Syllabus For SYBA (Subject- History) - Fergusson College

S.Y.B.A.: Subject History Pattern 2019

1 Department of History, Fergusson College (Autonomous), Pune

Deccan Education Society’s

FERGUSSON COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS),

PUNE

Syllabus

For

S.Y.B.A. (Subject- History)

[Pattern 2019]

(B.A. Semester-III and Semester-IV)

From Academic Year

2020-21



Fergusson College (Autonomous), Pune

Structure of S.Y.B.A. – Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Under CBCS pattern (2019-20) effective from June 2020

Equivalence Syllabus for Department of History

TY BA New CBCS Pattern Old /Existing Pattern

Sem V DSE 1C (4 credits)

HIS2301: Title: History of Ancient India

(Earliest times up to 300 BCE)

Special Paper 3

Title: Ancient India (3000 B.C. to 5th

Century B.C.)

DSE 2C (4 credits)

HIS2302: Title: History of Medieval India

(1206 A.D. To 1550 A.D.)

Special Paper 4

Title: Medieval India (13th Century to 16th

Century A.D.)

SEC 1C (3 credits)

HIS2303: Title: History of Modern India

(1750-1857)

General Paper 3

Title: Modern India (1857-1920)

SEC 2C (2 credits) (Value/Skill Based)

HIS2304: Title: Art Appreciation: An

Introduction to Indian Art.

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Note: SEC 1C is CC‘1 or 2’ (General paper for other department students)

TY BA New CBCS Pattern Old Existing Pattern

Sem VI DSE 1D (4 credits)

HIS2401: Title: History of Ancient India

(300 B.C.E.1206 A.D.)

Special Paper 3

Title: Ancient India (4th Century B.C. to 12th

Century A.D.)

DSE 2D (4 credits)

HIS2402: Title: History of Medieval India

(1550 A.D. To 1750 A.D.)

Special Paper 4

Title: Medieval India (13th Century to 18th

Century A.D.)

SEC 1D (3 credits)

HIS2403: Title: History of Modern India

(1858- 1950)

General Paper 3

Title: Modern India (1920-1960)

SEC 2D (2 credits)

(Value/Skill Based/ Field Work of SEC-1B)

HIS2404: Title: Historical Tourism: Theory

and Practice

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Note: SEC 1D is CC-‘1 or 2’ (General paper for other department students)



S.Y. B.A. Semester III

Subject: History

DSE 1A - Special Paper 1(HIS2301): Paper title -HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA

(EARLIEST TIMES UP TO 300 BCE)

[Credits-4]

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to

Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Identify the relevance of various types of sources in the writing of

Histories.

1

CO2 Articulate the various concepts in Ancient Indian History. 2

CO3 Recognize distinctive features of early cultures of Harappa

civilization and Vedic period.

3

CO4 Classify the specific features of early and later Vedic period. 4

CO5 Review the historic process of the rise of Mahajanpadas, Republic

state and second urbanization of India.

5

CO6 Develop the background of rise of Jainism and Buddhism and

other sects in the context of developing a tolerant attitude in

Ancient India.

6

Unit Details Lectures

I Sources for the study of Ancient Indian History

a) Material : coins, epigraphs, inscriptions archaeological sites

b) Literary : religious and secular records, traveler’s accounts

[8]

II Conceptual study of Ancient Indian History

a) Pre-history

b) Proto-history

c) Period of History

d) Bharatvarsh

e) Samakaras

f) Stupa-chaitya and Vihar

[8]

III Chalcolothic and Harappan Civilization

a) Scope and features

b) Socio-Economic and Religious life

c) Decline

[10]

IV Vedic Culture

a) Political, Social, Economic and Religious life

b) Vedic literature

[12]

V Political, Economic and Religious Transformation

a) Mahajanpadas : beginning of state formation; Monarchy,

Republic state

b) Economic : Agriculture, Iron technology

c) New religious sects and its philosophy : Jainism, Buddhism and

Charvak – Lokayat

[10]



Reference Books

1. Agrawal, D.P. and Chakrabarti, D.K., Essays in Indian Protohistory. New Delhi: B.R.

Publishing Corporation, 1979

2. Ali, S. Muzafer , The Geography of the Puranas, People’s Publishing House, New

Delhi, Second edition, 1973

3. Altekar, Anant Sadashiv.. The position of women in Hindu civilization, from

prehistoric times to the present day. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass,1959.

4. Altekar A.S., State and Government in Ancient India,

Motilal Banrasidas,Seventh Reprint edition , 2016

5. Altekar A.S. Rashtrakutas and their Times, Oriental

Book Agency , Pune, 1934

6. Basham A.L. The Wonder that was India, Picador;

Indian edition 2004

7. Basham, A.L., History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas, Motilal Banrasidas, 2009.

8. Chakravarti, Ranabir, Trade and Traders in Early India, Manohar, Delhi, 2002.

9. Chakravarti, Ranabir, ed., Trade in Early India, OUP, 2001.

10. Chakravarty, Uma and Kumkum Roy, ‘’In search of our past: A review of the

limitations and possibilities of the historiography of women in early India’’, EPW,

23(18), April 30, 1988.

11. Chakravarti, Uma , Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and

Brahmans of ‘Ancient’ India,Tulika Books, 2020.

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

1300, Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996

13. Chandra Ramesh, Temples of India, 2004, unknown publisher

14. Chattopadhyaya, B.D., The Making of Early Medieval India,K.P Baghchgi and co.

1995.

15. Chaurasia R.S., History of Ancient India Atlantic, 2014

16. Dhavalikar, M.K., The Aryans: Myth and Archaeology, Munshiram Manoharlal,

Delhi, 2007.

17. Gupta Uma Das, History of Science, Philosophy and

Culture in Indian Civilization, Pearson; 1st edition,2010.

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

publishers, Delhi,2012

19. Mahajan V.D. Ancient India,S. Chand, Thirteenth

edition ,1990, New Delhi.

20. Majumdar R.C., Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass;

10th edition , 2017

21. Majumdar, R.C. ed., History and Culture of the Indian People, vols. 1 and 2,

Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1953

22. Parasher-Sen, Aloka (ed.), Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India, Oxford

India Paperbacks, Second Edition, 2007

23. Ramanujan, A. K., Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten

Long Poem of Classical Tamil, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. [1985] 2006.

24. Roy, Kumkum, ed., Women in Early Indian Societies, Manohar, Delhi, 2005.

25. Sahu, B.P. Iron and Social Change in Early India, New Delhi: Oxford University

Press, 2006

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

27. Sastri, K.A.N., History of South India, Oxford University Press, 1975



28. Sharma R.S. India’s Ancient Past, Oxford India,

Paperbacks, 2020; Oxford University.

29. Sharma R.S., Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in

Feudalisation, Orient Blackswan, 2003.

30. Singh, Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India from the stone age to

the 12th century. Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2009

31. Thapar Romila, A History of India: Volume 1, Penguin India, Reprint edition, 2000.

32. Trautmann, Thomas R., ed., The Aryan Debate, OUP, Delhi, 2005.

33. Tripathi Ram Shankar, History of Ancient India,

Motilal Banarasidass, Tenth Reprint edition, 2014,Delhi.

Reference Books In Marathi and Hindi:

१ कटारे अनिल, प्राचीि भारताचा इनतहास, कल्पिा प्रकाशि,

िाांदेड, २०१५

२ कुलकर्णी अ. रा., भारत सांसृ्कती आनर्ण इनतहास, से्नहवर्धि

प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण.

३ कोलारकर शरद, प्राचीि भारताचा राजकीय सामानजक

साांसृ्कनतक इनतहास, श्री मांगेश प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

४ कोसांबी डी.डी. , प्राचीि भारतीय सांसृ्कती व सभ्यता, डायमांड

प्रकाशि पुरे्ण, २००६ .

५ गायर्र्णी ि. र ., प्राचीि भारताचा इनतहास, के सागर

प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण.२०१५.

६ चक्रवती रर्णवीर, भारतीय इनतहास का प्राचीितम पवध से ६००

इस्वी तक.

७ ढवळीकर, गायकवाड,देगलूरकर, प्राचीि भारताचा

साांसृ्कनतक इनतहास .

८ दीनित िी. सी., प्राचीि आनर्ण मध्ययुगीि भारत, नपांपळापुरे

प्रकाशि, िागपुर, २००३

९ देशपाांडे ब्रम्हिांद,अजांठा मागधदशधक, साकेत प्रकाशि

औरांगाबाद.

१० शमाध रामशरर्ण, वासांती फडके (अिुवादक), प्राचीि भारत, के सागर

प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण, २०१७




Subject: History

DSE 2A- Special Paper 1(HIS2302): Paper title- HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA

(1206-1550 A.D.)

[Credits-4]

Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Classify the various sources of medieval India (1206-1550)

History.

1

CO2 Understand the concepts of Indian feudalism, Temple as an

institution and Iqta.

2

CO3 Recognize knowledge of administration and Socio-Economic

conditions under the Yadavas, the Vijaynagar and the Bahamani

kingdom.

3

CO4 Analyses the circumstances that led to establish the Turks the

sultanate in India and Understands the structure of administration,

military and economic reforms under the Sultanate.

4

CO5 Assess in detail the social, economic and religious life of the

people in Delhi sultanate.

5

CO6 Compile and explain the structure of art and architecture and

science and technology of the Sultanate.

6


I Sources

a) Material

b) Literary : Persian, Indian languages, Traveler’s Accounts

[8]

II Conceptual study of Medieval India

a) Khilafat

b) Samantshahi

c) Iqta

d) Temple as an institution

[6]

III Deccani Power [12]



a) Yadav : Administration and Socio-economic

b) Vijaynagar : Administration and Socio-economic

c) Bahamani : Administration and Socio-economic

IV Delhi Sultanate

a) Political background of Delhi Sultanate

b) Turkish rulers – Chahalgani

c) Tughlaq Dynasty

d) Decline of Delhi sultanate

[12]

V Delhi Sultanate : Socio-Economic and Religious life

a) Social life

b) Economic life : Agriculture, trade and industry

c) Religious life : Bhakti movement, Sufi cult

d) Art and Architecture

e) Science and Technology

[12]

Reference Books

1. Mehta J.L. Advanced study in the history of medieval India Vol I, sterling Publishers

Pvt.ltd.

2. Satish Chandra-History of Medieval India, Vol.I, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.

3. Radhika Seshan, Ideas and institutions in Medieval India , Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.

4. Singh Meera, History of India,Vikas Publishing House Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi.

5. Mukhia Harbans, Perspectives on medieval history, Vikas Publishing House Pvt.Ltd.

New Delhi.

6. Tarachand, Influence of Islam on Indian culture Delhi.

7. Shastri Nilkantha K.A. History of South Indian, Delhi.

8. Mahajan V.D. History of Medieval India, S. Chand, Delhi.

9. Irfan Habib, Delhi Sultanate, National Book Trust of India, New Delhi.

10. Lanepule Stanley, Medieval India.

11. Percy Brown-Art Architecture, Islamic Architecture.

12. Upinder Sing, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Pearson, Delhi.

13. Salma Ahmed Farooqui, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India,Pearson, Delhi.

14. Piyush Chauhan,A History of India (From early times to A.D.1209) Pearson,Delhi.

15. Seshan Radhika Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India, Orient Blackswan,

16. Habib Irfan Medieval India The study of a Civilization, National Book Trust of India,

New Delhi.

Reference Books in Marathi and Hindi:

१. नचटिीस के.एि., मध्ययुगीि भारतीय सांकल्पिा व सांस्था, खांड १ ते ४, अनलचध एां टरप्राइज,

मुांबई.

२. आजम मुहम्मद ,सूफी तत्वज्ञाि: स्वरूप आनर्ण नचांति,पद्मगांर्ा प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण.

३. कुलकर्णी व्ही.व्ही., मध्ययुगीि भारताचा इनतहास, १२०६ ते १६५८, नवद्या प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

४. जोशी स्मिता, भारतीय इनतहास प्राचीि अवाधचीि, डायमांड प्रकाशि,पुरे्ण.



५. नभडे गजािि,िलावडे,िाईकिवरे, मध्ययुगीि भारत, फडके प्रकाशि, कोल्हापूर

६. सरदेसाई गो.स., मुसलमािी ररयासती, पॉपु्यलर प्रकाशि, मुांबई.

७. दीनित िी. सी., प्राचीि व मध्ययुगीि भारत प्रारांभापासूि ते १७०७ पयधन्त, नपांपळापुरे प्रकाशि,

िागपुर.

८. फडिाईक चन्द्रशेखर, प्राचीि व मध्ययुगीि भारत, नवद्या प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

९. कटारे अनिल, मध्ययुगीि भारताचा इनतहास, प्रशाांत प्रकाशि, िाांदेड.


Subject: History

SEC 1A –General Paper (HIS2303): Paper title- HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA

(1750-1857)

[Credits-3]

Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Examine critically the conditions leading to the advent of

Europeans in India and Understand the establishment of British

power in India through the carnatic wars, Battle of Plassey,

Buxar and Anglo-Mysore wars.

1

CO2 Articulate the nature of British rule in India. 2

CO3 Critically examine the various causes, course and effects of the

uprising of 1857 along with the courses of its failure.

3

CO4 Explain in detail the Administrative policy of the British. 4

CO5 Review the how modern education system started and expanded

in India.

5

CO6 Assemble themselves about the background of Social and

Religious Movement and the contribution of the religious and

social reformers or works of the Samajs or institutions that

shape the modern India.

6


I Background of British Power in India

a) Advent of Europeans in India

b) Establishment of British Power in India: Carnatic wars, battle of

Plassey, Buxar, Anglo-Mysore wars, the Anglo-Sikh wars.

[10]

II India under the East India Company

a) Regulating act1773, Pits India Act 1784 [8]



b) Charter Acts 1813,1833, 1853

c) Industrialization

d) Railways

e) Rise of Capitalism in India

III Uprising of 1857

a) Causes, Course and effects

b) Causes of failure

c) Queens proclamation 1858

[8]

IV Administrative Policy of the British

a) Land Revenue System: Permanent, Rayatwari and Mahalwari

b) Education

c) Press

d) Famine

e) Local Self Government

[10]

V Social and Religious Movement

a) Bramho Samaj

b) Arya Samaj

c) Prarthana Samaj

d) Satyashodhak Samaj

e) Ramkrishana mission

f) Aligarh Movement

[12]

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Nationalism, Verso, New York/ London, 1991.

2. Austin Granville, Working a Democratic Constitution, Oxford University Press, 1997

3. Alavi S., The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India,

1770-1830, Oxford University Press, 1995.

4. Bagchi Amiya, Private Investment in India, 1930-1939, Cambridge University

Press,1972.

5. Bearce George D, British attitude towards India OUP, London, 1961.

6. Blackburn Stuart, Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India,Permanent

Black, Delhi, 2001.

7. Banerji A.K., India's Balance of Payments: Estimates of Current and Capital

Accounts from 1921-22 to 1938-39, Bombay, New York: Asia Publishing House

1963.

8. Bandyopadhyay Shekhar, From Plassey to Partition and after, Orient Blackswan,

New Delhi, 2014.

9. Bayly C.A. The Local roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad, 1880-1920, Oxford

:Clarendon Press, 1975

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

Longman,1989.

11. Bhattacharya Sabyasachi, The Financial Foundations of the British Raj, Simla,

Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1971.

12. Bhadra, Gautam (1999) ‘Two frontier uprisings in Mughal India’, Ranajit Guha

(ed.) Subaltern Studies II: Writings on South Asian history and society, New Delhi:

Oxford University Press, pp. 43-59.

13. Brown Judith, Gandhi’s Rise to Power, Cambridge, 1971.

14. Chakrabarthy Dipesh, Rethinking Working Class History, Princeton University

Press, 2002.

15. Chandavarkar Raj, Origins of Industrial Capitalism, Cambridge University Press,

1994.



16. Chatterjee Indrani, Gender, Slavery, and Law in Colonial India, Oxford

University Press, 1999.

17. Chandra Bipan, History of Modern India, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi,2009.

18. Chandra Bipan, Nationalism and colonialism in Modern India, Orient Blackswan,

New Delhi,1981.

19. Chandra Bipan, India’s Struggle for Independence, Penguin books, New Delhi, 2016.

20. Chandra Bipan, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism, Har Anand

Publications, New Delhi, 2016.

21. Chatterjee Partha, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative

Discourse, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

22. Cohn Bernard, ‘Representing Authority in Victorian India’, in E.J. Hobsbawm

and Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge

23. Cohn Bernard, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India,

Princeton University Press, 1996.

24. Desai A.R., Social background of Indian Nationalism, Popular publication,2011.

25. Dodwell H.H., Cambridge History of India, Vol V, VI, Forgotten Books, 2018.

26. Dutt R.C, Economic History of India Vol, I,II, Publications Division,2017.

27. Deshpande Prachi, Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western

India,1700-1960 ( Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2006)

28. Forbes, Geraldine, Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press,1996.

29. Gandhi M. K., The Hind Swaraj, Various editions: Parel ed., and T. Surhud, S.

Sharma ed.

30. Gopal S, British Policy in India 1858-1905, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

31. Grover B.L., Modern Indian History, S. Chand, New Delhi,2016.

32. Guha Ranajit and et al, Ed Subaltern Studies, 1-12, , Oxford University

Press,Delhi,/Permanent Press 1982-

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

Settlement, Duke University Press, New Delhi, 1982

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house, 1957.

36. Kumar, Radha, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for

Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990 (Delhi, 1993)

37. Kennedy P., The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military

Conflict from 1500 to 2000, New York: Vintage Books, 1987.

38. Kumar Dharma ed., The Cambridge Economic History of India, ii ,Orient

Longmans, Delhi 1984

39. Majumdar R.C., British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance Vol.IX., Bhratiya

Vidya Bhavan, 2002.

40. Mani Lata, Contentious Tradition: The Debate over Sati in Colonial India, University

of California Press, Berkeley, 1998

41. Maizels Alfred, Industrial Growth and World Trade, Cambridge University Press,

1963.

42. McLane J. R. Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton


43. Mukherjee Rudrangshu, Awadh in Revolt: 1857-1858, Anthem Press, 2002.

44. Moosvi Shireen (ed.), Facets of the Great Revolt: 1857, Tulika Books, 2008.



45. Metcalf T.R., Ideologies of the Raj: The New Cambridge History of India, III.4,

Cambridge University Press, 1995.University Press, 1983.

46. Nag Sajal, India and North-East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration,

1946-1950, New Delhi: Regency Publications, 1999

47. Nag, Sajal (2008) Pied Pipers of North-East India: Bamboo-flowers, Rat-famines and

the Politics of Philantropy 1881-2007, New Delhi: Manohar

48. Natarajan S, A Century of Social Reform in India, Asia Publishing House, 1959.

49. Pandey Gyanendra, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India,

Oxford University Press, 1990.

50. Pandey Gyanendra, Remembering Partition, Cambridge University Press, 2002

51. Sawarkar, V D, The Indian War of Independence 1857, Abhishek Publication, 2019

52. Sarkar, Tanika & Urvashi Butalia (eds), Women and the Hindu Right: A

Collection of Essays (Kali for Women, Delhi, 1995)

53. Seal Anil The Emergence of Indian Nationalism, London: Cambridge University

Press,1971.

54. Sen S. N., Eighteen Fifty-Seven, Delhi: Publications Division, 1957.

55. Skaria Ajay. Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India.New

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१. ग्रोवर बी.एल.,अिुवादक एि. के. बेल्हेकर. आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास, एस. चांद

प्रकाशि, िवी नदल्ली, २००३.

२. जावडेकर शरद, आरु्निक भारत.

३. पवार जयनसांगराव, आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास,अरां र्ती प्रकाशि, कोल्हापूर२००७ .

४. नबनपांचांद्र, आरु्निक भारत का इनतहास, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई नदल्ली, २००९.

५. बांडोपाध्याय शेखर, प्लासीसे नवभाजितक और उसके बाद, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई

नदल्ली, २०१५ .

६. मांडनलक मारु्री, एकोर्णीसाव्या शतकातील महाराष्ट्र ातील र्मधसुर्ारर्णा चळवळ,

डायमांड प्रकाशि,२०१३.

७. वैद्य सुमि आनर्ण शाांता कोठेकर, आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास, खांड १, श्री साईिाथ

प्रकाशि िागपुर,२०१५.

८. नसांग अमरप्रसाद, राष्ट्र वाद का भारतिामा, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई नदल्ली,२०१७.

९. सुब्रमानर्णय्यम लक्ष्मी, भारत का इनतहास १७०७ से १८५७ तक, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई

नदल्ली.




Subject: History

SEC 2A–Skill Enhancement I (HIS2304): Paper title- Art Appreciation: An

Introduction to Indian Art.

[Credits-2]

Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Understand the Pre-historic and Proto-historic art. 1

CO2 Articulate the overview of Indian Art. 2

CO3 Recognize the Ancient and Medieval Indian Painting. 3

CO4 Demonstrate the Ancient and Medieval folk art traditions. 3

CO5 Explain the difference between Mughal painting and Rajasthani

painting.

4

CO6 Develop the appreciate approach to art and architecture of India. 6


I Pre-historic and Proto-historic Art

Rock art; Harappan arts and crafts

Indian Art (c. 600 BCE – 600 CE)

a) Notions of art and craft

b) Canons of Indian paintings

c) Early Indian sculpture : style and iconography

d) Major developments in Stupa, cave and temple art architecture

[7]

II Indian Art (c. 1200 CE – 1800 CE)

Miniature painting traditions : Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari

Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Architecture

a) The Colonial Period

[8]



b) Major artist and their art works

c) Popular art forms (folk art traditions)

Reference Books 1. Neumayer, Erwin, Lines of Stone: The Pre- historic

rock art of India, South Asia Books, 1993.

2. Goswamy.B.N. Essence of Indian Art, Asian art

Museum of Sanfransisco, 1986.

3. Huntington Susan, The Art of Ancient India: Hindu,

Buddhist, Jain, Weather hill, 1985.

4. Mahajan V.D., Ancient India, S. Chand and Company

limited, New Delhi.

5. Mahajan V.D. History of Medieval India, S. Chand,

Delhi.

S.Y. B.A. Semester IV

Subject: History

DSE 1B - Special Paper (HIS2401): Paper title- HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA

(300 B.C.E. - 1206 A.D.)

[Credits-4]

Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Describe the rise of Maurya Empire and administration along

with details of life of people in that period.

1

CO2 Categorize the impact Indo-Greek kingdoms in Ancient India. 2

CO3 Classify and compares between Guptas and other kingdoms of

the period and analyses the debate of the Golden Age.

3/5

CO4 Identify the growth of Indian feudalism during and after

Harshawardhan period.

4

CO5 Appraise the nature of south Indian political power. 5

CO6 Formulate and acquire knowledge of socio-political

developments in kingdoms of Deccan and South India during

Ancient period.

6


I Beginning of Expansion : The Mauryan Empire

d) Persian and Greek invasion

a) Rise and Expansion

b) Administration

[11]



c) Socio-Economic and Religious Life

d) Kushana Empire

e) Shunga to Kanva

II State formation in the Deccan and South India

a) Shaka, Indo Greeks, Kushana

b) Satavahanas

c) Western Kshtrapas

d) Sangam Age : Brief Survey

[10]

III The Age of Gupta and Vakatakas

a) Political history

b) Administration

c) Socio-Economic and Religious Life

d) Science and Technology

e) “Golden Age” Debate

f) Vakatakas

e) Decline of Gupta Power

[10]

IV Towards the Medieval Period

a) Harshavardhana and his Achievements

b) Beginning of Feudalism

c) Invasion of Ghori, Ghazni and Mohammad Bin Quassim

[5]

V Deccan and South Indian Dynasties

a) Chalukyas

b) Rashtrakutas

c) Pallava

d) Cholas

[12]

Reference Books 1. Agrawal, D.P. and Chakrabarti, D.K., Essays in Indian Protohistory. New Delhi: B.R.

Publishing Corporation, 1979

2. Ali, S. Muzafer , The Geography of the Puranas, People’s Publishing House, New

Delhi, Second edition, 1973

3. Altekar, Anant Sadashiv.. The position of women in Hindu civilization, from

prehistoric times to the present day. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass,1959.

4. Altekar A.S., State and Government in Ancient India,

Motilal Banrasidas,Seventh Reprint edition , 2016

5. Altekar A.S. Rashtrakutas and their Times, Oriental

Book Agency , Pune, 1934

6. Basham A.L. The Wonder that was India, Picador;

Indian edition 2004

7. Basham, A.L., History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas, Motilal Banrasidas, 2009.

8. Chakravarti, Ranabir, Trade and Traders in Early India, Manohar, Delhi, 2002.

9. Chakravarti, Ranabir, ed., Trade in Early India, OUP, 2001.

10. Chakravarty, Uma and Kumkum Roy, ‘’In search of our past: A review of the

limitations and possibilities of the historiography of women in early India’’, EPW,

23(18), April 30, 1988.

11. Chakravarti, Uma , Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and

Brahmans of ‘Ancient’ India,Tulika Books, 2020.



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

1300, Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996

13. Chandra Ramesh, Temples of India, 2004, unknown publisher

14. Chattopadhyaya, B.D., The Making of Early Medieval India,K.P Baghchgi and co.

1995.

15. Chaurasia R.S., History of Ancient India Atlantic, 2014

16. Dhavalikar, M.K., The Aryans: Myth and Archaeology, Munshiram Manoharlal,

Delhi, 2007.

17. Gupta Uma Das, History of Science, Philosophy and

Culture in Indian Civilization, Pearson; 1st edition,2010.

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

publishers, Delhi,2012

19. Mahajan V.D. Ancient India,S. Chand, Thirteenth

edition ,1990, New Delhi.

20. Majumdar R.C., Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass;

10th edition , 2017

21. Majumdar, R.C. ed., History and Culture of the Indian People, vols. 1 and 2,

Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1953

22. Parasher-Sen, Aloka (ed.), Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India, Oxford

India Paperbacks, Second Edition, 2007

23. Ramanujan, A. K., Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten

Long Poem of Classical Tamil, New Delhi: Oxford University Press. [1985] 2006.

24. Roy, Kumkum, ed., Women in Early Indian Societies, Manohar, Delhi, 2005.

25. Sahu, B.P. Iron and Social Change in Early India, New Delhi: Oxford University

Press, 2006

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

27. Sastri, K.A.N., History of South India, Oxford University Press, 1975

28. Sharma R.S. India’s Ancient Past, Oxford India,

Paperbacks, 2020; Oxford University.

29. Sharma R.S., Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in

Feudalisation, Orient Blackswan, 2003.

30. Singh, Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India from the stone age to

the 12th century. Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2009

31. Thapar Romila, A History of India: Volume 1, Penguin India, Reprint edition, 2000.

32. Trautmann, Thomas R., ed., The Aryan Debate, OUP, Delhi, 2005.

33. Tripathi Ram Shankar, History of Ancient India,

Motilal Banarasidass, Tenth Reprint edition, 2014,Delhi.


१. शमाध रामशरर्ण, अिुवादक प्राचीि भारताचा पररचय,डायमांड


२. चक्रवती रर्णवीर, भारतीय इनतहास का प्राचीितम पवध से ६००

इस्वी तक.

३. गायर्र्णी ि. र ., प्राचीि भारताचा इनतहास, के सागर

प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण .



४. ढवळीकर, गायकवाड,देगलूरकर, प्राचीि भारताचा

साांसृ्कनतक इनतहास .

५. दीनित िी. सी., प्राचीि आनर्ण मध्ययुगीि भारत, नपांपळापुरे

प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

६. देशपाांडे ब्रम्हिांद,अजांठा मागधदशधक, साकेत प्रकाशि

औरांगाबाद.

७. कटारे अनिल, प्राचीि भारताचा इनतहास, कल्पिा प्रकाशि,

िाांदेड .

८. कोसांबी डी.डी. , प्राचीि भारतीय सांसृ्कती व सभ्यता, डायमांड

प्रकाशि पुरे्ण .

९. कोलारकर शरद,प्राचीि भारताचा राजकीय सामानजक

साांसृ्कनतक इनतहास, श्री मांगेश प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

१० . कुलकर्णी अ. रा., भारत सांसृ्कती आनर्ण इनतहास, से्नहवर्धि


११ . शमाध रामशरर्ण, वासांती फडके (अिुवादक), प्राचीि भारत,

के सागर प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण.

S.Y. B.A. Semester IV

Subject: History

DSE 2B - Special Paper (HIS2302): Paper title- HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA

(1550-1750)

[Credits-4]



Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Identify the various sources of medieval India History. 1

CO2 Explain the various administrative reform and conquest policy

aspects of Shershaha Suri.

2

CO3 Interprete the difference between reforms of Sher Shah Suri and

Mughal administration.

3

CO4 Analyse socio-economic and religious changes in medieval India

under the Mughal reign.

4

CO5 Review the contribution of art and architecture and science and

technology during the Mughal rule.

5

CO6 Outline major developments that led to the rise of other powers

in the 18th century.

1/6


I Sources

a) Material

b) Literary : Persian, Indian Language, Traveler’s Account

[12]

II Mughal Empire Establishment and consolidation of the Empire

a) Political background

b) Reform of Shershah

c) Mughal Administration

1) Civil Administration

2) Military Administration : Mansabdari

d) Land revenue

[12]

III Religion, Society, Economy and Culture in Medieval India

a) Religion : Din-i-Ilahi, Sikhism, Bhakti Movement Women in

Bhakti, Sufism

b) Social Condition

c) Expansion of Economy : Production ,Trade and Commerce,

Finance and Banking, Agriculture

d) Urbanization

e) Art and Architecture

f) Science and Technology

[12]

IV 18th Century Developments

a) Rajput

b) Sikh

c) Maratha

[12]

Reference Books

1. Satish chandra Medieval India, part two, Orient Black swan Publication , New Delhi

2. Mehta J.L. Advanced Study in the history of Medieval India, vol-II & III Mughal

Empire Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

3. Varma Nirmala , History of India Mughal Period, ABCD Publishers.

4. Mahajan V.D. History of Medieval India, S. Chand , New Delhi



5. Fukazawa Hiroshi, the Medieval Deccan, Peasant, Social System& Status.

Habib Irfan Medieval India The study of a Civilization, National Book Trust of India,

New Delhi.

6. Seshan Radhika, Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India, Orient Black swan

Publication , New Delhi

7. Srivastava Ashirbadi Lal, The Mughal Empire, Shiv lal Agarwal &Company Agra.

8. Radhika seshan, Ideas and institution in Medieval India, Orient blackswan, New

Delhi.

9. Irfan Habib, History of Medieval India, Volume 1 to 8, National Book Trust of India,

New Delhi.

10. Bhargav Meena, Understanding Mughal India, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.

Reference Books In Marathi and Hindi :

१. नचटिीस के.एि., मध्ययुगीि भारतीय सांकल्पिा व सांस्था, खांड १ ते ४, अनलचध एां टरप्राइज,

मुांबई.

२. आजम मुहम्मद ,सूफी तत्वज्ञाि: स्वरूप आनर्ण नचांति,पद्मगांर्ा प्रकाशि, पुरे्ण.

३. कुलकर्णी व्ही.व्ही., मध्ययुगीि भारताचा इनतहास, १२०६ ते १६५८, नवद्या प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

४. जोशी स्मिता भारतीय इनतहास प्राचीि अवाधचीि, डायमांड प्रकाशि,पुरे्ण.

५. नभडे गजािि,िलावडे,िाईकिवरे, मध्ययुगीि भारत, फडके प्रकाशि, कोल्हापूर

६. सरदेसाई गो.स., मुसलमािी ररयासती, पॉपु्यलर प्रकाशि, मुांबई.

७. दीनित िी. सी., प्राचीि व मध्ययुगीि भारत प्रारांभापासूि ते १७०७ पयधन्त, नपांपळापुरे प्रकाशि,

िागपुर.

८. फडिाईक चन्द्रशेखर, प्राचीि व मध्ययुगीि भारत, नवद्या प्रकाशि, िागपुर.

९. कटारे अनिल, मध्ययुगीि भारताचा इनतहास, प्रशाांत प्रकाशि, िाांदेड.

१० .सतीशचांद्र, मध्याकालीि भारत राजिीनत, समाज,और सांसृ्कती, ओररयांट बॅ्लकस्वि प्रकाशि,

िवी नदल्ली.

११ . वमाध हररषचांद्र, मध्यकालीि भारत का इनतहास, नहन्दी निदेशालाय प्रकाशि, नदल्ली.

१२ . सतीशचांद्र, के सागर( अिुवादक), मध्ययुगीि भारताचा इनतहास, खांड १ व खांड २, के. सागर

प्रकाशि पुरे्ण.

S.Y. B.A. Semester IV Subject: History

SEC 1B – General Paper (HIS2303): Paper title- HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA

(1857-1950)

[Credits-3]



Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Tabulate the causes behind the rise and growth of Indian

Nationalism & the foundation of Indian National Congress.

1

CO2 Understand importance of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy and

the national movement under him.

2

CO3 Recognize distinctive features of Muslim League politics, its

aims and two Nation Theory.

3

CO4 Explain the significance of various acts which pertain to

Constitutional development.

4

CO5 Assess about the various subaltern movements before and after

Independence.

5

CO6 Analyse the consequences of partition, Explain the integration

of the princely states and reorganization of the linguistic state.

4/6


I Indian Nationalism 10Rise and Growth

a) Rise and growth of Nationalism

b) Foundation of Indian National Congress

c) The Moderates and Extremists

d) Revolutionary Nationalism

[10]

II Mahatma Gandhi and Indian National Movement

a) Philosophy

b) Non-cooperation

c) Civil Disobedience

d) Quit India

[10]

III Rise and Growth of Communalism

a) Muslim League

b) Two Nation Theory

c) Partition

[6]

IV Constitutional Development

a) 1861 Act and 1892 Act

b) Morle- Minto Reform- 1909

c) Montague-Chelmsford Reform – 1919

d) Govt. Of India Act 1935

e) The last phase : Transfer of Power

[6]

V Subaltern Movement

a) Dalit Movement

b) Women’s Movement

c) Peasant Movement

d) Tribal Movement

e) Workers Movement

[10]

VI India after Independence

a) Consequences of Partition

b) Integration of Princely states

c) Constitution and its features

[8]



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Nationalism, Verso, New York/ London, 1991.

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1770-1830, Oxford University Press, 1995.

5. Bagchi Amiya, Private Investment in India, 1930-1939, Cambridge University

Press,1972.

6. Bearce George D, British attitude towards India OUP, London, 1961.

7. Blackburn Stuart, Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India,Permanent

Black, Delhi, 2001.

8. Banerji A.K., India's Balance of Payments: Estimates of Current and Capital

Accounts from 1921-22 to 1938-39, Bombay, New York: Asia Publishing House

1963.

9. Bandyopadhyay Shekhar, From Plassey to Partition and after, Orient Blackswan,

New Delhi, 2014.

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14. Brown Judith, Gandhi’s Rise to Power, Cambridge, 1971.

15. Chakrabarthy Dipesh, Rethinking Working Class History, Princeton University

Press, 2002.

16. Chandavarkar Raj, Origins of Industrial Capitalism, Cambridge University Press,

1994.

17. Chatterjee Indrani, Gender, Slavery, and Law in Colonial India, Oxford


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Princeton University Press, 1996.

25. Desai A.R., Social background of Indian Nationalism, Popular publication,2011.

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27. Dutt R.C, Economic History of India Vol, I,II, Publications Division,2017.

28. Deshpande Prachi, Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western

India,1700-1960 ( Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2006)



29. Forbes, Geraldine, Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press,1996.

30. Gandhi M. K., The Hind Swaraj, Various editions: Parel ed., and T. Surhud, S.

Sharma ed.

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Press,Delhi,/Permanent Press 1982-

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Settlement, Duke University Press, New Delhi, 1982

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Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990 (Delhi, 1993)

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Conflict from 1500 to 2000, New York: Vintage Books, 1987.

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Longmans, Delhi 1984

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Vidya Bhavan, 2002.

41. Mani Lata, Contentious Tradition: The Debate over Sati in Colonial India, University

of California Press, Berkeley, 1998

42. Maizels Alfred, Industrial Growth and World Trade, Cambridge University Press,

1963.

43. McLane J. R. Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton


44. Mukherjee Rudrangshu, Awadh in Revolt: 1857-1858, Anthem Press, 2002.

45. Moosvi Shireen (ed.), Facets of the Great Revolt: 1857, Tulika Books, 2008.

46. Metcalf T.R., Ideologies of the Raj: The New Cambridge History of India, III.4,

Cambridge University Press, 1995.University Press, 1983.

47. Nag Sajal, India and North-East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration,

1946-1950, New Delhi: Regency Publications, 1999

48. Nag, Sajal (2008) Pied Pipers of North-East India: Bamboo-flowers, Rat-famines and

the Politics of Philantropy 1881-2007, New Delhi: Manohar

49. Natarajan S, A Century of Social Reform in India, Asia Publishing House, 1959.

50. Pandey Gyanendra, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India,

Oxford University Press, 1990.

51. Pandey Gyanendra, Remembering Partition, Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Collection of Essays (Kali for Women, Delhi, 1995)

54. Seal Anil The Emergence of Indian Nationalism, London: Cambridge University

Press,1971.

55. Sen S. N., Eighteen Fifty-Seven, Delhi: Publications Division, 1957.

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York: Oxford University Press. 1999



57. Subrmaniam Laxmi , History of India 1757-1857, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi,

2010

58. Tagore, R.N. Nationalism, With an Introduction by E.P. Thompson, Calcutta, Rupa,

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१. ग्रोवर बी.एल.,अिुवादक एि. के. बेल्हेकर. आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास, एस. चांद

प्रकाशि, िवी नदल्ली, २००३.

२. जावडेकर शरद, आरु्निक भारत.

३. पवार जयनसांगराव, आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास,अरां र्ती प्रकाशि, कोल्हापूर२००७ .

४. नबनपांचांद्र, आरु्निक भारत का इनतहास, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई नदल्ली, २००९.

५. बांडोपाध्याय शेखर, प्लासीसे नवभाजितक और उसके बाद, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई

नदल्ली, २०१५ .

६. मांडनलक मारु्री, एकोर्णीसाव्या शतकातील महाराष्ट्र ातील र्मधसुर्ारर्णा चळवळ,

डायमांड प्रकाशि,२०१३.

७. वैद्य सुमि आनर्ण शाांता कोठेकर, आरु्निक भारताचा इनतहास, खांड १, श्री साईिाथ

प्रकाशि िागपुर,२०१५.

८. नसांग अमरप्रसाद, राष्ट्र वाद का भारतिामा, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई नदल्ली,२०१७.

९. सुब्रमानर्णय्यम लक्ष्मी, भारत का इनतहास १७०७ से १८५७ तक, ओररएां ट बॅ्लकस्वााँि, िई

नदल्ली.



S.Y. B.A. Semester IV Subject: History

SEC 2B – Skill Enhancement I (HIS2404): Paper title- HISTORICAL TOURISM:

THEORY AND PRACTICE

[Credits-2]

Course Outcomes


Cognitive Level

(Bloom’s Level)

CO1 Define the term of Heritage. 1

CO2 Interpret the cave architecture and stupa Architecture. 2

CO3 Demonstrate the Temple sites and Explorations. 3

CO4 Categorize the tools of research in Art and Architecture. 4

CO5 Review the Ancient and Medieval Indian Art and Architecture. 5

CO6 Compile the Information of Tourist sites in India. 6,5


I Defining Heritage

a) Art and Architecture in India : An overview

Field Work : Visit to Historical sites and Museums

Understanding Built Heritage

a) Stupa Architecture

b) Cave Architecture

c) Temple Architecture

d) Indo Persian Architecture, Forts, Palaces, Mosques

e) Colonial Architecture

f) Maratha Architecture

Field Work : Visit to site and Conducting of research

Modalities of conducting Tourism

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Reference Books:

1. Kumar Sunil, The Present in Delhi’s Past, Delhi, Gyan

Publishing House, 2002

2. Howard Peter, Heritage: Management, Interpretation,

Identity and London, 2003.

3. Agarwal V.S, Indian Art, Varanasi, Prithvi Prakashan,

1972

4. Percy Brown, Indian Architecture, Bombay,

D.B.Taraporevala Sons and CO, 1940

5. Harle James, The Art and Architecture of the Indian

Subcontinent, Hormonds worth, Penguin, 1988.

6. Bhowmik S.K., Heritage Management: Care,

Understanding and Appreciation of Cultural Heritage, Jaipur, 2004.

6. Mahajan V.D., Ancient India, S. Chand and Company

limited, New Delhi.

7. Mahajan V.D. History of Medieval India, S. Chand,

Delhi.

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