SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY,

KOLHAPUR.

New Syllabus For

Master of Arts (M.A. History)

Faculty of Social Sciences

(M.A. Part – I)

(Subject to the modifications to be made from time to time)

Syllabus to be implemented from June 2010 Onwards

(PG Teaching Centers in Affiliated Colleges, Shivaji

University)

A] Ordinance and Regulations: As applicable to M. A. History Degree)

Shivaji University, Kolhapur New Syllabus For

Master of Arts in History

[ Faculty of Social Sciences]

[ For PG Teaching Centers in Affiliated Colleges, Shivaji University ]

1. TITLE : HISTORY

Under the Faculty of Social Sciences

2. YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION: New Syllabus will be implemented from June

2010 onwards in the PG Teaching Centers in Affiliated Colleges, Shivaji University

3. GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

1) One of the objectives in the constitution of Shivaji University is to promote

the studies in Maratha History and History of Maharashtra and hence we have

papers on Maratha History & Modern Maharashtra.

2) To acquaint the student with the recent research in Indian History.

3) To empower students to cope with the challenges of globalization.

4) To acquaint the student with the Socio-economic & Political developments in

other countries also.

5. DURATION:

• The course shall be a full time course.

• The duration of course shall be of Two years

6. PATTERN:-

The pattern of examination will be Annual.

7. FEE STRUCTURE: - As applicable to the regular course.

i) Entrance Examination Fee (If applicable): Not Applicable.

ii) Course Fee-As per the University rules/norms.

Particulars Rupees

Tuition Fee Rs.

Laboratory Fee Rs.

Computer Fee Rs.

Annual/Semester fee- Per

student

Total Rs.

Other fee will be applicable as per University rules/norms.

8. IMPLEMENTATION OF FEE STRUCTURE:

In case of revision of fee structure, this revision will be implemented in phase

wise manner as per the University decision in this regard.

9. ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION:

As per the eligibility criteria prescribed by the University for each course and

the merit list will be prepared on the basis of graduate level performance along with

reservation norms.

10. MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION:

The medium of instruction shall be English [The students will have option to

write answer-scripts in Marathi].

11. STRUCTURE OF COURSE-.

M. A. History, New Syllabus

Paper Number Paper Title Marks

Com. - 01 History: Its Theory and Method 100

Com. - 02 Polity, Economy & Society under the Marathas

(1600-1818)

100

ELECTIVE / OPTIONAL PAPERS

Optional - 01 Polity & Economy in Ancient India (From

earliest times to 12th century)

100

Optional - 02 Polity & Economy in Medieval India (1200-

1750 AD)

100

Optional - 03 India under the Company Rule (1757-1857 AD)

100

Optional - 04 Modern Maharashtra (1818-1990)

100

Optional – 05 History of South India (From earliest times to

12th c. AD)

100

Optional – 06 History of U.S.A. (1900-2001 AD)

Paper Number Paper Title Marks

Com. - 03 History of Freedom Movement in India (1857-

1947) 100

Com. - 04 Modern World (1901-2000) 100

ELECTIVE / OPTIONAL PAPERS

Optional – 07 Society & Culture in Ancient India (Earliest to

12th century)

100

Optional – 08 Society & Culture in Medieval India (1200-

1750 AD)

100

Optional – 09 Historical Application in Tourism.

100

Optional – 10 Modern China (1901-2000)

100

Optional – 11 History of South India (12th c. AD-19

th c. AD)

100

Optional – 12 Women in Indian History

Shivaji University, Kolhapur

M. A. (History) Course.

Revised Syllabus

M.A.-PART-1

(To be introduced from June 2010)

COMPULSORY PAPERS:

Paper-I: History: Its Theory and Method

Paper-II: Polity, Economy & Society under the Marathas (1600-1818)

OPTIONAL PAPERS (Choose any two)

A. Polity & Economy in Ancient India (From earliest times to 12th century)

B. Polity & Economy in Medieval India (1200-1750 AD)

C. India under the Company Rule (1757-1857 AD)

D. Modern Maharashtra (1818-1990)

E. History of South India (From earliest times to 12th c. AD)

F. History of U.S.A. (1900-2001 AD)

M.A.-PART-1

History: Its Theory and Method

Unit 1 : Meaning and Scope of History

a) Definition of History

b) Concept of Historiography

c) History and other disciplines

Unit 2 : Traditions of History Writing

a) Ancient – Greaco, Roman

b) Medieval – Christian, Arabic

c) Modern Marxist, Annals

Unit 3 : Historical Method

a) Selection of Topic, Collection of Source Material

b) Sources : Types of sources

c) Criticism : Internal and External

Unit 4 : Methods of Writing History

a) Causation in History

b) Objectivity in History

c) Presentation of Research work and bibliography

Unit 5: Theories of History

a) Ancient : Greek, Rome, India

b) World System

c) Ecological

Unit 6 : Themes in History

a) Economic : Labour and feudalism

b) Region and culture

c) Gender relations

Unit 7 : Debates in History

a) Modernity and its philosophic version

b) Orientalism

c) Post modernism in History

Unit 8 : Eminent Philosopher

a) Hegel

b) L. Ranke

c) Toyenbee

Suggested Readings :-

1. Jayapalan N. – Historiography, Atlantic Publication, New Delhi, 1999. 2. Mujumdar R. K. and A. N. Srivastava – Historiography, Surjeet Book Depot,

Delhi, 1975

3. Sreedharan, E – A Text Book of Historiography 300 BC to 2000 AD. Orient Longman, 2004.

4. Wilkingson and Banadarkar – Methodology and techniques of Social Research Bombay, Himayala Pub. House, Second Edition, 1979.

5. Collingwood R. G. – The idea of History, Oxford University Press, Reprint 1970. 6. Haddock B. A. – Introduction to Historical Thought, Edward Arnold Publishers,

London, 1980

7. Philosophies of History, Burns R Hugh picard, 2000. 8. Marwick Arthur, The Nature of History, 1970. 9. Walsh Whtt. – An introduction to the philosophy of History 1951. 10. Langlois and Seignobos – An introduction to the study or History 1960.

M.A.-PART-1

Polity, Economy & Society under the Marathas (1600-1818)

Unit – 1 Sources and Historiography :

A) Indian and Foreign Sources

B) Different approaches in Maratha Historiography

Unit – 2 Maratha Polity

A) Kingship

B) Transfer of Power : Chhatrapati – Peshwa – Karbhari

C) Maratha Confederacy.

Unit - 3. Agrarian system :

A) Land, survey and Assessment

B) Crops and Irrigation

C) Famines

D) Type of Land Grants

E) Revenue officials and encouragement to Agriculture

Unit - 4. Public Income and Expenditure

A) Sources of Income

- Taxes, Presents, Fees, Fines, Government undertaking

- Chauth and Sardeshmuhi

- Total Income

B) Expenditure

- Items of Expenditure

- Personal

- Civil, Military and Religious.

Unit - 5. Industry, Trade and Commerce.

A) Village – Crafts, Industries, Occupations

B) Trade – Routes and Centres

C) Currency and Banking

Unit – 6 Social Condition

A) Caste, Untouchability, Slavery

B) Position of women, Education.

Unit - 7. Religion and Culture

A) Impact of Sufism

B) Varkari Sampradaya

C) Religious Sects

D) Maharashtra Dharma.

E) Festivals

Unit - 8. Art and Architecture.

A) Art: Painting, Wood work, handicraft B) Architecture: Forts and Temples

Suggested Books

1. Kulkarni, A.R., Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji, Deshmukh & Comp.,

Pune, 1969

2. csanzas ok-lh- lk/kufpfdRLkk] yksdokM%e;xg̀] 1986-

3. [kjss x- g-] dqyd.khZ v-jk- laik & ejkB;kapk bfrgkl 3 [kaM dkWfUVusUVy izdk'ku] iq.kss 1986-

4. Kulkanri, A.R., Medieval Maratha Country, New Delhi, 1996.

5. Fukazawa, H., The Medieval Deccan, Oxforx, Bombay, 1991.

6. Desai, S.V., Social Life in Maharashtra under the Peshwas, Popular,

Bombay, 1980.

7. Hkkos ok- Ø- & is'kosdkyhu egkjk"Vz] Hkkjrh; bfrgkl vuqlU/kku ifj"kn] uoh fnYyh] 1976-

8. Mahajan, T.T., Industry Trade and Commerce during Peshwa Period,

Pointer Publisher, Jaipur, 1989.

9. Kadam. V.S., Maratha Confederacy, Munshiram manoharlal, New Delhi,

1993.

10. Chitnis, K.N., Socio-economic Aspects of Medival India, R.K. Chitnis,

Poona, 1979.

11. Ranade M.G., Rise of Maratha Power and Other Essays, Bombay

University of Bombay, Bombay 1961.

12. pkQsdj]uk-xkss] is'kokbZP;k lkoyhr] iq.ks] 1937-

13. ljnkj] xa-ck-] lar okM~-e;kph lkekftd QyJqrh egkjk"Vz lkfgR; ifj"kn] 1962

14. Dr. Balkrishna, Shivaji The Great, Vol. IV., Balkrishna, Kolhapur, 1940,

D.B. Taraporevala, 1932, Kitab Mahal, Bombay, 1932, Arya Book Depot.,

Kolhapur, 1946.

15. Andre Wink, Land and Sovereignty in India : Agrarian Society and Politics

under the Eighteenth century Maratha Swaraja, Cambridge, 1986.

M.A.-PART-1

Polity & Economy in Ancient India (From earliest times to 12th century)

Unit – 1. Reconstructing Ancient Indian History:

a. Sources : Literary and Archaeological

b. Different trends in interpreting ancient Indian History

Unit – 2. Pre & Proto-historical Cultures

a. Stone Age

b. Chalcolithic: Harappa Culture

Unit – 3. Vedic Society :

a. Polity

b. Economy

Unit – 4 Janapadas and Mahajanapadas

a. Territorial States : Monarchical and Republican

b. Urbanization

Unit – 5 Mauryan India

a. Foundation of Mauryan Empire

b. Polity and Administration

Unit – 6 Post Mauryan Development

a. Political : Sungas, Kanvas, Satavahans, Kshatrapas, Kushaanas,

Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas.

b. Economic- Land grants, agricultural expansion, trade and trade

guilds, coinage and currency

Unit – 7. Polity in Early Medieval Period :

a. Political structure and forms of legitimation, regional variations :

Gurjara Pratihars, Palas, Chalukyas, Rastrakutas, Pandyas and

Cholas

b. Recent debates : feudal, segmentary and

integrative approaches

Unit – 8. Economy :

a. Agrarian Economy : land grants, agricultural expansion, agrarian

organization irrigation and technology.

b. Industry, Trade and Commerce : trade and trade routes : trade & craft guilds,

coinage and currency.

Suggested Books for Paper

1. Agarwal D.P., The Archaeology of India, Delhi, Select Books Services

syndicate, 1984.

2. Allchin, Bridge and Raymond F., Origins of a Civilisation : The Pre-history

and Early Archaeology of South Asia, Oxford, Delhi 1994.

3. Basham, A.L., The Wonder that was India, Mumbai, Rupa 1971.

4. Chakrabarti D.K., India an Archaeological History Paleolithic Beginnings to

Early Histroic Foundations, Delhi, Oxford University Press 1999,

5. Chakrabarti D.K., The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities, Delhi, OUP,

1997.

6. Champakalakshmi R., Trade, Ideology and Urbanisation : South India 200 BCAD

1300, Delhi, OUP, 1996.

7. Chattopadhyaya B.D., A survey of Historical Geography of Ancient India,

Kolkata, Manisha, 1984.

12. ____________, The Making of Early Medieval India, Delhi, OUP, 1994.

8. Gupta P.L., Coins, 4th Edn., Delhi 1996.

18. Jha D.N. (ed), Feudal Social Formation in Early India, Delhi Chanakya, 1988.

9. _________, Economy and Society in Early India : Issues and Paradigms, Delhi,

Munshiram Manoharlal, 1993.

10. Kosambi D.D. An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Mumbai,

Popular Prakashan, 1975.

11. Lal B.B. and Gupta S.P. (ed.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization, Delhi, Books

and Books, 1984.

12. Ludden David, Peasant Society in South India, Princeton, 1985.

13. Maity S.K., Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period 300 AD –

550 AD, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1970

14. Majumdar R.C. et. al (eds), History and Culture of the Indian People, Mumbai,

1974.

15. Mukherjee B.N., Rise and Fall of the Kushana Empire, Kolkata, Firma KLM,

1988.

16. Possohl G.L. (ed.) Ancient Cities of the Indus, Delhi, Vikas, 1979.

17. __________, Harappa Civilization : A Contemporary Perspective, Delhi,

Oxford and IBH, 1993.

18. Ray Himanshu Prabha, The Winds of Change, Delhi, OUP, 1994.

19. Raychaudhuri H.C., Political History of Ancient India, Rev. Edn, with

commentary by B.N. Mukherjee, Delhi, 1996.

20. Sahu B.P. (ed.), Land System and Rural Society in Early India, Delhi,

Manohar, 1997.

21. Sastri K.A.N. (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India, Vol. II, with an update

bibliography, Delhi, PPH, 1987.

22. ____________, A History of south India, edn 4, Chennai, OUP, 1992.

23. Sharma R.S., Indian Feudalism ed. 2, Delhi, Machmilan, 1981.

24. ____________, Material Culture and social Formations in Ancient India, Delhi,

Macmillan, 1983.

25. ____________, Perspective in Social and Economic History of Early India ed.

2, Delhi Munshira Manoharlal, 1995.

26. _____________, Aspects of Political Ideas and institutions in Ansient India,

Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, 1991.

27. Stein, Burton : Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India, Delhi,

OUP, 1980

28. ________________, From Lineage to State : Social Formations in the Mid-

First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley, Delhi, OUP, 1984.

29. ________________, Recent Perspective of Early Indian History Mumbai,

Popular Parkashan, 1995.

30. ________________, Ancient Indian Social History – Some Interpretations,

Delhi, Orient Longman, 1993.

31 Veluthat Kesavan, The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India,

Delhi, Orient Longman 1993.

32. Winternitz M., History of Indian Literature, 3 vols (Indian reprint), Delhi,

Motilal Banarsidass, 1985, 1988, 1996.

M.A.-PART-1

Polity & Economy in Medieval India (1200-1750 AD)

Unit – 1 Primary Sources and Historiography

a. Inscriptions

b. Persian Sources

c. Travel Accounts and European Factory Records

d. Sources in Marathi and Rajasthani Languages

e. Malfuzat and Bhakti Literature

f. Historiography : different approaches

Unit - 2. State

a. Theory of Kingship (Central, West Asian, Persian and Hindu

legacies), problem of legitimacy

b. Nature of Islamic and Hindu States

c. Pressure Groups

Unit – 3 Evolution of Institutional Structure and Civil Administration

a. Iqta, amaram, mansbadari and jagir

b. Central, Provincial and Village Administration

Unit – 4. Emergence of Regional States

Patterns of resistance to Imperial power and emergence of regional

states – Legacy of Vijaynagar, Bahamani Kingdom, Deccan Sultanates

and The Marathas

Unit – 5. Agrarian Economy

Land ownership, Land grants, Land Revenue system, Agricultural

production,

condition of peasants; Famines

Unit – 6 Trade, Commerce and Monetary System

a. Inland and maritime trade

b. Role of Arab, European and Indian merchants and their

commercial practices

c. Currency and Banking - European and indigenous methods

Unit – 7 Cities and Towns

Nature and classification; Demographic changes; Urban communities;

morphology of cities and Administration.

Unit – 8 Industries and Production Technology

Textiles; Agro-industries; Metal technology; Role of mercantile groups

in production; Indian response to European technology

Suggested Books

1. Ali M. Athar, The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, Mumbai, 1970.

2. Arasaratnam S., Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century, Delhi, OUP, 1994.

3. Ashraf K.M., Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200 – 1500

AD), Delhi, Mushiram Manoharlal 1970.

4. Banga Indu, (ed.) The City in Indian History : Urban Demography, society and

Politics, Delhi, Manohar, 1991.

5. Chaudhuri K.N, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean : An Economic

History from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Delhi, Mushiram Manoharlal, 1985.

6. Dasgupta Ashin, Indian merchants and the Decline of Surat, c. 1700 – 1750,

Delhi, Manohar, 1994.

7. Fukazawa Hiroshi, The Medieval Deccan : Peasants, Social systems and State –

Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries, Delhi, OUP, 1991

8. Gordon Stewart, The Marathas, 1600 – 1818, New Cambridge History of India,

Delhi, Foundation Books, 1991.

9. Habib Irfan (ed.), Medieval India – Research in the History of India, 1200 –

1750, Delhi, OUP, 1992.

10. ____________, Agraraian System of Mughal India, 1526 – 1707, Mumbai Asia,

1963

11. ____________, An Atlas of the Mughal Empire, edn, 2, Delhi OUP, 1986.

12. __________, Essays in Indian History : Towards a Marxist Perception, Delhi,

Tulika, 1995.

13. Habib, Mohammad, Politics and Society in Early Medieval Period, Vols. I and

II, Delhi, PPh, 1974.

14. Kulkarni A.R., Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji, Delhi OUP, 1969.

15. Moreland W.H., Agrarian System of Moslem India : A Historical Eassy with

Appendices. Edn 2 (Delhi, Oriental Books Reprints Crop. 1968.

16. Moreland W.H., From Akbar to Aurangzeb : A Study in Indian Economic

History, Delhi Low Price Publication, 1990.

17. Naqvi H.K., Urbanisation and Urban Centres Under the Great Mughals, 1556-

1707, Simla, IIAS, 1971.

18. Qaiser A.J., The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture, 1498 –

1707., Delhi, OUP, 1992.

19. Qureshi I.H., The Administration of the Moghal Empire, Delhi, Low Price

Publication 1990.

20. Raychaudhuri Tapan and Irfan Habib (eds.), Cambridge Economic History of

India, Vol. I. C. 1200 C. 1750., Delhi, S. Chand, 1984.

21. J.F. Richards, The Mughal Empire, Delhi Foundation Books, 1993.

22. Satish Cnandra, Medieval India : Society, The Jagirdari Crisis and the Village,

Delhi, Macmillan, 1982.

23. Sherwan H.K. and P.M. Joshi (eds.), The Histsory of Medieval Deccan (1295 –

1724) Hyderabad, Govt. of A.P. Press, 1973.

24. Siddiqi Noman Ahmad, Land Revenue Administration under the Mughals, 1700

– 1750, Dehli, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1989.

25. Subramanyam Sanjay, The Political Economy and Commerce in south India,

1500 – 1600, Cambridge, 1990.

26. Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration, Allahabad, Central Book

Depot, 1964.

27. Wink Andre, Land and Sovereignty in India : Agrarian Society and Politics

under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Swaraja, Cambridge University Press,

1968.

28. Chitnis K.N., Socio-Economic Aspects of Medieval India.

M.A.-PART-1

India under the Company Rule (1757-1857 AD)

Unit – 1 Understanding Modern India :

a) Sources : Archival Records, Private Papers, News Papers,

Periodicals and Oral traditions.

b) Approaches and Interpretation

c) Different schools of thought

Unit – 2 Mid 18th Century India. :

a) Polity

b) Economy

c) Society and culture.

Unit – 3 Expansion and consolidation of British Power :

a) Ideology of Expansion and Mercantilism.

b) Policies and programmes of expansion.

c) Instruments of Expansion.

Unit – 4 Colonial Construction of India: Structures and Institutions:

a) Administrative Structure.

b) Arms of State : Police, Army and Law.

c) Ideologies of Raj and Racial attitudes

.

Unit – 5 Social policies and Social change:

a) Indian Society and British Understanding

b) Orientalist, Evangelical and Utilitarian.

c) Ideas of Change.

d) Education – indigenous and modern.

e) Social reforms and emerging social classes.

Unit – 6 Economic organization : Changes and continuity

- Rural Economy :

Eastern, Southern, Western, Central and Northern India (With special

reference to land revenue, administration, Commercialization of

agriculture, peasants and agricultural labour)

Unit – 7 Economic organization : changes and continuty.

Urban Economy :

Industrial production, de-industrialization, Rise of inland markets and

urban centres, Posts and Telegraphs, Railways etc.

Unit – 8 Resistance to Colonial Rule :

a) Nature and forms of Resistance.

b) Pre – 1857 : Peasant, tribal and cultural resistance

c) Revolt of 1857 :

Ideology, Programmes,

Leadership at various levels,

People’s participation and British repression and response.

Suggested Books 1. Bayly C.A., Indian society and the making of the British Empire, New

Cambridge History of India, Cambridge University Press 1987.

2. Bipin Chandra, Modern India, New Delhi 1971.

3. Dutta R.C., Economic History of India Vol, I and II, London 1901, 1903.

4. Singh V.B., The Economic History of India under early British rule,

5. Marshall P.J., Bengal : The British Bridgehead, New Cambridge History of

India, Cambridge, 1987.

6. Fisher E.H. (ed.) Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757-1857, Oxford

in India readings, Delhi, 1993.

7. Bearce G.D., British Attitudes Towards India, Oxford, 1961.

8. Dutta K.K., A social history of modern India, Mac Millan, 1975.

9. Dutta K.K., A Survey of Socio – Economic Conditions in India, Eighteenth

Century, Calcutta, 1961.

10. Metchalf Thomas, Ideologies of the Raj, Oxford, 1994.

11. Choudhari Sushil, The prelude to Empire, Manohar, New Delhi,2000.

12. Raychoudhary S.C., Social, Cultural and Economic History of India, Surjeet

Publications, Delhi, 1983.

13. Misra B.B., The administrative History of the East India Company, 1774-1833,

Oxford, 1958.

14. Chisney, Indian Polity,

15. Stokes Eric, The English Utilitarian and India, Oxford, Delhi, 1957

16. Naik and Nurullah, History of Education, Macmillan and Company Ltd,

Bombay, 1943.

17. Jones Kenvin, Socio-Religious Reforms in British India, Oxford.

18. Natarajan S., A Century of Social Reforms in India.

19. Dharmakumar, The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. II, Orient

Longman, Hyderabad, 1982

20. Stokes Eric, Peasants and the Raj : Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant

Rebellion in Colonial India, Vikas, Delhi,1978.

21. Desai A.R., Peasant Struggles in India, Delhi, 1979.

22. Joshi P.C., Rebellion – 1857, K.P. Bagchi, Kolkata, 1986.

23. Panigrahi D.N. (ed), Economy, society and Politics in Modern India, Vikas,

Delhi, 1985.

24. Singh V.B., Industrial labour in India, London, 1963.

25. Sinha N.K., Economic History of Bengal Vol – I, II.

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M.A.-PART-1

Modern Maharashtra (1818-1990)

Unit - 1 Maharashtra on the Eve of British Conquest-

Political, Economic and

Social

Conditions

Unit - 2 British Administration

Land Tenure – Rayatwari System

Introduction of Western legal system

Unit - 3 Uprisings in the 19th Century Ramoshi, Koli, Bhils, Revolt of Vasudev

Balwant Phadke, Deccan Riots of 1875

Unit - 4 Reform Movements

Emancipation of women

Education

Eradication of untouchability

Abolition of caste distinctions

Unit - 5 Growth of Nationalism

Emergence of national consiousness

National Movement (1920-1947)

Non Brahmin politics

Leftist movements

Unit - 6 Southern Maratha Country States

Introduction

British settlement with Southern Jagirdars

Nationalist awakening and Freedom Movement- Kolhapur,

Aundh and Janjira

Merger of Princely States

Unit – 7 Formation of Present Maharashtra State

People’s movement in the princely states and their merger

Samyukta Maharashtra movement.

Contribution of Y. B. Chavan.

Unit - 8 Maharashtra :1960-1990

Political leadership

Co-operative movement

Educational developments

Industrial developments

Suggested Books 1. Kumar Ravindra, Western India in the 19th Century, London,1968.

2. Ballhatchet K.,Social Policy and Social Change in Western India (1818-1830),

London,1957.

3. Verma Sushama, Mountstuart Elphinstone in Maharashtra (1811-1827), K.P.

Bagchi and Company, Calcutta,1981.

4. Baden-Powell B.B., Land Systems of the British, 3 Vols., Oxford,1892.

5. Desai S.V., Social Life in Maharashtra under the Peshwas, Bombay, 1980.

6. Frankel Francine and Rao M.S.A., Dominance and State Power in Modern India:

Decline of a Social Order, Vol.II, Delhi, 1989-90.

7. Gore M.S., Non-Brahmin Movement in Maharashtra, New Delhi, 1989.

8. Gordon Johnson, Provincial politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the

Indian National Congress 1880-1915, Cambridge, 1973.

9. Masselos James. C., Towards nationalism: Group affiliations and politics of

public associations in nineteenth century western India, Bombay , 1974.

10. Rosalind O’ Hanlon, Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and

Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth Century Western India, Cambridge University

Press, 1985.

11. Christine Dobbin, Urban leadership in Western India : Politics and Communities

in Bombay City 1840-1885 , Oxford University Press, 1972.

12. Phadke Y.D., Women in Maharashtra, Maharashtra Information Centre,

Government of Maharashtra, New Delhi, 1989.

13 Israel, Milton and Wagle N.K. (eds.) , Religion and Society in Maharashtra,

Toronto, 1987.

14. Kulkarni A.R. and Wagle N.K. (eds.), Region, Nationality and Religion, Popular

Prakasan, Mumbai, 1999.

15. Wagle N.K.(ed.) , Writers , Editors and Reformers: Social and Political

Transformation of Maharashtra, Manohar , New Delhi,1999.

16. Sunthankar B.R., Nineteenth Century History of Maharashtra, Vol. I (1818-1857),

Shubhada Saraswal, Pune, 1988.

16. Sirsikar V.M. , Politics of Maharashtra,

17. Omvedt Gail, Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society, Scientific Socialist

Education Trust, Bombay, 1976.

18. Bhosale Arun, Chousalkar Ashok and Tarodi Lakshiminarayan (eds.), Freedom

Movement in Princely States of Maharashtra, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 2001.

19. Rodrigues Livi, Rural Political Protest in Western India, Oxford University Press,

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M.A.-PART-1

History of South India (Form earliest times to 12th c. AD)

Unit – I : Introduction

a) Topography

b) Sources

c) Historiography

Unit - I : Arayanization of South India

a) Concept

b) Process

c) Debates

Unit - II : Political History

a) Mauyras, Vakatakas, Satvahans

b) Tripartite Straggle

c) Chola, Cheras, Pandyas

Unit - III : Administration

a) Civil

b) Military

c) Revenue

d) Chola Village Administration

Unit-IV: Society

a) Caste structure

b) Position of Women

c) Education

Unit-V: Economy

a) Industry b) Trade c) Commerce

Unit - VI : Religion

a) Vaishnava

b) Shaiva

c) Virshaivism

Unit - VII : Literature

a) Sanskrit

b) Tamil, Telagu

c) Synthesis

Unit - VIII : Art and Architecture

a) Dance, Music, Painting

b) Architecture – Religious

c) Secular

Suggested Reading :

1) A History of South India – K. A. Nilkantha Shatri

2) South Indian Polity – T. V. Mahalingam

3) History and Culture of Indian People, Vol. VI, VII, ed. R. C. Mujumdar, Bhartiya

Vidhya Bhavan.

4) South Indian Temples – Burtain Stein.

5) Topics in South Indian History from Early Times up to 1505 – Dr. A.

Krishnaswami.

M.A.-PART-1

History of U.S.A. (1900-2001 AD)

Unit – 1 Progressivism

a) Reforms – background b) Thomas Roosevelt c) Taft and Wilson

Unit – 2 America and Ist World War

a) Neutrality b) Entry c) Role

Unit – 3 America and Great Depression

a) Prosperity b) Great Depression c) Recovery

Unit – 4 America and IInd World war

a) Entry b) War in North Africa, Europe and Pacific c) Victory and Bomb

Unit – 5 Political conditions during post-IInd World War America

a) A Brief survey of Presidential Elections b) Constitutional Amendments c) Impeachment

Unit – 6 Foreign Policy

a) Containment b) Vietnam Wars c) Arab Israel Wars

Unit – 7 Social conditions

a) Feminist Movement b) Black Movement c) Non white; white minority protests

Unit – 8 Economic condition

a) Conglomerate b) Consumerism c) Unemployment, Poverty

Suggested Readings : 1. Allen Fredrick L. – The Big Change, America Transforms itself 1900-1950, Harper and

Rav, 1980

2. Badger Anthony – The New Deal : the Depression Fears 1933-40, Thill and Wang, 1989 3. Bsityn Bernard – The Great Republic A history of American People, D.C. Heath co. 1985 4. Blum John Mortan – The Progressive Presidents Theodre Roosevelt, Woodross Wilson,

Fradrik Roosevelt

5. Ferrell Roberth – Woodross Wilson and World War I (1917-21) Harper Collins, 1987 6. Galbraith John Kenneth – The Great Crash of 1929, Hooghton Miffin, 1985 7. Graham Otis L Jr. – The Great Campaigns Reforms and War in America (1900-’28)

Kriegar Publishing Co., 1987

8. Kindel berger Cherles P – The World in Depression (1929-1939) University of California Press

9. Keegan John – The Second World War Viking Penguin 1990 10. Kennan George – American Deplomacy 1900-1950 University of California

11. Charles Sellevs, Henry May, Neil R McMillan – A Synopsis of American History, Vol. II Since the civil War, 1990

12. Robert ferrel – Harry S Truman and the Modern American Presidency 13. Herbert Parmet – Eisenhower and the American Crusades 14. Tom Wicker – Jfk and LBJ 15. Robert Novak – Nixon in the White House 16. Betty Glades – Jimmy Carter 17. Robert Delleks – Donald Reagan – the Politics of Symbolism 18. Appleman William – The American in Changing World 19. Willian H. Chafe – The Unifinished Journy Since World War IInd 20. Arthur S. Link & William B. Cotton – American Epoch. And History of the

United States Vol. III

21. John Spanier – American Foreign Policy since World War IInd 22. Collin Campbell Eo – The Bush Presidency 23. Luther Luedtke – Making America – The Society and Culture of U.S. 24. Max Leaner – America as a Civilization Life and Thoughts in the United States

Today

25. P. Dolan Quinn – Sense of Seventies 26. William H. Charter – Women and Equality 27. Michael Harrington – The Other America 28. Norman Greebner – Cold War Diplomacy 29. Richard L. Watson – The United States in the Contemporary World

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Shivaji University, Kolhapur

M. A. (History) Course.

Revised Syllabus

M.A.-PART-II

(To be introduced from June 2011)

COMPULSORY PAPERS:

Paper-I: History of Freedom Movement in India (1857-1947)

Paper-II: Modern World (1901-2000)

OPTIONAL PAPERS (Choose any two)

A. Society & Culture in Ancient India (Earliest to 12th century)

B. Society & Culture in Medieval India (1200-1750 AD)

C. Historical Application in Tourism.

D. Modern China (1901-2000)

E. History of South Indian (12th c. AD-19

th c AD)

F. Women in Indian History