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MA SEM-I, II, III & IV CONSOLIDATED COURSE STRUCTURE
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
FACULTY OF ARTS
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
CORE -01
HISTORICAL THOUGHT (1)
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT 3
HOURS
45
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
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT – II
UNIT - III
The Past and History: Exploring the Relationship
History and Natural Sciences
History and Social Sciences
History and Humanities
History and Historical Evidence and Historical Writing
1.
2.
3.
4.
11 Hrs
Primary Sources & Secondary Sources
Oral Traditions and Folklore
Material Remains
Constructing a Verifiable past
Historical Constructs and Concerns
1. Objectivity and Subjectivity in History
2. Description, Explanation, Causation and Theory in History
3. Narrativity and History
UNIT-IV
12 Hrs
Project
11Hrs
2
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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Department of History
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ACADEMIC
YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE-02
TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN INDIA (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To develop an understanding of the phase of transition from Medieval to Modern
Indian History
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
4
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
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The
Students would be required to make presentations.
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, 1990
4. Ali, Athar M., ‘The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case’ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 9,
No. 3. (1975), pp. 385-396
5. Pearson, M. N. , ‘Shivaji and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’, The Journal of Asian
Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb., 1976), pp. 221-235
6. Hardy, P. ‘Commentary and Critique ‘, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb.,
1976), pp. 257-263
7. 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. 191-192
8. 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), 1986
11. Bayly, C.A., Empire and Information, Cambridge, 1999
12. _________, Origins of Nationality in South Asia, Delhi (OUP), 1998
13. Freitag, Sandria B., Collective Action and Community, Delhi (OUP), 1999
14. Rai, Amrit, A House Divided, Delhi (OUP), 1991
15. Ali, Daud, Invoking the Past, Delhi (OUP), 1999
16. Metcalf, Thomas R., Ideologies of the Raj
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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -03 (A)
SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WESTERN INDIA (1)
CREDIT 3
HOURS
To enhance the understanding of the complexities of socio-economic history
medieval India with special reference to Western India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Economy of the Delhi Sultanate
12 Hrs
1. Socio-economic structure of northern India on the eve
of Turkish invasion and gradual transformation.
2. The Agrarian Economy: agricultural production and
agrarian taxation.
3. Grants:
(a) Iqta: distribution of resources among the ruling
classes
(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
45
6
1. Agricultural Production: crops—jins-i adna and jins-i
kamil
2. Land Revenue: Methods of assessment; and machinery
of 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-kasht
3. The Village Community: Balutedars
Suggested Readings
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Ali, M. Athar, The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, Delhi, 1985.
Ashraf, K. M., Life& Conditions of the People of Hindustan, Delhi, 1959.
Aziz, Abdul,The Mansab System and the Mughal Army, Lahore, 1945.
Cambridge Economic History of India,Vol.4, The Mughal Period Cambridge, 1922.
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
CORE -03 (B)
HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN INDIA (1)
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To introduce the students to the concept of Historiography of Modern India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
8
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
CORE -04 (A)
DELHI SULTANATE: THE KHALJIS
Semester I
OBJECTIVES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of Delhi Sultanat
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
The Ghurids and The Khaljis
12 Hrs
1. The Ghurids
2. 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 of
the nobility.
2. Territorial expansion, Mongol invasions
3. Mubarak Shah, Khusrau Khan
UNIT – III
Society, Culture and Economy
11Hrs
1. land revenue administration
2. Market regulations.
3. Society and Culture
UNIT – IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentations
11Hrs
10
Suggested Readings
Books:
1. M. Habib and K.A.Nizami ed., Comprehensive History of India, Vol. V
2. K.S.Lal, History of the Khaljis
3. R.P.Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration
4. W.H. Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India
5. Tapan Raichaudhari and I. Habib ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I
6. U.N.Dey, Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History
7. 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 Raverty
10. Isami, Futuh us Salatin, tr. Mahadi Hussain
11. Barni, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own
Historians vol.III
12. Afif, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own
Historians vol.III
Ibn 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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
CORE -04 (A)
THE AFGHAN INTERREGNUM (1)
Semester I
CREDIT 3
HOURS
OBJECTIVES To give a comprehensive understanding of Afghan Interregnum
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
The Rise of Afghans: Lodis
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
UNIT – II
12 Hrs
Afghans before the rise of Lodis
Emergence of Lodi kingdom- political background
Expansion and Consolidation under the Lodis
The Surs, their antecedents in India
Establishment of the Sur dynasty
The Rise of Afghans: Surs
11 Hrs
1. Antecedents in India
2. Establishment of the Sur dynasty
3. Sher Shah and his successors
UNIT-III
Society, Economy and Culture
11Hrs
1. Society and Economy under the Lodis
2. Society and Economy under the Surs
3. Art and Architecture
UNIT – IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentations.
11Hrs
45
12
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
CORE -04 (A)
EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA (1)
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To give a comprehensive understanding of Early Medieval India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT-I
UNIT - I
Sources
1. Literary
2.Epigraphic
3.Numismatics
12 Hrs
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
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III. The
Students would be required to make presentation
11Hrs
14
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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Department of History
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -04 (B)
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of British Rule in India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Processes of Colonization of India
12 Hrs
1. Contextualizing Colonialism in India
2. Political Climate in the 18th century: British Conquest of Bengal
3. 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 1857
2. Foundation of Indian National Congress.
3. Moderate phase: policy and programme
UNIT – IV
National Awakening-II
11Hrs
16
1.Emergences of Extremism in Punjab, Maharashtra and Madras
2. Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement.
3. Revolutionary trends:Phase-1
SUGGESTED READINGS
Books:
1. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947
2. Bipin Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
3. S. Gopal, British Policy in India
4. Bipin Chandra, India’s Struggle for independence 1857-1947, Penguin, 2000
5. Eric Stokes, The Peasant and the Raj, Cambridge, 1978
6. B.L. Grover, British Policy towards Indian Naitonalism, 1885-1909 Delhi, 1967
7. Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi, 1973
8. 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., 1985
5. Irfan Habib, The Coming of 1857, Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1/4 Jan. - Apr., 1998
6. 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, 1966
7. Anil Baran Ray, Communal Attitudes to British Policy: The Case of the Partition of Bengal
1905, Social Scientist, Vol. 6, No. 5 Dec., 1977
8. Gordon Johnson, Partition, Agitation and Congress: Bengal 1904 to 1908,Modern Asian
Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 1973
9. 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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
[email protected]
ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -05 (A)
MUGHAL EMPIRE 1526-1605 (1)
CREDIT 3
HOURS
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of Mughal Empire
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
45
18
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
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
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ACADEMIC
YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
CORE -05 (B)
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1757-1857(1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE Survey of Indian economy during colonial times: with focus on transition in the
S:
mid-18th century; leading to transformation in agrarian economy, industries,
trade and commerce and lastly creation of the colonial economic infrastructure.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Transition debate on mid 18th century economy
12 Hrs
1. The mid-eighteenth century economy in India
2. The indigenous origins of colonial economy
3. The transition debate.
UNIT – II
Initiation of Colonial Changes
11 Hrs
1. Agrarian economy-the major land revenue systems
2. Trade and Commerce
3. Industry and Industrial decline
UNIT – III
The economic drain and creation of modern infrastructure
11Hrs
1. The ‘Drain Theory’
2. Roads
3. Railways.
UNIT – IV
Creation of modern infrastructure-II
1. 1. Irrigation.
2. Tariffs.
3. Currency and Banking
11Hrs
20
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 in
the 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
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Semester I
OBJECTIV
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Project-01
REVIEW OF LITERATURE (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
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Vadodara. 390 002
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER I
Year
I
Semester I
OBJECTIV
ES:
IDE-01
THE PRE-MODERN WORLD: THE WEST
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
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.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Roman
imperium; Germanic invasions. Developments in Christianity.
Formation of church and state
2. Between the old and the new: processes at the inception of the
medieval complex. Movements and settlement of barbarian
folks. Tribes and
territories:
emerging socio-political
arrangements
3. Stages of expansion and consolidation: Merovingian,
Carolingians and Saxon
UNIT-III
Society
1. Lords and Vassals. Charlemagne: conquests, Christianity and
vassalic armies. Manors and serfs and peasants. Fiefs.
Monasteries
2. Feudalism and the Three Orders
3. Rise of urban communes. Crisis and decline
UNIT – III
Project
11Hrs
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
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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Department of History
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -06
HISTORICAL THOUGHT(2)
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To give a comprehensive understanding of Historical Thought
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
UNIT - IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
11Hrs
25
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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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE-07
TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN INDIA (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To develop an understanding of the phase of transition from Medieval to Modern
Indian History
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Collective Identities
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT - II
12 Hrs
Sate and Community: Conceptual Schema
State and Community in medieval/pre-colonial India
Religious and other communities
Communities and Conflict: Late Medieval-early colonial
contexts
Patriotism and Patrias
11 Hrs
1. Patriotism, patrias and cultural homelands
2. Patriotism: political doctrines and ethical government in precolonial 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
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
11 Hrs
27
UNIT – IV
Project
11Hrs
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
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, 1990
4. Ali, Athar M., ‘The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case’Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 9,
No. 3. (1975), pp. 385-396
5. Pearson, M. N. , ‘Shivaji and the Decline of the Mughal Empire’, The Journal of Asian
Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb., 1976), pp. 221-235
6. Hardy, P. ‘Commentary and Critique ‘, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2
(Feb., 1976), pp. 257-263
7. 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. 191-192
8. 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), 1986
11. Bayly, C.A., Empire and Information, Cambridge, 1999
12. _________, Origins of Nationality in South Asia, Delhi (OUP), 1998
13. Freitag, Sandria B., Collective Action and Community, Delhi (OUP), 1999
14. Rai, Amrit, A House Divided, Delhi (OUP), 1991
15. Ali, Daud, Invoking the Past, Delhi (OUP), 1999
16. Metcalf, Thomas R., Ideologies of the Raj
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -08 (A)
CREDIT
3
Semester II
SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WESTERN INDIA (2)
HOURS
4
5
OBJECTIV
ES:
To enhance the understanding of the complexities of socio-economic history
medieval India with special reference to Western India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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: Manufactures
2. Technology: Handicrafts
3. 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 & River
3. Trading communities in Western India.
UNIT - IV
Commerce
11Hrs
29
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, 1925
26. 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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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -08 (B)
HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN INDIA (2)
Semester II
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
OBJECTIVES To introduce the students to the concept of Historiography of Modern India
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
UNIT – IV
Project
11Hrs
32
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
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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Department of History
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -09 (A)
DELHI SULTANATE: THE TUGHLUQS
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of Delhi Sultanat
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
UNIT – IV
Project
11Hrs
34
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
Suggested Readings
1. M. Habib and K.A.Nizami ed., Comprehensive History of India Vol. V
2. R.P.Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration
3. W.H. Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India
4. Tapan Raichaudhari and I. Habib ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I
5. U.N.Dey, Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History
6. Mahdi Hussain, The Tughluq Dynasty
7. Ishwari Prasad, History of the Qaranah Turks
8. R.C. Johari, Firuz Tughluq
9. Mohibbul Hasan, Historians of Medieval India.
10. Minhaj us Siraj, Tabqat I Nasiri, tr. Major Raverty
11. Isami, Futuh us Salatin, tr. Mahadi Hussain
12. Barni, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own
Historians vol.III
13. Afif, Tarikh i Firuz Shahi tr. Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians
vol.III
14. bn Batuta, Rehla, tr. Mehdi Hussain
15. Yahya Sirhindi, Tarikh I Mubarak Shahi, tr. K.K Basu
16. 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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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -09 (A)
THE AFGHAN INTERREGNUM (2)
Semester II
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
OBJECTIVES To give a comprehensive understanding of Afghan Interregnum
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Iqtadars
2. Working of the land revenue system under the Lodhis
3. 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 Rulers
2.Music
3.Literature
UNIT – IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
11Hrs
36
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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Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -09 (A)
EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA (2)
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To give a comprehensive understanding of Early Medieval India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Hinduism
2. Shankaracharya & Ramanuja
3. Arrival of Sufis
UNIT – IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
11Hrs
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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Department of History
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -09 (B)
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of British Rule in India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT- I
Advent of Mahatma Gandhi:
12 Hrs
1. Mahatma Gandhi :Development of Ideologies
2. Earlier Movements: Champaran, Kheda, Ahemdabad
3. Rowlett Satyagraha
UNIT-II
Stratagem of Mass Struggle
1. Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement
2. Truce Period 1921-1929
3. Revolutionary Trends:Phase-2
UNIT - III
Intensification of Mass Struggle
11 Hrs
1. Mass Nationalism and Civil Disobedience Movements.
2. Truce Period: 1934-1939
3. Quit India Movement: Azad Hind Fauz: RIN
UNIT – IV
Independence and Partition
1. Communal Holocaust and Partition of India.
2. Constitutional Development 1909-1950.
3. Relation of the British with the Princely States 1857-1950
11Hrs
40
Suggested Readings
1. M. K. Gandhi, The story of my experiments with truth, London, 1966
2. Ravidner Kumar, (ed), Essays on Gandhian Politics: The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919,
London, 1971
3. David Hardiman, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917-1934, New Delhi,
1981
4. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, New Delhi, 1971
5. Bipin Chandra, India’s Struggle for independence 1857-1947, Penguin, 2000
6. Bipin Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
7. S. Gopal, Jawarharlal Nehru-A Biography Vol-1
8. R.J. Moore, Churchill, Cripps and India 1939-1945, Oxford 1979
9. Bipin Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, New Delhi, 1987
10. 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., 2002
10. M. Ramaswamy, Constitutional Developments in India 1600-1955,Stanford Law Review, Vol.
8, No. 3 May, 1956
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Department of History
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
CORE -10 (A)
MUGHAL EMPIRE 1605-1707 (2)
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To provide with an comprehensive understanding of the political and
administrative history of Mughal Empire
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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
42
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 and
Imperial 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
UNIT - IV
Project
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
11Hrs
43
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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C YEAR
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M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -10 (B)
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1858-1956) (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
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
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Commercialisation and Agrarian Protests
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT - II
12 Hrs
Commercialization of Agriculture.
Famines.
Peasant Movements-19th century
Peasant Movements-20th century
Modern Industries
11 Hrs
1. The Plantation Industries.
a. Indigo
b. Tea
c. Coffee
2. Modern Heavy Industries
a. Cotton Textiles
b. Iron and Steel
c. Jute
UNIT - III
Capitalism and Indian Labour Force
1. Foreign capital
2. Indian Capitalist development.
3. Emergence and Growth of the Indian Labour force and Trade
Unionism’
11Hrs
45
UNIT – IV
Colonial Economic Legacy
11Hrs
1.British economic Impact-the Nineteenth century debate
2.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 in
the 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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The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
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ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
Semester II
OBJECTIV
E
PROJECT-02
REVIEW OF LITERATURE (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
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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2016-2017
M. A. I SEMESTER II
Year
I
IDE-02
THE PRE-MODERN WORLD: THE EAST
Semester II
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
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.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Regions of Islamic East
12 Hrs
1. The East and the West. Distinctions, regions and historical
conditions
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. Nomadic
irruptions
2. The ‘Abbasid Revolution’ and social transformation (c.7501250)
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 and
processes of change from ‘medieval’ to ‘modern
UNIT - IV
Project
11Hrs
Projects and Assignments would be based on Unit I, II & III.
The Students would be required to make presentation
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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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
CORE -11
MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES: INDIA, EUROPE AND THE
ISLAMIC EAST (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To enable the students to understand formation of Medieval societies in India, Europe
S:
and Islamic East.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 (656750). 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
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
11 Hrs
50
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
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’
11Hrs
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Crone P, Slave on Horses: The Evolution of Islamic Polity, Cambridge, 1980
2. Pipes D, Slave Soldiers in Islam: The Genesis of Military System, London, 1981
3. Bosworth C E, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 944-1040,
Edinburgh, 1963
4. -----------------, The Later Ghaznavids-Splendour and Decay: The Dynasty in Afghanistan and
Northern India, 1040-1186,Edinburgh, 1984
5. Chaudhari K N, trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the
Rise of Islam to 1750
6. Sourdel D, Medieval Islam, New Delhi 1984
7. Wink Andre, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, OUP, Delhi 1990
8. Asopa J N, Origin of the Rajputs, Delhi 1970
9. Ahmad Aziz, Studies in Islamic Cultures in the Indian Environment, Oxford 1964
10. Ikram S M, Muslim Civilization in India, New York, 1964
11. Richards J F, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, CUP 1993
12. Husain Yusuf, Indo-Muslim Polity: Turko-Afghan Period, IIAS, Simla 1971
13. Cipolla C M, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy, London 1974
14. J Le Goff, MedievalCivilization
15. Duby Georges, The Growth of the early European Economy, London 1974
16. Eisentadt S N, The Political Systems of Empires, New York 1969
17. 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 : HistoricalProbings
4. Richards J F, Mughal State Finance and Pre-Modern World Economy, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, 23, (1981)
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Department of History
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -12
NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM IN ASIA: 19TH& 20TH
CENTURIES
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To enhance the understanding of the concepts of nationalism and colonialism in
Asia in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Asia
2. South East Asia & Far Eas
UNIT - IV
Decolonization in Asia
1. South Asia & West Asia
2. South East Asia & Far East
11Hrs
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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, 2010
16. 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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C YEAR
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M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
CORE -13 A
CREDIT
Semester III TOWNS, TOWN LIFE, AND URBANIZATION IN MEDIEVAL HOURS
INDIA, 1200 1750 (1)
OBJECTIV
ES:
To critically look at the urbanisation processes of the India civilisation in the
medieval times
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Introduction to Urbanization in Medieval India
12 Hrs
1. Urban History, Urban Economy, Urban Society and Urban
Terminology 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; Manufacturing
Centers & 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 & Delhi
2. 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
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
11Hrs
3
45
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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.), Georg
Berkemer, 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 Portuguese
Chroniclers 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.,
56
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 and
Contemporary, 20-22 Feb., Chandigarh, 1997, (cyclostyle copy).
44.----‘Small and Middle Size Urban Settlements in Haryana and Gujarat, c, 1000-c.1800’, in Edited
Book 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 Geography
from 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 in
the 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, Symposia
Paper,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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CORE -13 (A)
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA, 1200-1750
Semester III
(1)
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To give an enhanced understanding of Religion and Society in Medieval India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Indian society in the early the 13th century
12 Hrs
1. The Hindu social structure
2. Arab settlements
3. Advent of Turks
UNIT II
Society in the Sultanate period
11 Hr
s
1.Ruling Class
2.Merchants, Traders and Craft-persons
3.Peasantry and Urban poor
UNIT - III
Sufism
11 Hrs
1. Sufi Silsalahs
2. Relations with the Ulema and society
3. Relations with Nathpanthi and other Yogis
UNIT - IV
Project
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.
11Hrs
58
SUGGESTED READINGS
Original Text:
1. R.A.NicholsonTr. KashfulMahjub
Secondary Works:
2. K.A.Nizami, Religion and politics in India during the 13th century
3. Tara Chand, Influence of Islam on Indian Culture
4. Tara Chand, Society and State in the Mughal period
5. K.Banerjee, philosophy of Gorakhnath
6. J.E.Carpenter, Theism in Medieval India
7. Richard Eaton, The Sufis of Bijapur: Social role of sufis in Medieval India
8. J.S.Tirimangham, Sufi orders in Islam
9. Asim Roy, The Islamic syncretic traditions in Bengal
10. YohananFriedmann, Shykh Ahmad Sirhindi
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2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
CORE -13 (B)
HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE Conceptualizing Women’s Studies, through an understanding of feminist
S:
consciousness, feminism, and patriarchy; and analyzing the efforts to improve
women’s condition in the 19th century
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Feminist Consciousness
12 Hrs
1. Absences of Women from history
2. Tracing feminist consciousness in Europe
3. Tracing feminist consciousness in Europe
UNIT – II
Feminism
11 Hrs
1. Understanding Gender
2. Conceptualizing Feminism
3. Various Schools of Feminism
UNIT – III
Patriarchy
11Hrs
1. Origins of Patriarchy
2. Structures of Patriarchy
3. Brahmanical Patriarchy
UNIT - IV
Women and Reform
1. Social reforms and women
2. Women’s education
3. State, Law and Women
11Hrs
60
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Karen Offen, European Feminisms, 1700-1950, 2000, Stanford University Press, Stanford
2. Gerda Lerner , The Creation of Patriarchy, 1986, OUP, New York
3. Kamala Bhasin, Understanding Gender, 2000, Kali, New Delhi
4. Chris Beasley, What is Feminism, 1999, Sage, New Delhi
5. Kamala Bhasin, What is Patriarchy, 2000, Kali, New Delhi
6. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, 1998, Foundation Books, New Delhi
7. Janaki Nair, Women and Law in Colonial India, 2000, Kali, New Delhi
8. Sudhir Chandra, Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights, 1999, OUP
9. 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 University
Articles:
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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2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
CORE -13 (B)
FORMATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE GAEKWAD
STATE (1770-1950)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To enable the students the importance of formation of the Gaekwad state.
S:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
The Beginnings
12 Hrs
1. Decline of the Mughals and the Rise of the Gaekwad power in
the Maratha confederacy.
2. Gaekwad-PeshwaRelationship: Mid Eighteenth Century
3. Gaekwad-Peshwa Relationship:1750-180
UNIT - II
The Rule of Anandrao Gaekwad: 1800-1818
11 Hrs
1. The Kadi War
2. The Arab Mercenaries
3. Administrative Changes
UNIT - III
The Rule of Sayajirao-II: 1818-1848
11Hrs
1. Anglo-Gaekwad conflict
2. Sequestrations
3. Administrative Changes
UNIT - IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation.
11Hrs
62
SUGGESTED READINGS
Primary Sources
• Historical Selections from Baroda State Records
• Baroda State Gazetteers, 2 Vols
Secondary Sources:
1. M.S. Commissariat, A History of Gujarat, Vol. 3
2. S. B. Rajyagor, History of Gujarat
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Department of History
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
CORE -14 (A)
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION IN EUROPE (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To give an enhanced understanding of Renaissance and Reformation in Europe
S:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Princes
5. Society
6. 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
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation.
11Hrs
64
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Brinton Crane, Christopher John B, Wolff Robert Lee, Civilization in the West
Burns, Ralph, Lerner and Meacham, World Civilisation 2 vols.
Durant Wili, The Renaissance
Gilmore Myron P. The World of Humanism
Peter Burke, The Renaissance
The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I The Renaissance.
Cipolla M, The Fontana Economic History of Europe
Joseph Strayer and Hans W. Gatze, Mainstream of Civilization
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
CORE -14 (B)
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 18501914 (1)
CREDI
T
HOURS 45
OBJECTIVE Survey the creation of a nation: USA
S:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Background
12 Hrs
1. War of Independence
2. Constitution of 1881
3. Territorial Expansion
UNIT - II
Resolving Slavery Issue
11 Hrs
1. Compromise of 1820 & 1850
2. USA on the eve of Civil War
3. Civil War and its Aftermath
UNIT - III
Economic and Social Development
11Hrs
1. Oil, Iron & Steel, Railroad Empires
2. Agrarian Protest Movements & Legislation in response
3. The Women of Seneca Falls
UNIT - IV
Initiation of Foreign Policy
1.Monroe Doctrine and its application
2.Spanish American War
Foreign Policy under Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson
3
11Hrs
66
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Barton Berstein& Allen Matusow, Twentieth Century American Interpretations
2. Harold V Faulkner, Politics, Reform and Expansion
3. ------------------------------, 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 America
6. 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 History
9. RobertPunel, A History of American Economic System
10. A.M.Schlesinger, The Rise of Modern America, 1865-1951
11. 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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M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
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CORE -14 (B)
HISTORY OF CANADA (1)
Semester III
CREDIT
3
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.
OBJECTIV
ES:
To give a comprehensive understanding of History of Canada
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Introducing Canada
12 Hrs
1. Natives of Canada
2. Immigration and History
UNIT - II
Economy of Canada
11 Hrs
1. Industrialization and Urbanization
2. Working Class Organization and Social Ferment
3. Cultural Change in Canada
UNIT-III
Society and Culture of Canada
11Hrs
1. Multiculturalism
2. White Racism
3. Women in Canadian History
UNIT - IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation.
11Hrs
68
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Bannett P W & Cornelius, Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in
Canadian History, Scarborough, 1986
2. Berger Carl, Issues in Canadian History: Imperialism and Nationalism
3. Eastern W T & Aitken H G J, Canadian Economic History, Toronto, 1993
4. Finkel A &Conard M, History of the Canadian People, Vol. 2, 1867 to the Present, Toronto,
1993
5. Finlay J L & Sprague D N, Post-Confederation Canada: The Structure of Canadian History
Since Confederation, 4th ed. Scarborough, 1993
6. Francis R D & Smith D, Canadian History Since Confederation, Toronto, 1988
7. Francis R D, Jones R & Smith D, Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation,4th ed.
Toronto, 1994
8. Gilbert A D, Wallace C M, and Bray H M, Reappraisal in Canadian History: PostConfederation, Scarborough, 1992
9. Lower A, Canada: An Outline History, Toronto, 1991
10. McInnis E, Canada: A Political& Social History, Toronto, 1982
11. McKay I, The Challenge of Modernity: A reader of Post-Confederation Canada, Toronto,
1992
12. McNaught K, The Penguin History of Canada, 1988
13. Morton D, A Short History of Canada, 1983
14. Muise D A(ed.), A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History, Toronto, 1982
15. Schultz J (ed.), Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Canadian History, Scarborough,
1990
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
CORE -15 (A)
SULTANATE OF GUJARAT (1)
Semester III
OBJECTIV
ES:
CREDIT 3
HOURS
To give a comprehensive understanding of Sultanate of Gujarat
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Political Developments
12 Hrs
1. Sources
2. Khalji Conquest of Gujarat
3. Gujarat under the Delhi Sultans
UNIT II
Sultanate of Gujarat
11Hrs
1. Establishment, Expansion and Consolidation of the Sultanate under
Ahmad 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
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT - IV
11 Hrs
Nature and Character of the State
Composition of the nobility
Administration.
Inter-State relations: Cheiftains of Idar, Champaner and
Junagadh. Chittor, Malwa, Khandesh, and the Bahmanids and
Mughals
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation..
11Hrs
45
70
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. S.C.Misra, Rise of Muslim Power in Gujarat: A History of Gujarat from 1298 to 1442, 1963
2. _______ed. Tarikh-i-Mahmud Shahi
3. M.S. Commissariat, History of Gujarat, Vol. I&II
4. M.N. Pearson, Merchants and rulers in Gujarat, 1976
5. Uma Das Gupta compiled Collected Essays of Ashin Das Gupta, The World of the Indian
Ocean Merchant 1500-1800, 2001
6. S.A.I Tirmizi, Aspects of the History of Medieval Gujarat, 1968
7. Samira Sheikh, Forging a Region, Sultans, Traders and Pilgrims in Gujarat 1200-1500, 2010
8. C.A. Baily, Local Muhammadan Dynasties of Gujarat
9. M.F.Lokhandwala, (Engtr.) Ali Muhammad Khan’s Mirat I Ahmadi, 1965
10. Mirat I Ahmadi Supplement, trans. Syed Nawab Ali and C.N. Seddon
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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -15 (B)
SOCIO-CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 17571857
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
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.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
British Understanding of Indian Society
12 Hrs
1. Evangelical
2. Utilitarian
3. Orientalist
UNIT - II
Indian Renaissance and the Socio-Religious Reform Movements
11 Hrs
1. The Conceptual Framework
2. Bengal and North-Eastern India
3. Movements in the Gangetic Core
UNIT - III
Socio-Religious Movements-II
11Hrs
1. Punjab and the North-West
2. Movements in Gujarat and Maharaashtra
3. The Dravidian South
UNIT - IV
Regeneration of Indian Society
1. Women and social reform
2. Cast movements in Maharashtra
3. Caste movements in Southern India
11Hrs
72
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Ballhatchet, Kenneth, Social Policy and Social Change in Western India, 1817-30, 1957
2. Kapoor, A.C., Constitutional History of India, 1760-1997
3. Barns, M., The Indian Press, 1940
4. Basham, A. L., (ed.), A Cultural History of India, 1975
5. 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, 1966
7. ____________, Modern India, 1986
8. Kenneth, W. Jones, Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India
9. Narain , V. A., Social History of India- Nineteenth Century
10. Desai Neera, Women in Modern India
11. 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), 1978
13. Ashton A.R., British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905-1939, Bombay,1982
14. 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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C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -15 (B)
SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY: BRITISH GUJARAT
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To give a deep insight to the students about socio-cultural history in the modern
Gujarat context.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Idea of Gujarat as a Region and Social Changes
12 Hrs
1. Regional History: Concepts and Approaches
2. . Idea of Gujarat: Geographical, Historical and Cultural
3. British Gujarat: Socio-Economic Development
UNIT - II
Economic Impact of the British Rule
11 Hrs
1. Economic Impact of British Rule between 1850 and1900: Land
Revenue, Agriculture and its Commercialization
2. Rise of Rich Peasantry and Peasant Movements: Kheda and Bardoli
3. 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 Society
2. Gujarati Literature: Socio-Economic Perspective
3. Social Reform Movements in British Gujarat
UNIT - IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation.
11Hrs
74
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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 University
17. AchyutYagnik, History of Gujarat, 19th and 20th Centuries
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M. A. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
OBJECTIV
E
PROJECT-03
SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES (1)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
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. II SEMESTER III
Year
II
Semester III
OBJECTIV
ES:
IDE-03
THE INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT- 1885 TO 1947
CREDIT
3
HOURS
4
5
To give a foundational level understanding of the idea of nation and nationalism
in the context of Indian Freedom Movement
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
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 Nationalism
2. Distinctive features of Nationalism in India under the Freedom
Struggle
3. Problems of the struggle for freedom in India
UNIT - III
Contesting Interpretation and Historiographies
11Hrs
1. Contesting Interpretations and historiographies
2. Imperialist, nationalist, communal, Cambridge
3. Subaltern, post- modernist and other schools of history.
UNIT - IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation
11Hrs
77
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Summit Sarkar, Modern India 1885-1947, Macmillan, New Delhi, 1983
Barbara D Metcalf and Thomas R Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge University
Press, , 2002
Burton Stein, A History of India, OUP, 2002
Paul Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge University Press, 1990
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
Semester IV
OBJECTIV
ES:
CORE -16
MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES: INDIA, EUROPE AND THE
ISLAMIC EAST (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To enable the students to understand formation of Medieval societies in India,
Europe and Islamic East.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Islamic East-I
12 Hrs
1. Evolution of Islamic polity: Conception of power, transmission
and 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 and
taxation.
2. ‘Islamic World Economy’
3. Urban development, global trading networks and monetary
circuits. Circulation of precious metals. Transition to a unified
currency
UNIT - III
India
11 Hrs
1. Evolution of medieval polity: intrusion of Ghorian raiders.
Conquests.
2. Delhi Sultanate (1205-1388): seizure of territory under warrior
chieftains. 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 rural
aristocracy (16th century).
UNIT - III
India-II
11Hrs
79
1. Foundation of a syncretic Indo-Islamic state: Akbar and
the Mughal Empire. Theory of Kingship. Sulh-ikul.
Ethnic composition of the ruling class. Jagirs and
mansabs.
2. Islamic policies and Imperial culture (1658-1707): The
Deccan Wars.
3. Agrarian crisis? Decline of empire. The 18th centuryn
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Crone P, Slave on Horses: The Evolution of Islamic Polity, Cambridge, 1980
2. Pipes D, Slave Soldiers in Islam: The Genesis of Military System, London, 1981
3. Bosworth C E, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 944-1040,
Edinburgh, 1963
4. -----------------, The Later Ghaznavids-Splendour and Decay: The Dynasty in Afghanistan and
Northern India, 1040-1186,Edinburgh, 1984
5. Chaudhari K N, trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the
Rise of Islam to 1750
6. Sourdel D, Medieval Islam, New Delhi 1984
7. Wink Andre, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, OUP, Delhi 1990
8. Asopa J N, Origin of the Rajputs, Delhi 1970
9. Ahmad Aziz, Studies in Islamic Cultures in the Indian Environment, Oxford 1964
10. Ikram S M, Muslim Civilization in India, New York, 1964
11. Richards J F, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, CUP 1993
12. Husain Yusuf, Indo-Muslim Polity: Turko-Afghan Period, IIAS, Simla 1971
13. Cipolla C M, Before the Industrial revolution: European Society and Economy, London 1974
14. J Le Goff, MedievalCivilization
15. Duby Georges, The Growth of the early European Economy, London 1974
16. Eisentadt S N, The Political Systems of Empires, New York 1969
17. 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 : HistoricalProbings
4. Richards J F, Mughal State Finance and Pre-Modern World Economy, Comparative
Studies in Society and History, 23, (1981)
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M. A. II SEMESTER IV
Year
II
Semester IV
CORE -17
NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA: 19TH&
20TH CENTURIES
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To enhance the understanding of the concepts of nationalism and colonialism in
S:
Asia in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Colonisation of Africa
12 Hrs
1. Africa before Colonization
2. Scramble for Africa
UNIT - II
Creation of Colonial Empires in Africa
11 Hrs
1. East & West Africa
2. North, Central & South Africa
UNIT - III
Nationalism in 20th Century Africa
11Hrs
1. Freedom Struggle in East & West Africa
2. Freedom Struggle in North, Central & South Africa
UNIT - IV
Nationalism and Development Process in the Newly Emerged
Polities
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
11Hrs
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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, 2010
15. 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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CREDIT
Semester IV TOWNS, TOWN LIFE, AND URBANIZATION IN MEDIEVAL HOURS
INDIA, 1200 1750 (2)
OBJECTIV
ES:
To critically look at the urbanisation processes of the India civilisation in the
medieval times
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Bandar/ Port Cities
12 Hrs
1. Administration & Management of Bandars along the Western
Coast
2. Political significance, Market Networks and Mercantile Activity
with 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 Calcutta
2. Baras along the western and eastern coast line
UNIT - III
Social Composition of Agra, Delhi, Ahmedabad & Surat
11Hrs
1. Nobility, Bureaucracy and Political Elites
2. Merchants and Intermediaries
UNIT - IV
Cultural Ethos of Agra, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat &Awadh
1. Artisans and their Craftsmanship
2. Music, Poetry and Literature
11Hrs
3
45
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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. 4768.
9. ----, ‘Urbanism in Medieval Tamil Nadu’ in Situating Indian History, Essays in Honor of
Sarvapalli 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’, Coastal
Western 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 (17591800)’, 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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Semester IV
CORE -18 (A)
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVES To give an enhanced understanding of Religion and Society in Medieval India
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT - I
Society in the Mughal Period
12 Hrs
1.Ruling Class
2. Merchants, Traders and Craft-persons
3. Peasantry and Urban poor
UNIT II
Muslim Revivalist Movements and the State Response
1. Mahdavis
2. Mujaddadis
3. Others
UNIT - III
Rise of Popular Monotheism. Vaishnaism and the Sikh Movements
11 Hrs
1. Kabir and DaduDayal, Nanak and Guru Govind Singh
2. Chaitanya Tulsidas and Namdev
3. Elements of Conflict and Synthesis in Medieval Indian Society
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation
11Hrs
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Références
Original Texts:
1. TulsidasKavitawali, Tr. R. Allchin
2. Surdas, Sursagar Text printed at Mathura
3. Callewaert.W.M, The Hindi Biography of DaduDayal, New Delhi 1988
4. 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
centuries
2. -------------Sufism in India,vol.i,ii
3. T. Roychaudhary, Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir
4. A.K.Majumdar, Bhakti Renaissance
5. -------------------,Chaitanya: His life and doctrine
6. M.Mujeeb, The Indian Muslims
7. Ch.Vanduville, Kabir, vol.i
8. Dr. Nagendra (ed), Tulsidas: His mind and Art
9. S.C.Malik (ed), Indian Moments in some Aspects of Dissent, Protest and Reform in Indian
Civilization
10. J.S.Grewal, Guru Nanak in History
11. --------------, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India, 1994
12. W.H. Mcleod, Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion
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M. A. II SEMESTER IV
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Semester IV
CORE -18 (B)
HISTORY OF WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE Comprehending women’s participation in the public field, first for the
S:
independence of India and secondly to further the realization of their rights of
empowerment.
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Women and Politics
12 Hrs
1. Birth of women’s organizations
2. Political participation: Nationalist Movement ;
3. The movement for women’s rights
UNIT – II
Women and Economy
11 Hrs
1. Women and work in colonial India
2. Women in Agrarian Movements:
a. Awadh,
b. Tebhaga
c. Telangana
UNIT – III
Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India-I
11Hrs
1. Independence, Partition and Women
2. Worli-Tribal Movement
3. Gender and Environment: Chipko
UNIT – IV
Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India-II
1. Contemporary feminist movement, 1970-1980
2. The nineteen eighties: Women’s Issues & Movements
3. Women and Arts
11Hrs
89
SUGGESTED READINGS
Books:
1. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, 1998, Foundation Books, New Delhi
2. Radha Kumar, The History of Doing, 2001, Kali, New Delhi
3. KumkumSangri&SudeshVaid, (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History,
1989,
4. Kali, New Delhi
5. A Suryakumari(ed.) Women’s studies: An Emerging Discipline, 1993, New Delhi
6. Peter Custers, Women in the Tebhaga Uprising, Calcutta, 1987 and K Lalitha and et al, We
were Making History, Kali, 1989
7. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence-Voices from the Partition of India, 1998, Penguin,
New Delhi
8. 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-46
3. Uberoi P, Feminine Identity and National Ethos in India Calendar Art, Economic and
Political Weekly, 28th April 1990, ppWS-41 to WS-48
4. 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-90
5. 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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Semester IV
CORE -18 (B)
FORMATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE GAEKWAD
STATE (1770-1950)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To enable the students the importance of formation of the Gaekwad state.
S:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Ganpatrao and Khanderao Gaekwad: 1848-1870
12 Hrs
1. The beginnings of social development
2. The Uprising of 1857
3. Administrative Changes
UNIT – II
Malharrao Gaekwad and Sir T. Madhav Rao
11 Hrs
1. The case of Malharrao Gaekwad
2. Administrative Changes
UNIT – III
Sayajirao-III
11Hrs
1. Sayajirao-III : the architect of Modern Baroda
2. Administrative Changes
3. Education and Social Change
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation
11Hrs
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. H.R. Aiyer, Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda, Baroda
2. 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 & II
6. FAH Elliot, The Rulers of Baroda
7. FatehsinghraoGaekwad, Sayajirao of Baroda: The Prince and the Man
8. Stanely Rice, Life of Sayajirao-III, Maharaja of Baroda, 2 Volumes
9. G.S. Sardesai, An Account of the Education of His Highness Sayajirao Gaekwad
10. Speeches and Addresses of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad, 4 Volumes
11. Philip W Sergeant, The Ruler of Baroda : An Account of the life and Work of Maharaja
Gaekwad
12. M.H. Shah, Baroda By Decades 1871-1941
13. W.R. Wallace, The Gaekwad and his relations with the British Government
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Semester IV
CORE -19 (A)
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION IN EUROPE (2)
CREDIT 3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE To give an enhanced understanding of Renaissance and Reformation in Europe
S:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
The Reformation-I
12 Hrs
1. Church and the Papacy in the fifteenth century
2. The Reformation
3. 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 Trent
4. The Catholic Reformation, Divided Christendom
UNIT-III
Significance of the Renaissance and the Reformation
11 Hrs
1. Progress in Science and Technology
2. Age of Discovery and rise of Overseas Empires-Spain and
Portugal
3. The rise of Nation States
4. Absolutism and Mercantilism
UNIT – IV
Impact of Reformation
1. The Religious orders and Congregations vis-a-vis
Reformation,
2. Thirty Years War
3. Peace of Westphalia
11Hrs
93
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Brinton Crane, Christopher John B, Wolff Robert Lee, Civilization in the West
2. Burns, Ralph, Lerner and Meacham, World Civilization 2 Vols
3. Durant Wili, The Reformation
4. Gilmore Myron P. The World of Humanism
5. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I The Reformation
6. Cipolla M, The Fontana Economic History of Europe
7. Joseph Strayer and Hans W. Gatze, Mainstream of Civilization
8. F. Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the reign of Philip II
9. H.A.L. Fisher, History Of Europe
10. Ludwig F. Schaffer, Daniel P. Resnick and George L. Netterville III, The Search for the
Modern World
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Semester IV
CORE -19 (B)
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 18501914 (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVES Survey of the creation of a nation: USA.
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
USA and the First World War
12 Hrs
1. First World War and the Peace settlement
2. Post War Efforts to Avert Tensions
3. Continental Solidarity
UNIT – II
USA and the Second World War
11 Hrs
1. USA in the Second World War
2. Emergence of US as a world power
3. Cold War and USA
UNIT – III
Progressivism
11Hrs
1. Progressive Era
2. Progressive Legislation under Wilson
3. The New Woman and the Feminism of the 20th Century
UNIT – IV
Analysing the’Melting Pot’
1.Afro-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement
2.Amerindians and Federal Indian Policy
3.Immigration and Cultural Change
11Hrs
95
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Barton Berstein& Allen Matusow, Twentieth Century American Interpretations
2. Harold V Faulkner, Politics, Reform and Expansion
3. ------------------------------, The Quest for Social Justice, 1898-1914.
4. Frank Friedal, American Issues in the Twentieth Century.
5. Eric F Goldman Rendezvous with
6. and Perspective in AmericanHistory: Essays in Historiography. destiny: A History of
Modern America
7. 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 History
10. RobertPunel, A History of American Economic System
11. A.M.Schlesinger, The Rise of Modern America, 1865-1951
12. DwijendraTripathi& S.C. Mishra, Themes
13. 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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CORE -19 (B)
HISTORY OF CANADA (2)
Semeste IV
r
CREDIT 3
HOURS
Note: This course has not been formatted as it has not been in operation since over a decade,
neither do we have any expertise.
OBJECTIV To give a comprehensive understanding of History of Canada
ES:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Formation of Canada
12 Hrs
1. The Dominion of Canada
2. Formation of Confederation
UNIT – II
Expansion
11 Hrs
1. Western Expansion and Nation-building
2. Growth and Expansion of Canadian Economy
UNIT-III
Foreign policy
11 Hrs
1. Imperialism and the National Policy
2. Regionalism and the National Agenda
3. Foreign policy, 1870-1945
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation
11Hrs
45
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Bannett P W & Cornelius, Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations
in Canadian History, Scarborough, 1986
2. Berger Carl, Issues in Canadian History: Imperialism and Nationalism
3. Eastern W T & Aitken H G J, Canadian Economic History, Toronto, 1993
4. Finkel A &ConardM, History of the Canadian People, Vol. 2, 1867 to the Present,
Toronto, 1993
5. Finlay J L & Sprague D N, Post-Confederation Canada: The Structure of Canadian
History Since Confederation, 4th ed. Scarborough, 1993
6. Francis R D & Smith D, Canadian History Since Confederation, Toronto, 1988
7. Francis R D, Jones R & Smith D, Readings in Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 4th
ed. Toronto, 1994
8. Gilbert A D, Wallace C M, and Bray H M, Reappraisal in Canadian History: PostConfederation, Scarborough, 1992
9. Lower A, Canada: An Outline History, Toronto, 1991
10. McInnis E, Canada: A Political& Social History, Toronto, 1982
11. McKay I, The Challenge of Modernity: A reader of Post-Confederation Canada,
Toronto, 1992
12. McNaught K, The Penguin History of Canada, 1988
13. Morton D, A Short History of Canada, 1983
14. Muise D A(ed.), A Reader’s Guide to Canadian History, Toronto, 1982
15. Schultz J (ed.), Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Canadian History, Scarborough,
1990
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M. A. II SEMESTER IV
Year
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CORE -20 (A)
SULTANATE OF GUJARAT (2)
Semeste IV
r
OBJECTIVE
S:
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
To give a comprehensive understanding of Sultanate of Gujarat
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Trade and Commerce: Internal
12 Hrs
1. Internal Trade
2. Trade routes
3. Currency
UNIT II
Trade and Commerce: External
11 Hrs
1. Overseas trade. Advent of Europeans
2. Ship- Building
3. Port towns
UNIT – III
Society and Culture
11 Hrs
1. The Bhakti Movement. Sufism, Imamshahi sect and the
Mahdawis
2. Art and Architecture
3. Music
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation.
11Hrs
99
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. M.N. Pearson, Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the
sixteenth century, 1976
2. S.C. Misra, Muslim Communities in Gujarat: Preliminary Studies in their History and Social
Organization, 1964
3. Uma Das Gupta Compiled, The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800, Collected
Essays of Ashin Das Gupta, 2001
4. M.S Commissariat, History of Gujarat, Vol. I&II
5. Alka Patel, Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society During the 12th
through the 14th centuries, 2004
6. Surendra Gopal, Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat
7. B.G Gokhle, Surat in the seventeenth century
8. S.A.A Rizvi, Religious and Revivalist Movements in Northern India
9. Makrand Mehta, History of International Trade and Custom Duties in Gujarat, 2009
10. V.A. Janaki, The Commerce of Cambay from the earliest Period to the nineteenth century,
1980
11. James Burgess, Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad
12. Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Islamic Period)
13. Samira, Sheikh, Forging a Region, Sultans, Trader and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500,
2010
14. 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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Semester IV
CORE -20 (B)
SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY: PRINCELY STATES OF
GUJARAT
CREDIT 3
HOURS
OBJECTIVES To give a deep insight to the students about the Princely states of Gujarat
:
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
British and the creation of Princely states
12 Hrs
1. Political Trajectory of Native States in Northern Bombay
Presidency
2. British Policies towards the Native States
3. 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 1857
2. Economic Development: Urbanization, Industry and Transport
3. 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 States
2. Prajamandal Movement in Gujarat
3. Integration of Native States with the Union
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units. The students would be required to make a
presentation
11Hrs
45
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SUGGESTED READINGS
1. 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.6
7. 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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The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
[email protected]
ACADEMI
C YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER IV
Year
II
Semester IV
CORE -20 (B)
SOCIO- CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA 18501950
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVES: To provide the students an understanding of socio-cultural history of Modern
India
COURSE CONTENT / SYLLABUS
UNIT – I
Indian Nationalism and the cultural reactions
12 Hrs
1. Indian Nationalism: the Beginnings
2. Nationalism under Gandhi’s Leadership
3. Literary and Cultural Reactions
UNIT – II
Gandhian Ideas
11 Hrs
1. British Policies towards the Native States
2. Gandhian Ideas and Institution
3. Indian Society in Gandhian Era
UNIT – III
Partition and Independence
11Hrs
1. Partition and Independence: Problems and Challenges
2. Conditions of Various Social groups: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs,
Parsis, Christians, Dalits and Women
3. Social, Religious and Cultural Realities and Making of Indian
Constitution
UNIT – IV
Project
Project based on any topic chosen by the students from the
above three units
11Hrs
103
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Ashton A. R., British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905-1939, Bombay,1982.
Gopal S., British policy in India, 1858-1905, 1965.
Menon V.P., The Story of the Integration of the Indian States, Bombay, 1961.
Christopher Jaffrelot, Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability, New Delhi, 2005.
Barbara Ramusack, The Indian Princes and Their States, New Cambridge History of India,
Vol. III, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Dube S. C., Indian Society, NBT, New Delhi, 1990,
Nanda S. P., Economic and Social History of Modern India, New Delhi, 1999.
Bayly, C. A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, 1988.
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The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Opp Cricket Ground , Nr. Computer Centre
Vadodara. 390 002
Phone : 0265-2791502
[email protected]
ACADEMIC
YEAR
2016-2017
M. A. II SEMESTER IV
Year
II
Semester IV
PROJECT-03
SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES (2)
CREDIT
3
HOURS
45
OBJECTIVE 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.