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HISTORY (HONOURS AND GENERAL)

For Undergraduate Course

SYLLABI

(FOR AUTONOMOUS CURRICULUM)

From 2014-2015 Onwards

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

MIDNAPORE COLLEGE

(Autonomous)

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DISTRIBUTION OF PAPERS IN THREE-YEAR DEGREE COURSE IN SIX SEMESTERS (HISTORY HONOURS)

SEMESTER PAPER FULL

MARKS

TITLE OF THE PAPER

I

100 MARKS

HISH-

101 50 HISTORY OF INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE MAURYA

PERIOD

HISH-

102 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1206 A.D. TO 1526 A.D.)

II

150 MARKS

HISH-

201 50 HISTORY OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BENGAL FROM THE

POST-MAURYA PERIOD TO 1206 A. D.

HISH-

202 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1526 A.D.TO 1757)

HISH-

203 50 TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE (FROM 14

TH TO 17

TH CENTURY)

[FROM UNIT - I TO V]

III

150 MARKS

HISH-

301 50 ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY & CIVILIZATION (C. 510 B.C.E. TO 404 B.C.E.)

(UNIT-I TO UNIT-V)

HISH-

302 50 TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE (FROM 14

TH TO 17

TH CENTURY)

[FROM UNIT - VI TO X]

HISH-

303 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1757 TO 1857/1858)

IV

150 MARKS

HISH-

401 50 ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION (C. 510 B.C.E. TO 404

B.C.E.)(UNIT VI TO X)

HISH-

402 50 HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (FROM 1789 TO 1870)

HISH-

403 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (1858-1964)

V

150 MARKS

HISH-

501 50 HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (FROM 1871 TO 1945)

HISH-

502 50 THE MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD (SINCE 1945 TO

RECENT TIMES)

HISH-

503 50 HISTORY OF CHINA (1839 A.D. - 1949 A. D.)

VI

100 MARKS

HISH-

601 50 THE MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD WITH SPECIAL

REFERENCE TO INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY (SINCE 1945 TO RECENT

TIMES)

HISH-

602 50 HISTORY OF JAPAN (1839 A.D. - 1945 A. D.)

TOTAL SIX

SEMESTERS

TOTAL

16

PAPERS

TOTAL

800 MARKS

HISTORY GENERAL (TWO YEARS OF ELECTIVE SUBJECT DURING FIRST FOUR SEMESERS)

SEMESTER PAPER FULL

MARKS

TITLE OF THE PAPER

I

50 MARKS

HISG-

101 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 647 A.D.)

II

50 MARKS

HISG-

201 50 HISTORY OF INDIA (647 A.D. – 1556 A.D.)

III HISG- 50 HISTORY OF INDIA FROM 1556 TO 1947 A.D.(UNIT I to V)

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100 MARKS 301

HISG-

302 50 MODERN EUROPE 1789 – 1939(UNIT –I)

IV

100 MARKS

HISG-

401 50 HISTORY OF INDIA FROM 1556 TO 1947 A.D. (UNIT VI TO X)

HISG-

402 50 MODERN EUROPE 1789 – 1939 (UNIT –II)

TOTAL

FOUR

SEMESTERS

TOTAL

6

PAPERS

TOTAL

300

MARKS

HISTORY GENERAL (FOR 3RD YEAR STUDENTS OF 3-YEAR B.A. GENERAL COURSE)

SEMESTER PAPER FULL

MARKS

TITLE OF THE PAPER

V

50 MARKS

HISG-

501 50 POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIA (1947-1977)

VI

50 MARKS

HISG-

601 50 THE WORLD & INDIA (1945-1971)

TOTAL

TWO

SEMESTERS

TOTAL

2

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100

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HISTORY (HONOURS)

SEMESTER– I

HISH-101

HISTORY OF INDIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE MAURYA PERIOD

FULL MARKS – 50 (CIA- 10 & ESE-40)

UNIT -I

Sources of Ancient Indian History: Literary Sources (Indigenous and Foreign), and

ArchaeologicalSources (Inscription, Numismatics, Monuments and other Findings).

UNIT - II

Pre-history: An Overview of the Subcontinent During the Pre-Harappan Culture – Mehrgarh;

Origin and Authorship, Antiquity, Chief Features, Extent and Decline of the Harappan

Civilization; Post-Harappa Tradition

UNIT -III

Proto-Historic India: Vedic Civilization, The Aryan problem- Original Homeland of the

Aryans, Polity, Society, Economy and Religion of Early and Later Vedic Aryans

UNIT-IV

Religious Protest Movement: Material and Ideological Background of the Protestant

Religions, Jainism, Buddhism; Chief Tenets of Early Jainism and Buddhism; The Age of

Janapadas and Mahajanapadas: Tradition of Sixteen Mahajanapadas, Magadhan

Imperialism,

UNIT – V

The Mauryan Empire : Origin of the Mauryas, Chandragupta Maurya , Bindusara, Asoka the

Great , Nature the Empire, Political and Cultural Relations, Asoka’s Dhamma & Its Nature and Propagation, Mauryan Society, economy, Polity and Administration, Art, Architecture

and Decline of the Empire.

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HISH-102

HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1206 A.D. TO 1526 A.D.)


UNIT I: ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF SULTANATE PERIOD

Historiography and Sources with Special Reference to Barani, Amir Khasrau and Ibn Batuta-

Arab, Ghaznavid and Ghorid Invasions: Nature and Impact; Period from 1206 to 1290,

Iltutmish to Balban-Nature of the Sultanate- Concept of Sovereignty and Theories of

Kingship, Evolution of Iqta; Evolution of a Turkish Ruling class; Mongol Threat from the

Reign of Balban and Afterwards.

UNIT II: KHALJIS AND TUGHLAQS

Khalji Revolution, Alaudding’s Theory of Kingship,Expansion under the Khaljis, Economic

measures, Tughlaqs- Economic and Administrative Measures of Muhammad Bin

Tughlaq and FiruzTughlaq-Responsibility for the Downfall of the Sultanate.

UNIT III: THE LODIS AND THE INDEPENDENT STATES

The Lodis and Disintegration- Rise of Independent Kingdoms- Vijayanagar- Segmentary

State-Nayankara System of Administration; Bahamanis; Nature, Society and Polity.

UNIT IV: SOCIETY, RELIGION AND CULTURE

Social Condition of the Sultanate with Special Reference to Women & Education System; The

Bhakti Movement with Special Reference to Kabir, Nanak and Chaitanya; The Sufi

Movement- Origins, Precepts & Practices; Indo-Muslim Art & Architecture; Language and

Literature.

UNIT V: ECONOMY OF THE DELHI SULTANATE

Changing Pattern of Economy-Land Revenue System, Monetary System, Trade and

Commerce in the Sultanate Period.

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SEMESTER – II

HISH - 201

HISTORY OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BENGAL FROM THE POST-MAURYA PERIOD TO 1206 A.D.


UNIT – I: POST MAURYAN DEVELOPMENT

Post-Mauryan Context – A Brief Overview of Indo-Scythian and Indo-Bactrian Connections,

Kushana; the Satavahanasand Their Struggle with the SakaKshatrapas of Western India.

UNIT – II: AGE OF THE GUPTAS AND POST-GUPTA PERIOD

A] i] The Gupta Empire: Emergence, Expansion and Downfall, ii] State and Administrative

Institutions Social and Economic Change, Iii] Cultural Development, Art, Architecture,

Sculpture, Painting, Religion, Literature, Sanskrit, Theatre, Cultural Contact with Central Asia.

B] Education and Educational Institutions – Nalanda, Vikramashila &Vallabi.

C] Harshavradhana and His Achievements, Political System and Administrative Institutions of

the Period

UNIT –III: HISTORY OF BENGAL

A] Bengal under the Guptas, Rise of Sasanka& and His Conflict with Harshavardhana

B] Pala Dynasty- Origin and Rise, Tripartite Struggle, Extent of Empire, Kaivarta Revolt, Socio-

Economic life, Culture, Religion and Decline; Rise & Empowerment of the Regional Powers of

Bengal (Chandras &Varmanas).

C] Sena Dynasty-Its Significance Contributions made by the Authors of Bengal in the Field of

Poetry, Law, Medical Texts and Grammar during the Pala-Sena Period.

UNIT –IV: PENINSULAR INDIA AND REGIONAL KINGDOMS IN NORTH INDIA & DECCAN

A]: A Brief Overview of Chalukya-Pallava&Chola- Pallava Conflict and Chola Maritime

Expansion- Chola Administration with Special Reference to Local Self-Government,

Contemporary Cultural Development-Religion, Art and Architecture.

B] Regional Powers: i) Maukharis ii) Vakatakasiii) Pratiharas and iv)Rashtrakutas.

UNIT –V: EXTERNAL INVASION

A] Feudalism in India

B] Concept of Early Medieval India

C] Urbanization, Trade and Commerce

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HISH - 202

HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1526 A.D.TO 1757)


UNIT I: THE MUGHALS

An Overview of Sources Including the Writings of AbulFazl ,Badauni and Barnier;

Significance of the Period from Babur’s Reign to Humayun’s Reign ; Rise of SherShah and

His Contributions to the Age; Expansion of the Mughals Under Akbar, His Land Revenue

System and Military Organizations-Mansabdari and Jagirdari system ; Akbar’s Religious

Ideas- Sulh-i-Kul –Relations withReligious Elites

UNIT II: THE MUGHALS AFTER AKBAR

Role of Nurjahan and ‘Junta’ ; Period of Shahjahan; Aurangzeb and Forces of Disintegration-

Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court- Jagirdari Crisis; Downfall of the Mughals; Mughal

Administrative System; The rise of the Marathas- Shivaji and His Administration; Mughal

Policies towards Rajputs, Sikhs &Marathas

UNIT III: ECONOMY IN MUGHAL INDIA

The System of Agricultural Production –Zamindar-Peasant Relations - Tax System-Zabti

System; Inland and Oceanic Trade Network in the 17th Century –Crafts, Industries,

Organization and New Trading Centres

UNIT IV: RELIGION AND CULTURE IN MUGHAL INDIA

Sikhism: From a religious sect to a political power, Mughal Literature, Painting and

Architecture

UNIT V: ADVENT OF THE EUROPEANS

Advent of the European Companies –Activities and Rivalries, the Anglo-French Relations;

Consolidation of British Power in Bengal, Road to Plessey

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HISH - 203

TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE (FROM 14TH TO 17TH CENTURY)

[FROM UNIT - I TO V]


UNIT– I

1. Fall of Constantinople – the Islamic invasion of southern Europe.

2. The Crisis of the Empire and its Impact on Medieval Kingship.

3. Nature of the Feudal Society and its Regional Variations.

4. Crisis of Feudalism.

5. Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism – Problems and Theories.

UNIT – II

1. Development of National Monarchy.

i. England

ii. France.

UNIT –III

1. Economic Condition in the14thCentury–Bruges – a Case study

2. Economic Crisis and the Commercial Decline in the 14thCentury Europe

3. The Urban Decay and the Epidemics

UNIT– IV

1. Economic Condition in 15th Century - Venice - a Case Study

2. Transition from 15th to 16th Century – Antwerp – a Case Study

3. Proto‐industrialization–the Rise of New Merchants 4. Price Revolution

5. i. Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Movement.

ii. Emergence of Capitalism in Agriculture

UNIT – V

1. Printing Revolution.

2. Revolution in War Techniques.

3. The Exploration of the New World. i. Colonial Expansions and Economic Developments – Motives. ii. Early Colonial Empire – Portugal and Spain – Shift of an Economic Balance from the

Mediterranean to the Atlantic. iii. Britain and France in Search for a New Colonial World

4. The Formation of Early Modern State. 5. Germany and Hapsburgs – the Empire of Charles V of Spain. 6. New Monarchy in England.

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SEMESTER - III

HISH - 301

ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY & CIVILIZATION (C. 510 – 404 B.C.E)

(UNIT I –VI)


UNIT-I: CONCEPT & ORIGIN OF GREEK POLIS (a) Concept of Polis- Basic Features (b) Origin of Polis: Aristotle’s View; Fuste de Coulonge’s Theory & Gustav Glotz’s

Interpretation

(c) Socio-Cultural, Religious, Geographical and Political Background of Polis

UNIT-II: SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF POLIS (a) Class Structure of Polis: Citizens& Non-Citizens (Sparta & Athens); Spartan Discipline (b) Rights and Duties of Non-Citizens: Metics, Periocoi, Slaves, Helots and Other Servile

Classes

(c) Position of Women in Greek Society (Sparta & Athens)

UNIT-III: ECONOMY OF POLIS (a) Athenian Economy: Role of Commerce and its Growing Importance; Spartan Economy and Role of Agriculture, Participation of Periocoi in Trade & Commerce (b) Role of Slavery in Athenian and Spartan Economy (c) Nature of Economy in Athens and Sparta: Whether Sustainable in the Long-Term UNIT-IV: ANCIENT GREEK POLITY (a) Experience with State Formation in Polis, Political and Administrative System in Polis

(Athenian and Spartan Models), the Assembly of Citizens, the Council, Magistrate as in

Sparta and Athens- Spartan Land System; Series of Reforms of Athenian Governance vis-

a-vis Military & Social Changes(Hoplites etc.), A Brief Overview of Reforms Undertaken by

Solon, Reforms of Cleisthenes and His Formation of Demes, Ephialtes and Pericles

(b) Concept of Citizenship –Rights and Duties

(c) Element of Participation in Polity

(d) Nature of the Government: Oligarchy in Sparta & Democracy in Athens

UNIT-V: CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GREEK CITY-STATES & THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND GRADUAL ATHENIAN SUPREMACY IN THE GREEK WORLD (a) Ionian Revolution; Onslaught of the Persians in the Greek World- Graeco- Persian War (b) Resistance by the Greeks: Hellenic League & Confederacy of Delos

(c) Gradual Liberation of the Greek Land from Clutches of Persian Forces

(d) Gradual Transformation of Confederacy of Delos into Athenian Empire, Growth of

AthenianSea Power & Commercial Hegemony

(e) Athenian Empire and its Character (Democratic, Tyrannical or Oppressive, and Economic)

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HISH - 302

TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE (FROM 14TH TO 17TH CENTURY)

[FROM UNIT - VI TO X]


UNIT - VI

1. The Renaissance 2. Italian Renaissance and Its Impact on Art, Culture, Education and Political Thought 3. Rediscovery of Classics 4. Renaissance Humanism - the Restoration of the Dignity of Man 5. Northern Humanism. 6. Renaissance Debate – Impact on Women’s Condition.

UNIT – VII

1. Reformation Movements – Origins & Courses 2. Martin Luther& Lutheranism. 3. John Calvin & Calvinism 4. English Reformation and the Role of the State 5. Counter Reformation.

UNIT–VIII

1. Economic Expansion of Europe in the17thCentury – The Agricultural Revolution 2. Commercial Expansions, Overseas Merchant Trading Corporations. 3. Banking System 4. Amsterdam – a Case Study.

UNIT -IX

1. Origins of modern science. 2. Scientific Revolution. 3. Emergence of Scientific Academies. 4. Origins of Enlightenment.

UNIT– X

1. Peace of Westphalia(1648) 2. Emergence of Modern European State System. 3. The Crisis of Absolutism.

4. England in the 17th century – Civil War 5. The Political Ideas of the Civil War. 6. The Settlement of 1688 and the Ideas of John Locke and the Concepts of Liberalism.

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HISH - 303

HISTORY OF INDIA (FROM 1757 TO 1858)


UNIT- I CONSOLIDATION OF BRITISH POWER

i) Importance of the Battle of Plassey –Road to Battle of Buxar and Grant of Diwani; Dyarchy

–Famine of 1770; British Expansionist policy with Special Reference to Mysore, Maratha,

Punjab and Awadh

ii) Interpreting the Eighteenth Century/ Eighteenth Century Debate.

UNIT 2: REGULATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIONS

Regulating Act of 1773; Pitt’s India Act (1784); Charters Act of 1793; 1853-Emergence of a

Framework of Colonial Administration in Law, Police, Army and the I.C.S.

Unit 3: British cultural policy and Indian response

Orientalism, Utilitarianism and Evangelicalism –Anglicist- Orientalist controversy - New

education policy –rise of new Intelligentsia and Socio –Religious Reform Movements; Social

Reform &WomenWahabi, Faraizi, Brahmo Movement and Aligarh Movement .

UNIT 4: RURAL AGRARIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Land Revenue Settlements-Permanent; Ryotwari and Mahalwari- commercialisation of

Agriculture- Early Resistance to Colonial rule –Chuar, Pindari, Santhal and Other Popular

Resistance –Revolt of 1857- Debate and its Consequences –Government of India Act and

Queen’s Proclamation.

UNIT 5: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COLONIALISM &THE NON-AGRARIAN SECTOR

Drain of Wealth- Deindustrialization Banking – Indigenous and Modern; Emergence of Modern industries – Railway, Jute, Cotton and Steel.

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SEMESTER - IV

HISH - 401

ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION (C. 510 B.C.E. TO 404 B.C.E.)

(UNIT VI TO X)


UNIT-VI: TWO ARMED CAMPS IN GREECE

(a) Confederacy of Delos & Peloponnesian League: Formation and Members (b) Struggle for Power between Two Camps

(c) Causes of the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides’ Explanation (Immediate & Fundamental Causes) & Modern Views

UNIT-VII: PELOPONNESIAN WAR AND STRATEGIES AT THE BEGINNING

(a) War Finance: Possibilities at the Beginning (b) War Strategies of Athens (Pericles) and Sparta (c) Early Phase of the War; Pericles’ Funeral Oration; Plague & its Demoralizing Effects as Explained by Thucydides (d) Change of Leadership after Pericles and Circumstances Leading to the Peace of Nicias

UNIT-VIII: SECOND PHASE OF PELOPONNESIAN WAR

(a) Revolt of Mytilene and Reaction of Athens, Debate on Mytilene (Cleon &Diodotus), Incident of Melos (b) Sicilian Expedition and Aftermath; Question of Leadership, Feasibility & Ultimate Outcome (c) Circumstances Leading to the End of Peloponnesian War & Simultaneous Internal Political Crisis in Athens

UNIT-IX: ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT & GREEK DRAMA

(a) Philosophical and Scientific Thought – Sophists (b) Socretes and His Thought; Relation of His Thought with Sophists’ Thought

(c) Origin and Characteristics of Tragedy; Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

(d) Comedy and its Origin; Aristophanes

UNIT-X: EMERGENCE & DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK HISTORY AND GREEK ARCHITECTURE, ART,

PAINTING, GAMES & SPORTS

(a) From Logographers to Herodotus (b) Herodotus, the Father of History and His ‘Histories’, His Ideas & Methods, Evaluation by Modern Historiographers (c) Thucydides and His ‘History of the Peloponnesian War’, His Ideas & Methods, Evaluation by Modern Historiographers (d) Contrast of Herodotus with Thucydides regarding the Scope of History and Historical Method. (e)Classical Greek Architectural Forms (f) Sculpture (g) Painting (h) Different Types Games & Sports as Prevalent in Ancient Greece

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HISH - 402

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (FROM 1789 TO 1870)


UNIT– I

1. Understanding the 18th Century Europe

2. Enlightened Despotism

3. Crisis in France in the 1780’s- Socio-Economic and Political Background of the French

Revolution, Role of Philosophers.

4. Trends in the French Revolution.

5. Aristocratic Revolt, Bourgeois,Popular &Peasant Revolts.

6. The Constituent assembly and its Achievements.

7. Girondins and Jacobins – the Reign of Terror and the Rise and Fall of Jacobin Republic.

8. The Thermedorian Reaction and the Directory

9. Interpreting the French revolution

10. Role of Women in French Revolution

UNIT–II

1. Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte – The Revolution Legacy

2. The Reorganization of France and Europe – Napoleonic Empire and its Downfall.

3. Conflicting Estimation of Napoleon’s Character and Achievements.

UNIT – III

1. The Vienna Congress, the Concert of Europe.

2. Metternich System and the Conservative Order.

3. Liberalism, Nationalism and the Revolutionary Challenge to Conservative Order.

4. The Revolution of 1830.

5. The Revolution of 1848.

6. Pattern of Insurrection in France and Other Central European Countries – Collapse of the

Revolution.

UNIT–IV

1. The Emergence of Nation States in Central Europe.

2. Unification of Italy and Germany.

3. Russian Modernization

4. Emancipation of the Serfs and Liberal Reforms in Russia

5. France under the Second Empire.

UNIT – V

1. Industrialization in Europe–Difference in the Industrialization Process between England and the Continent–French German and Russian Industrialization.

2. Rise of the Working Class Movements and the Socialist Thought(Utopian, Socialism, Marxism)

3. Art and Culture, Literature and Science of the 18thCentury Europe with Special Reference to Romanticism and its Cultural and Political Aspects.

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HISH - 403

HISTORY OF INDIA (1858 TO 1964)


UNIT I: INDIA AFTER 1857

Rise of Indian Nationalism- Emergence of Political Associations before and after 1857-

Foundation of Indian National Congress –Nature of Early Congress ; Moderates and

Extremists –Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi movement; Surat Split .

UNIT II: FROM MORLEY-MINTO TO MONTAGUE CHEMSFORD REFORMS

Reforms of Morley-Minto in 1909 and Separate Electorates; Formation of Muslim League

and Its Demand- Lucknow Pact; Revolutionary Nationalism in India and abroad; Reforms of

Montague-Chelmsford in 1919.

UNIT III: RISE OF GANDHI

Satyagraha –Regional Movements; Rowlatt Satyagraha –Khilafat and Non-cooperation

Movement, Swarajya Party; Simon Commission –Nehru Report ; Civil Disobedience

Movement .

UNIT IV: ROAD TO FREEDOM

New Trends in National Movement –Role of Social groups and Classes including Dalits; Left

Movements and the Formation of the Communist Party –KisanSabha and Trade Union

Movements; Govt. of India Act 1935 –Election of 1937, Working of Provincial Ministries;

Demand for Pakistan Response to the Demand Quit India Movement; Subhas Chandra Bose

and I.N.A.; Wavell Plan, Cabinet Mission; Indian Independence Act –Partition and Freedom.

UNIT IV: INDIA AFTER 1947

Integration of Princely States- Framing of the Indian Constitution- Economic Planning and

Five Year Plans- Determinants of Indian Foreign Policy- Nehru and Non-Aligned Movement.

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SEMESTER - V

HISH - 501

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE (FROM 1871 TO 1945)


UNIT - I

1. The Third Republic, Paris Commune and the New German Reich.

2. Europe in1871–Bismarckian Diplomacy–NewBalanceofPower.

3. Age of Imperialism (1871–1914)–The Impetus Behind Colonial Expansion– Scramble for

Colonies in Asia and Africa.

4. The Eastern Question in later19thCentury with Reference to the Crimean War and the 5. Kaiser William II and the New Course in the German Foreign Policy; Anglo-German

Antagonism–Triple Alliance–Triple Entente and the Emergence of Two Armed Camps.

6. Origin of the First World War.

UNIT- II

1. The Impact of the War on the Old Order–Collapse of the Dynastic Empire.

2. Revolution in Russia–Origin of the October Revolution and the Success of the Bolsheviks.

3. Peace Settlement of 1919 – The Fourteen Points of Wilson.

4. The Establishment of Weimer Republic.

UNIT – III

1. The League of Nations.

2. Efforts outside the League to Preserve Peace and Security: The Locarno Treaty, the Kellogg

Briand Pact.

UNIT – IV

1. The Reparation Issue and Its Impact on International Relations.

2. The Great Depression – The Collapse of Weimer State and the Rise of Nazi Power.

3. Origin of Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany – Impact on World Politics.

4. Outbreak of the Second World War – Diplomatic Background of the Second Worl dWar–Policy

of Appeasement- the Munich Pact–Nazi‐Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.

5. The Spanish Civil War.

UNIT -V

1. Post War Settlements.

2. Background of the Foundation of UNO.

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HISH - 502

THE MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD (SINCE 1945 TO RECENT TIMES)


UNIT-I: WORLD IMMEDIATELY AFTER 1945/ EARLY DAYS OF COLD WAR

(a) Origins of the Cold War and the Power-Division of Europe

(b) The Emergence of the American and Soviet Spheres of Influence

(c) Consequent System of Military and Economic Alliances: NATO, WARSAW, SEATO, CENTO

etc.

UNIT-II: DECLINE OF EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

(a) Decolonization, National Movements in Asia and Africa (Indonesia, Malay, Ghana &

Kenya

(b) The Emergence of Third World, Its Characteristics

(c) Impact of the Cold War on the Third World

Unit-III: Bipolarism Manifested in World Politics

(a) The European Scene: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland

(b) The Asian Scene: Vietnam and Korea

(c) Latin America: Cuba

UNIT-IV: NEO-IMPERIALISM

(a) Persistent Western Economic Domination Leading to Neo-colonialism /Neo-imperialism

(b) Aid as a Tool to Imperialism in a New Form

(c) Underdevelopment of the Third World

UNIT-V: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

(a) West European and East European Experiences

(b) Other Attempts like OPEC

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HISH - 503

HISTORY OF CHINA (1839 A.D. - 1939 A. D.)


UNIT –I: CHINA BEFORE THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE COLONIALISM

The Nature of Chinese Traditional Society: Social Structure – Gentry, Bureaucracy Peasantry,

Government and Central Control, China’s Pre-modern Economy.

UNIT –II: COLONIAL PENETRATION

The Tribute System, the Canton System and Their Collapse, Opium Wars and the Treaty

System;Struggle for Concession in China; The emergence of Coastal Enclave Economy;

Open Door Policy.

UNIT – III: REBELLIONS

Taiping Revolt, Other Contemporary Revolts, and Boxer Revolt.

UNIT –IV: RESTORATION REFORM, REVOLUTION

The Self Strengthening Movement, Tunchi Restoration, the Reform Movement of 1898,

Dynastic Reform (1901 -1908), Republican Revolution of 1911. Sun-Yat-Sen’s Principles and

His Contribution.

UNIT - V: NATIONALISM AND COMMUNISM

Rise of the Kuomintang, Yuan-Shi-Kai, Warlordism(1916-1925); the May Fourth Movement,

New Intellectual Ideas, Economic Development and Industrialisation; the Kuomintang–

Communist Conflict, the Communist Party under Mao-Tse-Tung, Long March; Second Sino

Japanese War (1937),the Second United front, Red Army, Civil War ,the Chinese Revolution

(1949) –the Establishment of the Peoples Republic of China.

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SEMESTER-VI

HISH - 601

THE MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INDIA’S FOREIGN

POLICY (SINCE 1945 TO RECENT TIMES) FULL MARKS – 50 (CIA- 10 & ESE-40)

UNIT-I: THE THIRD OPTION DURING THE COLD WAR

(a) Non-alignment: Its Theoretical Analysis (b) NAM: Origin, Development of the Movement up to the 1980’s with Special Reference to ItsAttempt to address the North-South Difference and South-South Cooperation, Its Reorientation in the Unipolar World and Relevance (c) India’s Role in Initiating NAM, Orientation of Indian Foreign Policy vis-à-vis Non- alignment during the Nehruvian Era and Further Development Till Date UNIT-II: INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS SUPERPOWERS AND NEIGHBOURS (a) Indo-American and Indo-Soviet/Indo-Russian Relations since 1947 in Different Phases & Recent Orientation (b) India’s Foreign Policy towards China: Challenges and Compulsions (c) India’s Foreign Policy with Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh – Tracing the Main Issues and Change in Orientation UNIT-III: SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REGIONAL COOPERATION (a) Genesis of SAARC and Its Organs (b) Activities of SAARC vis-à-vis Its Summits and Attempts to Make Solidarity in the Area (c) SAARC: Inherent Constraints UNIT-IV: EMERGENCE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION OUT OF USSR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WORLD POLITICS (a) Glasnost & Perestroika: Gorbachev’s Policy since Mid 1980’s vis-à-vis Existing Condition ofUSSR (b) Impact of Gorbachev’s Policy on Eastern Europe and the Consequences with Special Reference to German Re-unification (c) Impact on Asia with Special Emphasis to Afghanistan (d) New Kind of American Interventionist Policy with Special Reference to Iraq: USA as a Global Policeman in the Unipolar World UNIT-V:GLOBALIZATION (a) Origin, Trend and Indispensability in the Present World (b) Its Impact on the Third World (c) Information Revolutions & Question of Technology Transfer and Development (d) The Policy of the Developed World (e) Role of International Credit and FDI vis-à-vis Implications for Changes in the Development Strategies in the Third World with Brief Special Reference to India

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HISH - 602

HISTORY OF JAPAN (1839 A.D. - 1939 A. D.)


UNIT - I

Pre-restoration Period in Japan: theTokugaua-Shogunate, the Feudal Society and

Government; Perry Mission and the Opening up of Japan to the West; Fall of Shogunate.

UNIT- II

The Meiji Restoration: Its Nature and Character – Processes of Modernisation Social,

Military, Political, Educational and Economic Structure; Contrasting Response of China and

Japan to the Impact of the West.

UNIT – III

Popular and Democratic Movement: Satsuma Rebellion, Popular Rights Movement, Rise of

Political Parties and Meiji Constitution.

UNIT – IV

Economic Growth: Abolition of Feudalism, New Land Settlement, Industrialisation Role of

State and Private Entrepreneurs, Zaibastu.

UNIT – V

Foreign Policy after Restoration: The Sino –Japanese War, the Anglo Japanese War ,Japan

and World war-I, the Washington Conference; Manchurian Crisis, the Rise of Militarism

the 1930’s and 1940’s. Japan in the Second World War; American Occupation of Japan.

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SUGGESTED READINGS

HISH - 101 & HISH - 201

English Books

1. R.C.Majumder,H.C.Raychaudhary, An advanced History of India (London,1961) 2. H.C.Raychaudhari, Political History of Ancient India with a commentary by B.N.Mukherjee, New Delhi, 1996 (8th edition) 3.Upinder Singh, A History Of Ancient and Early Medieval India Pearson Longman,Delhi,2008. 4. A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India London, 1954 5. D. N. Jha, Ancient India: An Introduction,New Delhi 1998 6. D. N. Jha, Ancient India in Historical Outline, Monohar, 2000 7. B.N. Mukherjee, The Rise and fall of The Kushana Empire, Kolkata, 1989 8. R. S. Sharma, India’s Ancient Past,New Delhi,2005 9. RomilaThapar, Early India from the Origins to AD 1300,London,2002 10. R.S. Sharma, India Feudalism, C.U, 1965 11. K. A. NilkantaShastri, A History of South India, Madras, 1974 12. S.R.Goyal, The History of The ImperialGuptas Allahabad, 1967 13. R. S. Sharma, Looking for the Aryans, 14. D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History, Bombay, 1956 15. R. C. Majumdar (Edited), The Vedic Age, BharatiyaVidyabavan, Bombay 16. R. C. Majumdar (Edited), The Age of Imperial Unity, BharatiyaVidyabavan, Bombay 17. R. C. Majumdar (Edited), The Classical Age, BharatiyaVidyabavan, Bombay 18.R. C. Majumdar (Edited), Struggle for Empire,BharatiyaVidyabavan, Bombay 19. B. N. Mukherjee, The Economic Factors in Kushana History, Progressive Publishers, 2002 20. B. N. Mukherjee, Rise and Fall of the Kushana Empire in India, Progressive Publishers, 2002 21. R. S. Sharma, India’s Ancient Past, Oxford, 2005 22. E. Shreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, Hyderabad, 2004 23. Upinder Singh (Edited), Rethinking Early Medieval India, A Reader, Oxford, 2011 24. Upinder Singh &NayanjotLahiri (Edited), Ancient India New Reaserch, Oxford, 2009 Bengali Books

১। ুনী চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ের আতেো, ১ম ২য় খন্ড, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ২। রোমলরণ লমষো, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ে শুদ্র, কক তপ বোগচী, ককোেো ৩। করোতমো থোপোর, ট্লোক কমৌর্ ্যট্দর পেন, কক তপ বোগচী, ককোেো ৪। ীট্রন্দ্রনোথ মটু্খোপোধ্যোয়, ভোরেবট্ষর আতেো (প্রোচীন মধ্যযুগ), পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ৫। তদীপকুমোর চক্রবর্ত্তী, ভোরেবট্ষর প্রোতগতেো, অনন্দ পোবতোষ, ককোেো, ১৯৯৯ ৬। তি তি ককোোতি, ভোরে আতেোচচষ োর ভূতমকো, কক তপ বোগচী, ককোেো ৭। কমচন্দ্র রোয়ট্চৌধ্ুরী, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ের রোজননতেক আতেো, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ৮। রণবীর চক্রবর্ত্তী, ভোরে আতেোট্র অতদ পবষ, অনন্দ, ককোেো, ২০০২ ৯। রণবীর চক্রবর্ত্তী, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ের থষননতেক আতেোট্র ন্ধোট্ন, অনন্দ, ককোেো, ২০০২ ১০। তি এন ঝো, অতদ ভোরে একটি ংতিপ্ত আতেো, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো, ২০০৮ ১১। নীোররঞ্জন রোয়, বোঙ্গোীর আতেো, অতদ পবষ, ১২। রট্মলচন্দ্র মজমুদোর, বোংোট্দট্লর আতেো, প্রোচীন যগু, ১৩। রোমলরণ লমষো, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ের থষননতেক োমোতজক আতেো, তরট্য়ন্ট ংমযোন, ১৯৯৫ ১৪। তকরণচন্দ্র কচৌধ্ুরী, ভোরেবট্ষর আতেো, প্রোচীন যুগ, তনউ কন্ট্রো, ককোেো ১৫। তদীপকুমোর গোঙ্গুী, ভোরে আতেোট্র ন্ধোট্ন, ১ম ২য় খন্ড, ককোেো

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১৬। রোমলরণ লমষো, প্রোচীন ভোরট্ের বস্তুগে ংসৃ্কতে মোজগঠন, ককোেো, ১৯৯৮ ১৭। রোমলরণ লমষো, অযষট্দর অনুন্ধোন, ককোেো, ১৯৯৭ ১৮। আরফোন োতবব, তনু্ধ ভযেো, এন তব এ, ২০০৬ ১৯। আরফোন োতবব তবজয়কুমোর ঠোকুর, ববতদক ভযেো, এন তব এ, ২০০৬ ২০। আরফোন োতবব তবট্বকোনন্দ ঝো, কমৌযষযুট্গ ভোরে, এন তব এ, ২০০৬ ২১। তলতরণ রত্নোগর, রপ্পো ভযেোর ন্ধোট্ন, এন তব এ, ২০০৬ HISH - 102 & HISH - 202

English Books 1. Hermann Kulke(Ed.) The State in India 1000-1700. 2. TapanRaychaudhry(Ed.) Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 1 3. I.H. Quershi, Administration of the Sultanate of Delhi 4. Md. Habib and K.M. Nizami, ed. Comprehensive History of India, vol. 5 5. R.S. Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration 6. Satish Chandra, Medieval India, vol. 1 7. N.N. Bhattacharyya (Ed.) Medeival Bhakti Movements in India 8. S.A.A. Rizvi, History of Sufism in India 9. Burton Stein, Vijaynagara 10 R.P. Tripathy- Some Aspects of Muslim Administration 11. Irfan Habib- Midieval India 12. R. P. Tripathy –Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire 13. KalikaranjanQanungo- Sher Shah 14. W. H. Moreland- India from Akbar to Aurangzeb 15. J. N. Sarkar- Mughal Administration 16. A. Karim- MurshidQuli Khan and his times HISH - 203 & HISH - 302

English Books 1. Anderson, Perry,The Lineages of the Absolutist States. 2. Aston,T.H.andPhilipinC.H.E.(eds.),TheBrennerDebate:AgrarianClassStructureand

EconomicDevelopmentinPre-IndustrialEurope, Cambridge University Press.2005. 3. BernalJ.D,ScienceinHistory. 4. Black ,J., Military Revolution. 5. Braudel, F- Wheels of Commerce: Civilisation and Capitalism 6. Cameron,Euan(ed),EarlyModernEurope:AnOxfordHistory,OUP. 7. Cipolla, Carlo, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 8. DunnRechardS.,TheAgeofReligiousWars,1559-1715,W.W.Norton&Company,2004. 9. Dickens, A. G., The German Nation and Martin Luther 10. Dickens, A.G., The English Reformation 11. Elton,G.R.,ReformationEurope,1517-1559. 12. Gilmore,M.P.,TheWorldofHumanism,1453-1517. 13. Goodman, A and Mackay A (eds), The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe 14. Hale,J.R.,RenaissanceEurope 15. Hall,R.,FromGalileotoNewton. 16. Hill,Christopher,AcenturyofRevolutions. 17. Hilton,Rodney,TransitionfromFeudalismtoCapitalism,AakarBooks,2006. 18. Huizinga, Johann, Waning of the Middle Ages. 19. Koenigsberger, H.G.andMosse,G.L., Europe in the Sixteenth Century.

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20. Lee,StephenJ.,Aspectsof EuropeanHistory,1494-1789. 21. Lindberg, C., The European Reformation 22. Morris, J., The Nature of the English Revolution 23. Owie,L.W.,Seventeenth Century Europe. 24. Parker,G.andSmith,L.M.,GeneralCrisisoftheSeventeenthCentury. 25. Pennington,D.H.,SeventeenthCenturyEurope. 26. Parry, J. D., The Age of Reconnaissance 27. Rabb, Theodore K., The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. 28. Runciman, S., The Fall of Constantinople, 1453. 29. Rice, Eugene F. and Grafton, Anthony,The Foundations of EarlyModernEurope,1460-1559,

W.W.Norton&Company,2004. 30. Stephens, J., The Italian Renaissance 31. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe,Vol.I,IV. 32. The New Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol.I,VII. 33. Tilly, Charles ed., Formation of National States in Western Europe 34. Wallerstein, E, The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the

European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

Bengali Books

১। অমলল ত্রিপাঠী, ইতাত্রর ররলেসাাঁ ও বাঙ্গাী সংসৃ্কত্রত ২। অলীে দালগুপ্ত, ভারত মহাসাগলর বাত্রিজ্য ও অর্থেীত্রত ১৫০০-১৮০০, আেন্দ পাবত্রসাসথ, ককাতা ৩। রজ্ ত্রি বােথা, ইত্রতহালস ত্রবজ্ঞাে, আেন্দ পাবত্রসাসথ, ককাতা, ২০০৫ ৪। সমলরন্দ্রোর্ রসে, ত্রবজ্ঞালের ইত্রতহাস, শলবযা প্রকালেী, ককাতা, ১৯৯৬ ৫। রেহাত্রি ভট্টাচার্ যযয, ইংযাল র ইত্রতহাস(টিউির যগু), পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো, ১৯৯৫ ৬। ভোস্কর চক্রবর্ত্তী, ভুোরঞ্জন চক্রবর্ত্তী তকংশুক চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, আট্রোট্পর যুগোন্তর, পত্রভোরেী প্রকোলনী, কুকোেো, ২০০৫ ৭। রীো মুখোজী, রূপোন্ততরে আট্রোপ ১৫ল কথট্ক ১৭ল লেোব্দী, কেু প্রকোলনী, ককোেো ২০০৪ ৮। পুট্কল রোয়, োয়ন্তন দো, উর্ত্তরট্ণর পট্থ আট্রোপ, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো, ২০০৮ ৯। উজ্জ্ব রোয়, তববেষ ট্নর পট্থ আট্রোপ ১৫ল কথট্ক ১৭ল লেোব্দী, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো, ২০১১ ১০। যট্লোবন্ত কর, টিউির সু্টয়োর্ষ আংযোন্ড ১১। ুট্বোধ্ কুমোর মুট্খোপোধ্যোয়, অধ্তুনক আট্রোপ অতদ পট্বষর রূপোন্তর (১৮০০-১৯০০), কক তপ বোগচী এন্ড ককোং, ককোেো, ২০০৮ ১২। িঃ তবশ্বনোথ বট্ন্দযোপোধ্যোয়, আট্রোট্পর তববেষ ন ১৫ল কথট্ক ১৭ল লেোব্দী, তনউ কল্পনো প্রকোলনী, ককোেো, ২০১১/১২ ১৩। তনমষ চন্দ্র দর্ত্ত, মধ্যযুট্গর কথট্ক আট্রোট্পর অধ্ুতনকেোয় উর্ত্তরণ, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো ১৪। বোট্বন্দ্র বু, উর্ত্তরট্ণর পট্থ আট্রোপ, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো HISH- 301 & HISH - 401

English Books

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1. Cambridge Ancient History, Vols. IV, V & VI, Cambridge University Press 2. Grote, George, History of Grece from Solon to 403 B.C 3. Glotz, Gustav, The Greek City State 4. Bury, J. B, and Meiggs, Russel, The History of Greece 5. Andrews, Antony, The Greeks 6. Kitto, H. D. F., The Greeks 7. Powell, Antony, Athens and Sparta 8. Ehrenberg, Victor, From Solon to Sacrates 9. Fine, John, V. A., History of Greece 10. Osborne, Robin, Classical Greece 11. Starr. Chester, G., A History of Ancient World, Oxford University Press 12. Cambell, Heather M. (Edited), The Ascent of the West From Prehistory Through the Renaissance, Britannica Educational Publishing 13. Accampo, Nobel et al, Western Civilization Beyond Boundaries, Houghton Miffilin Company 14. Flower, H. I. (Edited), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Reoublic 15. Klaus, Brinmann, History of Roman Republic 16. Gilman, Arthur, Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of Roman Republic 17. Grant, Micheal, The World of Rome 18. Grant, Micheal, Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean 19. Vickers, Michael, Roman World 20. Broadman, J. Griffin and Murray, O.(Edited), Oxford History of the Classical World 21. Finley, M. I., The Ancient Greeks Bengali Books

১। করবেীট্মোন োতড়ী, প্রোচীন েীট্র আতেো, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ২। ীট্রন্দ্রনোথ মটু্খোপোধ্যোয়, েীট্র পুরোকোতনী, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ৩। ুনীকুমোর চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, প্রোচীন েীট্র আতেো, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ৪। মট্ল তত্রপোঠী, আতেো ঐতেোতক, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ৫। ুপ্রতেম দোল, েী নুন্ধোন, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো ৬। ুজোে ভদ্র কুণো চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, প্রোচীন েীট্র মোজ ংসৃ্কতে, ককোেো

HISG- 303 & HISH -403

English Books

1. Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, From Plassey to Partition, (Longman, 2004)

2. Bayly, Christopher, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 1983)

3. Bayly, Christopher, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (NCHI) (Cambridge, 1988)

4. Bose, Sugata, South Asia and World Capitalism (Delhi, 1990)

5. Bose, Sugata and Jalal, Ayesha, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy

6. Brown, Judith, Gandhi’s Rise to Power

7. Brown, Judith, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience

8. Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business

Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900 -1940(Cambridge, 1994)

9. Chandra, Bipan et al, India’s Struggle for Independence

10. Chandra, Bipan et al, India Since Independence; India after Independence

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11. Charlesworth, Neil, Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the

Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935 (Cambridge, 1985)

12. Chaudhuri, Sushil, Prelude to Empire

13. Desai, A.R., Social Background to Indian Nationalism

14. Dutt, R.P., India today

15. Fisher, Michael (Ed.), Politics of British Annexation in India 1757 -1857

16. Gallagher, J. Johnson, G. Seal, A. Locality, Province and Nation

17. Hardiman, David, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, Kheda District, 1917 -1934, Delhi, 1981

18. Hutchins, F., Illusion of Permanence

19. Johnson, Gordon, Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the

Indian National Congress, 1880-1915, Cambridge, 1973

20. Joshi, P.C., Rammohan and the Process of Modernization in India

21. Markovits, Claude. Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931 -39: The Indigenous

Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party, Cambridge, 1985

22. Marshall, P. J. Bengal: The British Bridgehead

23. McLane, J.R. Indian Nationalism and Early Congress

24. Ravinder Kumar (ed.) Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919, Essays on Gandhian Politics

25. Ravinder Kumar (ed.) Social History of Modern India

26. Raychaudhuri, Tapan (ed.), Indian Economy in the 19th Century: A Symposium

27. Robinson, F., Separatism Among Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces,

1860-1923

28. Rothermund, Dietmar, Mahatma Gandhi: An Essay in Political Biography, (New

Delhi, 1991)

29. Rothermund, Dietmar, India in the Great Depression 1929 -39, (New Delhi, 1992)

30. Sarkar, Sumit, Modern India, 1885-1947

31. Sarkar, Sumit, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal

32. Seal, Anil et al, Locality, Province and Nation

33. Seal, Anil, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism

34. Sinha, N.K. (ed.) History of Bengal, 1757-1905

35. Spear, Percival, Oxford History of Modern India

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

Rebellion in Colonial India

37. Stokes, Eric. The English Utilitarians and India

38. Wolpert, Stanley, Jinnah of Pakistan New York/Oxford, 1984

39. Guha, Ramachandra, India After Gandhi

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HISH - 402 & HISH - 501

English Books

1. Albrecht Carrie R – A Diplomatic History of Europe since the Congress of Vienna

2. Blanning, T.C.W, The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash

3. Cobban,Alfred,HistoryofModernFrance,Vol.1‐3

4. Carl E.H. – The History of Soviet Russia 5. Doyle,William,OriginsoftheFrenchRevolution 6. Droz ,Jacques, Europe Between Revolutions 7. Ellis, G, The Napoleonic Empire.

8. Evans, J, The Foundations of A Modern State in 19thCentury Europe 9. Hamerow, T. S, Restoration, Revolution and Reaction :Economics and Politicsin

Germany(1815‐1871) 10. Hobsbawm, E. J, Nation and Nationalism 11. Hobsbawm, E .J, Age of Revolution 12. Hobsbawm ,E .J, Age of Empire 13. Hobsbawm,E. J, Age of Capital 14. Hufton, Olwen, Europe: Privilege and Protest

15. Hissley F.H. (Ed.) – Material Progress and Worldwide Problems – 1870-1898

16. Joll,James,EuropeSince1870

17. Joll, James, Origins of the First World War

18. Koch,H.W(ed),The Origins of the First World War

19. Kocham L – The Making of Modern Russia

20. Lefebvre,Georges,ComingoftheFrenchRevolution

21. Lichtheim, George, A Short History of Socialism

22. Langer W.L – Diplomacy of Imperialism

23. Lynn Hunt, Policies, Culture and Class in the French Revolution

24. Lipson E – Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

25. Modvat C.L. The Shifting of Renaissance World War 1898- 1935

26. Ogg David – Europe of the Ancient Region – 1715- 1815

27. Ogg David- The Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815

28. Porter Andrew - European Imperialism

29. Plump J.H – Fontana History of Europe

30. Riasanovsky, N.V,A History of Russia

31. Rude,George,RevolutionaryEurope

32. Taylor,A.J.P,TheStruggleforMasteryinEurope

33. Thomson,David,EuropeSinceNapoleon

34. Taylor A.J.P – ORIGIN OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

35. Tailborke C. – The Industrialization of the Continental Powers

36. Watson, Seton, The Russian Empire.

37. Wood, Anthony, History of Europe, 1815‐1960. 38. Wiskeman E. – Europe of the Dictators – 1919-1943.

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Bengali Books

১। প্রফুল্লকুমোর চক্রবর্ত্তী – ফরোী তবপ্লব, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো ২। কগৌেম চট্টোপোধ্যোয় (ম্পোতদে) - ফরোী তবপ্লব দটু্লো বছট্রর অট্োট্ক, পতিমবঙ্গ আতেো ংদ,ককোেো, ১৯৮৯ ৩। ুভোরঞ্জন চক্রবর্ত্তী, আট্রোট্পর আতেো, পতিমবঙ্গ রোজয পুস্তক পষদ, ককোেো, ১৯৮৬ ৪। টি. এ. জযোকন, ফরোী তবপ্লব দল তদগন্ত, কক তপ বোগতচ এন্ড ককোং, ককোেো, ২০০৪ ৫। কিতভি থমন, তবশ্ব আতেোট্র প্রোক-পট্বষ আট্রোপ, প্রথম খন্ড(১৭৮৯-১৮৫০) তিেীয় খন্ড (১৮৫১-১৯৯৮), কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো, ২০০২/২০০৩ ৬। রোধ্োরমণ চক্রবর্ত্তী কুল্পো চক্রবর্ত্তী, মোমতয়ক অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পকষ , কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো ৭। তচত্রো তধ্কোরী, অধ্ুতনক আট্রোপ তবনযো তববেষ ন (১৭৮৯-১৯৩৯) ৮। প্রফুল্লকুমোর চক্রবর্ত্তী, আট্রোট্পর আতেো ৯। প্রণবকুমোর চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পট্কষ র আতেো

HISH - 502 & HISH - 601

1. E. H. Carr, International Relations between the Two Wars 2. Peter Calvocoressi, The World Politics Since 1945 3. Mcwilliams, Wayne and Piotrowski, H, The World Since 1945. 4. W Keylor, Twentieth Century World 5. D.F. Fleming, The Cold War and Its Origins 6. J. W. Young and John Kate, International Relations since 1945 7. Carl L. Brown, International Politics in the Middle East 8. M.S. Rajan, Studies on Non-alignment and the Non-aligned Movement 9. Kishore C. Dash, Regionalism in South Asia 10. J.K. Ray, ed. Aspects of India’s International Relations, 1700-2000: South Asia and the

World 11. Mohan Guruswamy and ZorawarDaulet Singh, India-China Relations: The Border Issue

and Beyond 12. S.B. Jain, India’s Foreign Policy and Non-Alignment 13. Suranjan Das, Kashmir and Sindh: Nation Building, Ethnicity and Regional Politics in

South Asia 14. P. Sukumar Nair, Indo-Bangladesh Relations 15. 17. C.J. Bartlett, International Politics: States, Power and Conflict since 1945 16. Joan Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations 17. Hans J. Morgenthou, Politics Among Nations 18. J.L. Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 19. Walter La Febar, America, Russia and the Cold War 20. Garo, Alprovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam 21. Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, The Politics of War 22. Kalko, Joyce & Gabriel, The Limits of Power: The World and US Foreign Policy 23. Thomas J. Patterson, Soviet-American Confrontation: Post-War Reconstruction and the

Origins of the Cold War 24. L.J. Halle, The Cold War as History 25. Peter Lowe, The Origins of the Korean War 26. Gung-Wu Wang, China and the World since 1949 27. Herbert Ellison, ed. The Sino-Soviet Conflict: A Global Perspective

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28. J. Gittings, Survey of the Sino-Soviet Dispute 29. C.F. Fitzerland, The Chinese View of their place in the world 30. R.E.M. Irving, The First Indo-China War: French and American Policy, 1945-54 31. L.J. Mathews and D.E. Brown(Editors), Assessing the Vietnam War 32. Nikki R. Keddiie, Roots of Revolution: An interpretative history of modern Iran 33. Fiona Venn, Oil Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century 34. Carl L. Brown, International Politics in the Middle East 35. Hobsbawm, E. J., The Age of Extremes

Bengali Books

১। কগৌতরলংকর বট্ন্দোপোধ্যোয়, আতেোট্র অট্োয় মকোীন তবশ্ব, তমত্রম, ককোেো, ২০১২ ২। মোমতয়ক অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পকষ , রোধ্োরমণ চক্রবেী ুকল্পো চক্রবেী, তমত্রম, ককোেো, ২০১১

৩। ককুমোর কঘো, অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পকষ মকোতন তবশ্ব ১৮৭০-২০০৮, ককোেো

৪। প্রফুল্ল কুমোর চক্রবেী তদ্ধোথষ গুরোয়, অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পট্কষ র আতেো, ১৯১৯- ১৯৯০, ককোেো

৫। বোণীপ্রোদ কন, মকোতন তবশ্ব অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পকষ , তবয় তবনযো বযোখযো, ককোেো

৬। ঞ্জনো কঘো, ঠোণ্ডোযুদ্ধ-উর্ত্তর অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পকষ , ককোেো

৭। প্রণবকুমোর চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, অন্তজষ োতেক ম্পট্কষ র আতেো, তনউ কন্ট্রো বকু এট্জতি প্রোআট্ভর্ ততমট্র্ি, ককোেো, ২০১০

৮। কৌতমত্র শ্রীমোনী, তবংল লেট্ক পৃতথবী, তনউ কন্ট্রো বকু এট্জতি প্রোআট্ভর্ ততমট্র্ি, ককোেো, ২০১২

HISH - 503 & HISH - 602

English Books: 1] Fairbank, John K. E. O. R. and Craig, A. M. – East Asia: The Modern Transformation. 2] Vinakcke, H. M. – A History of The Far East in Modern Time. 3] Clyde, P.H. and Beers, B. F. –The Far East. 4] Hsu, I.C.Y. – The Rise of Modern China (OUP -1989) 5] Gordon, Andrew – A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugoura Times to Present, New York 2003 6] Knnedy, M. – A Short Economic History of Modern Japan. 7] Allen George – A Short Economic History Of Modern Japan. 8] Chatropadhaya, Haraprasad – ChinerItihas, A.Mukherjee and Co; Kolkata, 1985. Bengali Books:

১। রপ্রোদ চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, চীট্নর আতেো ২। রপ্রোদ চট্টোপোধ্যোয়, জোপোট্নর আতেো, এ মখুোতজষ এন্ড কং, ককোেো, ১৯৮৮ ৩। জর কন, এযুট্গর চীনকথো, তমত্রম, ককোেো, ২০০৭ ৪। ুট্বোধ্কুমোর মটু্খোপোধ্যোয়, অধ্ুতনক পূবষ-এতলয়ো, চীন জোপোন ৫। তদ্ধোথষ গুরোয়, অধ্তুনক পূবষ-এতলয়ো, চীন জোপোট্নর আতেো, কপ্রোট্েতভ পোবতোষ, ককোেো ৬। তমে ভটোচোযষয, চীট্নর রূপোন্তট্রর আতেো ১৮৪০- ১৯৪৫ ৭। তমে ভটোচোযষয, চীট্নর রূপোন্তট্রর আতেো ১৬০০- ১৯৪৫ ৮। কদবপ্রোদ কচৌধ্ুরী, অধ্ুতনক যুট্গ পূবষ-এতলয়োর ংতিপ্ত আতেো

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HISTORY (GENERAL) COURSE

SEMESTER - I

HISG - 101

HISTORY OF INDIA (PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 647 A.D.)


UNIT-I: SOURCES AND PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION (HARAPPA) (a) Literary and Archaeological Sources of Ancient Indian History up to 647 A.D. (b) Harappa Civilization: Brief Overview of Its Characteristics, Town-Planning, Socio-Economic & Cultural Aspects and Causes for Decline

UNIT-II: VEDIC TIMES, MAHAJANAPADAS AND PROTESTANT RELIGIONS (a) Early & Later Vedic Polity, Society, Religion and Economy (b) Rise of Sixteen Mahajanapadas, Magadhan Imperialism: Causes and Development (c) Rise of Buddhism and Jainism: Social, Economic and Political Background, Basic Principles of Buddhism and Jainism and a short survey of the Development of These Religions

UNIT-III: APOGEE OF MAGADHAN IMPERIALISM AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA EMPIRES OF NORTH INDIA & DECCAN (a) Maurya Dynasty: Rulers, Conquest, Administration, Society, Economy, Culture, Causes of Decline (b) Sungas&Kanvas(Brief Overview), Kushanas and Satavahana Rule: Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Aspects

UNIT-IV: GUPTAS AND THE CONTEMPORARY TIMES (a) Rise of the Gupta Dynasty & the Political History (b) Gupta Administration, Society, Economy & Culture (c) Causes of Decline (d) Brief Overview of the Debate Regarding Golden Age, Renaissance or Revival

UNIT-V: POST-GUPTA DEVELOPMENTS (a) Brief Discussion on the Rise of the Pushyabhutis and Maukharis (b) Harshavardhana and his Relations with Other Powers, Contemporary Condition (c) Sasanka of Bengal

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SEMESTER – II

HISTORY OF INDIA (647 A.D. – 1556 A.D.)

HISG -201


UNIT-I: EARLY MEDIEVAL BENGAL

(a) Rise of the Palas: Political Achievements vis-à-vis Tripartite Struggle, Society, Economy &

Culture

(b) Rise of the Senas and Their Times, Onslaught of Ikhtiyar-ud-Din BakhtiyarKhilji

UNIT-II: EARLY MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA

(a) Brief Overview of Rastrakutas, Cheras-Pandyas & Pallavas

(b) Rise and Development of the Chola Power, Their Administration and Maritime Activities

UNIT-III: Some Relevant Issues of Related to Early Medieval India

(a) FEUDALISM: Understanding of the Problem and Debate

(b) Summing up the Condition of Women and Slaves

UNIT-IV: REALM OF THE TURKO-AFGHANS

(a) Beginning of the Sultanate: Slave Dynasty, Administration, Society, Economy & Culture (B) Khiljis &Tughlaqs: Political Expansion of the Sultanate, Administration, Revenue

Administration and Other Steps Taken

UNIT-V: BENGAL & VIJAYANAGAR AND END OF THE SULTANATE & EARLY MUGHALS

(A) Independent Sultans of Bengal

(B) Rise and Development of the Vijyanagar Empire, Society, Economy and Culture (Visitors’

Account), Circumstances Leading to the End of the Empire

(C) Circumstances Leading to the End of the Sultanate, Causes for the Defeat of the Sultanate

at the Hands of Babar; Babar & Humayun,; Sher Shah & His Measures and Sher Shah’s Successors with an Overview of Mughal Afghan Contest.

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SEMESTER –III

HISG -301

HISTORY OF INDIA

FROM 1556 TO 1947 A.D

(UNIT I to V)


UNIT-I

Importance of Second Battle of Panipat (1556) –Akbar and the Political Expansion of Mughal Empire,

His Relations with the Rajputs –Evolution of His Religious Policy –Land Revenue and Mansabdari

System; Reign of Jahangir (Brief Overview)

UNIT-II

Reign of Shahjahan- Period of Prosperity; Climax and Crisis of the Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb –

His Deccan Policy, RajputPolicy &Religious policy; Rise of Shivaji and the Mughal–Maratha Contest

for Supremacy; Debates on the Breakup of the Mughal Empire

UNIT-III

Political ascendancy of the English East India Company in Bengal (1757 -65 )-Regulating Acts, Pitt’s

India Act; East India Company’s Relations with the IndianStates –Marathas ,Mysore and Sikhs; British

Policies of Colonial Annexation –Subsidiary Alliance &Doctrine of Lapse .

UNIT-IV

Colonial Economy –Land Revenue Settlements in Bengal, North India, South and West India Drain of Wealth –De-industrialisation UNIT-V

English Education of Bengal up to 1857; Reformation and Westernisation –Anglicists vs. Orientalists

Debate –Bentinck & Macaulay; Western Education and Social Reforms –Raja Rammohan Roy, Young

Bengal, Vidyasagar, Prarthana Samaj, Arya Samaj; Aligarh Movement and the Modernization of Islam

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HISG -302

MODERN EUROPE

1789 - 1939 (UNIT –I)


MODULE -1

1. Background 2. Renaissance and Reformation 3. Geographical Discoveries 4. Scientific Revolution, Advent of Capitalism (A Brief Overview)

MODULE – 2

1. The French Revolution–Socio-Economic Background: Role of the Philosophers 2. Progress of the Revolution: Popular Movements: Jacobins and Girondins

MODULE – 3

1. Rise of Napoleon: Internal Reconstruction 2. Napoleon and Europe, Napoleon’s Downfall

MODULE - 4

1. Political Developments in Europe from (1815–1870) 2. Triumph of conservatism– The Metternich System 3. Nationalism, Liberalism and the Revolution of 1830 and 1848 4. Stages of Italian Unification 5. Unification and Consolidation of Germany 6. Russia: Attempts at Reforms by Alexander-II

MODULE - 5

1. Society and Economy in Nineteenth Century Europe 2. Industrial Advances in England and the Continent 3. Utopian Socialism and Marxism 4. Art, Culture, Literature and Science 5. Labour Movement

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SEMESTER –IV

HISG - 401

HISTORY OF INDIA FROM 1556 TO 1947 A.D

(UNIT VI TO X)


UNIT-VI

Early Resistance to Colonial Rule –Paik, Chuar Uprisings; Wahabi and Faraizi Movements; Santhal

Rebellion; The Revolt of 1857; Growth of National Consciousness –Early Political Associations UNIT-VII

Foundation of The Indian National Congress –the Nature of the Early Congress &Congress under

Moderate leadership; Rise of Extremism UNIT-VIII

The Swadeshi Movement; The birth of All India Muslim League and Separate Electorate;

Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal, Maharashtra and Punjab UNIT-IX

Rise of Gandhi –Champaran, Kheda & Ahmedabad; Rowlatt Satyagraha; Khilafat & Non-Cooperation

Movement; Swarajya Party ; Simon Commission –Nehru Report; Civil Disobedience Movement UNIT-X

Quit India Movement; Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian Freedom Movement; Communal Politics and

Pakistan Movement;Road to Partition and Freedom

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HISG - 402

MODERN EUROPE

1789 – 1939 (UNIT –II)


MODULE - 1

1. Europe between 1871‐1914: New Balance of Power, Scramble for Colonies in Asia and Africa.

MODULE - 2

1. The Eastern Question: Main Issues–Crimean War,Balkan Nationalism(A Brief Overview) 2. Triple Alliance, Triple Entente and the Emergence of Two Armed Camps 3. Origins of the First World War–Issues and Stakes

MODULE – 3

1. Russian Revolution of 1917 2. Peace settlement of 1919:Its Long Term Consequences 3. Birth of the German Republic

MODULE – 4

1. Europe in the Interwar Period (1919‐1939) 2. Consolidation of Economic and Political Power of the Soviet State

MODULE – 5

1. Rise of Fascism in Italy 2. Rise of Nazism in Germany; Aggressive Foreign Politics 3. Outbreak of the Second World War

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SEMESTER – V

(FOR B. A. GENERAL COURSE)

HISG - 501

POST- INDEPENDENCE INDIA (1947-1977)


UNIT I: EVOLUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION An Overview of the Drafting of the Constitution by Constituent Assembly; Preamble, Main

Provisions & Basic Structure of the Constitution of India.

UNIT II: CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATION Accession of the Princely States to the Union with Special Reference to the Kashmir,

Junagarh and Hyderabad; Linguistic Reorganization of the States, State Reorganization

Commission.

UNIT III: TOWARDS PLANNED ECONOMY Making of the Context for Five Year Planning; Objectives of the Five Year Planning upto the

Fifth Plan Period Tracing the Changes Therein, Achievements & Shortcomings of Planned

Period upto1974.

UNIT IV: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT UPTO 1964 Socialists – Place within Congress, Formation of the Socialist Party, Kisan Majdoor Praja Party

(KMPP) & Praja Socialist Party; Movement for Social Justice before 1964.

UNIT V: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT 1964 - 1977 Death of Nehru, Challenge within the Party, Split of Congress and Consequent

Empowerment ofIndira Gandhi; Towards Emergency and Days of Emergency; Movement for

Social Justice after 1964.

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SEMESTER – VI

(FOR B. A. GENERAL COURSE)

HISG -601

THE WORLD & INDIA (1945-1971)


UNIT - I: COLD WAR

Definition of Cold War, Different Interpretation of Cold War, Characteristics of Cold War;

Background of Cold War (Yalta & Potsdam), Division of Europe in Two Spheres of

Influence; Concept of Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan & NATO – SEATO, ANZUS &

CENTO; COMINFORM, Molotov Plan, COMECON & Warshaw.

UNIT - II: CHANGE IN THE WORLD

Decolonization: Causes & Effect ( A Brief Overview of the Breakup of the EuropeanColonies in Asia& Africa) .

UNIT – III: NON-ALIGNMENT

Genesis of Non-Alignment, Characteristics of Non- Alignment; Formation & Development of Non-Alignment Movement (Belgrade, Cairo & Lusaka Summits).

UNIT – IV: INDIA’S NON-ALIGNMENT POLICY

Nehru’s Commitment towards Non-Alignment, Bandung; India’s Role in Korean Crisis, , Suez Crisis & Hungary.

UNIT – V: INDIS & HER NEIGHBOURS

India’s Relations with China & Pakistan; India’s Role in the Formation of Bangladesh.

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