.M, Europe 1880 to 1985 Roth J.J (ed), World War I: A Turning Point in Modern History 34 Rude, George, Revolutionary Europe Schamma Simon , Citizens: A chronicle of the French Revolution Soboul Albert, History of the French Revolution (in two Volumes) Stone Lawrence, History and the Social Sciences in the twentieth Century, The Past and the Present, 1981 Taylor A.J.P, Europe: Grandeur and Decline Taylor A.J.P, The Course of German History Taylor A.J.P, The Origin of the Second World War Taylor, A.J.P, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe Thompson Dorothy; Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution Thompson, E.P, Making of the English Working Class Thomson, David, Europe Since Napoleon Vovelle Michael, Fall of the French Monarchy, 1984. Watson H. Seton, The Russian Empire Watson, Seton, The Russian Empire Williams Raymond, Culture and Society কগৌতম চতট্টাপাধযায় িম্পাসিত: িু’কশা বছতরর আতলাতক, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইসতহাি িংিি, ১৯৮৯ চক্রবতী িুভাষ রঞ্জন, ফরািী সবপ্লব, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা চক্রবতী িুভাষ রঞ্জন, ইউতরাতপর ইসতহাি, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ পুস্তক পষি,স কলকাতা, ১৯৮৬ জযাকিন টি এ, ফরািী সবপ্লব – িশ সিগন্ত, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা ২০০৪ িমিিন কিসভি, সবশ্ব ইসতহাতির কপ্রিাপতি ইউতরাপ, ১ম খন্ড (১৭৮৯-১৮৫০), ২য় খন্ড (১৮৫১- ১৯১৪) প্রতেসিভ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা ২০০২ ও ২০০৩ রায় সিদ্ধাথ গুহ, স আধুসনক ইউতরাপঃ ফরািী সবপ্লব কথতক সিতীয় সবশ্বর্ুদ্ধ, প্রগসতশীল প্রকাশক, কলকাতা, ২০১৩ িুভাষ রঞ্জন, ফরািী সবপ্লব, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি,স কলকাতা চক্রবতী িুভাষ রঞ্জন, ইউতরাতপর ইসতহাি, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স কলকাতা, ১৯৮৬ HIS - H CC 12 SEM -6: HISTORY OF INDIA (C.1750s– 1857) Learning Objectives: This course would engage with the process of transformation of India during the eighteenth century into a colonial power. It would highlight British imperialist expansion in India, together with the setting up of an apparatus of governance of the British Raj, and its impact on the indigenous society and culture. The changes introduced in the rural economy and society, together with trade and industry would also be studied. Finally, the reactions and revolts against the colonial impositions would be addressed as well in this course. I. India in the mid 18th Century; Society, Economy, Polity 35 II. Expansion and Consolidation of Colonial Power: a) Mercantilism, foreign trade and early forms of exactions from Bengal b) Dynamics of expansion, with special reference to Bengal, Mysore, Western India, Awadh, Punjab and Sindh. III. Colonial State and Ideology: a) Arms of the colonial state : army, police, law b) Ideologies of the Raj and racial attitudes. c) Education : indigenous and western. IV. Rural Economy and Society: a) Land revenue systems and forest policy b) Commercialization and indebtedness c) Rural society : change and continuity. d) Famines e)Pastoral economy and shifting cultivation. V. Trade and Industry a)De industrialization b)Trade and fiscal policy c) Drain of Wealth d) Growth of modern industry VI. Popular Resistance: a) Santhal uprising (1855); b) Uprising of 1857 Essential Readings Bayly C.A, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, New Cambridge History of India. Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi.ed., Rethinking 1857, Delhi, Orient Longman, 2007 Chakravarty Suhash, The Raj Syndrome: A study in Imperial Perceptions, 1989 Chandra Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India Choudhury, Sushil, Prelude to Empire Plassey Revolution of 1757, Delhi: Manohar, 2000 Cohn, B., Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2001 Dirks, Nicholas B., Castes of Mind, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996 Ghosh Suresh Chandra, The History of Education in Modern India 1757-2012, Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 4th Edition, 2013 Grewal, J.S, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India Guha Ranajit, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader 36 Guha, Ranajit, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983 Kumar Dharma and Raychaudhuri Tapan, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.II Majumdar, R.C,ed., History and Culture of Indian People, Vols. IX and X, British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance. Marshall, P.J, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, New Cambridge History of India Metcalfe, Thomas, Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 Ray, Rajat K., ed., Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947, Oxford In India Readings. Sinha, N.K.ed, The history of Bengal 1757-1905, Calcutta, Calcutta University Press, 1967 Stokes, Eric, English Utilitarians and India Stokes, Eric, The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857, ed. Bayly, C.A, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986 Suggested Readings Arnold David and Guha Ramchandra , eds., Nature, Culture and Imperialism Bagchi, Amiya, Private Investment in India Chandra Bipan, Panikkar, K.K, Mukherjee Mridula, Mahajan Sucheta and Mukherjee Aditya, India’s Struggles for Independence. Dadabhai Naroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India. Desai, A.R, Peasant Struggles in India Dutt, R.P, India today Fisher, M.J, ed., Politics of Annexation (Oxford in India Readings). Guha Ranajit, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India(1983) Krishnamurti, J., Women in Colonial India. বতন্দযাপাধযায় কশখর, অষ্টািশ শততকর মুঘল িংকি ও আধুসনক ইসতহাি সচন্তা, কলকাতা,১৯৮৩ বতন্দযাপাধযায় কশখর, পলাশী কথতক পাটিস শন: আধুসনক ভারততর ইসতহাি, ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান, ২০০৪ ভট্টাচার্ িবযিাচী, স ঔপসনতবসশক ভারততর অথনীসত, স কলকাতা, ২০০০ িুনীল কিন, ভারতত কৃসষকার্ ১৭৯৩-১৯৪৭, স পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি, স ১৯৮৫ কচৌধুরী সবনয় ভূ ষণ, ঔপসনতবসশক আমতল বাংলার কৃসষ ইসতহাি, কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা ইিলাম, সিরাজুল, বাংলার ইসতহাি ঔপসনতবসশক শািনকাঠাতমা, চয়সনকা, ঢাকা, ২০০২ চক্রবতী মৃণাল, সিরাজ-উি্-কিৌলা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজয পুস্তক পষি,কলকাতা, স ১৯৮১ রায় রজতকান্ত, পলাশীর ষড়র্ন্ত্র ও কিকাতলর িমাজ, আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা কচৌধুরী িুশীল, পলাশীর অজানা কাসহনী, আনন্দ পাবসলিাি,কলকাতা স HIS - H CC 13 SEM-6: HISTORY OF INDIA (C. 1857 – 1964) 37 Learning Objectives: This course introduces the student to India’s freedom struggle. Beginning with the cultural, social and religious reform movements that provided the ideological basis of the national movement, it moves on to the role of associations, the moderate and extremist politics, to the Gandhian movements - Rowlett Satyagraha and Jalianwala Bagh, Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, Quit India and INA revolt. It deliberates on the ideologies and practices, of RSS , Hindu Maha Sabha, and the Muslim League. It also covers negotiations for independence and partition, popular movements, partition riots and finally the emergence of a New State, making of the Constitution, integration of princely states, Land reforms and beginnings of planning, during the Nehru years. I. Cultural changes and Social and Religious Reform Movements: a) Growth of a new intelligentsia – the Press and Public Opinion b) Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, and Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh and Singh Sabha Movements. c)Debates around gender d)Making of religious and linguistic identities e)Caste : Sanskritising and anti Brahmanical trends II. Nationalism : Trends up to 1919 a) Formation of early political organizations b) Moderates and extremists c) Swadeshi movement d) Revolutionaries III. Gandhian nationalism after 1919 : Ideas and Movements: a) Mahatma Gandhi : his Perspectives and Methods b) Impact of the First World War ii) Rowlatt Satyagraha and Jalianwala Bagh iii) Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA c) Left wing movements d)Princely India : States people movements IV. Nationalism and Social Groups: Interfaces: a) Landlords, Professionals and Middle Classes b) Peasants c) Tribals d) labours e) Dalits f) Women g) Business groups 38 V.Communalism : Ideologies and practices, RSS , Hindu Maha Sabha, Muslim League VI. Independence and Partition a) Negotiations for independence and partition b) Popular movements c) Partition riots VII. Emergence of a New State: a) Making of the Constitution b) Integration of princely states c) Land reform and beginnings of planning d) The Nehru years. Essential Readings Bandyopadhyay Sekhar, From Plassey to Partition and After Brass Paul, The Politics of India since Independence, OUP, 1990 Brown Judith, Gandhi’s rise to power, 1915-22 Brown Judith, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience Brown Judith,Nehru : A political Life. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003 Chandra Bipan, et Al., India’s Struggle for Independence Chandra Bipan, et Al. India after Independence Chandra Bipan, Communalism in Modern India (2nd Ed., 1987) Chandra Bipan, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India ( 1979) Chandra Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India Chatterjee Joya, Bengal Divided : Hindu Communalism and Partition 1932 – 1947, O.U.P, 1994 Desai, A.R, Social Background to Indian Nationalism Desai, A.R Peasant Struggles in India Dutta, R.P, India Today Gallagher J., Johnson, G. Seal, A Locality, Province and Nation Hardy Peter, Muslims of British India Heimsath Charles, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform Hassan Mushirul ed., India’s Partition, Oxford in India Readings Hutchins F., Illusion of Permanence Kumar Ravinder, Social History of Modern India Krishnamurty J., Women in Colonial India Low D.A (ed.) Congress and the Raj McLane J.R, Indian Nationalism and Early Congress Pandey Gyanendra, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India Sarkar Sumit , Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 39 Sarkar Sumit, Modern India, 1885-1947 Sarkar Susobhan, Notes on Bengal Renaissance Seal Anil, Emergence of Indian Nationalism Sen S.N, An Advanced History of Modern India, Kolkata, 2010 Stokes Eric, Peasants and the Raj : Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India Tripathi Amales, The Extremist Challenge Zelliot Elleanor, From Untouchables to Dalit : Essays on the Ambedkar Movement বতন্দযাপাধযায় কশখর, পলাসশ কথতক পাটিস শান ও তারপর (From Plassey to Partition and after), ওসরতয়ন্ট লংমযান চন্দ্র সবপান এবং অনযানয, ভারততর স্বাধীনতা িংোম, (India’s Struggle for Independence) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা চন্দ্র সবপান এবং অনযানয, ভারতবষ –স স্বাধীনতার পতর, (India after Independence), আনন্দ পাবসলশাি, স কলকাতা কিশাই এ আর, ভারতীয় জাতীয়তাবাতির িামাশ্চজক পিভূ সম, (Social Background to Indian Nationalism) কক সপ বাগসচ এন্ড ককাং, কলকাতা জয়া চযািাজী, বাংলা ভাগ হলঃ সহন্দু িাম্প্রিাসয়কতা ও কিশ-স?