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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

M. A. HISTORY LIST OF COURSES

(ACADEMIC YEAR 2007 – 2008 ONWARDS

Course Code

Title of the Course Name of Faculty Core Credits

HIST 411 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL METHODS

Dr. Venkata Raghotham HC 4

HIST 412 PRE AND PROTO HISTORY Dr. N. Chandramouli HC 4 HIST 413 ANCIENT SOCIETIES Dr. N. Chandramouli HC 4 HIST 414 ARCHAEOLOGY:

PRINCIPLES AND METHODS Dr. K. Rajan HC 4

HIST 415 INDIAN SCULPTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY

Dr. K. Rajan SC 3

HIST 416 INTRODUCTION TO NUMISMATICS

Dr. N. Chandramouli SC 3

HIST 417 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN PRE COLONIAL INDIA

Dr. Venkata Raghotham SC 3

HIST 418 STATE IN ANCIENT INDIA Dr. Venkata Raghotham SC 3 HIST 419 TEMPLE IN MEDIEVAL

SOUTH INDIA Dr. Venkata Raghotham SC 3

HIST 420 FRENCH COLONIALISM IN INDIA

Dr. G. Chandhrika SC 3

HIST 421 EARLY INDIAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

Dr. N. Chandramouli HC 4

HIST 422 SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA (1000-1707)


HIST 423 EARLY MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA (550 – 1300)


HIST 424 HISTORY OF CHINA AND JAPAN (1839 – 1949)

Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy HC 4

HIST 425 INTRODUCTION TO ROCK ART

Dr. N. Chandramouli SC 3

HIST 426 INDIAN ARCHITECTURE Dr. K. Rajan SC 3 HIST 427 INTRODUCTION TO

MUSEOLOGY Dr. K. Rajan SC 3

HIST 428 SOCIAL AND AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS IN INDIA

Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy SC 3

HIST 429 MODERN WEST Dr. G. Chandhrika SC 3 HIST 430 WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA Dr. G. Chandhrika SC 3 HIST 511 INDIAN EPIGRAPHY AND

NUMISMATICS Dr. K. Rajan HC 4

HIST 512 SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF COLONIAL INDIA


HIST 513 AGRARIAN HISTORY OF COLONIAL INDIA


HIST 514 HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA (1707–1857)

Dr. G. Chandhrika HC 4

HIST 515 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE IN COLONIAL INDIA


HIST 516 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF EUROPE


HIST 517 MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES Dr. Venkata Raghotham SC 3

HIST 518 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA (1757 – 1857)


HIST 519 HISTORY OF SOCIAL FICTION IN COLONIAL INDIA


HIST 520 HISTORY OF USA (TWENTIETH CENTURY)


HIST 521 HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA (1858 – 1964)

Dr. G. Chandhrika HC 4

HIST 522 TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD


HIST 523 VIJAYANAGARA: CITY AND EMPIRE


HIST 524 BUSINESS HISTORY OF INDIA (1700 – 1947)


HIST 525 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA (1858 – 1947)


HIST 526 MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY Dr. K. Rajan SC 3 HIST 527 GANDHIAN THOUGHT Dr. G. Chandhrika SC 3 HIST 528 HISTORY OF INDIAN

DIASPORA Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy SC 3

HIST 529 INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF USA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY


HIST 530 PROJECT WORK Guide HC 4

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

M.A. HISTORY (SEMESTER SYSTEM) COURSE CURRICULUM

I SEMESTER HIST 411 HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL METHODS HC 4 Credits HIST 412 PRE AND PROTO HISTORY HC 4 Credits HIST 415 INDIAN SCULPTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY SC 3 Credits HIST 416 INTRODUCTION TO NUMISMATICS SC 3 Credits OPTIONAL COURSES 6 Credits II SEMESTER HIST 421 EARLY INDIAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY HC 4 Credits HIST 422 SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA (1000-1707) HC 4 Credits HIST 425 INTRODUCTION TO ROCK ART SC 3 Credits HIST 426 INDIAN ARCHITECTURE SC 3 Credits HIST 428 SOCIAL AND AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS IN MODERN INDIA SC 3 Credits HIST 430 WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA SC 3 Credits III SEMESTER

HIST 511 INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN EPIGRAPHY HC 4 Credits HIST 512 SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF COLONIAL INDIA HC 4 Credits HIST 515 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE IN COLONIAL INDIA SC 3 Credits HIST 516 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF EUROPE SC 3 Credits OPTIONAL COURSES 6 Credits IV SEMESTER HIST 521 HISTORY OF INDIA (1858-1964) HC 4 Credits HIST 522 TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD HC 4 Credits HIST 530 PROJECT WORK HC 4 Credits HARD CORE : 36 CREDITS SOFT CORE : 24 CREDITS OPTIONAL : 12 CREDITS TOTAL : 72 CREDITS


DISTRIBUTION OF COURSES FOR M.A.

(Semester wise Breakup of Courses and Credits) I Semester (July to November)

III Semester (July to November)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Historiography and Historical Methods Hard core Pre and Proto History Hard core Soft core Soft core Optional Optional Total

Credits 4 4 3 3

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3 20

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Introduction to Indian Epigraphy Hard Core Society and Economy of Colonial India Hard core Soft core Soft core Optional Optional Total

Credits 4 4 3 3 3

3 20

II Semester (December to April) IV Semester (December to April)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Early Indian Society and Economy Hard core Society and Economy of Medieval India (1000-1707) Hard core Soft core Soft core Soft core Soft Core Total

Credits 4

4 3 3 3

3

20

1. 2. 3.

History of Modern India (1858-1964) Hard core Twentieth Century World Hard core Project Hard core Total

Credits

4 4 4 12

Grand Total = 72 Credits (20 + 20 + 20 + 12)

Department of History PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

HIST 411: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL METHODS

(HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr.Venkata Raghotham

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course on Historiography attempts to impart comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the nature and scope of historical knowledge, theories of history and the various schools of historical thought spread over the ancient, medieval and modern periods. The geographical scope of this course covers both Asia, Europe and North America. In recent years, the study of history has become multi-disciplinary and hence the course will endeavour to equip students with detailed knowledge of sociological thought and method, Marxist Historiography, the French Annales School of History and the German idealist tradition. The following general themes would be covered in this course. 2. COURSE CONTENT

Nature of Historical Knowledge – Greek Historiography: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius – Roman Historiography: Livy, Tacitus – Early Christian Historiography: St. Augustine – Arab Historiography: Ibn Khaldun – The Historians of the Enlightenment: Gibbon – English Historiography: Marx and history, Max Weber – French Historical Method: The Annales School – The contribution of Sociology/ Social Anthropology to History – Varieties of History – New Social History – Intellectual History – Prosopography – Historical Geography and Cultural History – Environmental History – Holocaust and Historiography. 3. HISTORICAL METHOD

Objectivity in History – History and Social Science – Causation in History – Generalisation in History. 4. PROBLEMS IN INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

In recent years the writing of Indian history has become best with a large number of intractable controversies and issues. In this part of the course one of the following debates will be taken up: i) The Aryan/ Dravidian Identity and the Reconstruction of the Past ii) Marxism, Feudalism and Medieval History iii) Nehru, Jinnah and Partition of India

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SUGGESTED READINGS Anderson, Perry, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism, London: Verso Press, 1986. Atkinson, R.F. , Knowledge and Explanation in History: An Introduction to the

Philosophy of History, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. Avinery, Shlomo, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Cambridge

University Press, 1974. Barraclough, G., Main Trends in History, New York: Holmes and Meier University

Press, 1974. Bergin, T.G. and Fisch, M.H. eds., The New Science of Gianbattista, Vico Ithaca:

Cornell University Press, 1974. Bloc, Marc, The Historian’s Craft, New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Braudel, Fernand, On History, Chicago University Press, 1982. Breisach, Ernst, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chicago University

Press, 1983.

Burke, Peter, ed., A New Kind of History from the Writings of Lucien Febrve, New York, Harper Torch Books, 1973.

----, Varieties of Cultural History, Oxford, 1999. Carr, E.H., What is History?, New York, 1987 (2nd edition). Clendirnen, Inga, Reading the Holocaust, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Cochen, G.A., Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence, New Jersey: Princeton

University Press, 1978. Collingwook, R.G., Idea of History, Oxford University Press, 1974. Delzell, Charles, F., The Future of History, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press,

1977. Deurs, Peter, Logic of Disintegration: Post-Structuralism Thought and the Claims of

Critical Theory, London: Verso Press, 1986. Dray, W.H., Philosophy of History, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1964. Floud, R., ed., An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians, Princeton:

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University Press, 1973. Foucault, Michel, The Archaeology of Knowledge, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972. Freidlandger, Saul, Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final

Solution”, Harvard University Press, 1992. Gardiner, Patrick, Theories of History, New York: Meridous Books, 1966. Gerth, H.H. and Mills, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, New York: Oxford

University Press, 1958. Gilbert, Felix, ed., Historical Studies Today, Cambridge University Press, 1958. Goldstein, Leon, Historical Knowing, Auston: Texass University Presss, 1976. Hexter, J.H., On Historians, Cambridge: Harward University Pres, 1980. Hinzinga, Johan, Men and Ideas: Essays on History, the Middle Ages and the

Renaissance, New York: Harper and Row, 1960. Iggers, Georg, New Directions in European Historiography, Connecticut: Wesleyan

Press, 1984. Lacapra, Dominick and Kaplan, Stevan, eds., Modern European Intellectual History:

Reappraisals and New Perspectives, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Leff, Gordon, History and Social Theory, New York: Anchor Books, 1971. Lenin, V.I., Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Mosco: Progress Publishers, 1985. Le Roy, Ladurie, E., The Peasants of Languedoc, Urbaba: University of Illimoci Press,

1974. Lukas, George, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialetics,

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. Mc Clelland, P.D., Casual Explanation and Model Building in History Economics and

New Economic History, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. Meyerhoff, Hans, ed., The Philosophy of History in our Time, New York: Anchor

Books, 1959. Plekhabov, G.C., Fundamental Problems of Marxism, New York: Harper Torch Books,

1972.

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Prince, H.C., “Real Imagined and Abstract Worlds of the Past” in C. Board et. ed.,

Progress in Geography, Vol.3, London: Edward Arnold, pp.1-86. Said, Edward, W., Orientalism, New York: Vintage Books, 1978. ----, Reflections on Exile, New York, 2001. Saucer, Caslo, Land and Life, Los Angles: California University Press, 1977. Skocpol, Theda, Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, London, Cambridge

University Press, 1986. Stern, Fritz, ed., Varieties of History, New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Stoianovich, Train, French Historical Method: The Annales Paradigm, Ithaca: Cornell

University Press, 1976. Stone, Laurence, The Past and the Present: Essays on History, London: Balakwell Co.,

1983. Topolski, J., Methodology of History, Boston: D. Reidel, 1976. Veyne, Paul, Writing History: Essays on Epistemology, Conneticut: Wesleyan

University, 1984. Venugopal, T.R., History and Theory, Trissur, 1997. Wedgewood, C.V., The Sense of the Past: Thirteen Studies in the Theory and Practice

of History, New York: Collier Books, 1960. White, Haydon, Metahistory, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

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Department of History


HIST 412: PRE AND PROTOHISTORY OF INDIA (Hard Core - Four Credits)

Faculty: Dr.N.Chandramouli

Course Objectives The course tries to explain the emergence of various cultures in India from Palaeolithic times down to Iron Age. The cultural difference that exit in different geographical zones of India would be studied to understand the various controlling factors that shaped the Indian culture. The cultural unity in diversity through the years would be studied to understand the various cultural phenomenons. Unit I Introduction to Indian Geology - Lower Palaeolithic Culture – Middle Palaeolithic Culture – Upper Palaeolithic - Stone tools and techniques- Life of Prehistoric man Unit II Microlithic Culture - Neolithic Culture – Neolithic zones - Agricultural Revolution Villages of New Stone Age Unit III Chalcolithic Culture –– Indus Valley Civilization- Rise and Growth of Indus civilization- Town planning - Architecture- Trade and Commerce- Indus Script- Indus Sites : Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Kalibangan, Lothal and Dholavira – Its Decay. Unit IV Gangetic civilization - Gangetic Pottery - Central Chalcolithic culture - Ahar culture - Kayatha culture - Malawa Culture - Jorwe Culture Unit V Megalithic Culture (Iron Age) – Megalithic Monuments - Types of burials- Megalithic people - Iron technology - Excavated sites: Naikund, Brahmagiri, Kodumanal, Sanur, Adichanallur - Megalithic pottery - Life of the Megaliths

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References Agrawal, D.P., and Chakrabarti, D.K., 1979 Eassys in Indian Protohistory, B.R.Publishing Company, New Delhi. Agrawal, D.P., 1982 The Archaeology of India, Curzon Press, London. Agrawal, D.P., 1992 Man and Environment in India Through Ages, Books and Books, New Delhi. Allchin, B., and Allchin, R., 1968 The Birth of Indian Civilization, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Allchin, R., and Chakrabarti, D.K., 1979, A Source Book of Indian Archaeology, New Delhi. Allchin, B., and Allchin, R., 1982 The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Asko Parpola, 1973 South Indian Megaliths, State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai. Asko Parpola, 1994 Deciphering the Indus Script, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Banerjee, N.R., 1965 The Iron Age in India, Munishiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. Bisht, R.S., 1989 Dholavira: New horizons of the Indus Civilization, Puratattva, vol. 20, pp. 71-82. Chakrabarti, D.K., 1990 The External Trade of the Indus Civilization, Munishiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Clark, G., 1970 The Study of Prehistory, University of California, Berkeley. Dani, A.H., and Masson, V.M., (ed.) 1992 History of Civilizations in Central Asia, vol.1, The Dawn of Civilization: Earliest Times to 700 BC, UNESCO, Paris. Edosy, G., (ed.) 1995 The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia : Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. (Reprint in 1997 by Munishiram Manoharlal, Delhi). Dhavalikar, M.K., 1990 First Farmers of the Deccan, Ravish Publishers, Pune. Ghosh, A., (ed.) 1988 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, 2 vols, Munishiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. Gururaja Rao, B.K., 1972 Megalithic Culture in South India, University of Mysore, Mysore.

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Lal, Makkhan, 1984 Settlement History and the Rise of Civilization in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, B.R. Publishing House, New Delhi. Leshnik, L.S. 1974 South Indian “Megalithic” Burials – The Pandukal Complex, Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden. Mallory, J.P., 1989 In Search of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archaeology and Myth, Thames and Hudson, London. Moori, U.S., 1994 Megalithic Culture of South India : Socio-Economic Perspectives, Ganga Kaveri Publishing House, Varanasi. Narasimhaih, B., 1986 Neolithic and Megalithic Cultures in Tamil Nadu, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi. Possehl, G.L.,(ed.) 1993 Harappan Civilization – A Recent Perspective, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi. Rajesh Kochchar, 2000 The Vedic People : Their History and Geography, Orient Longman, New Delhi. Rao, K.P., 1988 Deccan Megaliths, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi. Sali, S.A., 1990, Stone Age India, Shankar Publishers, Aurangabad. Sankalia, H.D., 1974 Pre and Protohistory in India and Pakistan, Deccan College, Pune. Sankalia, H.D., Stone Age Tools:Their Techniques, Names and Probable Functions, Deccan College, Poona. Shereen Ratnagar, 2001 Understanding Harrappa : Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley, Tulika, New Delhi. Singh, Purushottam, 1991 Neolithic Origins, Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi. Sonia Cole, 1961 The Neolithic Revolution, British Museum, London. Sundara, A., 1975 Early Chamber Tombs of South India – A Study of the Iron Age Megalithic Monuments of Northern Karnataka, Univ. Publication, Delhi. Thapar, B.K., 1985 Recent Archaeological Discoveries in India, Unesco, Paris. Tripathi, Vibha, 1976 The Painted Grey Ware: An Iron Age Culture of Northern India, Concept Publishers, Delhi.

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HIST 413: ANCIENT SOCIETIES


Faculty : Dr.N.Chandra Mouli

COURSE CONTENT

1. Age of the Earth and the Evolution of Man, Origin and growth of Civilization. 2. The Palaeolithic period-Mesolithic period-Neolithic period. 3. Bronze Age Civilization; Economy; Society; Religion; State structure- Any one of

the following Egypt (old kingdom); Mesopotamia (up to the Accadian Empire); China (Shang); Eastern Mediterranean (Minoan and Mycenaean)

4. Slave societies in Ancient Greece and Rome; Agrarian economy; Athenian

Democracy; Roman Empire; and the Roman and Greek cultures.

5. Decline of the Roman Empire; Germanic invasions; and Origins of feudalism.

SUGGESTED READINGS Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. Jones Arnold H.M., The Decline of the Ancient World. Austin M.M & Vidal-Naguet. P, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece Bengston, H., Introduction to Ancient History Braidwood, R.J., The Near East and the Foundation of Civilization Brunt, P.A.(ed), The Roman Economy. Burkert, W., Greek Religion. Casson,L., Travels in the Ancient World. Chang,K.C., The Archaeology of Ancient China. Childe,V.Gordon, Man Makes Himself. Childe,V.Gordon., What Happened in History Clark, Grahame & Piggot Stuart, Pre-Historic Societies.

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Cook,R.M., Greek Art. Crawford, M., The Roman Republic. Cunliffe, B.W., Rome and her Empire Dawson, R., The Legacy of China. Elwin, M., The Pattern of Chinese Past. Fairbank, J.K., China: Tradition and Transformation. Finley, M.I.(ed), The Legacy of Greece. Finley, M.I., Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages. Finley, M.I., The Ancient Economy. Gernet,.J., A History of Chinese Civilization. Hawkes, J., The First Great Civilization: Life in Mesopotamia, the Indus and Egypt. Haynes, D., Greek Art and the Ideas of Freedom. Meskill, J.(ed.), An Introduction to Chinese Civilization. Zimmern, Alfred, The Greek Common Wealth.

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HIST 414: ARCHAEOLOGY: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS

(HARD CORE- FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty : Dr.K.Rajan

Unit I : Introduction Introduction – Definition – Goals of Archaeology – Archaeology and other disciplines : Archaeology and History - Archaeology and Anthropology - Archaeology and Geology - Archaeology and Biology - Archaeology and Zoology - Archaeology and Botany - Archaeology and Physics - Archaeology and Chemistry – Kinds of Archaeology : Classical Archaeology – Prehistoric Archaeology – Historical Archaeology – Environmental Archaeology – Underwater Archaeology – Ethnoarchaeology – Lingusitic Archaeology – Salvage Archaeology Unit II : History of Archaeology Classical Archaeology – Antiquarianism – Three Age Theory – Three Age System – History of Archaeology in India – Foundation for Indological Studies – Sir William Jones – Establishment of Asiatic Society – James Prinsep – Alexander Cunningham - Establishment of Archaeological Survey of India Unit III : Exploration and Excavation Methods Exploration Methods – Determination of archaeological data – Types of archaeological sites – On-site investigations – Site Survey methods – Excavation Methods – Excavation of a burial Unit IV : Archaeological Stratigraphy and Recording Concept of Stratigraphy in geology and in archaeology – Haris Matrix – Laws of Archaeological Stratigraphy – Archaeological Recording – Maps – Site Plan – Site note book Unit V : Dating Methods in Archaeology Dating System – Radio Carbon dating (C14 Dating) – Thermoluminescence (TL Dating) – Potassium Argon – Uranium series – Fission Track – Obsidian-hydration – Archaeomagnetism – Dentrochronology (Tree-Ring Analysis) – Amino acid – Fluorine method – Nitrogen Method – Stratigraphy

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Suggested Readings

Barker, Philip 1977, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation, Universe Books, New York. Colin Renfrew 2000, Archaeology: Theories Methods and Practices, Thames and Hudson,

London. Connah, G., (ed.) 1983, Australian Field Archaeology: A Guide to Techniques, Australian

Institute of Aboriginal studies, Canberra. Clive Gamble, 2001, Archaeology: The Basics, Routledge, London. Dancey, W.S., 1981, Archaeological Field Methods: An Introduction, Burgess, Minneapolis. Daniel, Glyn E., 1976, A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology, Gerald Duckworth & Co.

Ltd., London. Dillon, B.D. (ed.) 1989, Practical Archaeology: Field and Laboratory Techniques and

Archaeological Logistics, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angels. Gururaja Rao, B.K., 1972 Megalithic Culture in South India, Prasaranga, University of Mysore,

Mysore. Harris, Edward, C., 1989, Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy, Academic Press, London. Hester R.Thomas, Shafer J.Harry and Feder L.Kenneth, 1997, Field Methods in Archaeology,

Mayfield Publishing Company, California. Martha Joukowsky, 1980, A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology – Tools and Techniques of

Field Work for Archaeologists, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Rajan K., 2002, Archaeology : Principles and Methods, Manoo Pathippakam, Thanjavur. Raman, K.V., 1986, Principles and Methods of Archaeology, Parthajan Publications, Madras Robert J.Sharer and Wendy Ashmore, 1979, Fundamentals of Archaeology, The Benjamin/

Cummings Publishing Company, California. Sharer, R.J., and W.Ashmore, 1993, Archaeology: Discovering Our Past, Mayfield Publishing

Company, California. Thomas, D.H., 1989, Archaeology, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Fort Worth. Trigger, G. Bruce, 1989, A History of Archaeological Thought, Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge.

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Department of History PONDICHERRY HISTORY

HIST 415: Indian Sculpture and Iconography

(Soft Core - Three Credits)

Faculty : Dr.K.Rajan Course Objectives The course surveys the evolution of sculpture and Iconography particularly the Jain, Buddhist and Hindu iconography in India and their transformation through the years. The various iconographic features embedded in the ancient monuments particularly in the temples, stupas, viharas would be thrown open to the students to understand the heritage monuments of this country in right perspectives. Unit 1 Introduction to Sculpture - Indus valley Art - Pre Mauryan Art - School of Arts Gandhara, Mathura - Mauryan and Post Mauryan Art - Amaravathi School of Art Unit II Gupta Art - Chalukyan Art - Pallava and Chola Art and Bronzes Unit III Classification of images - Description of Terms - Weapons, objects, instruments, mudras or hastas, asanas, pedestals, crowns - Vishnu : Various forms of Vishnu - Siva: Various aspects of Siva - Anugrahamurthi - Samharamurthi- Lingodbhavamurti - Chandrasekharamurti - Sadasivamurti - Nataraja - Dakshinamurti - Kankalamurti and other forms of Siva Unit IV Minor Deities - Ganapathi - Subramanya - Chandesvara - Brahma -Dikpalakas - Mother Goddess - Devi - Durga - Lakshmi - Saraswathi - Sapta-matrikas - Parivaradevadas - Buddha - Various forms of Buddha - Buddhist Goddesses - Jain Tirthankaras - Yakshas Unit V Indian paintings - Rock Art - Early paintings - Ajantha paintings - Pallava and Pandya paintings - Chola paintings - Vijayanagar paintings

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References Acharya Prasanna Kumar, 1946 An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture, Manasara

Series 7, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Agrawala, V.S., 1965 Indian Art:History of Indian Art from earliest times upto 3rd

century AD, Prithivi Prakashan, Varanasi. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1966 Early Chola Art, Asia Publishing House, Bombay. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1971 Early Chola Temples, Orient Longman, New Delhi. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1975, Middle Chola Temples, Thomson PressLtd., Faridabad. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1979, Later Chola Temples, Mudgala Trust, Faridabad. Banerjee, J.N., 1974 Development of Hindu Iconography, Munishiram Manoharlal, New

Delhi. Barret Douglas, 1974 Early Chola Architecture and Sculpture, Faber and Faber, London. Bhattacharya, B., 1958 Indian Buddhist Iconography, K.L.Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta. Dayalan Fergusson, J., 1910 History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, 2 vols., John Murray,

London. Gopinatha Rao, T.A., 1914 Elements of Hindu Iconography, Motilal Banarsidass, New

Delhi. Gupte, R.S., 1972 Iconography of the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, D.B.Taraporevala

Sons and Co. Pvt. Ltd., Bombay. Joshi, N.P., 1979 Jain Iconography, Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore. Krishna Deva, 1969 Temples of North India, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. KVS Lokesh, Chandra 1987 Buddhist Iconography, 2 vols, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi. Longhurst, A.H., Pallava Architecture, 3 vols., Memoirs of Archaeological Survey of

India. Michael W. Meister and Dhaky, M.A., 1983 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple

Architecture : South India Lower Dravida Desa, American Institute of Indian Studies, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

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Michael W. Meister and Dhaky, M.A., 1986 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture : South India Upper Dravida Desa, American Institute of Indian Studies, Oxford University Press, Delhi

Michell George, 1975 Early Western Calukyan Temples, 2vols. London. Nagasamy, R., 1970 Gangaikondacholapuram, State Dept. of Archaeology, Madras. Nagasamy, R., 1972 The Art of Tamil Nadu, State Dept. of Archaeology, Madras. Percy Brown, 1976 Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period), D.B.Taraporevala

Sons and Co., Bombay. Ramachandra Rao, 1988-1991 Pratima Kosa – Encyclopaedia of Indian Iconography, 5

vols, Kalpatharu Research Academy, Bangalore. Saraswathi, S.K., 1957 A Survey of Indian Sculpture, Munishiram Manoharlal, New

Delhi. Sivaramamurthi, C.,? Indian Paintings, National Book Trust , New Delhi. Soundara Rajan, K.V., 1978 Art of South India- Tamil Nadu and Kerala, New Delhi. Sivaramamurti, C., 1960 The Chola Temples, Thanjavur, Gangaikondacholapuram and

Darasuram, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Sivaramamurti, C., 1974 Nataraja in Art, Thought and Literature, National Museum,

New Delhi. Sivaramamurthi, C., 1968 South Indian Paintings, National Museum, New Delhi. Soundara rajan, K.V., 1978 The Art of South India, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Sundeep

Prakashan, New Delhi. Srinivasan, K.R., 1972 Temples of South India, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. Suresh, B.Pillai, 1976 Introduction to the Study of Temple Art, Equator and Meridian,

Thanjavur.

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HIST 416: INTRODUCTION TO NUMISMATICS

(SOFT CORE - THREE CREDITS)

Faculty : Dr.N.Chandramouli

Course Objectives One of the important source materials available in India to reconstruct our past is coins. These coins are issued in different scripts and languages on different material like, copper, gold, silver, lead, etc. The course is designed to train the students in the field of numismatics so that they can handle the material themselves in their future research programmes Unit I Value of Numismatics for historical reconstruction - Origin and evolution of coinage in India Unit II Punch Marked coins- Sangam age coins - Coins of Chera, Chola, Pandiyas Unit III Roman coins in India - Coins of Satavahana - Gupta Coins Unit IV Meadival Tamil Coins - Coins of Pallava - Coins of Imperial Cholas - Coins of Imperial Pandiyas Unit V Coins of Vijayanagara - Coins of Nayaks

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References Aiyyappan, A., 1955 Coins of India Through the Ages, Govt., Museum, Madras. Biddudulph, C.H., 1966 Coins of Pandiyas Numismatic Notes and monographs, (ed.,)

Narain, A.K., Numismatics Society of India, Varanasi. Chattopadhyaya, B.D., 1877 Coins and Currency Systems of South India, New Delhi. Desikachari, T., South Indian Coins, Asian Educational Services, New Delhi. Elliot, Walter, 1888 South Indian Coins, International Numismatics Orientalies, Cosmo Publications, Delhi. Ganesan, Girijapathy, 1999 The Coins of Vijayanagara Empire, BEL Layout,

Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore. Gupta, P.L The Coins, Gupta, P.L. 1985 Indian Punch marked Coins, Magadha Maurya- Karshapana Series,

Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies, Maharastra. Kosampi, D.D. 1981 Indian Numismatics, Orient Longman Limited, New Delhi. Krishnamurthy, R., 1994 Later Roman Copper Coins from South India Karur and

Madurai, Garnet Publications, Chennai. Krishnamurthy, R., 1997 Sangam Age Tamil Coins, Garnet Publications, Chennai. Krishnamurthy, R., 2005, Pallava Coins, Garnet Publications, Chennai. Loventhal, E., 1888 The Coins of Tinnevelly, Higgin Botham and Co, Madras. Mitchiner , Michael., 1995 Coin Circulation in Southernmost India, Indian Istitute of

Research in Numismatic Studies, Nasik. Nagasamy, R., Tamil Coins - A Study, Tamil Nadu State Archaeology Department,

Chennai. Sharma, I.K., 1980, Coinage of Satavahana Empire, Agamkala Prakashan ,New Delhi. Sharma, I.K., 1992, South Indian CoinageAReview of Recent Discoveries, New era

Publications, Madras. Vanaja. R., 1983 Indian Coinage, Indian National Mudeum, New Delhi.

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HIST 417: HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN

PRE-COLONIAL INDIA (UPTO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) (SOFT CORE – THREE CREDITS)


COURSE CONTENT:

This course is designed to make the students aware of the scientific and technological heritage of India based on contemporary and near-contemporary sources. Since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the interaction of the Europeans with the Indian society and the notices left by the Europeans furnish a lot of information on the standard of Indian science and technology, reference will be made to such sources of information. In certain cases, some of the Europeans in the early part of their interaction adopted certain aspects of technology from India. Every student opting this course will be required to submit three assignments, present one seminar and appear for the mid-semester examination all of which in all carry fifty marks. The rest of the assessment for fifty marks will be for the semester end examination.. Unit 1: Science and Technology: Meaning of Science in India: nature and scope of Science. Doctrine of Five elements, Theory of Atomism and attributes of matter in ancient India. Interaction of Science, technology and society in India. Universalism of Science. Unit 2: Sources for the study of Science and Technology in India 1) Archaeological Sources Pre-Historical period, Protohistorical period: Vedic Literature a) Samhitas, b)Brahmanas, c) Aranyakas-Upanishads, Four Samhitas: 1. Rigveda- 2. Samaveda- 3) Yajurveda- 4)Atharvaveda- I. Samhitas. a) Rigveda: b) Samaveda c) Yajurveda, d)Atharva Veda II. Brahmanas III. Aranyakas (Forest texts) – Upanishads (secret doctrines) Aitareya, 2) Brhadarnyaka, 3) Chandogya, 4) Taittiriya 5)Kausitaki 6) Kena Epics: Puranas, The Poetics and the Brhatsamhita: Mahabharata, Ramayana Puranas 18 mahapuranas and a large number of upapuranas: Vedangas and Sutras, Sutra. Bhasya, Slokas: Kalpasutras. The Philosophical Sutras and Bhasyas, Utaramimasa, or the Vedanta. Samkhya,yoga,, Nyaya, Purvamimasa and Vaisesika, Nastikas, Lokayats and the Carvakas. Artasastra, nitisastra and related arts and Sciences. Buddhist Literary sources. Pali Canons, non-canonical pali literature, Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Jaina literary sources, Philosophical, scientific and technical literature. Historical period: Persian and Arabic sources: Special sciences- Vedanga Jyotisa, Suryaprajnapati and Candraprajnapati, Pancasidhantika, Bhela Samhita, Caraka

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samhita, Astangasamgraha, Firdausul-Hikmat, Tibbe Firozshahi, Iatrochemical and alchemical texts. Gunpowder and Pyrotechnics - Sukraniti, Vrksayurveda. . Unit 3: Development of Science in India from the Pre-historic period up to the

seventeenth century A.D.

a) Astronomy of the Vedas and Aryabhata, Varamihira and Bhaskar I, Brahmagupta, Bhattotpala the Arab Civilisation, Sawai Jai Singh

b) Medicine & Surgery: Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas, Physiology, Anatomy, Materia Medica, Unani, Ayurveda and Alchemy.

c) The Bower Manuscript, Composition of the Caraka-Samhita in the light of

Bower Manuscript. Physicians and Therapy, Case for the Critical analysis of the Caraka-Samhita, Indian medicine in its external relations.

d) Mathematics& Geometry: Shulbha Sutra, Bhaskali Manuscript. e) Mathematical achievements of the Jainas, Source. Ganita-sara-samgraha of Mahvira. Bhadrabahu & his Samhita, Mensuration formulae, Multiplication

and Division by Factors, Umasvati, The Kusumapura School of Mathematics, Discovery of the mensuration formulae, Jaina value of pi, Approximate value of Surds.

f) Ancient Indian numerals, numerals of the Kharosthi, The Numerals of Brahmi, The decimal notation, Numeral notation by words & letters.

Aryabhatta’s System of expressing numbers. Indian Calendar. Contents of pancanga.

g) Physical sciences and biological sciences.

h) Plant Science – Garcia da Orta, Van Rheede: History of Botany &Allied sciences in India

i) Alchemy in India- Alberuni on Indian Alchemi

j) Chemistry in Ancient India-Antiquity of Indian Chemistry

Unit 4: Development of Technology in India from the Pre-historic up to the Seventeenth century A.D.

Mettalurgy, Artillery, gun-Powder technology Agriculture, bridge, building – Persian Wheel, Textile Technology, carding, use of the charka, bleaching , dyeing, Architecture :Building, Bridge, Naval architecture, Hygiene on board, Transport, Shilpbuilding and

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navigation, astronomical navigation, Beginnings of Agriculture and its impact on technology and science.

SUGGESTED READINGS Adas, Michael, Machines as Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance, Delhi, OUP, 1992 Arnold David, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, The New

Cambridge History of India Series, Cambridge, OUP. Bose, D.M., Sen, S.N, and Subbarayappa, eds. A Concise History of Science in India, \ Bose, S.N, Cultural Heritage of India, Vol vi., Calcutta, Chattopadhyaya, Debiprasad, Science and Society in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1979 Chattopadhyaya, Debiprasad, Studies in Science in India, New Delhi, 1992 ---------------. Progress through the Ages, Vol. 1, Bombay, 1969. Crowther, J.G., A Short History of Science, London, 1969. Daumas, Maurice, ed., A History of Technology & Invention, Progress through Ages Bombay, 1969. Hitty, Philip K., History of the Arabs, McMillan Publishers, Delhi, Qaisar, A.J, The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture, Delhi, OUP, 1982. Raina D. and Habib Irfan eds, Situating History of Science :Dialogues with Joseph Needham, Delhi, OUP, 1999 Sen, S.N., Scientific and Technical Education in India, Delhi, INSA, 1991

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HIST418: STATE IN ANCIENT INDIA

(SOFT CORE – THREE CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr.Venkata Raghotham Unit – I The Concept of state, theoretical perspectives Unit – II The Harappan and early Vedic state, from lineage to state Unit –III Empire in Ancient India; The Mauryan state for Chandra Gupta to

Ashoka Unit – IV Political ideas an institutions in early India. (1) Monarchy (2) Janapada (3)

Tribal council; Gana Vidatha and parishad (4) Saptanga Theory of state. Unit – V State and society in the Gupta period; Centralised Monarchy versus

fragmentation Unit – VI The Kushana and Greek theories of Kingship.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Altekar, A.S., State and Government in Ancient India Drekmies, Kingship and community in Ancient of India Ghoshal, U.P., Political life in Ancient India Kulke, Herman, The State in India, OUP, 1995 Sharma J.P., Republic in Ancient India Sharma, R.S., Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient of India Spellman, Political Theory in Ancient India Thapar, R., From Lineage to State, OUP

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HIST 419: THE TEMPLE IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA



1. Temple and its architectural elements 2. The construction of Rajarajeswara (Big Temple/Brahadisvara) temple at Thanjavur 3. The Agamas and their role in temple worship 4. From Bhakthi to Agamic Saivisam 5. The Inscriptions of Rajaraja I 6. Redistribution of resources through temple 7. The introduction of the temple with society - landed groups and shepherds 8. The economic functions of the temple 9. The history of the Rajarajesvara temple through Vijayanagara and Maratta period

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HIST 420: FRENCH COLONIALISM IN INDIA, 1664-1954


Faculty: Dr. G. Chandhrika COURSE OBJECTIVES This course is designed to give the students a comprehensive picture of French colonialism in India, their ambition to build an empire, Anglo French rivalry, the French efforts to integrate their Indian colony through a policy of cultural integration, the impact of the nationalist movement on French India, the anti colonial movement in French India, merger politics and the legacy of French colonialism.

COURSE CONTENT

1. Sources for the study of the French in India -Birth of the French East India Company

in France – Establishment of Factories in India in both Eastern and Western coasts – Franco-Dutch Rivalry.

2. Period of consolidation – Martin, Le Noir and Dumas - Struggle for Supremacy:

Dupleix and the French desire to carry out an empire for them in India – Anglo-French Rivalry – The Carnatic Wars – Reversal of the forward policy of Dupleix after 1754 –Seven Years War and the destruction of French hopes – The Treaty of Paris and the restoration of the French territories.

3. French policy in India after the Treaty of Paris – Fall of the French colonies to the

British in 1778 – French relations with Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan – De Suffren and his naval activities in the Eastern Seas – Loss of French colonies during the Napoleanic Wars – French let down Tipu Sultan – Restoration of the Indian colonies to the French in 1816

4. A century of colonization (1816-1914) – Impact of nationalist movement on the

French settlements in India – Anti-colonial movement in French India – The Indian Government and the liberation of the erstwhile French Indian colonies – De-facto merger of the French colonies with the Indian Union in 1954.

5. Legacy of French Colonialism – Urbanization of some coastal towns under the aegis

of the French – Religious and Racial factors of the French colonies – Impacts on the social, cultural and linguistic spheres of the Indian society.

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SUGGESTED READINGS Antony, F.E., ed., Gazetteer of India: Union Territory of Pondicherry, Vol.2,

Pondicherry, 1982. Arasaratnam, Sinnappah, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel

Coast, 1650-1740, Delhi: OUP, 1986. Chaudhri, T. Roy and Irfan Habib, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of India,

c.1200-c.1750, Vol. I, Delhi: Longman, 1984. Dodwell, Henry, Clive and Dupleix: The Beginning of Empire, Delhi: AES, 1989. Deloche, Jean, Pondicherry: Past and Present (Bilingual CD), PONDICHERRY, French Institute, 2007. Khan, M.A., History of Tipu Sultan, Calcutta, 1951. Krishnamurthy B., Indo French Relations: Prospects and Perspectives, New Delhi, Shiprah Publications, 2005. Malleson, G.B., History of the French in India, 1674-1761, Delhi: Gian Publishing

House, 1986 (Reprint). Malleson, G.B., French Struggles in India, Delhi, 1977 (Reprint). Miles William F. S., Imperial Burdens: Counter Colonialism in Former French India, London, 1995. Neogy Ajit K., Decolonization of French India: Liberation Movement and Indo French Relations (1947 – 1954), Pondicherry, 1997. Prince, J.F., Rangachari and Dodwell, eds., Anandha Ranga Pillai: Dubash to Joseph

Dupleix, The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, in 12 volumes, Delhi: AES, 1855 (Reprint).

Priestly, H.I., France Overseas Through the Old Regime: A Study of European

Expansion, New York, 1939. Ramasamy, A., History of Pondicherry, Delhi, 1987. Ray, Aniruddha (edited and translated), Francois Martin Memories: Travels to Africa,

Persia and India, Calcutta, 1990. Sen, S.P., The French in India: First Establishment and Sttruggle, Calcutta, 1947.

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-----------, The French in India, 1763-1816, Calcutta, 1958. Srinivaschari, C.S., History of Gingee and its Rulers, Annamalainagar: Annamalai

University, 1953. Subbiah, V., Puduvai Manila Thesiya Iyakam: Imabathandu Sudhanthira Varalaru,

1835-1985, Pondicherry, 1985.

Varadarajan, Lotika, “Reasons leading to the establishment of the French East India Company: Edits of the Year 1664”, in Review Historique de Pondicherry, Vol.12, 1974-75, Pondicherry, 1977.

Vincent, Rose, French in India: From Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars, Bombay:

Popular Prakashan, 1990. ---------------- Pondichéry, 1674-1761. L’échec d’un rêve d’Empire, Editions Autrement, Série Mémoires, 1993 Weber, Jacques, Pondichéry et les comptoirs de l’Inde après Dupleix. La démocratie au pays des castes, Denoël, Paris, 1996

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HIST 421: EARLY INDIAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

(From earliest times up to 6th C.A.D.) (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty : Dr.N.Chandra Mouli

Objectives of the Course

The course seeks to impart to the students a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of historical change in early Indian society and economy. It deals with the structure of early Indian society and the nature of economic transformation. It will trace the emergence of political institutions and ideas in early India. Focus is also placed on analysis and explanation of ancient India’s cultural achievements.

1. Scope of the Study – Sources – Periodization – History of Archaeological Studies in India – Historiographical trends in early Indian History.

2. The Beginnings – Prehistoric Societies: Palaeolithic – Mesolithic – Neolithic –

Iron age – Early historic periods – Characteristic traits – Rock art – Indus valley Civilization – trade and technology – economy – Vedic Society and economy – Position of women -Political Ideas and institutions in early India.

3. Janapadas – The emergence of Empires – The Mauryan Empire – Socio –

economic conditions – The Dhamma of Ashoka – Post mauryan times – Indo –Greeks – Sakas - Kushanas – Nature of the Society – Trade and Economy .

4. The Gupta era – Society – economy and Religion – Land grants – expansion of

Agriculture – Feudal elements – Education – Institutions – Literature – The myth of the Golden age .

5. The conditions in South India – Megalithic Societies - Satavahanas – The Sangam

Age – Society and Economy – Trade – Decline of the trade – Spread of village economy – Feudalism – Theories – Debate

Suggested Readings Allchin,B & Allchin F.R. 1984. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan.

Banerjee, R.D. The Age of the Imperial Guptas.

Basham, A.L. The Wonder that was India .

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______, (Ed). 1987. A Cultural History of India. Delhi.

Jha, D.N. Ancient India in Historical Outline.

Kosambi .D.D.The Culture ansd Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline.

Mazumdar, R.C.1982. Ancient India.

________,(Ed), 1946. The Gupta – Vakataka Age.

Nilakanta Sastry, K.A.1966. A History of South India.

__________,(Ed).1966. The Age of the Nandas and Mauryas.Delhi.

Sankalia.H.D. 1974. Pre and Proto History of India and Pakistan, Pune, Deccan

College.

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

_________. Indian Feudalism.

Subramaniyam, N. 1966. The Sangam Polity., Bombay.

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HIST 422:SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA (A.D.1000-1707)

(HARD CORE – FOUR CREDITS)


COURSE DESCRIPTION Unit-I Advent of Turks in India

• The Islamic Background • The Central Asia Background

Unit-II Mohammed of Gazni and the debate over Somnath

• The Gajnavids • The Expedition of Mohammed Gazni • Alberuni • Many voices of Somanath

Unit-III Reigns of Delhi Sultanate

• Iltutmish • Raziya • Balban • Ala-ud-din Khalji • Mohammed Bin Tughluq

Unit-IV Administration under the Delhi Sultanate

• Iqta Systems • Central and provincial Administration

Unit-V Theory of Kingship

• Balban Theory Kingship Unit-VI Rise of Vijayanagara

• Malik Kafur • Fall of Hoysalas ,Cholas • Sangama State • Vijayanagara State and Society

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Unit-VII Transition to the Mughuls

• Babar • Warfare and military organization

Unit-VIII Age of Akbar

• Mansabdari systems • Rajput Policy • Religious Policy • Army of Mughuls • Administration of the Mughul Empire

Unit-IX Central Asian Policy of The Mughuls

• Persia and Samarkhand • External Relations of the Mughuls

Unit-X Land and Economy in Mughul India

• Agrarian systems • Jagirdari and Zamindari Systems • Internal Trade and artisanal production • Foreign Trade and Advent of the European Companies

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References

Alam, Muzaffar &

Sanjay Subramanyam The Mughal State, Oxford University Press ,2001.

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

Habib and Nigami The Delhi Sultanate Peoples Publishing House,1992.

Habib, Irfan The Agrarian Systems of Mughul India, Oxford University

Hubbi Bullah,A B M . Foundation of Muslim Rule in India, Allahabad,1973

Jackson,Peter The Delhi Sultanate, Oxford University Press,2000.

Mooreland From Akbar to Aurangazeb, New Delhi,(Reprint) 1992.

Moosvi ,Shireen The Economy of Mughul India, Oxford University Press,1996.

Mukhia ,Harbans Historian and Historiography of the Age of Akbar,

Richards J. F. The Mughul Empire, Cambridge University Press,1993.

Stein, Burton Vijayanagara, Cambridge University Press,1989

Thapar ,Romila Somanath: The Many Voices of History, Pengurn,2004.

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HIST 423: EARLY MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA, 550-1300


Faculty : Dr.Venkata Raghotham

COURSE DESCRIPTION This course aims at imparting comprehensive historical knowledge pertaining to the early medieval period of the Tamil country. The Chola state (850-1300) is studied in this course within the context of recent trends in Historiography. The course looks at the social, political and economic changes that took place in the Tamil region from the perspective of (a) the state and its strategies legitimation, (b) landed groups and institutions and (c) economic structures and activities. Apart from reviewing the broad political history of this period, an attempt will be made to place the history of the period in the broader concept of social and intellectual changes. The theoretical framework of the segmentary state is examined from various points of view.

COURSE CONTENT

1. Sources for the study of South Indian History. 2. Epigraphic and Literary Sources 3. Trends in the Nineteenth Century Historiography of South India 4. Recent developments in the Historiography of the Pallava and Chola period. 5. The Pallavas of Kanchipuram – The Mahendravarman – Cave temples of the Pallava

cult and Religion during the Pallava period. 6. Geographical factor in Chola history – Role of Land, Environment and the Sea. 7. Formation of the Medieval Agrarian Order – The Pallavas and Social change in the

early medieval period. 8. The Nadu: Social, Political and Economic structures of the peasant micro unit. 9. The Nagaram as a marketing and commercial centre. 10. Overseas Trade and Commercial activities of the Cholas. 11. Social institutions and conflict during the early medieval period.

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12. The Temple and its economic and social functions during the early medieval period. 13. The Chola state: Kingship and polity during the early medieval period. 14. Intellectual History of the Chola period. 15. Religious and Culture during the early medieval period. 16. Land: Landed groups and the Agrarian economy.

SUGGESTED READINGS Abraham, Meera, Two Trade Guide of Medieval South India, New Delhi, 1986. Brown, Percy, Indian Architecture, Bombay, 19 Champakalakshmi, R., Vaishnava Iconography in the Tamil Country, New Delhi:

Orient Longman, 1974. Champakalakshmi, R., “Urban Processes in Early Medieval Tamil Nadu” in Situating

Indian History, S. Bhattacharya and R. Thapar, eds., New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Champakalakshmi, R., Ideology and Urbanization in South India, 1300-1800, 1997. Clothey, Fred., The Many Faces of Murukan, The Hague, 1978. Dahejia, Vindhya, The Slaves of the Lord: The Pattu of the Tamil Saints, New Delhi:

Munshiram Manoharlal, 1988. Dorai, Rangaswamy, The Religion and Philosophy of the Tevaram, Madras: Madras

University Press, 1958. Davis, Richard, Ritual in an Oscillating University, New Jersey: Princeton University

Press, 1993. Dumont, Louis, Religion, Politics and History in India, The Hague, Muton, 19 Dumont, Louis, Homo Heirarochicus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press (reprint),

1978. Gonda, Jan, Ancient Indian Kingship from Religious Point or View, Leiden: E.J. Brill,

1966.

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Gross, Francois, Le Paripata: Texte Tamoul introduction, traduction, et note, E’cole Française d’Extreme Orient, Pondicherry, 1965.

Heesterman, J.C., The Inner Conflict of Traditions: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship

and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. Heitzman, James, “Ritual Polity and Economy: The Transactional Network of an

Imperial Temple in Medieval South India” in JESHO, Vol. XXIV, pp.35-61. Karashima, Noboru, South Indian History and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University

Press, 1985. Ludden, David, Peasant History in South India, New Jersey: Princeton University

Press, 1985. Minakshi, L, Administration and Social Life under the Pallavas, Madras. Miller, Barbara Stoler, The Power of Art, Patronage in Indian Culture, New Delhi:

Oxford University Press, 1955. Miller, Barbara Stoler, Studies in Chola History and Administration, Madras: Madras

University Press, 1935. Raghotham, Venkata, “Kingship, Politics and Memory in Early Medieval Tamil

Country: A Study of the Furnerary Shrines of the Cholas in Sri Nagabhinardanam: History, Archaeology, Epiography and Conservation of Cultural Property of India and Neighbouring Countries, L.K. Srinivasan and S. Nagaraju, eds., Bangalore, 1997.

Spencer, George, The Politics of Expansion: The Cholas in Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya,

Madras: New Era Publications, 1983. Shulman, David, Tamil Temple Myths, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. Shulman, David, The King and Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry, New Jersey:

Princeton University Press, 1985. Shulman, David, The Songs of the Harsh Devotee, California University Press, 1993. Stein, Burton, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, New Delhi: Oxford

University Press, 1980. Stein, Burton, Essays on South India, Honolu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978. Stein, Burton, South Indian Temples: An Annalytical Reconsideration, New Delhi, 1979.

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HIST 424: HISTORY OF CHINA AND JAPAN A.D. 1839-1949 (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy

Course Objectives: The course is expressly designed to help the student to be acquainted with Chinese history and China’s relation with imperialistic powers. The students will also be introduced to China’s economic and military resurgence. The course covers the emergence of nationalism and communism in China. And the course is also designed to help the students to know Japanese history especially after the opening up of Japan. And it is also intended to familiarize the students with the Japan’s modernization and its impact on the Japanese society. It covers the consequences of the World War II on Japan.

Course Content:

China: Unit 1: China and Imperialism during the 19th century

a) Chinese society- social groups and classes;

b) Opium wars and treaties with imperialist powers;

c) Open door policy;

d) Popular and reform movements, 1860 to 1898;

Unit 2: Emergence of Nationalism in China

a) Boxer Rebellion and its consequences;

b) Revolution of 1911- Sun Yat Sen – principles and politics;

b) May Fourth Movement – its nature and significance;

Unit 3: Nationalism and Communism in China

a) Political crisis in the 1920s;

b) Nature of Industrialization;

c) KMT and the first united front;

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d) Communist movement: 1928 to 1949 – Civil war; Chinese revolution –

ideology, causes and significance

Japan: Unit 4: Meiji Restoration:

a) Tokugawa Baku-han system – nature and crisis;

b) Encounter with the west;

c) Meiji restoration and processes of modernization;

d) Popular and democratic movements;

Unit 5: Emergence of Japan as an imperial power

a) Sino-Japanese relations;

b) Anglo-Japanese alliance

c) Russo-Japanese war

d) World War I and after

Unit 6: Democracy and Militarism:

a) Rise of political parties and failure of the democratic system;

b) Rise of militarism;

c) Second Sino-Japanese War;

d) Japan and World War II – its consequences.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Alien, George, A short Economic History of Modern Japan 1867-1937, (London, Allen Unwin, 1946). Beasley, W.G., The Modern History of Japan (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963) Beckmann, George M., Modernization of China and Japan ( Harper &Row, 1962) -------------------------- The Making of the Meiji Constitution (Greenwood, 1975) Bianco, Lucien , Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 (London, OUP, 1971)

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Chesneaux, Jean, et al., China from Opium War to 1911 Revolution (Sussex, Harverter Press, 1976) Chesneaux, Jean, et al., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation (Delhi, Khosla Publishing, 1986). Chesneaux, Jean, et al., Peasants Revolts in China, 1840-1949 (London, Thames

&Hundson, 1973)

Chesneaux , Jean – China- The People’s Republic, (Harvester Press, 1979).

Fitzgerald, C.P. - The Birth of Communist China, Pelican books, 1971.

Fairbank, John K., et al., East Asia: Modern Transformation. Hall, John W., Japan From Prehistory to Modern Times (Rutland, VT, and Tokyo, Tuttle, 1971). Hane, Mikiso, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey (Westview, 1986). Jansen, M.B., Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894-1972 ( Chicago, 1975). Jansen, Y.D., (ed), The Cambridge History of Japan, Vols.V and vi (Cambridge, OUP, 1988 and 1989). Peffer, Nathanniel, The Far East: A Modern History. Pyle, Kenneth B., The Making of Modern Japan (Lexington, D.C Health &Co., 1996). Sansom, George B., The Western World and Japan (London, Cresset press, 1950). Sheng, Hu, Imperialism and Chinese Politics (Gordon Press, 1976). Tse-tung, Chow, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (California, Stanford University Press, 1967).

Walker , R.L. China under Communism, (London, 1956).

Yanaga, Chitoshi, Japan since Parry (Greenwood, 1975)/

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HIST 425: INTRODUCTION TO ROCK ART OF INDIA

(SOFT CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr.N.Chandramouli Course Objectives The course is designed to provide a glimpse of the rock art in India. The need to observe the theme, content and context of the rock art would be focused. The various stages of the rock art in India would be studied to understand the various evolutionary pattern of the rock art.

1. Rock art – Definitions – Types of Rock art – Rock art traditions of the World – Important

Discoveries – Characteristic Features of the Global Rock art Traditions. 2. Rock Art of India – Early Notices – Formative Stages of Research – Important

Discoveries – Trends in Research Direction – Lacunae. 3. Rock Art of India – Mature Stage of Research – Important Discoveries – Trends in

Research Direction – Development of Global interest in Indian Rock art Studies. 4. Characteristic Features of Indian Rock art – Types of Rock Art – Classification of Rock

art – Themes, Colour Schemes, Superimpositions – Space – time Concept in Indian Rock art study-

Regional Peculiarities in Indian Rock Art Tradition – Important Regional Rock art Traditions – Characteristic Features.

5. Theories in Indian Rock Art Studies – Interpretation of the Meaning of Rock Art – Recent Developments in the Dating of Indian Rock Art – Scientific Studies.

Suggested Readings Chandramouli,N. 2004. Rock Art South India. New Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Chakravarthy,K.k.1984(Ed) .Rock Art of India : Painting & Engraving. New Delhi.Abhinav. Conkey, M.W.1981. “A Century of Palaeolithic Cave Art “Archaeology 34(4):20 -28. Conkey, M.W.1987.”New Approaches in Search for Meaning: A Review of Research in Palaeolithic Art” Journal of Field Archaeology 14:413 – 30.

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Davis Whitney, 1986. “The Origins of Image Making” Current Anthropology27(3):193-215.

Gordon.D.H. 1958. The Prehistoric background of Indian Culture. Bombay.B.R.Taraporewala & Sons.

Graziosi,P. 1960. Palaeolithic Art. London:Faber&Faber.

Hauser,A.1951. The Social History of Art. Vol.!. London: Rouletge& Kegan Paul.

Leroi – Gourhan,A.1968. The Art of the Prehistoric Man in western Europe.London: Thames & Hudson. Mathpal,Y.1984. Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Central India.New Delhi: Abhinav. Mathpal,Y.1994. Rock Art Kerala. New Delhi,.IGNCA. Neumayer,E.1983. Prehistoric Indian Rock Paintings. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Neumayer,E.1993. Lines on Stone: Prehistoric Art of India.New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Pradhan,S.2004. Rock Art of Orissa. New Delhi: Aryan Books International. Sundara,A.1994. Rock Art of Karnataka. Banglore, Karnataka Lalita Kala Academy. Sieveking,Ann.1979. The Cave Artists. London Thames & Hudson. Ucko,P.J.& Andre Rosenfeld.1967. Palaeolithic Cave Art. London. World University Press. Wakankar,V.S.& R.R.R. Brooks.1976. Stone Age Painting in India. Belhi: B.R.Taraporewala & Sons. Williams, Lewis.1983.The Rock art of Southern Africa.Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Willcox,A.R.1984. The Rock Art of Africa. London: Croom helm.

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Department of History PONDICHERRY HISTORY

HIST 426: INDIAN ARCHITECTURE

(SOFT CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr.K.Rajan

Course Objectives The course surveys the evolution of architecture in India and their transformation through the years. The various architectural features embedded in the ancient monuments particularly in the temple would be thrown open to the students to understand the heritage monuments of this country in right perspectives. Unit 1 Introduction to Architecture - Architecture of Indus valley - Buddhist Architecture : Rock-cut caves - Stupas Unit II Early Brick Temples - Styles of Temple Architecture: Nagara, Vysara, Dravida - Gupta Architecture - Orissan architecture: Bubaneswar, Puri and Konarak - Chandelas dynasty : Khajarakao Unit III Early Chalukyan Architecture: Badami, Aihole and Pattadakkal- Pallava Architecture: Mahabalipuram -Rock cut-caves- Monoliths - structural temples - Unit IV Chola Architecture: Brahadiswara (Thanjavur Big temple) and Gangaikondacholapuram- Rastrakuta architecture : Ellora Unit V Hoysala Architecture : Halabed and Somnathpur- Kakathiya Architecture: Warangal - - Vijayanagara architecture - Hambi - Gopuras

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Suggested Readings Acharya Prasanna Kumar, 1946 An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture, Manasara

Series 7, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Agrawala, V.S., 1965 Indian Art:History of Indian Art from earliest times upto 3rd

century AD, Prithivi Prakashan, Varanasi. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1966 Early Chola Art, Asia Publishing House, Bombay. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1971 Early Chola Temples, Orient Longman, New Delhi. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1975, Middle Chola Temples, Thomson PressLtd., Faridabad. Balasubrahmanyam, S.R., 1979, Later Chola Temples, Mudgala Trust, Faridabad. Banerjee, J.N., 1974 Development of Hindu Iconography, Munishiram Manoharlal, New

Delhi. Barret Douglas, 1974 Early Chola Architecture and Sculpture, Faber and Faber, London. Bhattacharya, B., 1958 Indian Buddhist Iconography, K.L.Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta. Dayalan Fergusson, J., 1910 History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, 2 vols., John Murray,

London. Gopinatha Rao, T.A., 1914 Elements of Hindu Iconography, Motilal Banarsidass, New

Delhi. Gupte, R.S., 1972 Iconography of the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, D.B.Taraporevala

Sons and Co. Pvt. Ltd., Bombay. Joshi, N.P., 1979 Jain Iconography, Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore. Krishna Deva, 1969 Temples of North India, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. KVS Lokesh, Chandra 1987 Buddhist Iconography, 2 vols, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi. Longhurst, A.H., Pallava Architecture, 3 vols., Memoirs of Archaeological Survey of

India. Michael W. Meister and Dhaky, M.A., 1983 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple

Architecture : South India Lower Dravida Desa, American Institute of Indian Studies, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

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Michael W. Meister and Dhaky, M.A., 1986 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture : South India Upper Dravida Desa, American Institute of Indian Studies, Oxford University Press, Delhi

Michell George, 1975 Early Western Calukyan Temples, 2vols. London. Nagasamy, R., 1970 Gangaikondacholapuram, State Dept. of Archaeology, Madras. Nagasamy, R., 1972 The Art of Tamil Nadu, State Dept. of Archaeology, Madras. Percy Brown, 1976 Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period), D.B.Taraporevala

Sons and Co., Bombay. Ramachandra Rao, 1988-1991 Pratima Kosa – Encyclopaedia of Indian Iconography, 5

vols, Kalpatharu Research Academy, Bangalore. Saraswathi, S.K., 1957 A Survey of Indian Sculpture, Munishiram Manoharlal, New

Delhi. Sivaramamurthi, C.,? Indian Paintings, National Book Trust , New Delhi. Soundara Rajan, K.V., 1978 Art of South India- Tamil Nadu and Kerala, New Delhi. Sivaramamurti, C., 1960 The Chola Temples, Thanjavur, Gangaikondacholapuram and

Darasuram, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Sivaramamurti, C., 1974 Nataraja in Art, Thought and Literature, National Museum,

New Delhi. Sivaramamurthi, C., 1968 South Indian Paintings, National Museum, New Delhi. Soundara rajan, K.V., 1978 The Art of South India, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Sundeep

Prakashan, New Delhi. Srinivasan, K.R., 1972 Temples of South India, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi. Suresh, B.Pillai, 1976 Introduction to the Study of Temple Art, Equator and Meridian,

Thanjavur.

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PONDICHERRY HISTORY

HIST 427: INTRODUCTION TO MUSEOLOGY (SOFT CORE - THREE CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr.K.Rajan

Course Objectives The course is designed to expose the importance of the museum studies. The various functions of museums like acquitions, documentation, display, education, preservation and conservation of museum objects would be emphasised so that the students can understand the importance of museum in preserving our cultural heritage. Unit I : History of Museum General principles of museums – Definitions of museum – History of Museums in India – History of museums in Tamil Nadu Unit II : Documentation Functions of museums - Types of museums - Collection – Origin - Collection theory – Modes of acquisition – Antiquarian Law - Documentations – Accessing – Identifications – Methods of cataloguing – Classifications – Types of cards – Data bank – Museum library Unit III : Display Display - Explanations - General principles of presentation – Analysis of material – Types of exhibition – Organisation of exhibition – Exhibition equipments - Labelling- Lightning - Audio-visual aids Unit IV : Museum Building Museum building – Museum architecture – Museum security - Types of visitors – Public facilities – Museum management – Museum research and education - Unit V : Principles of Conservation and Preservation General principles of conservations – Conservation of organic and inorganic material - Physical, chemical and biological effects – Preservation and restoration – Temperature, humidity, pollution – Effects of light – Conservation of metals, paintings, manuscripts, stone, textiles and wood - Care and preservation of excavated material

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References Agarwal, O.P., 1974 Museum Works, Bangkok. American Association of Museums, 1973 Museums Studies: A Curriculum Guide for

Universities and Museums, Washington. Baxi, Smita J., and Dwivedi, P.Vinod, 1973 Modern Museum Organisation and Practice

in India, New Delhi. Bedekar, V.H., 1985 So you want a good museum exhibition, Department of Museology,

Baroda. Butler, Patricia, M., 1970 Temporary Exhibitions, London. Cronyn, 1995 Elements of Archaeological Conservation, Rouletge, London. Ghosh, D.P., 1968 Studies in Museum and Museology in India, Indian Publications,

Calcutta. Keck, Cardine, K., et.al., 1966 A Premier on Museum Security, New York. Miles, 1993 The Design Educational Exhibits, Rouletge, London. Morley, Grace 1981 Museums Today, Department of Museology, Faculty of Fine Arts,

M.S.University, Baroda. Oliver Inpey and Arthur Mac Gregor, 1985 The Origins of Museums, London. Paundurai, Raju 2001 Arungatchiyagaviyal, Meyyappan Tamilaivakam, Chidambaram. Rivers George Henri and Visser, Herman, E.E., 1969 Museum Showcases, vol.23, No.1,

UNESCO, Paris. Sarkar, H., 1981 Museums and Protection of Monuments and Antiquities in India, Delhi. UNESCO, 1968 The Conservation of Cultural Property with special reference to tropical

conditions, Paris. UNESCO 1968 Museums and Education, Museums, vol.21, no.1, Paris. UNESCO, 1970 Models in Museums of Science and Technology, Museum, vol.234,

Paris. Warren, Jefferson, T., 1973 Exhibit Methods, New York.

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HIST 428: SOCIAL AND AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS IN MODERN

INDIA (SOFT CORE - THREE CREDITS)


Course Objectives: The course aims at promoting a comprehensive understanding of the nature and scope of the social and agrarian movements in colonial India. It offers a detailed analysis of the ideological framework of these social and agrarian movements and familiarizes the students with the conceptual theories and typologies. Focus is laid on the study of case studies of peasant movements, tribal movements, Dalit movements, etc. Emphasis is placed on comprehension of social movements with comparative perspective. 1. Social Movements and Social Structure- The Ideological Framework of Social

Movements, Conceptual Theories and Typologies, Leadership and Charisma in Social Movements, Social Movements and Social Change.

2. Reform and Revivalist Movements- Brahma samaj, Arya samaj, Prardhana samaj, Neo- Buddhism

3. Caste movements- S.N.D.P. Yogam, Dravidian Movement, Yadava Movement, Dalit Movement

4. Peasant Movements- Indigo Revolt, Deccan Riots, Moplah revolt of 1921, Telangana Armed struggle, Peasants and National movement

5. Tribal Movements- Santhal Revolt, Birsa Munda Movement, Rampa Revolt of 1922

SUGGESTED READINGS Arnold, David, 1982. “Rebellious Hillmen: The Gudem Rampa Risings, 1839-1924”, in

Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies, Vol. I, Delhi: OUP. Baviskar, B.S. and Don Attwood, 1983. Who Shares?, OUP. Custers, Peter, 1986. “Women’s Role in Tebhaga Movement”, Economic and Political

Weekly, Vol.XXI, No.43, October 25.

Datta, K.K.,1975, Social History of Modern India, Macmilan Desai, A.R. Peasant Struggles in India, Oxford University Press.

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Dhanagare, D.M. Peasant Movements in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Dube, Saurabh, 2001. Untouchable Pasts: Religion Identity and Power among a

Central Indian Community, 1780-1950, New Delhi: Vistaas Publications. Eisenstadt, S.N., 1965. Modernization: Protest and Change, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Fuchs, Stephen, 1965. Rebellious Prophets, Bombay: Asia Publishing House. George, Shanti, 1985. Operation Flood, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Gore, M.S., 1993. The Social Context of Ideology: Ambedkar’s Political and Social

Thought, Sage Publications. Guha, Ranajit., 1983.Elementary Aspects Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, OUP Gupta, K.P., 1974. “Religious Evolution and Social Change in India: A Study of

Ramakrishna Mission Movement”, Contributions to Indian Sociology (New Series, 8).

Gusfield, Joseph, R, 1970. Protest, Reform and Revolt: A Reader in Social Movements,

New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Hardiman, David (Ed) , 1993. Peasant Resistance in India 1858-1914, OUP Heimasath, 1989. Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform, Princeton: Princeton

University Press. Irschick, Eugene F., 1986. Tamil Revivalism in the 1930’s, Madras: Cre A. Jordens. Dayanand Saraswati, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Kannabiran, Vasantha and K. Lalitha, 1989. “That Magic Time: Women in the

Telengana People’s Struggle” in Kum Kum Sangah and Sudesh Vard, eds., Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Kali for Women.

Michael, S.M., 1999. Dalits in Modern India, New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. O’Hanlon, Rosalind, 1985. Caste, Conflict and Ideology, Cambridge University Press. Oommen, T.K. Protest and Change, Sage Publications. Rao, M.S.A. Social Movements and Transformation, New Delhi: Manohar Publications. Sarkar, Tanika, 1985. ”Jutir Santal’s Movement in Malda, 1924-32: A Study in Tribal

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Protest” in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies, Vol. IV, Delhi: OUP. Shah, Ghanshyam, ed., 2001. Dalit Identity and Politics, Sage. Shah, Ghanshyam, 1974. “Traditional Society and Political Mobilization: The

Experience of Bardol Batyagraha 1920-28”, Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series, 8.

Singh, K.S., Tribal Movements in India. Singh, Yogendra, 1973. Modernization of Indian Tradition, Thomson Press. Srinivas, M.N., 1966. Social Change in Modern India, Berkely: University of California

Press. Washbrooke, David, 1989. “Caste, Class and Dominance in Modern Tamil Nadu” in

Francine Frankel, ed., Dominance and State Power in Modern India, Delhi: OUP.

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HIST 429: MODERN WEST (1500-1780)


FACULTY: Dr. G. CHANDHRIKA

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course is designed to give the students a comprehensive picture of the emergence, expansion and dominance of the Western civilization from 1500 – 1780. It discusses the development of the state, society and economy of the West with special reference to the science, technology and ideologies of Western dominance. The geographical, commercial, political, intellectual and scientific revolutions which paved the way for the predominance of the West over the rest of the world are highlighted.

COURSE CONTENT Unit 1: Early Modern West

i. Reformation ii. Economic and Technological Developments iii. The Rise of New Monarchies iv. Colonial Empires of Portugal and Spain

Unit 2: Europe in Crisis

i. The Impact of Overseas Expansion ii. The Thirty Years War iii. The Crisis of the mid – seventeenth Century iv. Economic, Social and Political Dimensions

Unit 3: European State System

i. The English Revolutions ii. France under the Bourbons iii. Hohenzollern Prussia and Habsburg Austria iv. Expansion and Europeanisation of Russia

Unit 4: Colonial Expansion

i. Economic Nationalism and Mercantilism ii. The Dutch Commercial Empire iii. Anglo-French Rivalry iv. The Hegemony of Britain

Unit 5: Intellectual Currents

i. Scientific and Intellectual Revolution ii. Enlightenment iii. Political Thought in the eighteenth century. iv. The Ancient Regime

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.SUGGESTED READINGS Adas, Michael, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies

of Western Dominance, Delhi, 1990.. Ashton, Trevor, Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660, London, 1970. Barnes, H.E., History of Western Civilization, 2 vols., New York, 1955. Braudel, F., Civilization and Capitalism: Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century, 3 vols.,

London, 1985. Cairns, Trevor, The Birth of Modern Europe, Cambridge, 1975. Cipolla, C.M., European Culture and Overseas Expansion, London, 1970. Davis, R., The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, London, 1975. Durant, Will, The Story of Civilization, Vol.V to XI, New York, 1953-75. Landes,D.S., The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial

Development in Western Europe from 1750 to Present, Cambridge, 1969. MC Neill, William, H., The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, New

York, 1964. MC Neill, William, H., A World History, New York, 1967. ----- , The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I to XII, 1960-65. Poulton, Richard, A History of the Modern World, London, 1984. Reilly, Kevin, The West and the World: A History of Civilization, New York, 1989. Spengler, Oswald, Decline of the West, 2 vols., New York, 1926-28. Stavrianos, L., The World Since 1500: A Global History, New Jersey, 1982. Taylor, A.J.P., The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918, London, 1974. Toynbee, A.J., The World and the West, London, 1980. Wright, Esmond, gen. ed., History of the World: The Last Five Hundred Years, London,

1984.

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HIST 430: WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA


FACULTY : DR. G. CHANDHRIKA

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course is designed to create awareness among the students about women’s agency in historical change especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in India. It looks at the woman question which loomed large in India in the nineteenth century; examines the role of women in India’s struggle for freedom; reviews women’s legal status in pre and post independent India; debates women’s participation in politics; focuses on women’s contribution to social and environmental movements and analyses women centered issues in contemporary India.

COURSE CONTENT Unit 1: Women in Colonial India

i. The “Women Question” ii. Reform Movements and Women iii. Growth of female education iv. Women’s organizations v. The Movement for Women’s Suffrage

Unit 2: Women in the National Movement

i. Pre Gandhian ii. Gandhian iii. Women and the Partition

Unit 3: Women and the Law

i. Colonial India ii. Post Independence

Unit 4: Women’s Political Participation

i. Post Independence Perspectives ii. Panchayats and municipal councils iii. State legislatures, and Parliament iv. Role in movements for economic and social justice v. The Women’s movement in contemporary India

Unit 5: Women’s Issues in Contemporary India

i. Deficit of Women ii. Feminization of Poverty iii. Violence against Women iv. Women’s Empowerment v. Eco-Feminism

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SUGGESTED READINGS

Afshar, Haleh and Bina Agarwal eds. Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia. Macmillan, London, 1989.

Agnes, Flavia. Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India. OUP, New Delhi, 2000. Agnew, Vijay. Elite Women in Indian Politics. Delhi, Vikas, 1979.

Alka, Singh. Women in Muslim Personal Law. Rawat, Jaipur, 1992. Carr, Marilyn, Martha Chen and Renana Jhabvala. eds. Speaking Out: Women’s Economic Empowerment in South Asia. Vistaar, Delhi, 1996. Desouza, Alfred. ed. Women in Contemporary India. Manohar, Delhi, 1975. Engels, Dagmar. Beyond Purdah?: Women in Bengal 1890 – 1930. OUP, New Delhi, 1996. Engineer, Agshar Ali. The Rights of Women in Islam. Sterling, Delhi, 1982. Everett. Jana M. Women and Social Change in India. Heritage Publishers, Delhi, 1981.

Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. Gulati, Leela. Profiles in Female Poverty. Hindustan Publishing, Delhi, 1981. Kaur, Manmohan. Role of Women in the Freedom Movement, 1857 – 1947. Sterling, New Delhi, 1968. Khullar, Mala, ed., 2005. Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader.Delhi: Zubaan. Krishnamurty, J. ed. Women in Colonial India: Essays on Survival, Work and the State. OUP, Delhi, 1989. Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998. Major, Andrea. Sati, A Historical Anthology. OUP, New Delhi, 2007. Major Andrea. Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati, 1500 – 1830. OUP, New Delhi, 2006 Mazumdar, Vina. Symbols of Power: Studies on the Political Status of Women in India. Allied, Delhi, 1979.

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Menon, Nivedita. ed. Gender and Politics in India. OUP, New Delhi, 1999. Miller, Barbara D. The Endangered Sex. Cornell Uni. Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1981. Minault, Gail. Secluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India. OUP, Delhi, 1998. Minault, Gail. ed. The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan. Chanakya, Delhi, 1981. Nair, Janaki. Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History. Kali for Women, Delhi, 1996. Nanda, B.R., ed. Indian Women: From Purdah to Modernity. Vikas, Delhi, 1976. Powell, Avril. Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia OUP, New Delhi, 2006 Ram, Ahuja. Violence Against Women. Rawat, Jaipur, 1998. Ray, Bharati. Early Feminists of Colonial India: Saraladevi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. OUP, New Delhi, 2005. Ray, Bharati and Basu, Aparna, eds. From Freedom to Independence: Women and Fifty Years of India's Independence. OUP, Delhi, 1999. Ray, Bharati. ed. From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women. OUP, New Delhi, 1995. Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History. Kali for Women, Delhi, 1990. Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Kali for Women, Delhi, 1988. Taru, Susie and K. Lalita, eds. Women Writings in India. Vol. I. 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century. Vol. II. The TwentiethCentury. 1990,-1991. Feminist Press. New York. Thorner, Alice and Krishnaraj, Maithreyi. eds. Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature and History. Orient Longman, Mumbai, 2000. Towards Equality: Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India. Govt. of India, Delhi, 1975. Walsh Judith. Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice. OUP, New Delhi, 2006.

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HIST 511: INTRODUCTION TO EPIGRAPHY


Faculty: Dr.K.Rajan Course Objectives One of the important source materials available in India to reconstruct our past is the inscriptions. These inscriptions are available in different scripts and languages on different material like stone, copper plates, pillars, rock-shelters. The course is designed to train the students in the field of epigraphy so that they can handle the material themselves in their future research programmes. Unit I Value of Inscriptions for historical reconstruction - Origin and antiquity of the art of writing in India - Indus Script Unit II Brahmi script - Kharoshti script - Asokan Edicts - Graffiti marks Unit III Tamil-Brahmi script - Mangulam, Jambai, Pugalur inscriptions- Evolution of Tamil-Brahmi script - Vatteluttu Script - Tamil Script - Grantha script Unit IV Dating methods - Eras : Vikrama, Saka, Kollam, Kali, - Hijri Numeral values Unit V Structure of inscription - Types of Inscriptions - Hero stones - Land grants References Buhler, G., 1959 Indian Palaeography, Calcutta. Dani, A.H., 1986, Indian Palaeography, Munshiram and Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

New Delhi. Gai, G.S., 1991, Studies in Indian History, Epigraphy and culture, Mysore. Mahadevan. I., 1970, Corpus of Tamil - Brahmi Inscriptions, Tamil Nadu State

Department of Archaeology, Madras.

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Mahadevan, I., 1997 "Tondaimandalattu kozhi karkal", Avanam no.8, Journal of Tamil

Nadu Archaeological Society, Thanjavur: 9-19. Mahadevan, I., 2003 Early Tamil Epigraphy : from the earliest times to the sixth century

AD, Cre - A Chennai, India and The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, Harvard, USA.

Mahalingam, T.V., Early South Indian Palaeography, University of Madras, Madras. Mahalingam, T.V.,1988, Inscriptions of the Pallavas, Indian Council of Historical

Research, New Delhi. Mangalam, S.J., 1990 Kharoshthi Script, Eastern Book Linkers, Delhi. Pandey, R., 1957 Indian Palaeography, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. Ramesh, K.V., 1984, Indian Epigraphy, Vol. 1, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi. Satya Murthy, K., 1992 Text Book of Indian Epigraphy, Price Publications, Delhi. Shastri, A.M., 1999 The Age of Satavahanas, 2vols., New Delhi. Sircar, D.C., Inscriptions of Asoka, Publication Division, Nee Delhi. Sircar, D.C., 1965, Indian Epigraphy, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi Sircar, D.C.,1983, Select Inscriptions, Vol. I&II, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. Sivaramamurthy, C., 1952, Indian Epigraphy and South Indian Scripts, Bulletin of the

Madras Government Museum Vol.III No.4, Madras. Subramanian, T.N., 1952, South Indian Epigraphy and Tamil Palaeography, South Indian

Temple Inscriptions , Vol. III pt 2, Oriental Library, Madras. Velupillai. A., 1980, Epigraphical Evidences for Tamil Studies, International Institute of

Tamil Studies, Madras. Visalakshy, P. 2003, The Grantha Script, Dravidian Linguistics Association,

Tiruvananthapuram. Journals: Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy Epigraphia Indica Indian Antiquary Inscriptions of Pudukottai States Journal of Bombay Branch of Royal Asiatic Society South Indian Inscriptions South Indian Temple Inscriptions Studies in South Indian Coins

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HIST 512: SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF COLONIAL INDIA (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)


Course Objectives: The course aims at providing comprehensive understanding of the transformations in society and economy of colonial India. It covers the introduction of judicial system, evolution of educational policy and the land and agrarian policies under the British rule. The students will also be familiarized with the socio-religious reform movements, the social mobility and social change and the different historiographical trends on the history of colonial India.

Course Content

1. The Agrarian Structure and Rural Society at the commencement of British rule. 2. Land and Agrarian Relations – Types of Tenure – Pre-British and British Land

Revenue Settlements, Ryotwari, Patidari, Mahalwari, Bhaichara – Interpretations of British Land Revenue Settlements.

3. British Judicial System. 4. Commercialization of Agriculture – Rural Indebtedness. 5. Decline of Handicraft Industries – Drain of Wealth. 6. Urbanization during Colonial Rule – Rise of Markets and Urban Centres. 7. Socio-Religious Reform Movements – Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, Satya-Shodak

Sabha. 8. Educational Development and Policy. 9. Historiography of Colonial India – Subaltern. 10. Social Mobility and Social Change.

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SUGGESTED READINGS Arnold, David, 1985. “Bureaucratic Recruitment and Subordination in Colonial India:

The Madras Contabulary, 1859-1947” in Subaltern Studies, Vol.IV, Delhi: Oxford Universsity Press.

Arnold, David and Hardman David, ed. Subaltern Studies, Vol.III, Oxford. Bayly, C.A., 1983. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, Cambridge University Press. Beteille, Andre, 1969. Caste, Class and Power, Bombay: Oxford University Press. Bhattacharya, Neeladri, 1986. “Colonial State and Agrarian Society” in Situating

Indian History for S. Gopal, S. Bhattacharya and R. Thapar (ed.), Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Cohn, B.S., 1987. An Anthropologist among the Historians and other Essays, Delhi:

Oxford University Press. Cohn, B.S. and Marriott, 1958. “Centres and Networks in the Integration of Indian

Civilization”, Man in India, 1958. Crook, Migel, ed., 1996. The Transmission of Knowledge in South Asia: Essays on

Education, Religion, History and Politics, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Duncan, J. and M. Derrett, 1999. Religion, Law and the State in India, Delhi: Oxford

University Press. Frykenberg, R.E., ed., 1979. Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History,

Delhi: Manohar Publishers. Frykenberg, R.E., 1979. Guntur District, Oxford University Press, 1979. Gough, Kathleen, 1980. “Mode of Production in Southern India”, Economic and

Political Weekly, Annual Number – February). Guha, Ranjit, ed. Subaltern Studies, Vols. I to VII, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Guha, Ranjit, 1982. A Rule of Property for Bengal, New Delhi: Orient Longman. Gupta, Narayani, 1998. Delhi Between Two Empires, 1803-1931, Delhi: Oxford

University Press. Gupta, Sulekh Chandra, 1983. Agrarian Relations and Early British Rule in India,

Bombay: 1983.

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Hanlon, Rosalind O’, 1985. Caste, Conflict and Ideology, Cambridge University Press. Jain, M.P., 1952. Outline of Indian Legal History, Delhi. Jones, Kenneth. W., 1989. Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India,

Cambridge University Press. Jordens, Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Kopf, David, 1979. Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind,

Princeton. Kosambi, Meera, 1985. “Commerce, Conquest and the Colonial City”, Economic and

Political Weekly, Vol. XX, No.I, January. Krishnamurthy, J., Women in Colonial India, Oxford University Press. Kumar, Dharma, ed., 1984. The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II: C.1757-

1970, New Delhi. Kumar, Dharma, 1965. Land and Caste in South India, Cambridge University Press. Kumar, Ravinder, 1983. Essays in the Social History of Modern India, Calcutta, Oxford

University Press. Kumar, Ravinder, 1983. Western India in the Nineteenth Century, London. Ludden, David, 2001. Reading Subaltern Studies, Delhi: Permanent Breek. Metcalf, T.R., 1979. Land, Landlords and the British Raj: North India in the Nineteenth

Century, University of California Press. Mukharjee, N., 1962. The Ryotwari System in Madras, 1792-1827, Calcutta. Powell, B.H. Baden, 1896. The Indian Village Community, London: Longmans Green. Powell, B.H. Baden, 1988. Land Systems of British India, Vol. I, II, III, New Delhi:

Crown Publications. Said, Edward, Orientalism. Sangari, K. and Vaid Sudesh, 1989. Recasting Women Essays in Colonial History: Kali

for Women. Sarkar, Sumit. Modern India, Delhi: Orient Longman.

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Stein, Burton, 1989. Thomas Munro, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Srinivas, M.N., 1966. Social Change in Modern India, University of California Press. Srinivas, M.N., ed., 1985. India’s Village, Bombay: Asia Publishing House. Stokes, Eric, 1978. The Peasant and the Raj, Cambridge University Press. Stokes, Eric, 1959. The English Utilitarians and India, Oxford: Claredon Press. Woodruff, Phillip, 1953. The Men who Ruled India: The Founders – Jonathan Cape,

London. Whitcombe, E. Agrarian Conditions in India in the United Provinces under British

Rule, 1860-1900.

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HIST 513: AGRARIAN HISTORY OF COLONIAL INDIA (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)


Course Objectives The chief objective of course is to provide a thorough understanding of the important aspects of agrarian history of modern India. It comprehensively covers the major agricultural trends and the varied explanations of the famines and scarcities during the colonial period. It focuses on the changes in the rural agrarian structure and also the growth of agricultural labour. It also traces the process of differentiation within the Indian peasantry and explains the agrarian unrest. The changing rural landscape, its impact on the environment and the issues concerning the forestry will also dealt within the course.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Historiography of Agrarian History Some leading interpretations of the nature and process of agrarian change during

British rule. Unit 2: Organization of the Pre-colonial Rural Economy

Examinations of the notions of ‘village self-sufficiency’ and ‘village community’ – elements of conflict and solidarity in the village community –

late pre-colonial India’s agrarian economy, a growing economy? Unit 3: Major Agricultural Trends Co-existence of decline and growth increasing commercialization of agriculture

– a ‘forced commercialization’? – organization of cash crop cultivation and its impact on the small peasant economy.

Unit 4: Famines and Scarcities; explanations Unit 5: The Rural Agrarian Structures The new land systems and the reshuffling of the upper levels of tenurial

hierarchy; The process of replacement of the old proprietary groups. Unit 6: Growth of Agricultural Labourers during British rule – System of Bonded

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Labour (‘agrestic serfdom’) Unit 7: Process of Differentiation within the Peasantry Rise of ‘a rich peasantry’ to be explained; growth of the tenancy system – Unit 8: Agrarian unrest and Peasant Revolts

Unit 9: Changing Rural Landscape and Environment; and the issues concerning ‘forestry’ – ‘ecological approach’ to rural changes in colonial India.

SUGGESTED READINGS Baker, C.J., 1984. An Indian Rural Economy: The Tamil Countryside, Delhi: OUP. Charlesworth, Neil. Peasants and Imperial Rule: The Bombay Presidency, Cambridge University Press. Cohn, B.S. and Frykenberg, 1979. Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History, Delhi: Manohar Publications. Cuha, B.S., 1997. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, Delhi: OUP. Fukazawa, Hiroshi, 1991. The Medieval Deccan, Delhi: OUP. Guha, Ramachandra, 1985. “Forestry and Social Protest in British Kumaun, C.1893-1921” in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies, Vol. IV, Delhi: OUP. Guha, Ramachandra, 1999. Savaging the Civilized, Delhi: OUP. Guha, Ranajit, 1998. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India, Delhi: OUP. Kumar, Dharma, ed., 1982. The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II, Delhi: Orient Longman. Kumar, Dharma. Land and Caste in South India, Cambridge University Press. Kumar, Dharma. Colonialism, Property and the State, Delhi: OUP. Robb, Peter. Rural India: Land, Power, Society under British Rule, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Robb, Peter, 1993. Dalit Movements and the Meetings of Labour in India, Delhi: OUP.

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Roy, Tirthankar, 1999. Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India, Cambridge University Press. Sarkar, Sumit, 1983. Modern India, Delhi: Macmillan. Sarkar, Sumit. Writing Social History, Delhi: OUP. Sharma, Sanjay, 2001. Famine, Philanthrophy and the Colonial State in the Early Nineteenth Century, Delhi: OUP. Srinivas, M.N. and A.M. Shah, 1960. “The Myth of Self Sufficiency of the Indian Village”, Economic Weekly, 10 September. Stokes, Eric. The Peasant and the Raj, OUP. Visaria, Leela and Previn Visaria, 1982. “Population, 1957-97”, in Dharma Kumar, ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II, Delhi: Orient Longman.

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HIST 514: HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1707-1857 (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr. G. Chandhrika

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course aims at familiarizing the students about the nature of the eighteenth century. It covers a span of hundred and fifty years from 1707 to 1857 from the death of Aurangzeb to the Revolt of 1857, a period which witnessed the twilight of the Mughal Empire and the rise of the British Empire. It deals with the political economy of the eighteenth century, the expansion and consolidation of British power in India, British policy in India, the early resistance to British rule in India and the nature, causes and consequences of the Revolt of 1857.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Understanding the Eighteenth Century

Concepts, Terminologies and Historiographical Debates. Unit 2: State, Society and Economy in the Eighteenth Century.

i. The Later Mughals ii. The Emergence of Regional Powers iii. Agrarian Relations and Patronage iv. War and Society

Unit 3: Expansion and Consolidation of British Power:

i. Expansion of the English East India Company ii. Anglo-French Conflict iii. Policies and Programmes of Expansion iv. Instruments of Expansion: War and Diplomacy

Unit 4: Colonial Construction of India: Structures and Institutions

i. Administrative Structure. ii. Civil Service, Police and the Army iii. Land Revenue Settlements iv. Ideologies of the Raj

Unit 5: Response and Resistance to Colonial Rule: i. Cultural Changes ii. Social and Religious Reforms iii. Peasant and Tribal Uprisings iv. The Revolt of 1857

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SUGGESTED READINGS Alam, Muzaffar, 1993. The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, Awadh and the

Punjab, 1707-1748, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Alam and Subramanyam, The Mughal State: 1526-1750, Themes in Indian History Series, Delhi, OUP, !998. Alavi, Seema, The Eighteenth Century in India, Debates in Indian History Series, Delhi, OUP, 2003. Alavi, Seema, 1995. The Sepoys and the Company, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Bandyopadyay, Sekar, 2004, From Plassey to Partion: A History of Modern India,

Delhi: Orient Longman. Barnett, Richard B., 1980. North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals, and the

British, 1720-1801. Berkeley: University of California Press. Bayly, C.A., 1988. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire in The New

Cambridge History of India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bayley, C.A., 1983. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bayley, C.A., 1989. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830.

London: Longman. Bayley, C.A., 1997. Information and Empire: Political Intelligence and Social

Communication in North India, 1780-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Bose, Sugata, ed. South Asia and World Capitalism, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Chaudhuri, K.N., 1978. The Trading World of Asia and the English East India

Company, 1660-1760, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chaudhuri, Sashi Bhusan, 1955. Civil Disturbances during British Rule in India, 1765-

1857, Calcutta: World Press.

Devi, Mahasweta, 2000. The Queen of Jhansi, translated by Sagaree and Mandira Sengupta, Calcutta: Seagull. Fisher, Michael, 1995. Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-

1857, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Fisher, Michael, ed., 1993. The Politics of British Annexation in India, 1757-1857,

Themes in Indian History Series, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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Gordon, Stewart, 1994. Marathas, Marauders and State Formation in Eighteenth

Century India, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Grewal, J.S., 1990. The Sikhs in the Punjab in The New Cambridge History of India.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Guha, Ranajit, 1983. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India,

Delhi: Oxford University Press. Habib, Irfan, 1963. The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707, Bombay: Asia

Publishing House. Hasan, Mohibbul, 1971. History of Tipu Sultan. Calcutta: World Press. Marshall, P. J. The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Evolution or Revolution? Themes in Indian History series, Delhi, OUP, 2003. Marshall, P.J., 1988. Bengal: The British Bridgehead – Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The

New Cambridge History of India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Metcalf, Thomas R., 1997. Ideologies of the Raj in Th New Cambrige History of India,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mukherjee, Rudrangshu, 1984. Awadh in Revolt: A Study of Popular Resistance, Delhi:

Oxford University Press.

Ramusack, Barbara, 2004, The Indian Princes and Their States in The New Cambridge History of India Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Richards, J. F. 1993. The Mughal Empire, in The New Cambridge History of India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Roy, Tapti, 1996. The Politics of a Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857, Delhi:

Oxford University Press. Sen, S.N., 1957. Eighteen Fifty-Seven, Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of

Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Stein, Burton, ed., 1992. The Making of Agrarian Policy in British in India, 1770-1790

in Themes in Indian History, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Stokes, Eric, 1978. The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant

Rebellion in Colonial India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stokes, Eric, 1986, The Peasant Armed: Indian Revolt of 1857, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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HIST515: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE IN

COLONIAL INDIA (SOFT CORE – THREE CREDITS)

FACULTY: DR. G.CHANDHRIKA

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course discusses the spread of Western science among non Western peoples, the role and place of science in the colonial process and the nature of scientific development in a colony with special reference to India. It examines the role of the East India Company in the dissemination of science in India, the introduction and impact of the technologies of the Steam Age, the emergence of a scientific community and the beginnings of national science in India. It highlights the introduction of Western medicine in India, the interaction between Western and indigenous systems of medicine and the movements for the revival of the later.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Science and Empire: Theoretical Perspectives

i. India’s Scientific Traditions ii. The Concept Colonial Science iii. The Role and Place of Science in the Colonial Process

Unit 2: Science and Colonial Explorations

i. East India Company and Scientific Explorations ii. Scientific Societies, Journals and Museums iii. Early European Scientists: Surveyors, Botanists, Doctors under

theCompany’s Service Unit 3: Western Medicine

i. The Indian Medical Service ii. Epidemic Diseases ( Small Pox, Malaria and Cholera) , Medical Topographies and Imperial Policy iii. Women, Missions and Medicine

Unit 4: Technologies of the Steam Age

i. Textiles, Mining and Ship Building ii. Roads, Railways and Canals iii. Technology, Ideology and Resistance

Unit 5: Indian response to Western Science

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i. Revitalization of Indigenous Scientific Traditions ii. The Emergence of an Indian scientific community: Mahendra Lal Sarkar, P.C.Ray and J.C.Bose. iii. Science in the Nehruvian Era.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and

Ideologies of Western Dominance, OUP, Delhi, 1992.

Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body. Delhi, 1993.

Arnold, David. Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New

Cambridge History of India Series, Cambridge, 1999.

Baber, Zaheer. The Scienceof Empire:Scientific Knowledge, Civililzation and Colonial

Rule in India. OUP, Delhi, 1998.

Dasgupta, Subatra. Jagdish Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western

Science. OUP. Delhi, 1999.

Grove, R. Green Imperialism. OUP, Delhi, 1994.

Headrick, D.R .The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the

Nineteenth Century.OUP, New York, 1981.

Inkstem, Ian. Science and Technology in History. Macmillan, London, 1991.

Kumar, Anil. Medicine and the Raj. Sage, Delhi, 1998.

Kumar, Deepak. Science and the Raj. OUP, Delhi, 1995.

Kumar, Deepak. Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview. Tulika

Publications, Delhi, 2000.

Macleod, Roy and Deepak Kumar, eds. Technology and the Raj. Sage, Delhi, 1995.

Prakash, Gyan. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern. OUP, Delhi,

2000.

Qaisar, A.J. The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture. OUP, Delhi,

1982.

Raina, D and I. Habib, eds., Situating History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph

Needham. OUP, Delhi, 1999.

Sangwan, S. Science, Technology and Colonisation: Indian Experience. Anamika,

Delhi, 1990.

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HIST 516: DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF EUROPE, 1870-1919



COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines the immediate origins of World War I through a study of the system of alliance built up by the German Chancellor, Ottoon Bismarck. The division of Europe and the great powers into two mutually antagonistic campus, made war inevitable because with each crisis, the great powers lurched towards war. The intellectual underpinnings of European diplomacy is an analysed person keeping Henry Kissinger’s masterpiece Diplomacy as the major text.

COURSE CONTENT

1. The Balance of Power and its implication for military and diplomatic relations. 2. France, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia: conflicting interests and ambitions. 3. Franco-German relations, 1870-1875. 4. The Balkan crisis: Russo-Turkish War 1877 and the Congress of Berlin. 5. The Bismarckian system of alliances 1879-1887: League of three emperors. 6. Rivalries of the Great Powers in Asia and Africa: Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1897- 1902. 7. The Eastern Question, 1885-87. 8. The Making of the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1888-94. 9. The making of the Anglo-Franch Entente and its transformation into the Triple Entente. 10. Anglo-German Rivalries 11. The Balkan Crisis and the Outbreak of war. 12. The Diplomacy of War, 1914-18.

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SUGGESTED READINGS

Anderson, M.G., The Eastern for Question, London, 1968. Fischer, Fritz, Germany’s Aims in First World War, 1995. Hobbraad, Carstin, The Concert of Europe: A Study in German and British

International Theory, 1815-1914, London: Longman, 1970. Kinnan, George, Decline of Bismark’s European Order, Princeton University Press,

1979. Kinnan, George, The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First

World War, New York: Panthon, 1984. Kissinger, Henry, Diplomacy, New York: Simn and Schuster, 1994. Langer, William, European Alliances and Alignments, New York, 1955. Langer, William, Diplomacy of Imperialism, New York, 1935. Medlicott, W.N., The Congress of Berlin and After, Hamden: Archon Books, 1963.

Taylor, A.J.P., The Struggle for Martery in Europe, 1948-1918, London, 1977.

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HIST 517: MEDIVAL SOCIETIES (SOFT CORE - THREE CREDITS)


COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course is intended to familiarize the students of Master’s degree with the

socio-economic formation in medieval period in Europe and Asia. This is to help the students to assess the medieval Indian society in the light of the social formation prevalent in various parts of the world. It is assumed that the there are certain common characteristics found in the society spread the world over. The students shall be given a sort of orientation through lectures and they will be required to submit three written assignments, present a seminar on a theme finalized by the teacher, and appear for the mid-semester exam besides the semester examination. The assignments, seminars and mid-semester examination will, in all, carry fifty marks while the semester-end examination will be for fifty marks. Unit 1: Periodisation in History in General. Difference in Periodisation in European and Indian History. Characteristic features of medieval period in history. How does medieval period differ from the ancient and modern periods? Decline of Roman Empire- barbarian invasions, internal problems indicating the weakness of the existing order. Disintegration of a centralized authority .Attila, the scourge of God. Pope Leo I and Alaric. Socio-Political condition of Europe in the period from 476 to the eighth century. Emergence of the Merovingian Dynasty. The state and Church in the period till the coronation of Charlemagne. Unit 2: Feudal Formation in Europe Transition from Ancient to medieval society. Carolingian dynasty - coronation of Charlemagne. Church and state relations - caesero-papism to clericalism, Ottonian system of administration: Controversy over lay investiture. Agrarian structure and relations: manorial system, Feudalism - nature, origin and functioning of European feudalism. Foedum(fief), commendation, oath of fealty , feudal services, Escheat, Demographic trends. Unit 3: Non-Agrarian Sector & Cultural life in Medieval Europe Division of labour: Craftsmen and artisans, Craft guilds and merchant guilds, Trade and trade routes: Fairs, markets, commodities. Urbanization and urban centers. Courses of studies in Medieval Europe, Rise of medieval Universities, and guild of students- universities in Italy: Cathedral schools – University of Sorbonne, Oxford and

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Cambridge. Monastic life, Printing, use of gun powder. Technological development - use of stirrup. Unit 4: Islamic World Living conditions of the Arabs before the rise of Islam - Tribes in Arabia: nomads and the urban settlers. Importance of Kaaba: .Socio-Political background: Contemporary and near contemporary sources: Quran and Hadith literature. Evolution of Islamic State: Constitution of Medina, Nature of State: Relations with the Arab Tribes, Jews and Christians, State under Ummayids and Abbasids. Society: under the Prophet: under the Caliphs, under the Ummayids: under the Abbasids, and Slavery. Economy: Trade and trade routes, revenue administration with special reference to taxation system. Art and architecture: Ceramics, textiles, ivories, music, and Calligraphy Education: Universities, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, historiography, geography, language and literature. Crusades. Unit 5: Medieval Asia Rise of Provincial warrior class: High feudal Society, Zen Culture : Transition from classical to Medieval period in China : Commercial revolution. Chengho Missions. Society and Culture, Neo-Confucianism: State and society under the Ming Dynasty. China under the Ching Dynasty Medieval Japan, Rise of provincial warrior calss. High feudal society, Zen Culture: Society and Economy in Medieval India: Iqutadari Jagirdari system, Mansabdari system, Nayankara system, Agricultural and non-agricultural production, Trade and commerce, Merchant guilds,

SUGGESTED READINGS

Abraham, Meera, Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India, New Delhi, 1988. Ali, M.A., Apparatus of the Empire, New Delhi, 1985 Anderson, P., Lineages of the Absolute State, London, 1980 Anderson, P., Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, London, 1981. Bishop, Morris, The Penguin Book of Middle Ages, London. Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society, London, 1961, 2 vols. Brooke, Z.N., A History of Europe 911-1198,London,1969.

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Chaudhuri, K.N., Asia before Europe, London, 1990. Coulborn, Rushton, ed., Feudalism in History, New Jersey, 1956. Crowther, J.G., A Short History of Science, London,1969. Deanesly, Margaret, A History of Early Medieval Europe 476-911, London, 1969. Deanesly, Margaret, A History of the Medieval Church, London,1969. Dobb, Maurice, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, London, 1963. Duby, Georges, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, London, 1962. Fisher, H.A.L., A History of Europe Vol, from the Earliest Times to 1713, Glasgow,

1975. Ganshoff, Feudalism Herlily, David, ed., The History of Feudalism, New York, 1971. Hirst, Paul, Q, Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production, London, 1975. Holton, R.H. ed., Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, New York, 1976. Jha, D.N., Feudal Social Formation in Early India, Delhi, 1987. Habib, Irfan, The Agrarian System of the Mughal India, Second edition, New Delhi,

1999. Hubermann, Leo, Man’s Worldy Goods, New Delhi, 1969. Karashima, N., South Indian History and Society: Studies from Inscriptions, A.D. 850-

1800, Delhi, 1984. Keen, Maurice, The Pelican History of Medieval Europe, Middlesex, 1979. Kosambi, D.D., Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1985 Kulkarni, A.R., Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji, Poona, 1969. Hitty, P.K, History of the Arabs, Laven, Peter, Renaissance Italy 1464-1534, London, 1966 Lawrence C.H., Medieval Monasticism, London, 1984

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Levy Reuben, The Social Structure of Islam, London, 1969 Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History, London, 1973 Leyser, Henrietta, Hermits and the New Monasticism, London, 1984 Masalonf, Amin, The Crusades through the Arab Eyes, London, 1984 Marin .E.John, Feudalism to Capitalism, London, 1986 Mathew, K.S, Society in Medieval Malabar, Kottayam, 1979 Mathew, K.S., Portuguese Trade with India in the 16th Century, New Delhi, 1983 Mukhia, Harbans, The Feudalism Debate, New Delhi, 2000 Nizami & Mohd. eds., A Comprehensive History of India, vol. I, Pirenne, Henri, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe, London, 1972 Plumb, J.H., The Penguin Book of the Renaissance, Middlesex, 1972 Radison, Maxime, Marxism and the Muslim World, London, 1979 Sastri, K.A.N., Colas, Madras, Sharma, R.S., Indian Feudalism, New Delhi, 1980 Shervani, H.K, and Joshi, P.M, Medieval Deccan Southern, R.W., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, Middlesex, 1973. Stein, Burton, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, New Delhi, 1985. Sweezy, Paul, M., The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, Strayer, Joseph, The Middle Ages, Waugh, W.T., A History of Europe from 1378 to 1494,London,1962 White, Lynn, Medeival Technology and Social Changes, Wolly, L. & Hankes, J, History of Mankind , UNESCO Series, vol. IV& IV, London,

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HIST 518: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA, c. AD 1757-1857


Faculty: Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy Course Objectives: The course is designed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the students of the nature of colonial economy and the changes that took place under the British colonial rule. The course covers the development of Indian economy from the mid-eighteenth century to the period of mid- nineteenth century. The students would be introduced to the changes in different sectors of Indian economy. Emphasis is laid on promoting a critical understanding of the changes shaping the Indian economy under British colonialism. The course will trace the construction and maintenance of colonial patterns of economic structures in India.

Course Content

Unit 1: Introduction

a. Issues and problems of Indian Economic History – Different approaches and their limitations.

b. Sources of Economic History of British India. Unit 2: Indian Economy in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

a. Nature and structure of economy – rural and urban. b. Agrarian and non-agrarian production – Technology and methods of

production. c. Trade and indigenous banking. d. Debate on the potentialities of capitalist change in the pre-colonial economy

– question of ‘growth’ in the late pre-colonial Indian economy. Unit 3: Early Phase of Colonial Economy

a. Mercantilism and European economic interests in India – The East India Company and its rule in Bengal.

b. The early Drain of Wealth and its mechanism, magnitude and effects. c. Indian manufacturers for external market – internal commerce – the later

debate on the question. Unit 4: Agrarian Settlements and Agrarian Production

a. Agrarian conditions – Regional variations. b. The Permanent Settlement – objectives, operations, effects and official

critiques. c. Ryotwari Settlements and Mahalwari system. d. Consequences of periodic settlements.

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e. Increase in the cultivation of export crops. New elements in the organization of production of export commodities.

Unit 5: Traditional Handicraft Industry and the question of De-industrialization

a. Artisans and Handicraft product-background. b. Industrial capitalism and import of English cloth and yarn. c. Debate over de-industrialization – regional variations. d. Handicraft industry in transition under colonialism. e. Capital and labour in handicraft industry.

SUGGESTED READINGS Dutt,R C Economic History of India : Publications, Division, Govt. of India, 1968. Stein Burton, Thomas Munro, Delhi Oxford University Press. Guha Ranjit, A Rule of Property for Bengal, Delhi Orient Longman Kumar, Dharma Sharma, Cambridge Economic History of India, Delhi Orient Longman Chandra, Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India, Delhi, People’s Publishing House. E.N Kherr, Railways in India Delhi, Oxford University Press. R.E Frykenberg & B.S. Cohn, Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History Delhi, Manohar Publication. Roy, Tirthankar. Traditional Industry in the Economy of colonial India, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Braudel, Ferdnand, On History, Chicago University Press, 1984. Brekenridge, Carl A., Peter Vender Veer (ed.), Orientalism and the Post-Colonial

Predicament of …, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Guha, Ranajit, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995, Delhi: Oxford University

Press. Said, Edward W., Orientalism, London: Routledge and Leagan Paul, 1978. Sarkar, Sumit, Writing Social History, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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HIST 519: HISTORY OF SOCIAL FICTION IN COLONIAL INDIA


Faculty: Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy Course Objectives: The course essentially attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the emergence of social fiction in colonial India. It seeks to explain the contribution of the early Indian writers in English to the articulations of contemporary social issues. It outlines the beginnings of Indian novel and the demonstration of social realism. It focuses on the critical contribution of Bankim Chandra, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarath Chandra, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and other writers to highlight the extant moribund social practices through their fictions. Course Content: Unit I: History and Literature: Discourse on Historicality of Literature Unit 2: Early Indian Writers in English: Raja Rammohan Rao Henry Derozio Toru Dutt Michael Madhusudhan Dutt Unit 3: Beginnings of Indian Fiction and Social Realism: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Rajmohan’s Wife 1864)) Rabindranath Tagore (Binodini (trans 1957) Sarath Chandra (Srikanta) Unit 4: Novel and Social Protest in 1910s and 1920s: Romesh Chunder Dutt (The lake of Palms 1909) T. Ramakrishna (The Dive for Death 1912) Sir Jogendra Singh (Nasrin 1915) Unit 5: Social Fiction of 1930s and 1940s: Mulk Raj Anand (Untouchable1935) Raja Rao (Kanthapura 1938) K.S. Venkararamani (Murugan the Tiller 1927 and Kandan the Patriot1932) Fiction in Vernaculars

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Suggested Readings

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, (ed), An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, (Permanent Black, Delhi, 2003) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Indian Writing in English, (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2001) M.K. Naik, and Others, (eds), Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English (1968) M.K. Naik, A History of Indian Literature in English (New Delhi, 1982) C.D. Narasimhaiah, (ed), Indian Literature of the past Fifty Years: 1917-1967 , (1967) J.B. Alphonso-Karkala, Indo-English Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Mysore, 1970) S.K. Das, A History of Indian Literature, Vols. VIII and IX (New Delhi, 1991-05) W. Walsh, Indian Literature in English (London, 1990) R.J. Warwick, Indian Literature in English: A Checklist (London, 1981) H.M. Williams, Indo-Anglian Literarure, 1800-1970: A Survey (New Delhi, 1976) S. Chandra, The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (New Delhi) 1992). M. Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India (New Delhi, 1985) S.K. Mund, The Indian Novel in English: Its Birth and Development (New Delhi, 1997). K.S. Ramamurthi, Rise of the Indian Novel in English (New Delhi, 1987).

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HIST 520: HISTORY OF USA (TWENTIETH CENTURY)


FACULTY : DR. G. CHANDHRIKA COURSE OBJECTIVES The chief objective of the course is to examine the growth of the United States of America as a world power during the twentieth century. It makes a detailed analysis of the progressive era, American expansionism and foreign policy, USA and the First World War, the growth of a business civilization and consumer society, the Great Depression, USA in the Second World War, the Cold War era, the end of the Cold War and after.

COURSE CONTENT Unit 1: The Progressive Era

i. The Progressive Impulse ii. Progressivism in the Cities iii. The Muckrakers iv. Progressivism in the States v. Social Feminism vi. Black America

Unit 2: The Emergence of USA as a World Power

i. Origins of American Expansionism ii. USA and the First World War iii. Post-War Unrest iv. A Business Civilization v. Ethnic and Cultural Issues vi. The Political Scene

Unit 3: Crisis, Recovery and World War II

i. USA and the World 1920 - 1929 ii. The Great Depression iii. The New Deal iv. International Disintegration and the Second World War v. The USA at War vi. Planning for Peace

Unit 4: The Cold War Era

i. Post war Economy ii. Origins of the Cold War iii. The Containment of Communism iv. Cold War in Asia and the Middle East v. Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy vi. The Civil Rights Movement

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Unit 5: The USA in the 1980s and 1990s

i. A Society in Transition ii. Economy in the 1980s iii. Foreign Affairs iv. The End of Cold War v. The Gulf War vi. The Clinton Administration

SUGGESTED READINGS

Allen, Frederick L. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900 – 1950. Harper &

Row, 1986.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938.Viking

Penguin, 1991.

Bailyn, Bernard, et al. The Great Republic: A History of the American People (2 vols.).

D. C. Heath. Co., 1985.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans. (3 vols.). Vol. 3: The National Experience.

Random House, 1975.

Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II. OUP., 1991.

Cochran, Thomas C. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. OUP., 1981.

Degler, Cari N. Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. Harper &

Row, 1984.

Dinnerstein, Leonard, et al. Natives and Strangers: Blacks, Indians and Immigrants in

America. OUP., 1990.

Fearon, Peter. War, Prosperity and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917 – 1945. Uni.

Press of Kansas, 1988.

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movements in the United

States. Belknap Press, 1975.

Franklin, John H. and Alfred A. Moss Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro

Americans. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Graebner, Norman A. America as a World Power: A Realist Approach from Wilson to

Reagan. Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1984.

Graham, Otis L. Jr. The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900 – 1928.

Krieger Publishing Co., 1987.

Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted. Little, Brown & Co., 1973.

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Hofstadter, Richard. The Age Reform: From Bryan to FDR. Random House, 1960.

Murray, Charles. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950 – 1980. Basic Books,

1986.

Nash, Gary B. et al. The American People: Creating a nation and a Society. (2 vols.).

Harper Collins, 1990.

Sellers, Charles. et al. A Synopsis of American History. Ivan R. Dee, 1992.

Sundquist, James L. Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years.

Brookings Institution, 1968.

Wittner, Lawrence S. Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate. Harcourt Brace

Jovanovich College Publications, 1978.

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HIST 521: HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, 1858-1964


Faculty: Dr. G. Chandhrika COURSE OBJECTIVES The course deals mainly with the nationalist movement in India. It familiarizes the students with the administrative structure and legislative measures introduced by the British Government. It provides them knowledge about the diverse aspects of Indian nationalism. The course will also cover the post-colonial developments such as the making of Indian constitution, integration of princely states, land reforms and industrial policy, development of science and technology, women’s issues and foreign policy.

COURSE CONTENT Unit 1: Imperial Structure and Policies

i. British control over Indian Administration. ii. Constitutional Reforms iii. Relations with Princely States iv. Economic Impact of British Rule

Unit 2: Indian Nationalism

i. Approaches to Indian Nationalism: Conceptual debates ii. Beginnings of Organised Nationalism iii. Trends till 1919. iv. Gandhian Movements

Unit 3: The Nation and its Fragments

i. Muslim Alienation ii. Non Brahmin and Dalit Protest iii. Peasant Insurgency iv. Working Class Movements v. Women’s Participation

Unit 4: Towards Independence

i. Subhash Chandra Bose and the INA. ii. Communal Politics and Partition iii. Making of the Indian Constitution iv. Integration of Princely States

Unit 5: Independent India i. Beginnings of Planned Economy ii. Land Question and Industrial Policy

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iii. Education, Science and Technology iv. Foreign Policy – Non Alignment v. Women – Hindu Code Bill

SUGGESTED READINGS

Amin, Shahid, 1995, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992, Delhi:

Oxford University Press.

Bandyopadyay, Sekar, 2004, From Plassey to Partion: A History of Modern India, Delhi: Orient Longman.

Brown, Judith M., 1972. Gandhi’s Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-22, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. Brown, Judith, 1977. Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics,

1928-34, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chandra, Bipan, Amales Tripathi & Barun De, 1972. Freedom Struggle. Delhi: NBT.

Chandra, Bipan, 1988. India’s Struggle for Independence, Delhi: Penguin. Chandra, Bipan, 2000. India After Independence 1947-2000, Delhi: Penguin. Chatterjee, Partha, 1986, 1993. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A

Derivative Discourse, London: Zed Press and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Chatterjee, Partha, 1994. The Nation and its Fragments. Delhi: OUP and Princeton:

Princeton University Press.

Copland, Ian, !997. The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire: 1917-1947, Cambridge studies in Society and History Series, Cambridge, Cambridge UP.

Desai, A. R., 1949. Social Background of Indian Nationalism. Bombay: OUP. Desai, A.R., ed., 1979. Peasant Struggles in India, Bombay: Oxford University Press. Dutt, Romesh, C., 1968. Economic History of India, Delhi: Publication Division, Government of India Fay, Peter Ward, 1994. The Forgotten Army: India’s Armed Struggle for Independence,

1942-45, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Gallagher, John, Gordon Johnson and Anil Seal, eds., 1973. Locality, Province and

Nation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Gopal, Sarvepalli, 1965. British Policy in India, 1858-1905. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Heehs, Peter, 1988. India’s Freedom Struggle, 1857 – 1947, A Short History, Delhi: Oxford University Press. Hardiman, David, ed., 1992. Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914, Delhi: Oxford

University Press. Hardiman, David, 1981. Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District, Delhi: Oxford

University Press. Hardy, Peter, 1972. The Muslims of British India, Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Hasan, Mushirul, ed., 1993. India’s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization in

Themes in Indian History, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Jeffrey, Robin, ed., 1978. People, Princes and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Guha, Ranajit, ed., 1997. A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995, Delhi, OUP. Low, D.A., ed., 1977. Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle, 1917-47,

London: Arnold-Heinemann. Metcalf, Thomas R., 1964. The Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1870. Princeton:

Princeton University Press. Naoroji, Dadabhai, 1901, 1962. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, Delhi:

Publications Division, Government of India. Pandey, Gyanendra, 1990. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India,

Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Pannikar, K. N. ed., 1980. National and Left Movements in India. Delhi: Vikas. Ray, Bharati and Basu, Aparna, eds. 1999. From Freedom to Independence: Women and Fifty Years of India's Independence. OUP, Delhi. Sarkar, Sumit, 1983. Modern India, 1885-1947, Delhi: Macmillan. Sarkar, Sumit, 1973. The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi:

People’s Publishing House. Washbrook, David, 1976. The Emergence of Provincial Politics: The Madras

Presidency, 1870-1920.

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HIST 522: TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD



Course Objectives: The course is intended to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the changing political relations among the different nations with the beginning of the First World War. Emphasis is laid on promoting among the students a critical approach to the study of rise of totalitarian ideologies such as Nazism, Fascism, Militarism and also the emergence of anti-colonial movements in Asia and the Communist revolution in China. The course will also delineate the Non-aligned movement and the disintegration of Soviet Union and the emergence of Uni-polar system in the world.

COURSE CONTENT 1. New Imperialism – Origins and Nature of the First World War – The Russian

Revolution of 1917 – Peace Settlement and its long term consequences. 2. Working of the League of Nations and Collective Security – Great Depression –

Ideologies of Nazism, Fascism and Communism: Militarism in Japan. 3. Origins, Nature and Results of the Second World War - Nationalist Movements in

Asia; Case Study; Indonesia – Communist Revolution in China and its impact on World Politics.

4. Ideological and Political basis of Cold War – Non-aligned Movement and the Third

World. 5. Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Unipolar World System.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Berghahn, V.B. Germany and the Approach of War in 1919. Dobb, Maurice. Studies in the Development of Capitalism. Emerson, R., L.A. Mills and V. Thompson, 1992. Government and Nationalism in

South East Asia, New York. Fay, Sidney Bradshaw, 1958. The Origins of World War, New Delhi: Eurasia (second

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edition). Harbutt, Frazer J., 1986. The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origin of Cold

War, New York: OUP. Hazen, Charles Downer, 1981. Contemporary Europe since 1870, Delhi: Surjeet. Hershcel, Webb, 1957. An Introduction to Japan, New York: Columbia U.P. Immanuel, C.Y. Hsu, 1995. The Rise of Modern China, New York: OUP. Joll, James, 1990. Europe Since 1870, England: Penguin Books. Joll, James, 1984. The Origins of the First World War, London: Longman. Joule, Grey, 1990. Rebellions an Revolutions: China from 1800s to the 1980s, New

York: OUP. Paul, Kennedy. Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914. Magdoff, H.H. Imperialism from the Colonial Age to the Present. Mehden, Fred R. Von der, 1979. South East Asia 1930-1970: The Legacy of

Colonialism and Nationalism, London. Roberts, J.M., 1989. Europe: 1880-1945, Longman (second edition). Sidney, Pollard. Peaceful Conquest – The Industrialisation of Europe, 1760-1970.

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HIST 523: VIJAYANAGARA : CITY AND EMPIRE



1. The Historiography of the Vijayanagara Empire - Robert Sewell, Venkataramayya, Mahalingam and Burton Stein 2. Advent of Sangama: Origin of the Empire - Historicity of Vijayanagara - Kumara Kampana 3. Devaraya II : His Reign and Conquest 4. Saluvas to Krishnadevaraya 5. Agrarian system in south India 6. Nayakas and the economy 7. Trade, commerce and economy in southern India 8. Social tension in southern India 9. Decline of Vijayanagara

SUGGESTED READINGS

Dalappicola, Anna, Vijayanagara, 1984

Karashima, Noboru, A Concordance of Nayaka, OUP, 2004

Karashima, Noboru, Towards a New Formation, OUP, 1993

Kulke, Herman, Kings and Cults, Manohar, 1999

Mitchell, Geroge, Architecture of Southern India, OUP, 1997

Rubia, Jean-Paul, Travel and Ethnology in Southern India, OUP, 1997

Senoppoli, Carla, Crafting Empire, OUP, 2005

Sewell, Robert, A Forgottan Empire, Asian Educational Service, 1900 (reprint 2000)

Stein, Burton, Vijayanagara, OUP, 1992

Subramanyam, Sanjay Political Economy of Commerce in South India, OUP, 1988

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HIST 524: BUSINESS HISTORY OF INDIA (1700-1947) (HARD CORE - FOUR CREDITS)


Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the business history of India. It intends to make the student aware of the emergence of entrepreneurship and business institutions in India. It covers the emergence of colonial pattern of trade and commerce in Modern India. It focuses on the emergence and expansion of indigenous business and its confrontation with the European business interests. The students will also be familiarized with the growth of new Indian industrial houses and the industrial policy of independent India. Course Content: Unit 1: Background: Business in Pre-Colonial India

a. Caste and business communities. b. Manufactures and trade- internal and external. c. Credit and indigenous banking d. Potentialities of capitalist growth

Unit 2: Trade and East Indian Company

a. European trading interests in India. b. The East Indian Company and trade and manufactures up to 1757. c. British private trade in eighteenth century. d. East India Company’s trade.

Unit 3: Trade, Credit and Agency Houses

a. Currency credit and indigenous bankers, 1800-1850. b. Origins and growth of Managing Agencies.

Unit 4: Expansion of Trade and Business

a. Railways and Telegraphs – their impact on business and trade. b. Emergence of Modern Banking: Presidency banks of Bengal, Madras and

Bombay- 1800-1921. c. Growth of European Managing Agency firms.

Unit 5: Growth of Indian business - 1800-1947 a. Indigenous bankers – 1850 – 1947; b. Growth of Banking: Imperial Bank; Reserve Bank; and State Bank;

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c. Rise of new Indian industrial houses – Tata, Birla, Sri Ram and others; Indian Chambers of Commerce; d. Business and politics – 1914-1947; Conflict of European and Indian business

interests. e. Industrial Policy of Independent India.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Tripathi, Dwijendra and Jyoti Jumani, The Concise Oxford History of Indian Business, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007. Tripathi, Dwijendra., Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: a comparative interpretation, New Delhi, 1997. Agarwala, P.N., The History of Indian Business: A Complete Account of Trade Exchanges from 3000 B.C. to the Present Day, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1985. B.R. Tomlinson. The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, The New Cambridge of History of India: Vol.3, Cambridge University Press. Sugata Bose, (ed), Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press. 1994. Dietmar Rothermund, An Economic History of India,: From Pre-Colonial Times to 1986, Manohar, 1989. Ajit K. Dasgupta, A History of Indian Economic Thought, Routledge, London, Seema Alvi, (ed), The Eighteenth Century in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002. Tirthankar Roy, Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Kumar, Dharma, ed., 1984. The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II: C.1757-

1970, New Delhi. Kumar, Dharma, 1965. Land and Caste in South India, Cambridge University Press. Moti Chandra, Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India, New Delhi, Abhinav Publications, 1977 Daniel H. Buchanan, The Development of Capitalist Enterprise in India, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1934

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Arun Joshi, Lala Shri Ram – A Study in Enterpreneurship and Industrial Management, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1975. Romesh Dutt, The Economic History of India, Vols. I & II, New Delhi, Min. of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1960. Sengupta, N.K., Corporate Management in India, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1974 Rungta, Rise of Business Corporations of India 1850-1900, Oxford, 1950. Bagchi, A.K., Private Investment in India, 1900-1939,Cambridge, 1972. Ray, Rajat, (ed.) Entrepreneurship and Industry in India. Ray, Rajat, K., Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914-47, Delhi, 1985. Vikas Mishra, Hinduism and Economic Growth, Bombay, 1962. Morris David Morris, The Emergence of an Industrial Labour Force in India, Berkeley, California, 1965 Pavlov, V.I., The Indian Capitalist Class, New Delhi, 1964. Gadgil, D.R., Notes on the Rise of Business Communites in India, New York, 1951. Gubbay M.S., Indigenous Indian Banking, Bombay, 1928 Jain L.C., Indigenous Indian Banking, London, 1929. Jha S.C., Capitalism in India, Calcutta, 1963. Muranjan S.K., Modern Banking in India, Bombay, 1940. Singh V.B., The Economic History of India, 1857-1956, New York, 1965. Ganguli, B.N., (ed), Readings in Indian Economic History, Bombay, 1964. Basu. S.K., The Managing Agency System – Its Prospects and Retrospects, Calcutta, 1958. Nigam Raj, K., Managing Agencies in India, New Delhi, 1957.

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Vakil C.N., Bose S.C. and Deolalkar P.V., Growth of Trade and Industry in Modern India – An Introductory Survey, Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1931. Radhakamal Mukherjee, Economic Problems of Modern India, London, Macmillan, 1939.

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HIST 525: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA, c. AD 1858 - 1947


Faculty: Dr. K. Venugopal Reddy Course Objectives: The course is designed to develop a thorough understanding among the students of the nature of colonial economy and the transformation that had taken place under the British colonial rule. The course covers the development of Indian economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the period of India’s independence. The students would be introduced to the changes that had taken place in different sectors of Indian economy. Emphasis is laid on promoting a critical approach to the enormous changes influencing the Indian economy under British colonialism. The course will trace the construction and maintenance of colonial patterns of economic structures in India. A major theme of the course is the explanation of how and why different segments of Indian economy remained underdeveloped under the British colonial rule.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Railways and Indian Economy: a. Economic and political compulsions. b. Unification and subjugation of Indian market. c. Effects on agrarian production and export of raw material –

commercialization of agriculture. d. Famines and British policy, nationalist criticism.

Unit 2: Large Scale Industry:

a. Conditions before the emergence of modern industry. b. Capitalist investment in India – indigenous and British effects. c. Modern industry in pre-1914 phase – nature – main industries: cotton, jute,

iron and steel and others. Impediments to growth, nationalist critique, industry and the First World War phase with special reference to economic depression.

d. Colonial state and industrial growth. e. Rise of industrial labour – labour force in large scale industry; types of

labour movements; changing social composition of industrial labour. Unit 3: Ecological Changes and Rural Society (with particular reference to the implications of increasing control of the colonial state on forests as distinguishable from ‘settled peasant villages’)

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Unit 4: Foreign Trade and Balance of Payments: a. Changing nature of external trade – stages of Mercantilism, industrial capital

and finance capital. b. Drain of Wealth and British overseas trade.

Unit 5: The Fiscal System: a. Shift from direct to indirect taxation. b. Tariff and excise c. Monetary policies and credit system.

Unit 6: Price Movements: a. Main trends in the movements of prices. b. Impact on rent of landlords. c. Impact on State revenue and trade.

Unit 7: National Income and Population: a. Movements of national income after 1858 – the divergent assumptions and

estimates. b. Population growth – Pre and Post-Census estimates. c. ‘De-Urbanization’ controversy. d. Trends in demographic changes.

SUGGESTED READINGS

Dutt,R C Economic History of India : Publications, Division, Govt. of India, 1968. Stein Burton, Thomas Munro, Delhi Oxford University Press. Guha Ranjit, A Rule of Property for Bengal, Delhi Orient Longman Kumar, Dharma Sharma, Cambridge Economic History of India, Delhi Orient Longman Chandra, Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India, Delhi, People’s Publishing House. E.N Kherr, Railways in India Delhi, Oxford University Press. R.E Frykenberg & B.S. Cohn, Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History Delhi, Manohar Publication.

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Roy, Tirthankar. Traditional Industry in the Economy of colonial India, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Braudel, Ferdnand, On History, Chicago University Press, 1984. Brekenridge, Carl A., Peter Vender Veer (ed.), Orientalism and the Post-Colonial

Predicament of …, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Guha, Ranajit, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995, Delhi: Oxford University

Press. Said, Edward W., Orientalism, London: Routledge and Leagan Paul, 1978. Sarkar, Sumit, Writing Social History, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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HIST 526: MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY


Faculty : Dr.K.Rajan

Course Objectives The course is designed to introduce the usefulness of marine archaeology in studying the history. The various marine archaeological methods and theories involved in reading the primary source would be taught to understand the context of the material that are available for the study. The inter-disciplinary nature of the subject and its usefulness would be given much importance. Unit I : Marine Archaeology and Excavation Importantance of Marine Archaeology - Objectives - Hurdles - History of Marine Archaeology of the world. Unit II : Famous Marine Archaeological Excavations Vasa , Maryrose excavations - Marine Archaeoligists: George Bass, S.R. Rao. Unit III : Marine Archaeology in India Marine Archaeological Institutions - Marine Archaeological studies: Dwarka, Poompuhar, Mahabalipuram, Prince Royal Ship - Stone Anchors. Unit IV: Methods of Marine Archaeology Sources - Coastline variation - Diving equipments - types. Unit V : Marine Archaeological Excavation Search methods : Types and Equipments - Excavation methods : Types and Equipments.

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References Archaeological Site Manual, 1994, Museum of London, London. Atkinson, R.J.C., 1953, Field Archaeology, 2nd edition, Methunen, London. Aitken, M.J., 1961, Physics and Archaeology, Interscience, New York. Barker, Philip, 1977, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation, B.T.Batsford Ltd.,

London. Bass, George, 1972, A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology, Thames

and Hudson, London, England. Daniel, Glyn E., 1976, A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology, Harvard University

Press, Cambridge. Dean, Martin, et.al., (ed.), 1995, Archaeology Underwater – The NAS Guide to Principles

and Practice, Nautical Archaeology Society, Archetype Publications Ltd., London.

Ghosh, A. 1989, An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, Vols.I & II, Munishiram

Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Kenyon, K.M., 1961, Beginning in Archaeology, Revised edition, Phoenix House,

London. Piggot, S., 1965, Approach to Archaeology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Rajan, K., 2002 Archaeology:Principles and Methods, Manoo Pathippakam, Thanjavur. Rao, S.R., 1987, Progress and Prospects of Marine Archaeology in India, First Indian

Conference of Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa.

Rao, S.R., 1988, Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, National Institute of

Oceanography, Goa. Rao, S.R., 1991, Recent Advances in Marine Archaeology, National Institute of

Oceanography, Goa. Rao, S.R., 1994, The Role of Universities and Research Institutes in Marine Archaeology,

National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. Rao, S.R., 1997, An Integrated Approach to Marine Archaeology, National Institute of

Oceanography, Goa. Taylor, Joan du Plat, 1965 Marine Archaeology, Hutchinson and Co., London. Trigger, G. Bruce, 1989, A History of Archaeological Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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HIST 527: GANDHIAN THOUGHT (SOFT CORE – THREE CREDITS)

Faculty: Dr. C.Chandhrika

Course Objectives: This course seeks to examine critically various aspects of Gandhian thought from a cross section of his own writings. It locates Gandhian ideas and ethos in time and space by making a brief study of his life from birth till his return to India from South Africa. It makes a detailed analysis of Gandhi’s critique of Western civilization, especially in the light of recent writings of the subaltern collective, his concepts of truth and non violence, his political philosophy, his method of resistance, his programme of social upliftment, his experiment with collective living, his religious thought and the relevance of his ideas for the contemporary world.

Course Contents 1. Life and Times of Mahatma Gandhi: Foundation of Gandhian Thought 2. Hind Swaraj: Gandhi’s Critique of Western Civilization –Subaltern Perspective 3. Gandhi’s Political Philosophy : Gandhi’s Concept of Ahimsa, Satya, Swedeshi

and Swaraj - Satyagraha : The Gandhian Method of Non-Violent Resistance 4. Sarvodaya – Gandhi’s Constructive Programme of Social Uplift 5. Relevance of Gandhian Thought for Contemporary Society

SUGGESTED READINGS Collection of Writings by Gandhi Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (90 Vols.)., Publication Division, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1958-84. The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Ed. by Raghavan Iyer, OUP, Delhi, 1990.

Gokhale: My Political Guru. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1958.

Hindu Dharma. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1950.

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India of My Dreams. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1947.

Sarvodaya. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1951.

Satyagraha. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1951.

Socialism of My Conception. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1957.

Unthouchability. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1954.

Women and Social Justice. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1942.

Books by Gandhi

Hind Swaraj. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1939.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth. (2vols.). Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1927-29.

Discourses on the Gita. Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1960.

Books on Gandhi

Ashe, Geoffrey. Gandhi: A Study in Revolution. Heinemann, London, 1968. Bakshi, S. R. Gandhi and the Ideology of Non Violence. Criterion Publications, Delhi,

1986. Bakshi, S. R. Gandhi and the Ideology of Swedeshi. Reliance, Delhi, 1987. Bakshi, S. R. Gandhi and Technique of Satyagraha. Sterling, Delhi, 1987. Bondurant, Joan. Conquest of Violence. Uni. California Press, Berkeley, 1965. Brown, Judith. Gandhi, Prisoner of Hope.Yale Uni. Press, New Haven, 1989. Chatterjee, Margaret. Gandhi’s Religious Thought. Macmillan, London, 1983. Chatterjee, Partha. “Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society” in Ranajit Guha, ed.,

Subaltern Studies. Vol. 3, OUP, Delhi, 1984. Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative

Discourse? OUP, Delhi, 1986. Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi: Non Violent Power in Action. Columbia UP, New

York, 1993. Dhawan, G. The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Navajivan, Ahmedabad,

1951.

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Erikson, Eric. Gandhi’s Truth. Norton, New York, 1969. Fischer, Louis. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1950. Iyer, Raghavan, N. The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi. OUP, New

York, 1973. Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. ed. The Penguin Gandhi Reader. New York, 1995. Nanda, B. R. Mahatma Gandhi. Allen & Unwin, London, 1958. Parekh, Bikhu. Colonialism, Tradition and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi’s Political

Discourse. Sage, Delhi, 1999. Payne, Robert. The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi. Dutton, New York, 1969. Pyarelal. Mahatma Gandhi. (3 vols.)., Navajivian, Ahmedabad, 1956-1965.

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HIST 419: HISTORY OF INDIAN DIASPORA

(SOFT CORE –THREE CREDITS)


Course Objectives: The course attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the history of migrations in India from pre-colonial era to the 20th century. It presents the various dimensions of migration of Indians to different nations and their contributions to the host nations as also to their homeland. It also outlines the influence of these diasporic communities in varied ways in their host nations. It explains the impact of the Indian Diaspora on cultural, intellectual and economic aspects of India and on her domestic and foreign policy. It also covers India’s policy towards her diaspora. Course Content: Unit 1: Diaspora: The Concept; Origin, Evolution and contemporary usage. Diasporic identities and their nature. Unit 2: Stages of Migration:

a) Migrations in pre-colonial era; b) Colonial migration; Emigration to British Plantations colonies – Fiji,

Surinam, Guyana, Mauritius, Malaysia, Trinidad, and South Africa. c) Migrations in the 20th Century; i) Migration to Canada and USA in late 19tyh

and early 20th century ii) migration between 1920s-1947 iii) Migration of professionals to the United States, Canada, Australia and other developed nations iv) migrations to the Gulf countries

Unit 3: Indian Diaspora in Host Society – With specific reference to their social status, gender, race and ethnicity, economic, business, professional position vis-à-vis other ethnic communities, political participation, religious, cultural and community activities. Unit 4: Indian Diaspora and Homeland: i) Cultural, intellectual, religious, economic, political connections. ii) Influence on domestic politics and foreign policy. iii) India in the diasporic age; India’s policy towards her diaspora.

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Suggested Readings

Bates Crispin (ed), Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora,

London, Macmillan.

Kondapi, C, Indian Overseas (1838-1949), Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1981.

Milton and N. H. Wagic, (eds), Ethnicity and Migration: South Asian Context, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1993. Peter vander Veer (ed), A sikh diaspora, contested identities and constructed realities in nation and migration, The politics of space in the South Asian Diaspora, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadephia, 1995. Tinker Hugh, A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labour Overseas (1830-

1950, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1974.

Tinker Hugh, Separate and Unequal; India: The Indians in the British Commonwealth (1920-1950), London, 1976. Tinker Hugh, The Banyan Tree; Overseas Emigrants from India, Pakistan and

Bangladesh, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977.

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HIST 448: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN NINETEENTH CENTURY



COURSE DESCRIPTION The Nineteenth Century witnessed the transformation of the U.S. form, a framing operation economy, to a powerful industrial one. Civil war, slavery, westward expansion, rise of science and technology, man culture and man media were fact on that shaped American society. In this course an attempt is made to trace the impact on a changing economy and society on nineteenth century American Literature, ministry and culture. This course aims at using literary as gateway to history.

COURSE CONTENT 1. Settlement and foundation of New England Colonies. 2. Puritanism and early New England of culture and literature. 3. Political ideas in early America – Republican and Balance of power. 4. Debate over slavery and its legal and political ramification. 5. Civil War in American Intellectual History. 6. The Frontier Thesis – The westward expansion in popular culture and literature. 7. The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1800-1892. 8. Social Darwinism in American Thought. 9. Transundertaking and Pragmaticism. 10. Evangelical Movements and Popular Religion.

SUGGESTED READINGS Beillinfton, Ray, The Proterantant Curade, 1800-1860, New York, 1938. Boorstir, Daniet, The Americans: The Natural Experience, New York, 1969.

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Fielder, Lessllie, Love and Death in the American Novel, 1965. Franklin, Benjumen, An Autobiography, New York, 1968. Hanclin, Oscar, Race and Walendring in American Life, Anchor Book, 1957. Levin, David, History as Romantic Art: Bancraft, Prescolt, Motely, Parkwar, New York, 1969. Muller, Penny, The New England Mud, New York, 1954. Shotken, Richard, Regeneration Through Violence, Canburg, 1984. Thovau, Henry, The Walder and Wild Disobedience, New York, 1966.

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